IaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 194 241
Rank change year-on-year -195 +47 -15
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 435 1,094 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.62% 1.77% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 4.57% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 393 483 756
10th Percentile £42,238 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +8.23% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,875
90th Percentile £100,064 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,469 23,944 28,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.47% 38.71% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 17,431 14,264 19,909
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -89 126 £62,783 +0.45% 23
South East -77 99 £62,500 +8.70% 23
South West -64 84 £70,000 +17.60% 18
North West -70 77 £65,000 - 8
Midlands -49 65 £69,235 +6.51% 11
West Midlands +6 57 £69,235 +4.11% 6
Scotland -123 50 £62,500 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire -4 30 £56,250 -6.25% 11
North East -1 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -30 6 £51,250 -12.77% 6
East Midlands -57 5 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Northern Ireland -18 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Wales -31 2 £72,500 +20.83%
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.44%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.92%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.69%) IIS
6 2 (0.46%) Confluence
6 2 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.23%) Apache
7 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) 1Password
4 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 323 (74.25%) Azure
2 312 (71.72%) PaaS
3 174 (40.00%) SaaS
4 131 (30.11%) AWS
5 124 (28.51%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (12.18%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (10.57%) GCP
8 41 (9.43%) Entra ID
9 32 (7.36%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.06%) GitHub
11 18 (4.14%) Nutanix
12 16 (3.68%) Serverless
13 15 (3.45%) OneDrive
14 14 (3.22%) Azure Stack
14 14 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
15 13 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (2.30%) Azure Key Vault
17 10 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
18 7 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 88 (20.23%) Firewall
2 74 (17.01%) DNS
3 61 (14.02%) VPN
4 58 (13.33%) WAN
5 43 (9.89%) DHCP
6 36 (8.28%) SD-WAN
7 33 (7.59%) LAN
8 30 (6.90%) SAN
9 27 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (3.68%) Wireless
11 14 (3.22%) Network Security
11 14 (3.22%) NGFW
12 12 (2.76%) SSL
12 12 (2.76%) TCP/IP
13 10 (2.30%) Internet
14 7 (1.61%) HTTP
14 7 (1.61%) IPsec
14 7 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (1.38%) iSCSI
15 6 (1.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (10.80%) SQL Server
3 27 (6.21%) NoSQL
4 19 (4.37%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (3.22%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.07%) MySQL
8 7 (1.61%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.38%) Power BI
9 6 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.15%) Big Data
10 5 (1.15%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.92%) GIS
12 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.23%) Redis
13 1 (0.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (4.83%) Git
2 8 (1.84%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.46%) JIRA
4 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.23%) GitLab
5 1 (0.23%) IntelliJ
General
1 84 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 77 (17.70%) Finance
3 41 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (4.60%) Banking
5 18 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.92%) Advertising
10 4 (0.92%) Aviation
10 4 (0.92%) Avionics
10 4 (0.92%) Games
11 3 (0.69%) Retail
12 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.46%) Publishing
13 1 (0.23%) Law
13 1 (0.23%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 107 (24.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 104 (23.91%) Architect
3 68 (15.63%) Senior
4 48 (11.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (8.97%) Cloud Architect
6 38 (8.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 34 (7.82%) Azure Engineer
7 34 (7.82%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (7.59%) Consultant
9 26 (5.98%) Support Engineer
10 20 (4.60%) Enterprise Architect
11 19 (4.37%) Cloud Consultant
11 19 (4.37%) Infrastructure Support
12 17 (3.91%) AWS Architect
13 16 (3.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 14 (3.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
14 14 (3.22%) DevOps Architect
15 13 (2.99%) 3rd Line Support
15 13 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
15 13 (2.99%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 22 (5.06%) JSON
3 20 (4.60%) OpenID
4 17 (3.91%) .NET
4 17 (3.91%) Web Services
5 15 (3.45%) Middleware
