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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 196 288
Rank change year-on-year -157 +92 -91
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 769 1,905 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 1.92% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 4.46% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 649 910 1,560
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,916 £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 £88,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 35,402 42,720 77,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 43.05% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,668 28,038 41,301
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,000 £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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -134 655 £70,000 - 170
UK excluding London -207 416 £62,500 +4.17% 104
Work from Home -184 305 £68,500 -0.47% 104
London -64 269 £85,000 +6.25% 78
North of England -102 120 £57,500 -11.54% 21
South East -101 90 £62,500 +8.70% 38
South West -63 83 £70,000 +17.13% 13
North West -100 75 £62,783 -5.23% 9
Midlands -50 64 £69,235 +15.39% 19
West Midlands +11 58 £69,617 +3.14% 14
Scotland -121 48 £62,500 +5.00% 7
Yorkshire -25 26 £56,250 -8.16% 8
North East -2 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -35 7 £50,000 -14.89% 6
East Midlands -52 4 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Northern Ireland -27 2 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Wales -31 2 £72,500 +56.89%

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 45 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 41 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.56%) IIS
4 6 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.78%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.78%) CMS
4 6 (0.78%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.78%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.78%) WordPress
5 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.26%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) 1Password
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.65%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) HFM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 609 (79.19%) Azure
1 609 (79.19%) PaaS
2 371 (48.24%) SaaS
3 246 (31.99%) AWS
4 198 (25.75%) Microsoft 365
5 128 (16.64%) Azure DevOps
6 100 (13.00%) Entra ID
7 86 (11.18%) GCP
8 57 (7.41%) Power Platform
9 52 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
10 44 (5.72%) Serverless
11 37 (4.81%) Azure AKS
12 33 (4.29%) GitHub
13 22 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 21 (2.73%) Azure Stack
14 21 (2.73%) Nutanix
15 20 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (2.21%) OneDrive
17 16 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 139 (18.08%) Firewall
2 118 (15.34%) DNS
3 93 (12.09%) WAN
4 89 (11.57%) VPN
5 60 (7.80%) DHCP
6 59 (7.67%) LAN
7 52 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
8 48 (6.24%) SD-WAN
9 37 (4.81%) SAN
10 26 (3.38%) Network Security
10 26 (3.38%) Wireless
11 20 (2.60%) VLAN
12 19 (2.47%) BGP
13 18 (2.34%) TCP/IP
14 17 (2.21%) Internet
15 15 (1.95%) MPLS
15 15 (1.95%) NGFW
16 13 (1.69%) DMZ
17 12 (1.56%) OSPF
17 12 (1.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.44%) SQL Server
2 49 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 22 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 18 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.69%) MySQL
7 13 (1.69%) Power BI
8 12 (1.56%) Big Data
9 11 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.04%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.91%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.65%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.65%) Metadata
14 4 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.52%) GIS
14 4 (0.52%) RDBMS
15 3 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (5.33%) Git
2 27 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.69%) GitLab
3 13 (1.69%) SonarQube
4 8 (1.04%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.91%) JIRA
5 7 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.39%) Gradle
6 3 (0.39%) Maven
7 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.13%) JUnit
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 179 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 144 (18.73%) Finance
3 100 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (5.46%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.73%) Banking
7 19 (2.47%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.82%) Law
10 12 (1.56%) Marketing
11 11 (1.43%) Legal
11 11 (1.43%) Retail
12 10 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Police
15 6 (0.78%) Games
15 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.52%) Advertising
16 4 (0.52%) Avionics
16 4 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 211 (27.44%) Architect
2 144 (18.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (17.69%) Senior
4 86 (11.18%) Solutions Architect
5 76 (9.88%) Cloud Architect
6 74 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 69 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
8 63 (8.19%) Lead
9 51 (6.63%) Consultant
10 45 (5.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (5.59%) Azure Architect
12 35 (4.55%) Support Engineer
13 31 (4.03%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.90%) Citrix Architect
14 30 (3.90%) Infrastructure Architect
15 26 (3.38%) Analyst
15 26 (3.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
15 26 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.12%) Infrastructure Support
