IaaS Job Trends

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 261 224
Rank change year-on-year -167 -37 +29
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 232 599 811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.12% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 3.09% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 170 305 649
10th Percentile £38,000 £49,600 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £69,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -4.14% +7.41%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,500 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year -12.14% +6.38% +10.54%

All Cloud Computing 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 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IaaS job vacancy trend in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 -161 205 £62,500 -10.71% 99
UK excluding London -147 125 £61,500 -12.14% 87
Work from Home -23 78 £64,500 -4.80% 30
London -34 76 £65,000 -7.14% 26
North of England +27 49 £63,000 -3.08% 11
North West +30 30 £57,500 +15.00% 2
South East -48 24 £48,040 -35.95% 38
Midlands -1 19 £57,500 -4.17% 13
South West -100 17 £62,500 -7.41% 14
West Midlands +1 16 £58,750 -2.08% 5
East of England +3 10 £53,000 +6.00% 8
Yorkshire -9 10 £66,216 +1.87% 7
North East +17 9 £72,500 +11.54% 2
Scotland -8 4 £65,000 +18.18% 4
East Midlands -9 3 £45,000 -55.00% 7
Northern Ireland -13 1 £64,000 +21.90% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (14.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (8.62%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.88%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.86%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 201 (86.64%) PaaS
2 175 (75.43%) Azure
3 121 (52.16%) SaaS
4 71 (30.60%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (23.28%) AWS
6 50 (21.55%) Entra ID
7 32 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (11.21%) GCP
9 23 (9.91%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (9.48%) Serverless
11 20 (8.62%) Power Platform
12 13 (5.60%) GitHub
13 12 (5.17%) Azure AKS
14 11 (4.74%) Datadog
15 10 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (3.02%) Azure Stack
16 7 (3.02%) Google Workspace
16 7 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (2.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (25.86%) Firewall
2 52 (22.41%) VPN
3 40 (17.24%) DNS
4 29 (12.50%) DHCP
5 19 (8.19%) VLAN
6 14 (6.03%) TCP/IP
7 12 (5.17%) SAN
8 11 (4.74%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (4.31%) PuTTY
9 10 (4.31%) SSH
9 10 (4.31%) WAN
10 7 (3.02%) LAN
10 7 (3.02%) Network Security
10 7 (3.02%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.59%) VoIP
12 5 (2.16%) SSL
13 4 (1.72%) DMZ
13 4 (1.72%) STUN
14 3 (1.29%) NAS
14 3 (1.29%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.59%) Data Lake
3 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.29%) Power BI
6 2 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.43%) Big Data
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.31%) JIRA
2 7 (3.02%) Chocolatey
3 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.72%) Git
5 2 (0.86%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 90 (38.79%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.26%) Finance
3 31 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.48%) Law
5 20 (8.62%) Legal
6 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.17%) Banking
8 10 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.88%) Dutch Language
9 9 (3.88%) French Language
9 9 (3.88%) Games
10 8 (3.45%) Billing
10 8 (3.45%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.43%) Advertising
14 1 (0.43%) Automotive
14 1 (0.43%) Marketing
14 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (29.31%) Architect
2 55 (23.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 41 (17.67%) Azure Engineer
4 37 (15.95%) Senior
5 35 (15.09%) Support Engineer
6 30 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (9.05%) Lead
8 20 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.90%) Analyst
9 16 (6.90%) Azure Architect
9 16 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.60%) Technical Support
11 12 (5.17%) IT Architect
11 12 (5.17%) IT Engineer
11 12 (5.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.74%) 3rd Line Support
12 11 (4.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.74%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.16%) .NET
1 5 (2.16%) ARM Templates
1 5 (2.16%) RESTful
2 4 (1.72%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.72%) Middleware
3 3 (1.29%) CSS
3 3 (1.29%) HTML
4 2 (0.86%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.86%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.86%) Kafka
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.86%) Node.js
4 2 (0.86%) pytest
4 2 (0.86%) React
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.43%) OAuth
5 1 (0.43%) Playwright
5 1 (0.43%) REST
5 1 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.53%) Enterprise Software
2 35 (15.09%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.47%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (5.60%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.88%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.45%) Security Posture
9 7 (3.02%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (3.02%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.02%) PKI
10 4 (1.72%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.72%) IoT
11 3 (1.29%) Clustering
11 3 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.86%) Replication
12 2 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (29.31%) Windows
2 43 (18.53%) Windows Server
3 38 (16.38%) Linux
4 14 (6.03%) VMS
5 9 (3.88%) Unix
6 5 (2.16%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.72%) Debian
7 4 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.29%) Android
9 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (33.62%) DevOps
2 65 (28.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (18.10%) CI/CD
5 40 (17.24%) AI
6 39 (16.81%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 38 (16.38%) ITIL
7 38 (16.38%) Microservices
8 35 (15.09%) Agile
8 35 (15.09%) Project Delivery
9 33 (14.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (14.22%) Migration
10 30 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (12.07%) Analytics
12 25 (10.78%) Information Security
12 25 (10.78%) Roadmaps
13 23 (9.91%) Containerisation
13 23 (9.91%) Enterprise Architecture
13 23 (9.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (23.71%) PowerShell
2 29 (12.50%) SQL
3 27 (11.64%) Python
4 24 (10.34%) Bicep
5 21 (9.05%) Bash
6 10 (4.31%) DCL
6 10 (4.31%) Tcl
7 4 (1.72%) C#
7 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.29%) Java
9 2 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
10 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (16.81%) Degree
2 33 (14.22%) Azure Certification
3 31 (13.36%) Security Cleared
4 23 (9.91%) SC Cleared
5 22 (9.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (9.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.88%) CISSP
8 7 (3.02%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.02%) CCSK
8 7 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.59%) CCNA
9 6 (2.59%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.43%) CCNP
12 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.43%) MCSA
12 1 (0.43%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 14 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.17%) SLA
3 9 (3.88%) IFRS
3 9 (3.88%) IFRS 17
3 9 (3.88%) QA
3 9 (3.88%) Solvency II
4 8 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 5 (2.16%) NIST
6 4 (1.72%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.29%) NCSC
7 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.86%) GDPR
8 2 (0.86%) GRC
9 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (25.86%) Active Directory
2 34 (14.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.93%) Docker
4 27 (11.64%) Hyper-V
5 16 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.45%) vCloud
7 5 (2.16%) vSphere
8 4 (1.72%) Kamailio
8 4 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.43%) KVM
11 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (26.72%) Terraform
2 35 (15.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (12.07%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.60%) Ansible
4 13 (5.60%) SCCM
5 8 (3.45%) Puppet
5 8 (3.45%) SCOM
6 6 (2.59%) Autotask
7 3 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.86%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.43%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.43%) CASB
9 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.43%) Grafana
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.43%) Nessus
9 1 (0.43%) Packer
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 121 (52.16%) Microsoft
2 46 (19.83%) VMware
3 22 (9.48%) Google
4 14 (6.03%) Palo Alto
5 13 (5.60%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.74%) BiZZdesign
7 10 (4.31%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.31%) SAP
8 9 (3.88%) Duck Creek
8 9 (3.88%) Guidewire
8 9 (3.88%) Oracle
9 8 (3.45%) AppDynamics
9 8 (3.45%) Cisco
9 8 (3.45%) Tenable
10 7 (3.02%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.59%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.59%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.16%) Databricks
13 4 (1.72%) Okta
13 4 (1.72%) Veeam