5 15 (3.45%) YAML
6 13 (2.99%) RESTful
7 8 (1.84%) Azure Blueprints
8 7 (1.61%) gRPC
8 7 (1.61%) XML
9 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.15%) Node.js
9 5 (1.15%) React
9 5 (1.15%) SAML
10 3 (0.69%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.69%) CSS3
10 3 (0.69%) Entity Framework
10 3 (0.69%) HTML
10 3 (0.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 88 (20.23%) Public Cloud
2 53 (12.18%) Cloud Native
3 51 (11.72%) Data Centre
4 46 (10.57%) Management Information System
5 25 (5.75%) Driving Licence
6 22 (5.06%) Replication
7 19 (4.37%) Blockchain
7 19 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (4.37%) IoT
7 19 (4.37%) Mainframe
8 17 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 9 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.84%) Life Science
11 8 (1.84%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.61%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.61%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 146 (33.56%) Windows
2 72 (16.55%) Windows Server
3 71 (16.32%) Linux
4 56 (12.87%) Unix
5 18 (4.14%) Windows 10
6 14 (3.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (3.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.38%) Solaris
8 6 (1.38%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.38%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.46%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) Android
12 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (34.71%) DevOps
2 140 (32.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 111 (25.52%) ITIL
4 82 (18.85%) Mentoring
5 77 (17.70%) Agile
6 72 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (16.09%) Cybersecurity
8 69 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (14.48%) Roadmaps
10 59 (13.56%) CI/CD
11 57 (13.10%) Microservices
12 55 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 52 (11.95%) Network Virtualisation
14 45 (10.34%) Change Management
14 45 (10.34%) Containerisation
15 44 (10.11%) Information Security
16 43 (9.89%) Customer Service
17 42 (9.66%) Technical Leadership
18 40 (9.20%) Coaching
19 38 (8.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 94 (21.61%) PowerShell
2 56 (12.87%) Python
3 36 (8.28%) Bash
4 30 (6.90%) SQL
5 21 (4.83%) Bicep
6 17 (3.91%) Perl
7 15 (3.45%) C#
8 8 (1.84%) Ruby
9 6 (1.38%) Java
10 4 (0.92%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.69%) Go
11 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Julia
13 1 (0.23%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (11.72%) Degree
2 49 (11.26%) Security Cleared
3 37 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 23 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.29%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.14%) CCNA
5 18 (4.14%) SC Cleared
6 17 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.99%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (2.53%) CISSP
9 10 (2.30%) DBS Check
9 10 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.07%) A+ Certification
10 9 (2.07%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.61%) HNC
13 6 (1.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (5.52%) GDPR
3 18 (4.14%) NIST
4 16 (3.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (3.68%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.22%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.30%) HIPAA
7 9 (2.07%) NCSC
8 8 (1.84%) SLA
9 7 (1.61%) COBIT
10 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.15%) QA
11 3 (0.69%) PMO
11 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 97 (22.30%) Active Directory
2 69 (15.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.28%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (6.67%) Hyper-V
5 27 (6.21%) Docker
6 19 (4.37%) vSphere
7 16 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (2.99%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.23%) Firmware
11 1 (0.23%) RACF
11 1 (0.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 104 (23.91%) Terraform
2 55 (12.64%) Kubernetes
3 52 (11.95%) Ansible
4 38 (8.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (5.75%) Puppet
6 16 (3.68%) FortiGate
7 15 (3.45%) SCCM
8 8 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (1.38%) NetCrunch
9 6 (1.38%) SCDPM
10 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
10 5 (1.15%) SCOM
11 4 (0.92%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.69%) Grafana
12 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.46%) CASB
13 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 164 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 90 (20.69%) VMware
3 43 (9.89%) Cisco
4 27 (6.21%) Splunk
5 24 (5.52%) Veeam
6 17 (3.91%) Dynatrace
7 15 (3.45%) NetApp
8 13 (2.99%) Dell
9 11 (2.53%) Aruba
9 11 (2.53%) BMC
9 11 (2.53%) Citrix
9 11 (2.53%) Palo Alto
10 9 (2.07%) SolarWinds
11 8 (1.84%) Meraki
12 7 (1.61%) Barracuda Networks
12 7 (1.61%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.38%) Dell Compellent
13 6 (1.38%) Ivanti
13 6 (1.38%) Oracle
13 6 (1.38%) Sophos