17 23 (2.99%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.41%) ARM Templates
2 46 (5.98%) .NET
3 38 (4.94%) Middleware
4 35 (4.55%) JSON
5 28 (3.64%) Web Services
6 23 (2.99%) YAML
7 16 (2.08%) OpenID
8 15 (1.95%) RESTful
9 14 (1.82%) Azure Blueprints
9 14 (1.82%) XML
10 13 (1.69%) SAML
11 12 (1.56%) Node.js
12 10 (1.30%) REST
13 9 (1.17%) LDAP
14 8 (1.04%) SOAP
15 7 (0.91%) gRPC
15 7 (0.91%) HTML
15 7 (0.91%) React
16 6 (0.78%) CSS
16 6 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 141 (18.34%) Public Cloud
2 83 (10.79%) Cloud Native
3 82 (10.66%) Data Centre
4 73 (9.49%) Management Information System
5 34 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.38%) Driving Licence
6 26 (3.38%) Replication
7 22 (2.86%) Private Cloud
8 21 (2.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 21 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.21%) IoT
9 17 (2.21%) Mainframe
9 17 (2.21%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (2.08%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 10 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.17%) Cyberattack
13 9 (1.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 203 (26.40%) Windows
2 103 (13.39%) Linux
3 99 (12.87%) Windows Server
4 61 (7.93%) Unix
5 23 (2.99%) Windows 10
6 21 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (1.82%) VMS
9 10 (1.30%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (1.17%) Apple iOS
11 8 (1.04%) Solaris
12 7 (0.91%) Android
13 6 (0.78%) Windows 7
13 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.52%) DC/OS
15 2 (0.26%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (36.80%) DevOps
2 187 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 160 (20.81%) Agile
4 152 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (19.77%) ITIL
5 127 (16.51%) CI/CD
6 116 (15.08%) Mentoring
6 116 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
7 114 (14.82%) Cybersecurity
8 105 (13.65%) Roadmaps
9 90 (11.70%) Microservices
10 75 (9.75%) Cloud Security
11 74 (9.62%) Information Security
12 68 (8.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 66 (8.58%) Migration
13 66 (8.58%) TOGAF
14 64 (8.32%) Artificial Intelligence
15 63 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (8.06%) Change Management
17 58 (7.54%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 141 (18.34%) PowerShell
2 84 (10.92%) SQL
3 70 (9.10%) Python
4 49 (6.37%) Bicep
5 46 (5.98%) Bash
6 40 (5.20%) C#
7 30 (3.90%) Java
8 16 (2.08%) Go
8 16 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.95%) Ruby
10 14 (1.82%) Perl
11 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.39%) PHP
11 3 (0.39%) Scala
12 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 117 (15.21%) Degree
2 102 (13.26%) Azure Certification
3 74 (9.62%) Security Cleared
4 43 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 42 (5.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (4.42%) AWS Certification
6 34 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (3.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 28 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.99%) CISSP
9 23 (2.99%) Master's Degree
10 21 (2.73%) DV Cleared
11 20 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (2.60%) CCNA
12 16 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
13 13 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.56%) A+ Certification
15 11 (1.43%) CISM
16 10 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.29%) NIST
3 29 (3.77%) GDPR
4 24 (3.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (2.73%) NCSC
6 20 (2.60%) Data Quality
7 17 (2.21%) SLA
8 15 (1.95%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.82%) Accessibility
10 13 (1.69%) COBIT
11 11 (1.43%) QA
12 10 (1.30%) HIPAA
12 10 (1.30%) PMO
13 8 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (1.04%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.78%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.78%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 167 (21.72%) Active Directory
2 91 (11.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (8.06%) Docker
4 49 (6.37%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 23 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (2.99%) vSphere
7 17 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.82%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.65%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.52%) Firmware
11 3 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.26%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.13%) KVM
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.13%) RACF
13 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 195 (25.36%) Terraform
2 110 (14.30%) Kubernetes
3 68 (8.84%) Ansible
4 63 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (4.03%) Puppet
6 20 (2.60%) FortiGate
6 20 (2.60%) SCCM
7 15 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (1.30%) Istio
10 9 (1.17%) Nessus
10 9 (1.17%) SCOM
10 9 (1.17%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.91%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.78%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 6 (0.78%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.78%) SCDPM
13 5 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 335 (43.56%) Microsoft
2 119 (15.47%) VMware
3 77 (10.01%) Cisco
4 38 (4.94%) Citrix
5 33 (4.29%) Splunk
6 32 (4.16%) Oracle
7 28 (3.64%) Veeam
8 27 (3.51%) Google
9 25 (3.25%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.73%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.73%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.34%) SolarWinds
12 17 (2.21%) Meraki
12 17 (2.21%) ServiceNow
13 16 (2.08%) NetApp
14 15 (1.95%) SAP
15 14 (1.82%) Dell
16 12 (1.56%) BMC
16 12 (1.56%) Sparx
17 11 (1.43%) CheckPoint