IaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 193 261
Rank change year-on-year -206 +68 -35
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 414 1,103 1,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.86% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 4.83% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 371 440 713
10th Percentile £42,238 £41,250 £36,550
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,875 £83,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,573 22,822 28,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.91% 38.59% 39.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 13,617 19,644
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,298 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England -103 119 £57,500 -11.54% 20
South East -90 91 £62,500 +8.70% 42
South West -71 82 £70,000 +16.67% 14
North West -93 75 £62,783 -3.41% 10
Midlands -54 64 £69,235 +15.39% 20
West Midlands +6 58 £69,235 +2.57% 16
Scotland -130 48 £62,500 +5.00% 7
Yorkshire -18 25 £57,500 -6.12% 8
North East 0 19 £45,000 -28.00% 2
East of England -42 7 £50,000 -13.04% 4
East Midlands -62 4 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Northern Ireland -21 2 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Wales -39 1 £72,500 +56.89% 1
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (7.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 31 (7.49%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.21%) IIS
4 4 (0.97%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.48%) Confluence
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) 1Password
3 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 310 (74.88%) Azure
2 299 (72.22%) PaaS
3 167 (40.34%) SaaS
4 128 (30.92%) AWS
5 119 (28.74%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (10.63%) GCP
8 37 (8.94%) Entra ID
9 33 (7.97%) Power Platform
10 23 (5.56%) GitHub
11 17 (4.11%) OneDrive
12 16 (3.86%) Nutanix
12 16 (3.86%) Serverless
13 14 (3.38%) Azure Stack
13 14 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (2.42%) Azure Key Vault
15 10 (2.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 84 (20.29%) Firewall
2 74 (17.87%) DNS
3 57 (13.77%) VPN
3 57 (13.77%) WAN
4 42 (10.14%) DHCP
5 36 (8.70%) SD-WAN
6 30 (7.25%) LAN
7 29 (7.00%) SAN
8 26 (6.28%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (3.38%) Wireless
10 13 (3.14%) NGFW
11 12 (2.90%) Network Security
12 10 (2.42%) Internet
12 10 (2.42%) SSL
12 10 (2.42%) TCP/IP
13 7 (1.69%) HTTP
13 7 (1.69%) IPsec
13 7 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (1.45%) iSCSI
14 6 (1.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 44 (10.63%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 17 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 15 (3.62%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.17%) MySQL
8 7 (1.69%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.45%) Power BI
9 6 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.21%) Big Data
10 5 (1.21%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (0.97%) GIS
12 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.31%) Git
2 9 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.48%) JIRA
4 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.24%) IntelliJ
General
1 82 (19.81%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.67%) Finance
3 39 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.86%) Banking
7 8 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.97%) Advertising
10 4 (0.97%) Aviation
10 4 (0.97%) Avionics
10 4 (0.97%) Games
11 3 (0.72%) Retail
12 2 (0.48%) Publishing
13 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.24%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.24%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 107 (25.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 97 (23.43%) Architect
3 67 (16.18%) Senior
4 49 (11.84%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (9.90%) Cloud Architect
6 35 (8.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 34 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
8 31 (7.49%) Consultant
8 31 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (7.25%) Support Engineer
10 20 (4.83%) Infrastructure Support
11 19 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 19 (4.59%) AWS Architect
11 19 (4.59%) Cloud Consultant
12 18 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 17 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
14 16 (3.86%) AWS Consultant
14 16 (3.86%) Enterprise Architect
15 13 (3.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
15 13 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.00%) ARM Templates
2 22 (5.31%) JSON
3 17 (4.11%) Web Services
4 16 (3.86%) Middleware
4 16 (3.86%) OpenID
5 15 (3.62%) .NET
6 14 (3.38%) YAML
7 11 (2.66%) RESTful
8 9 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
9 8 (1.93%) XML
10 7 (1.69%) gRPC
11 5 (1.21%) SAML
12 4 (0.97%) Node.js
13 3 (0.72%) AngularJS
13 3 (0.72%) ASP.NET Core
13 3 (0.72%) CSS3
