IaaS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Work from Home

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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 152 249
Rank change year-on-year -158 +97 -89
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 323 996 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 2.31% 1.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 4.84% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 289 486 848
10th Percentile £42,238 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £93,750 £83,484 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £97,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,616 20,567 35,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.31% 47.67% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 15,067 21,832
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,847 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 April 2024.

IaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 23 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.86%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.24%) ArcGIS
4 4 (1.24%) IIS
5 3 (0.93%) Confluence
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) 1Password
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 257 (79.57%) Azure
2 230 (71.21%) PaaS
3 142 (43.96%) SaaS
4 89 (27.55%) Microsoft 365
5 85 (26.32%) AWS
6 59 (18.27%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (14.86%) Entra ID
8 23 (7.12%) GitHub
9 19 (5.88%) Nutanix
9 19 (5.88%) Serverless
10 15 (4.64%) Azure Stack
11 14 (4.33%) GCP
12 12 (3.72%) Azure AKS
13 11 (3.41%) OneDrive
14 9 (2.79%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.79%) Power Platform
15 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (2.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (17.96%) Firewall
2 52 (16.10%) DNS
3 36 (11.15%) VPN
4 27 (8.36%) DHCP
5 25 (7.74%) WAN
6 24 (7.43%) LAN
7 18 (5.57%) NGFW
7 18 (5.57%) SAN
7 18 (5.57%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (4.33%) Wireless
9 13 (4.02%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.72%) Internet
11 9 (2.79%) Network Security
12 8 (2.48%) TCP/IP
13 7 (2.17%) BGP
14 6 (1.86%) Fibre Channel
14 6 (1.86%) OSPF
14 6 (1.86%) SSL
15 5 (1.55%) IPv4
16 4 (1.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.24%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (1.24%) GIS
4 4 (1.24%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.24%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.93%) Big Data
5 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.93%) Power BI
5 3 (0.93%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.62%) MySQL
6 2 (0.62%) Redis
7 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 11 (3.41%) Git
2 9 (2.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.24%) GitLab
4 4 (1.24%) JIRA
5 2 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.62%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.31%) Gatling
6 1 (0.31%) JUnit
6 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.31%) Vagrant
General
1 85 (26.32%) Finance
2 75 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 58 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.79%) Law
7 6 (1.86%) Police
7 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.55%) Advertising
8 5 (1.55%) Marketing
8 5 (1.55%) Retail
9 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.93%) Banking
10 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.62%) Public Speaking
11 2 (0.62%) Publishing
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 100 (30.96%) Architect
2 75 (23.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 68 (21.05%) Senior
4 47 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
5 39 (12.07%) Citrix Architect
6 38 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 36 (11.15%) Cloud Architect
8 35 (10.84%) Azure Architect
9 29 (8.98%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (8.67%) Consultant
11 27 (8.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
12 25 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (7.74%) Infrastructure Architect
13 24 (7.43%) Lead
14 17 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
14 17 (5.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
15 15 (4.64%) Azure Consultant
16 14 (4.33%) DevOps Architect
16 14 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
17 11 (3.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.29%) ARM Templates
2 21 (6.50%) Middleware
3 15 (4.64%) YAML
4 14 (4.33%) JSON
5 9 (2.79%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (2.48%) Web Services
7 7 (2.17%) .NET
7 7 (2.17%) REST
8 6 (1.86%) SOAP
9 3 (0.93%) Node.js
10 2 (0.62%) Kafka
11 1 (0.31%) 802.1X
11 1 (0.31%) ADO
11 1 (0.31%) Lucene
11 1 (0.31%) SAML
11 1 (0.31%) SignalR
11 1 (0.31%) Spring
11 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 101 (31.27%) Public Cloud
2 43 (13.31%) Data Centre
3 39 (12.07%) Management Information System
4 20 (6.19%) Private Cloud
5 18 (5.57%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.95%) IoT
7 14 (4.33%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.48%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.48%) Life Science
10 6 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.86%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.86%) PKI
10 6 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.55%) Replication
11 5 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.24%) Clustering
12 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (32.82%) Windows
2 42 (13.00%) Windows Server
3 32 (9.91%) Unix
4 19 (5.88%) Linux
5 8 (2.48%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.24%) VMS
8 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.31%) Android
10 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (33.75%) DevOps
2 92 (28.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 71 (21.98%) ITIL
5 70 (21.67%) Mentoring
6 54 (16.72%) Agile
7 53 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (16.10%) CI/CD
9 49 (15.17%) Change Management
10 46 (14.24%) Technical Leadership
11 43 (13.31%) Cybersecurity
12 39 (12.07%) Roadmaps
13 38 (11.76%) Coaching
14 37 (11.46%) TOGAF
15 35 (10.84%) Network Virtualisation
16 33 (10.22%) Information Security
16 33 (10.22%) Migration
17 32 (9.91%) Microservices
18 31 (9.60%) Business Strategy
19 30 (9.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.03%) PowerShell
2 39 (12.07%) SQL
3 37 (11.46%) Python
4 26 (8.05%) Bash
5 17 (5.26%) Bicep
6 16 (4.95%) Perl
7 10 (3.10%) Java
7 10 (3.10%) Ruby
8 7 (2.17%) C#
9 6 (1.86%) Go
10 5 (1.55%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) Groovy
13 1 (0.31%) Julia
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (18.27%) Azure Certification
2 56 (17.34%) Degree
3 35 (10.84%) Security Cleared
4 24 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (3.41%) CISM
7 11 (3.41%) CISSP
8 10 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.86%) GIAC
12 6 (1.86%) SANS
13 5 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.24%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.62%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.26%) NIST
3 16 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 11 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.79%) SLA
6 8 (2.48%) NCSC
7 7 (2.17%) COBIT
7 7 (2.17%) GDPR
8 6 (1.86%) Web Application Security Consortium
9 4 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.24%) PMO
10 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.62%) QA
10 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.31%) GRC
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 76 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 61 (18.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (8.05%) Docker
4 22 (6.81%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (5.57%) Hyper-V
7 18 (5.57%) vSphere
8 4 (1.24%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 92 (28.48%) Terraform
2 28 (8.67%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (5.88%) Ansible
5 9 (2.79%) SCCM
6 7 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
9 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
9 4 (1.24%) SCOM
9 4 (1.24%) WSUS
10 3 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.93%) Puppet
10 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.62%) CASB
11 2 (0.62%) Istio
11 2 (0.62%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 125 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 77 (23.84%) VMware
3 42 (13.00%) Citrix
4 25 (7.74%) Salesforce
5 18 (5.57%) Dynatrace
5 18 (5.57%) Splunk
6 13 (4.02%) Cisco
7 12 (3.72%) Veeam
8 11 (3.41%) BMC
8 11 (3.41%) Oracle
9 10 (3.10%) Aruba
9 10 (3.10%) Google
10 9 (2.79%) Meraki
11 8 (2.48%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.48%) SAP
11 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.48%) SolarWinds
12 7 (2.17%) Sparx
13 6 (1.86%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.86%) Nimble Storage