Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 149 267 213
Rank change year-on-year +118 -54 -29
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 1,200 1,673 2,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 1.36% 1.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% 3.18% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 703 1,227 1,689
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,099 £52,932 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,000 £59,263 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.37% +7.75% -12.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,612 52,646 59,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.68% 42.86% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,789 35,410 42,532
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +114 986 £72,500 +3.57% 259
UK excluding London +153 761 £66,000 +11.37% 185
Work from Home +139 699 £72,500 +11.54% 158
London +83 361 £82,500 +3.13% 110
North of England +170 283 £72,500 +21.80% 48
North West +163 169 £75,000 +50.00% 21
South East +60 121 £62,500 +5.04% 49
Yorkshire +121 109 £62,500 -1.96% 25
South West +102 101 £68,500 +31.94% 24
Scotland +61 96 £75,104 +25.17% 16
Midlands +103 74 £60,000 -7.69% 32
East Midlands +82 53 £60,000 - 6
Wales +35 41 £68,125 +11.22% 9
Northern Ireland +62 34 £52,500 +5.00% 3
West Midlands +70 20 £65,000 -1.78% 25
East of England +46 11 £60,000 +9.09% 5
North East +37 5 £62,500 - 5

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 69 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 26 (2.17%) MS Exchange
3 17 (1.42%) IIS
4 11 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.75%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.67%) Apache
6 8 (0.67%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.42%) NServiceBus
8 4 (0.33%) ArcSDE
8 4 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.25%) Drupal
10 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.083%) CMS
11 1 (0.083%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (0.083%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.083%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.083%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.58%) AutoCAD
2 7 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.58%) PTC Creo
2 7 (0.58%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (0.33%) Autodesk Inventor
4 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.083%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 225 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.17%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.083%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (85.25%) PaaS
2 1,010 (84.17%) Azure
3 828 (69.00%) SaaS
4 283 (23.58%) AWS
5 267 (22.25%) Serverless
6 258 (21.50%) Power Platform
7 235 (19.58%) Dynamics 365
8 231 (19.25%) Azure Functions
9 213 (17.75%) Microsoft 365
10 189 (15.75%) GCP
11 162 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
12 122 (10.17%) Entra ID
13 39 (3.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 34 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
16 29 (2.42%) Azure AKS
16 29 (2.42%) Azure Storage
17 28 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
18 27 (2.25%) GitHub
19 24 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 136 (11.33%) Firewall
2 86 (7.17%) VPN
3 85 (7.08%) DNS
3 85 (7.08%) SAN
4 69 (5.75%) WAN
5 58 (4.83%) DHCP
6 49 (4.08%) Network Security
7 43 (3.58%) LAN
8 39 (3.25%) SD-WAN
9 38 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (2.67%) VLAN
11 26 (2.17%) BGP
11 26 (2.17%) TCP/IP
12 23 (1.92%) NGFW
13 17 (1.42%) MPLS
14 16 (1.33%) OSPF
15 13 (1.08%) Wireless
16 12 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
17 11 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
17 11 (0.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (9.67%) NoSQL
2 114 (9.50%) Data Lake
2 114 (9.50%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (8.25%) SQL Server
4 36 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 16 (1.33%) Power BI
6 14 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (1.08%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.00%) InterSystems Cache
9 11 (0.92%) Big Data
9 11 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
10 9 (0.75%) SAP HANA
11 8 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.67%) MySQL
11 8 (0.67%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.58%) GIS
12 7 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.50%) DTS
14 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (4.92%) Jenkins
2 55 (4.58%) Git
3 20 (1.67%) TeamCity
4 14 (1.17%) GitLab
4 14 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 12 (1.00%) Selenium
6 9 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
7 8 (0.67%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.42%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.42%) Gatling
9 5 (0.42%) JUnit
9 5 (0.42%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.25%) JIRA
11 3 (0.25%) Maven
12 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 526 (43.83%) Finance
2 208 (17.33%) Social Skills
3 143 (11.92%) Banking
4 129 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 87 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
6 60 (5.00%) Marketing
7 57 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
8 53 (4.42%) Retail
9 51 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.42%) Public Sector
11 24 (2.00%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.83%) Law
13 10 (0.83%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.75%) Advertising
14 9 (0.75%) Legal
15 8 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.67%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.42%) Back Office
16 5 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 618 (51.50%) Architect
2 220 (18.33%) CRM Architect
2 220 (18.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 220 (18.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
3 119 (9.92%) Enterprise Architect
4 117 (9.75%) Infrastructure Architect
4 117 (9.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 95 (7.92%) Cloud Architect
6 92 (7.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 91 (7.58%) Senior
