Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 346 203
Rank change year-on-year -68 -143 +70
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 292 807 1,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.82% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 2.28% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 215 690 980
10th Percentile £41,350 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,750 £53,972
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,783 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.50% +4.64% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England -65 266 £70,000 - 151
UK excluding London +10 182 £70,000 +11.50% 90
Work from Home -7 95 £65,000 -7.14% 98
London -59 92 £70,000 -17.65% 74
South East +77 62 £85,000 +36.00% 32
Midlands +45 49 £53,300 -23.02% 12
West Midlands +28 34 £70,000 +1.11% 8
North of England -11 30 £62,500 +4.17% 16
South West +49 18 £67,500 -3.57% 11
North West -27 16 £67,500 +7.51% 8
East Midlands +59 15 £40,000 -11.11% 4
Yorkshire +51 11 £62,500 +11.11% 6
Wales +47 9 £38,094 -47.46% 4
Scotland +86 8 £52,500 -16.00% 10
East of England +60 8 £47,500 -7.32% 1
North East +36 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Northern Ireland +36 3 - - 4

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (10.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (9.93%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.05%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.71%) IIS
4 5 (1.71%) NetWeaver
4 5 (1.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 207 (70.89%) PaaS
2 200 (68.49%) Azure
3 157 (53.77%) SaaS
4 71 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (22.26%) AWS
6 46 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (14.73%) Entra ID
8 33 (11.30%) GCP
9 18 (6.16%) GitHub
10 15 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (5.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (5.14%) Power Platform
10 15 (5.14%) Serverless
11 11 (3.77%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
12 9 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.08%) Mimecast
12 9 (3.08%) PowerApps
13 8 (2.74%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 43 (14.73%) Firewall
2 40 (13.70%) DNS
3 32 (10.96%) VSAN
4 24 (8.22%) VPN
5 21 (7.19%) DHCP
5 21 (7.19%) WAN
6 17 (5.82%) Network Security
7 14 (4.79%) SAN
7 14 (4.79%) SD-WAN
8 11 (3.77%) LAN
9 9 (3.08%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.08%) VLAN
10 8 (2.74%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (2.74%) FTP
10 8 (2.74%) IPv4
10 8 (2.74%) PBX
10 8 (2.74%) SMTP
10 8 (2.74%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (1.71%) IPsec
11 5 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.99%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.11%) Power BI
3 10 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (3.08%) Star Schema
5 8 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.40%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.71%) Big Data
7 5 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (1.71%) MySQL
7 5 (1.71%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (1.71%) SAP BW
7 5 (1.71%) SAP Data Services
7 5 (1.71%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.68%) HBase
9 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.42%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 8 (2.74%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.71%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.37%) JIRA
6 2 (0.68%) Git
6 2 (0.68%) GitLab
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 98 (33.56%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.52%) Finance
3 27 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.48%) Legal
6 12 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.77%) Banking
8 9 (3.08%) Law
9 8 (2.74%) Welsh Language
10 6 (2.05%) Retail
11 5 (1.71%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.71%) Marketing
11 5 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.37%) Advertising
12 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Police
13 3 (1.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (16.78%) Senior
2 46 (15.75%) Architect
3 45 (15.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 43 (14.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (12.67%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (12.33%) VMware Specialist
7 21 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (6.51%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 17 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.82%) Lead
10 16 (5.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.14%) IT Engineer
12 13 (4.45%) Consultant
13 12 (4.11%) Developer
13 12 (4.11%) Server Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.77%) Security Engineer
15 10 (3.42%) Data Architect
15 10 (3.42%) Infrastructure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.79%) .NET
