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

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 203 273
Rank change year-on-year -143 +70 -76
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 807 1,943 2,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.87% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 4.34% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 690 980 1,608
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,750 £53,972 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,063 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.64% +9.09% -8.33%

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 35,351 44,760 75,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.95% 43.04% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,770 29,299 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 -122 693 £70,000 - 154
UK excluding London -181 434 £62,783 +4.64% 95
Work from Home -156 324 £70,000 +7.69% 75
London -43 289 £85,000 +6.25% 69
North of England -107 125 £60,000 -7.34% 21
South East -99 98 £62,500 +8.70% 25
South West -57 85 £70,000 +17.60% 16
North West -79 76 £62,783 -3.41% 7
Midlands -39 65 £69,235 +8.60% 14
West Midlands +10 57 £69,235 +4.11% 8
Scotland -115 50 £62,500 +5.00% 14
Yorkshire -6 30 £56,250 -6.25% 10
North East -5 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -38 6 £51,250 -12.77% 6
East Midlands -53 5 £45,000 -21.74% 6
Northern Ireland -15 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Wales -28 2 £72,500 +20.83%

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 48 (5.95%) SharePoint
2 47 (5.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.99%) IIS
4 6 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.74%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.74%) CMS
4 6 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.74%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.74%) WordPress
5 5 (0.62%) Confluence
6 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.50%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Drupal
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) 1Password
5 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) HFM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 635 (78.69%) Azure
2 633 (78.44%) PaaS
3 385 (47.71%) SaaS
4 245 (30.36%) AWS
5 213 (26.39%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
7 101 (12.52%) Entra ID
8 83 (10.29%) GCP
9 58 (7.19%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.82%) Cloud Computing
11 45 (5.58%) Serverless
12 34 (4.21%) GitHub
13 33 (4.09%) Azure AKS
14 22 (2.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 22 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (2.60%) Azure Stack
15 21 (2.60%) Nutanix
16 20 (2.48%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (1.98%) OneDrive
18 15 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 144 (17.84%) Firewall
2 116 (14.37%) DNS
3 97 (12.02%) VPN
4 91 (11.28%) WAN
5 62 (7.68%) DHCP
5 62 (7.68%) LAN
6 49 (6.07%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (5.70%) SD-WAN
8 40 (4.96%) SAN
9 29 (3.59%) Network Security
10 26 (3.22%) Wireless
11 22 (2.73%) VLAN
12 20 (2.48%) TCP/IP
13 18 (2.23%) NGFW
14 17 (2.11%) BGP
14 17 (2.11%) Internet
15 14 (1.73%) MPLS
16 12 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (1.49%) DMZ
16 12 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (3.59%) Data Lake
6 24 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.73%) Power BI
8 13 (1.61%) Big Data
9 12 (1.49%) MySQL
10 10 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.12%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.87%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.87%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.62%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.62%) Metadata
13 5 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (4.83%) Git
2 26 (3.22%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.73%) GitLab
4 12 (1.49%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.12%) TeamCity
6 8 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.74%) JIRA
8 3 (0.37%) Gradle
8 3 (0.37%) Maven
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.12%) Gatling
10 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.12%) JUnit
10 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 178 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 161 (19.95%) Finance
3 100 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.10%) Banking
7 19 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.98%) Law
9 15 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.73%) Marketing
11 13 (1.61%) Legal
12 11 (1.36%) Retail
13 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.74%) Games
14 6 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.74%) Police
15 5 (0.62%) Advertising
15 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 227 (28.13%) Architect
2 150 (18.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 138 (17.10%) Senior
4 89 (11.03%) Solutions Architect
5 80 (9.91%) Cloud Architect
6 76 (9.42%) Azure Engineer
7 75 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 64 (7.93%) Lead
9 56 (6.94%) Consultant
10 52 (6.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 51 (6.32%) Azure Architect
12 39 (4.83%) Citrix Architect
13 36 (4.46%) Infrastructure Architect
14 33 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
16 31 (3.84%) Support Engineer
17 26 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
18 25 (3.10%) Analyst
19 23 (2.85%) Infrastructure Support
19 23 (2.85%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.19%) ARM Templates
