Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 27 November 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 27 November 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
27 Nov 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 182 123 115
Rank change year-on-year -59 -8 +64
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 506 220 207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.73% 2.66% 2.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.69% 5.75% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 446 184 202
10th Percentile £43,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,000 £65,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.45% +8.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £91,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +4.00%

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,725 3,827 3,215
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 47.05% 46.30% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,160 3,473 2,949
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

IaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IaaS.

IaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IaaS over the 6 months to 27 November 2021.

IaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 27 November 2021, IaaS job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for IaaS.

1 395 (78.06%) Azure
2 345 (68.18%) PaaS
3 245 (48.42%) Microsoft
4 200 (39.53%) DevOps
5 175 (34.58%) AWS
6 169 (33.40%) SaaS
7 162 (32.02%) Windows
8 125 (24.70%) Agile Software Development
9 123 (24.31%) PowerShell
10 122 (24.11%) Social Skills
11 114 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (21.94%) Terraform
12 111 (21.94%) Active Directory
13 109 (21.54%) Presales
14 104 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
15 103 (20.36%) Migration
16 98 (19.37%) Windows Server
17 94 (18.58%) Python
18 88 (17.39%) Kubernetes
19 84 (16.60%) SQL
20 81 (16.01%) Public Cloud
21 77 (15.22%) Docker
21 77 (15.22%) VMware
22 74 (14.62%) Linux
23 72 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
24 66 (13.04%) GCP
25 64 (12.65%) SQL Server
26 63 (12.45%) Firewall
27 62 (12.25%) VMware Infrastructure
27 62 (12.25%) Ansible