1 14 (4.79%) ARM Templates
2 12 (4.11%) Middleware
3 9 (3.08%) SAML
4 8 (2.74%) Azure Blueprints
4 8 (2.74%) React
5 6 (2.05%) Web Services
6 5 (1.71%) RESTful
7 4 (1.37%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.37%) OAuth
7 4 (1.37%) REST
8 3 (1.03%) LDAP
8 3 (1.03%) SOAP
8 3 (1.03%) YAML
9 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (0.68%) JSON
10 1 (0.34%) Node.js
10 1 (0.34%) OpenID
10 1 (0.34%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.99%) Management Information System
2 31 (10.62%) Public Cloud
3 21 (7.19%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.82%) Data Centre
5 15 (5.14%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.45%) Private Cloud
7 9 (3.08%) IoT
8 8 (2.74%) Replication
9 7 (2.40%) PKI
10 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (2.05%) Security Posture
10 6 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.71%) Clustering
11 5 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
14 2 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.32%) Windows
2 56 (19.18%) Windows Server
3 21 (7.19%) Linux
4 15 (5.14%) Windows 10
5 11 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.74%) Android
6 8 (2.74%) Unix
7 7 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.71%) AIX
8 5 (1.71%) VMS
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.59%) DevOps
2 69 (23.63%) CI/CD
3 53 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (18.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 52 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (17.47%) Agile
6 48 (16.44%) Cybersecurity
7 41 (14.04%) ITIL
8 37 (12.67%) Cloud Security
9 36 (12.33%) Migration
10 33 (11.30%) Project Management
11 31 (10.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (9.93%) Mentoring
12 29 (9.93%) Risk Management
12 29 (9.93%) Roadmaps
13 25 (8.56%) Containerisation
14 24 (8.22%) Analytics
14 24 (8.22%) High Availability
15 23 (7.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (35.96%) PowerShell
2 78 (26.71%) Python
3 35 (11.99%) SQL
4 23 (7.88%) Bash
5 13 (4.45%) Java
6 12 (4.11%) C#
7 7 (2.40%) Bicep
7 7 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.05%) C
9 5 (1.71%) Ruby
10 3 (1.03%) Go
10 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 67 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.36%) DV Cleared
3 37 (12.67%) Azure Certification
3 37 (12.67%) Degree
4 30 (10.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (6.85%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.82%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.79%) CCNA
8 11 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.77%) CISSP
9 10 (3.42%) DBS Check
9 10 (3.42%) MCSE
10 9 (3.08%) MCSA
11 8 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (2.40%) CCNP
13 5 (1.71%) CISA
13 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
14 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.19%) NIST
2 20 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (4.79%) GDPR
4 12 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 12 (4.11%) SLA
5 11 (3.77%) NCSC
6 8 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (1.37%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.03%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.03%) PMO
9 3 (1.03%) QA
10 2 (0.68%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 81 (27.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 62 (21.23%) Active Directory
3 40 (13.70%) vSphere
4 37 (12.67%) VMware NSX
5 29 (9.93%) Docker
6 19 (6.51%) VMware ESXi
7 16 (5.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (5.14%) Hyper-V
9 11 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.03%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.68%) HDFS
12 1 (0.34%) Firmware
12 1 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 48 (16.44%) Terraform
2 36 (12.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (9.93%) Kubernetes
4 20 (6.85%) Ansible
5 11 (3.77%) SCCM
6 9 (3.08%) WSUS
7 8 (2.74%) vRealize
7 8 (2.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.37%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.03%) SCOM
11 2 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.68%) CASB
11 2 (0.68%) Grafana
11 2 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
11 2 (0.68%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.68%) Puppet
11 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 126 (43.15%) Microsoft
2 95 (32.53%) VMware
3 33 (11.30%) Cisco
4 18 (6.16%) Oracle
5 14 (4.79%) Citrix
6 12 (4.11%) Google
7 11 (3.77%) SolarWinds
7 11 (3.77%) Veeam
8 9 (3.08%) Databricks
9 7 (2.40%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.05%) IBM
10 6 (2.05%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.05%) SAP
11 5 (1.71%) EMC
11 5 (1.71%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.37%) Dell
12 4 (1.37%) Rapid7
13 3 (1.03%) Meraki
13 3 (1.03%) NetMotion Wireless
13 3 (1.03%) TOWER Software