2 46 (5.70%) .NET
3 39 (4.83%) JSON
4 37 (4.58%) Middleware
5 31 (3.84%) Web Services
6 26 (3.22%) YAML
7 20 (2.48%) OpenID
8 17 (2.11%) RESTful
8 17 (2.11%) XML
9 13 (1.61%) Azure Blueprints
9 13 (1.61%) SAML
10 12 (1.49%) Node.js
11 11 (1.36%) REST
12 9 (1.12%) LDAP
12 9 (1.12%) React
13 8 (0.99%) SOAP
14 7 (0.87%) gRPC
15 6 (0.74%) CSS
15 6 (0.74%) CSS3
15 6 (0.74%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 153 (18.96%) Public Cloud
2 80 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 80 (9.91%) Data Centre
3 74 (9.17%) Management Information System
4 36 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.47%) Driving Licence
6 26 (3.22%) Replication
7 25 (3.10%) Private Cloud
8 22 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
9 21 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.60%) Mainframe
10 20 (2.48%) Blockchain
11 19 (2.35%) IoT
12 18 (2.23%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.73%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.24%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 216 (26.77%) Windows
2 108 (13.38%) Windows Server
3 105 (13.01%) Linux
4 63 (7.81%) Unix
5 26 (3.22%) Windows 10
6 20 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (1.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.61%) VMS
9 8 (0.99%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.87%) Solaris
10 7 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.62%) Android
13 4 (0.50%) DC/OS
13 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (36.31%) DevOps
2 197 (24.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 167 (20.69%) Agile
4 166 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 162 (20.07%) ITIL
6 134 (16.60%) CI/CD
7 121 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (14.62%) Cybersecurity
9 112 (13.88%) Mentoring
9 112 (13.88%) Roadmaps
10 95 (11.77%) Microservices
11 78 (9.67%) Information Security
12 74 (9.17%) Cloud Security
13 72 (8.92%) Migration
14 71 (8.80%) Disaster Recovery
15 70 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
16 69 (8.55%) TOGAF
17 67 (8.30%) Change Management
18 65 (8.05%) Technical Leadership
19 62 (7.68%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 157 (19.45%) PowerShell
2 86 (10.66%) SQL
3 79 (9.79%) Python
4 50 (6.20%) Bash
4 50 (6.20%) Bicep
5 42 (5.20%) C#
6 31 (3.84%) Java
7 19 (2.35%) Go
8 16 (1.98%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.98%) Perl
9 15 (1.86%) Ruby
10 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.37%) PHP
10 3 (0.37%) Scala
11 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.12%) Groovy
12 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (14.87%) Degree
2 106 (13.14%) Azure Certification
3 75 (9.29%) Security Cleared
4 42 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (3.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (3.22%) CISSP
10 24 (2.97%) DV Cleared
11 23 (2.85%) Master's Degree
12 20 (2.48%) CCNA
13 19 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (1.98%) Network+ Certification
15 14 (1.73%) CISM
16 13 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.49%) A+ Certification
18 11 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
19 10 (1.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.09%) NIST
3 31 (3.84%) GDPR
4 24 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (2.97%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.35%) NCSC
6 15 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 15 (1.86%) SLA
7 14 (1.73%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.61%) COBIT
9 11 (1.36%) QA
10 10 (1.24%) HIPAA
11 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (1.12%) PMO
12 8 (0.99%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.74%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.12%) GRC
16 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 175 (21.69%) Active Directory
2 105 (13.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.68%) Docker
4 53 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
5 41 (5.08%) Hyper-V
6 26 (3.22%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (2.97%) vSphere
8 20 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.73%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.62%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.37%) Firmware
11 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) RACF
12 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 204 (25.28%) Terraform
2 108 (13.38%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.05%) Ansible
4 71 (8.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (4.46%) Puppet
6 23 (2.85%) SCCM
7 18 (2.23%) FortiGate
8 15 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.99%) Nessus
10 8 (0.99%) SCOM
10 8 (0.99%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.87%) Istio
11 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.87%) SCDPM
12 6 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.74%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.74%) WSUS
13 5 (0.62%) QRadar
Vendors
1 347 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 137 (16.98%) VMware
3 81 (10.04%) Cisco
4 46 (5.70%) Citrix
5 33 (4.09%) Splunk
6 32 (3.97%) Oracle
6 32 (3.97%) Veeam
7 25 (3.10%) Google
7 25 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.85%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.73%) Meraki
10 21 (2.60%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.23%) SolarWinds
12 16 (1.98%) NetApp
13 15 (1.86%) SAP
13 15 (1.86%) ServiceNow
14 14 (1.73%) Dell
15 12 (1.49%) Sparx
16 11 (1.36%) BMC
16 11 (1.36%) HP