IaaS
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 48 (9.49%) SharePoint
2 25 (4.94%) IIS
3 19 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.57%) Confluence
5 11 (2.17%) Apache Pig
6 10 (1.98%) CMS
6 10 (1.98%) Sitecore CMS
6 10 (1.98%) Umbraco
6 10 (1.98%) WordPress
7 9 (1.78%) MS Exchange
8 8 (1.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
11 4 (0.79%) Apache
11 4 (0.79%) nginx
12 3 (0.59%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.59%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.59%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.20%) Alfresco
Applications
1 13 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (3.56%) Sentinel
2 10 (1.98%) Sage 200
3 8 (1.58%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
7 3 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.20%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 395 (78.06%) Azure
2 345 (68.18%) PaaS
3 175 (34.58%) AWS
4 169 (33.40%) SaaS
5 104 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
6 66 (13.04%) GCP
7 52 (10.28%) Azure Active Directory
8 40 (7.91%) OneDrive
9 26 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
10 24 (4.74%) GitHub
11 20 (3.95%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.95%) Serverless
12 17 (3.36%) Power Platform
13 15 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (2.77%) Mimecast
15 12 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (2.17%) Matillion
17 10 (1.98%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.98%) OpenShift
18 8 (1.58%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 63 (12.45%) Firewall
2 45 (8.89%) VPN
3 35 (6.92%) DNS
4 29 (5.73%) DHCP
5 27 (5.34%) WAN
6 24 (4.74%) LAN
6 24 (4.74%) VLAN
7 23 (4.55%) SAN
8 22 (4.35%) TCP/IP
9 14 (2.77%) IPsec
9 14 (2.77%) Remote Desktop
10 13 (2.57%) MPLS
11 12 (2.37%) Network Security
11 12 (2.37%) SSL
12 10 (1.98%) VoIP
13 6 (1.19%) Internet
13 6 (1.19%) Wireless
14 5 (0.99%) VSAN
14 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.65%) SQL Server
2 36 (7.11%) Big Data
3 33 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 24 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 18 (3.56%) MySQL
5 18 (3.56%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.77%) Apache Hive
7 14 (2.77%) Power BI
7 14 (2.77%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.17%) Pentaho
9 11 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.17%) Sqoop
10 8 (1.58%) MarkLogic
10 8 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.38%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.38%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.19%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 45 (8.89%) Git (software)
2 44 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.14%) JIRA
4 18 (3.56%) Bitbucket
5 14 (2.77%) GitLab
5 14 (2.77%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (2.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (2.17%) Gradle
8 10 (1.98%) Maven
8 10 (1.98%) Visual Studio
9 6 (1.19%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.79%) Vagrant
11 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.59%) Subversion
12 2 (0.40%) GoCD
12 2 (0.40%) gulp
12 2 (0.40%) Postman
12 2 (0.40%) Selenium
13 1 (0.20%) fastlane
General
1 122 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 51 (10.08%) Finance
3 38 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (5.14%) Law
5 19 (3.75%) Legal
6 17 (3.36%) Public Sector
7 14 (2.77%) Banking
8 12 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (1.78%) Advertising
10 9 (1.78%) Marketing
11 8 (1.58%) Games
11 8 (1.58%) Private Banking
11 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.99%) Back Office
15 4 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 154 (30.43%) Architect
2 106 (20.95%) Cloud Architect
3 84 (16.60%) Solutions Architect
4 73 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 65 (12.85%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 61 (12.06%) Consultant
7 58 (11.46%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (9.29%) Azure Architect
9 46 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 43 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (7.11%) Developer
12 32 (6.32%) Azure Consultant
13 24 (4.74%) Cloud Consultant
14 23 (4.55%) Lead Architect
14 23 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Architect
15 21 (4.15%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 19 (3.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (3.75%) Software Developer
17 15 (2.96%) Java Developer
17 15 (2.96%) Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.73%) .NET
2 26 (5.14%) ARM Templates
2 26 (5.14%) Kafka
3 19 (3.75%) YAML
4 18 (3.56%) HTML
5 16 (3.16%) JSON
5 16 (3.16%) Node.js
6 15 (2.96%) Middleware
7 13 (2.57%) CSS
8 12 (2.37%) Web Services
9 10 (1.98%) Django
9 10 (1.98%) React
9 10 (1.98%) Swagger
10 9 (1.78%) .NET Core
10 9 (1.78%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.78%) RESTful
11 8 (1.58%) .NET Framework
11 8 (1.58%) JMX
11 8 (1.58%) JWT
11 8 (1.58%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 81 (16.01%) Public Cloud
2 53 (10.47%) Data Centre
3 25 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (4.94%) Private Cloud
4 21 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (3.95%) Clustering
5 20 (3.95%) Replication
6 17 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.96%) User Experience
8 11 (2.17%) CMDB
8 11 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.19%) PKI
9 6 (1.19%) Pricing Data
10 5 (0.99%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.79%) BYOD
11 4 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.79%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 162 (32.02%) Windows
2 98 (19.37%) Windows Server
3 74 (14.62%) Linux
4 26 (5.14%) Windows 10
5 25 (4.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (3.95%) CentOS
6 20 (3.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 16 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (2.77%) Android
8 14 (2.77%) Apple iOS
9 11 (2.17%) Unix
10 9 (1.78%) SUSE
11 8 (1.58%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.79%) AIX
13 3 (0.59%) VMS
14 2 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.40%) Solaris
15 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (39.53%) DevOps
2 125 (24.70%) Agile Software Development
3 114 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 109 (21.54%) Presales
5 103 (20.36%) Migration
6 72 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 57 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
9 44 (8.70%) Analytics
9 44 (8.70%) Project Management
10 42 (8.30%) Software Engineering
11 38 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 38 (7.51%) Scrum
12 36 (7.11%) Microservices
13 31 (6.13%) Architectural Design
13 31 (6.13%) Change Management
13 31 (6.13%) Continuous Integration
13 31 (6.13%) Use Case
14 30 (5.93%) ITIL
14 30 (5.93%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 123 (24.31%) PowerShell
2 94 (18.58%) Python
3 84 (16.60%) SQL
4 45 (8.89%) Java
5 30 (5.93%) JavaScript
6 28 (5.53%) Bash Shell
7 22 (4.35%) C#
8 19 (3.75%) Scala
9 17 (3.36%) Go
10 15 (2.96%) Ruby
11 14 (2.77%) Kotlin
12 11 (2.17%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.98%) Bicep
14 8 (1.58%) C
14 8 (1.58%) TypeScript
15 7 (1.38%) Perl
16 6 (1.19%) Groovy
16 6 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.79%) C++
17 4 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (8.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (3.16%) Degree
2 16 (3.16%) SC Cleared
2 16 (3.16%) Security Cleared
3 13 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (2.37%) CCNA
5 11 (2.17%) MCSE
6 9 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.79%) MCSA
9 4 (0.79%) VCP6
10 3 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CISSP
11 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.16%) QA
2 12 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.58%) SLA
4 5 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.79%) PMO
6 3 (0.59%) GDPR
6 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) IASME
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.20%) PMBOK
System Software
1 111 (21.94%) Active Directory
2 77 (15.22%) Docker
3 62 (12.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (4.94%) Hyper-V
5 24 (4.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (2.37%) vSphere
8 6 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.99%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.59%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.20%) Varnish
12 1 (0.20%) vCloud
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 111 (21.94%) Terraform
2 88 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 62 (12.25%) Ansible
4 31 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (5.14%) Opscode Chef
6 23 (4.55%) Puppet
7 21 (4.15%) SCCM
8 14 (2.77%) Oozie
9 13 (2.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.58%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (1.19%) Data Guard
13 6 (1.19%) Hadoop YARN
13 6 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (1.19%) SCOM
14 5 (0.99%) Istio
14 5 (0.99%) WSUS
15 4 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.79%) Packer
Vendors
1 245 (48.42%) Microsoft
2 77 (15.22%) VMware
3 45 (8.89%) Oracle
4 36 (7.11%) Veeam
5 31 (6.13%) Cisco
6 28 (5.53%) Dell
7 25 (4.94%) Google
8 24 (4.74%) HP
9 19 (3.75%) Sophos
10 18 (3.56%) IBM
11 13 (2.57%) Cloudera
11 13 (2.57%) Informatica
11 13 (2.57%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.17%) Hortonworks
12 11 (2.17%) NetApp
12 11 (2.17%) StreamSets
13 10 (1.98%) CommVault
13 10 (1.98%) Sage
13 10 (1.98%) SAP
13 10 (1.98%) Sitecore