8 89 (7.42%) Azure Engineer
9 85 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 81 (6.75%) Solutions Architect
11 79 (6.58%) Azure Architect
12 59 (4.92%) Citrix Architect
13 58 (4.83%) Lead
14 48 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
15 44 (3.67%) Consultant
16 41 (3.42%) Commercial Architect
17 34 (2.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (8.67%) OpenID
2 73 (6.08%) REST
3 70 (5.83%) Web Services
4 61 (5.08%) ARM Templates
5 59 (4.92%) Kafka
6 55 (4.58%) .NET
6 55 (4.58%) JSON
7 50 (4.17%) Middleware
8 46 (3.83%) YAML
9 42 (3.50%) JWT
10 25 (2.08%) XML
11 13 (1.08%) SAML
12 12 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (0.75%) SOAP
14 7 (0.58%) .NET Framework
14 7 (0.58%) Node.js
14 7 (0.58%) React
15 6 (0.50%) AngularJS
16 5 (0.42%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (0.42%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 277 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 112 (9.33%) Private Cloud
3 107 (8.92%) Blockchain
4 103 (8.58%) Mainframe
5 86 (7.17%) Data Centre
6 84 (7.00%) Cloud Native
7 53 (4.42%) Virtual Team
8 49 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
9 48 (4.00%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 18 (1.50%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.42%) PKI
12 16 (1.33%) Clustering
12 16 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.08%) Operational Technology
14 12 (1.00%) IoT
15 11 (0.92%) Blog
16 10 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
17 9 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
17 9 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 267 (22.25%) Windows
2 148 (12.33%) Linux
3 121 (10.08%) Windows Server
4 109 (9.08%) Unix
5 35 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 22 (1.83%) VMS
7 21 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.42%) CentOS
11 5 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.33%) Android
13 1 (0.083%) HPUX
13 1 (0.083%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (49.83%) Agile
2 426 (35.50%) Roadmaps
3 344 (28.67%) Strategic Roadmap
4 331 (27.58%) Actionable Insight
5 329 (27.42%) DevOps
6 290 (24.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 240 (20.00%) CRM
8 236 (19.67%) Presales
9 222 (18.50%) Project Planning
10 220 (18.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
11 194 (16.17%) Microservices
12 189 (15.75%) Cybersecurity
13 179 (14.92%) CI/CD
14 163 (13.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 148 (12.33%) Containerisation
16 144 (12.00%) Customer Service
17 140 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
18 134 (11.17%) ITIL
19 127 (10.58%) Zero Trust
20 122 (10.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.25%) PowerShell
2 128 (10.67%) Python
3 123 (10.25%) SQL
4 99 (8.25%) Bash
5 46 (3.83%) Java
6 38 (3.17%) C#
7 30 (2.50%) Go
8 29 (2.42%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.58%) Bicep
10 16 (1.33%) Ruby
11 14 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.58%) MATLAB
13 7 (0.58%) Perl
14 6 (0.50%) Groovy
15 5 (0.42%) PHP
15 5 (0.42%) Scala
16 4 (0.33%) C++
16 4 (0.33%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 112 (9.33%) Degree
2 97 (8.08%) Azure Certification
3 69 (5.75%) Security Cleared
4 45 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 32 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (2.58%) SC Cleared
7 27 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 24 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.75%) MCSA
10 18 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.50%) CISSP
10 18 (1.50%) MCSE
11 16 (1.33%) CCNA
11 16 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (1.08%) DV Cleared
14 12 (1.00%) GSEC
15 10 (0.83%) CCNP
16 8 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (2.17%) NIST
4 22 (1.83%) GDPR
5 19 (1.58%) QA
6 15 (1.25%) NCSC
7 13 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.08%) SLA
8 11 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 11 (0.92%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.75%) COBIT
10 6 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.17%) PMO
13 1 (0.083%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.083%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.083%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.083%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 226 (18.83%) Active Directory
2 114 (9.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (9.25%) Docker
4 57 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
5 49 (4.08%) Hyper-V
6 41 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (2.33%) vSphere
8 24 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.67%) Terminal Services
10 7 (0.58%) XenApp
11 6 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.25%) KVM
13 2 (0.17%) Firmware
13 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.17%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.083%) Forefront TMG
14 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.083%) RACF
14 1 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 288 (24.00%) Terraform
2 212 (17.67%) Kubernetes
3 175 (14.58%) Ansible
4 75 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (3.58%) SCCM
6 31 (2.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 31 (2.58%) Puppet
7 26 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.08%) SCOM
9 12 (1.00%) WSUS
10 11 (0.92%) FortiGate
10 11 (0.92%) Grafana
10 11 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Clustering
11 8 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.42%) Istio
13 5 (0.42%) Nagios
14 4 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 548 (45.67%) Microsoft
2 145 (12.08%) VMware
3 136 (11.33%) Oracle
4 80 (6.67%) Cisco
5 78 (6.50%) Citrix
6 40 (3.33%) Palo Alto
7 35 (2.92%) Google
8 26 (2.17%) Meraki
9 25 (2.08%) SAP
10 21 (1.75%) F5
11 18 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.50%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.42%) TOWER Software
13 16 (1.33%) iManage
14 15 (1.25%) Salesforce
15 14 (1.17%) Databricks
15 14 (1.17%) SolarWinds
16 13 (1.08%) Okta
17 12 (1.00%) Fortinet
18 11 (0.92%) Veeam