13 3 (0.72%) Entity Framework
13 3 (0.72%) HTML5
13 3 (0.72%) React
13 3 (0.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 84 (20.29%) Public Cloud
2 56 (13.53%) Cloud Native
3 50 (12.08%) Data Centre
4 47 (11.35%) Management Information System
5 23 (5.56%) Driving Licence
5 23 (5.56%) Replication
6 19 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 17 (4.11%) IoT
9 15 (3.62%) Blockchain
9 15 (3.62%) Mainframe
10 10 (2.42%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.17%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.93%) Life Science
12 8 (1.93%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.69%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.69%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 140 (33.82%) Windows
2 71 (17.15%) Linux
3 68 (16.43%) Windows Server
4 53 (12.80%) Unix
5 17 (4.11%) Windows 10
6 13 (3.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.93%) Ubuntu
9 7 (1.69%) Solaris
10 6 (1.45%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.72%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.48%) VMS
14 1 (0.24%) Android
14 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (36.23%) DevOps
2 138 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 107 (25.85%) ITIL
4 80 (19.32%) Mentoring
5 72 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (17.15%) Agile
7 65 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
8 64 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (14.25%) Roadmaps
10 58 (14.01%) CI/CD
11 53 (12.80%) Disaster Recovery
12 49 (11.84%) Network Virtualisation
13 48 (11.59%) Containerisation
14 47 (11.35%) Microservices
15 42 (10.14%) Change Management
15 42 (10.14%) Information Security
16 40 (9.66%) Coaching
16 40 (9.66%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (8.94%) Cloud Security
18 33 (7.97%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 90 (21.74%) PowerShell
2 52 (12.56%) Python
3 33 (7.97%) Bash
4 31 (7.49%) SQL
5 22 (5.31%) Bicep
6 15 (3.62%) Perl
7 13 (3.14%) C#
8 8 (1.93%) Ruby
9 4 (0.97%) Java
9 4 (0.97%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.72%) Go
10 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.48%) PHP
11 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.24%) Julia
12 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (12.08%) Degree
2 48 (11.59%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.18%) Azure Certification
4 23 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.35%) CCNA
7 17 (4.11%) SC Cleared
8 16 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.14%) Master's Degree
9 13 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
10 12 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (2.42%) AWS Certification
11 10 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (2.42%) DBS Check
12 9 (2.17%) A+ Certification
12 9 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.93%) CISSP
13 8 (1.93%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (1.45%) MCP
14 6 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.31%) GDPR
3 17 (4.11%) NIST
4 16 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.38%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.42%) HIPAA
6 10 (2.42%) NCSC
7 7 (1.69%) COBIT
7 7 (1.69%) SLA
8 5 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.21%) QA
9 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.48%) PMO
11 1 (0.24%) GRC
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.24%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 91 (21.98%) Active Directory
2 61 (14.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (6.52%) Docker
5 26 (6.28%) Hyper-V
6 19 (4.59%) vSphere
7 15 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
9 13 (3.14%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.21%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.48%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.24%) Firmware
12 1 (0.24%) RACF
Systems Management
1 105 (25.36%) Terraform
2 57 (13.77%) Kubernetes
3 51 (12.32%) Ansible
4 38 (9.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (5.80%) Puppet
6 16 (3.86%) FortiGate
7 15 (3.62%) SCCM
8 8 (1.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (1.45%) NetCrunch
9 6 (1.45%) SCDPM
10 5 (1.21%) SCOM
11 4 (0.97%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (0.72%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.48%) CASB
13 2 (0.48%) Grafana
13 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.48%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 157 (37.92%) Microsoft
2 82 (19.81%) VMware
3 41 (9.90%) Cisco
4 27 (6.52%) Splunk
5 21 (5.07%) Veeam
6 17 (4.11%) Dynatrace
7 15 (3.62%) NetApp
8 13 (3.14%) Dell
9 11 (2.66%) Aruba
9 11 (2.66%) BMC
9 11 (2.66%) Citrix
9 11 (2.66%) Palo Alto
10 9 (2.17%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.69%) Barracuda Networks
11 7 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.45%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (1.45%) Google
12 6 (1.45%) Ivanti
12 6 (1.45%) Oracle
13 5 (1.21%) EMC