Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 156 207
Rank change year-on-year -190 +51 -41
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 825 2,203 3,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 2.32% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 5.39% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 671 1,085 1,869
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,477 £45,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% +2.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

PaaS 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 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £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% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PaaS.

Salary trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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 -156 694 £70,000 -3.45% 188
UK excluding London -250 408 £62,500 -3.85% 117
Work from Home -205 319 £70,000 - 99
London -80 313 £82,500 +1.85% 83
North of England -150 103 £59,526 -14.96% 34
South West -81 83 £62,500 +5.00% 15
Midlands -71 80 £65,000 +8.33% 18
South East -142 80 £65,000 +8.33% 27
West Midlands -19 72 £69,235 +6.51% 14
North West -143 63 £65,000 -7.14% 21
Scotland -153 41 £59,763 -0.40% 15
Yorkshire -24 33 £59,526 -0.40% 9
East of England -26 12 £60,000 - 7
Wales -49 8 £52,101 -13.17%
North East -23 7 £44,250 -36.79% 4
East Midlands -72 6 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Northern Ireland -22 4 £100,000 +110.53% 5

PaaS
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 38 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.33%) CMS
4 10 (1.21%) Confluence
5 8 (0.97%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (0.97%) WordPress
6 7 (0.85%) IIS
7 6 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.73%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.73%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.48%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.36%) Apache
9 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.24%) Liferay
10 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.48%) Trello
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) HFM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 665 (80.61%) Azure
2 577 (69.94%) IaaS
3 413 (50.06%) SaaS
4 270 (32.73%) AWS
5 179 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
6 174 (21.09%) Microsoft 365
7 119 (14.42%) GCP
8 95 (11.52%) Entra ID
9 79 (9.58%) Power Platform
10 55 (6.67%) GitHub
11 50 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
11 50 (6.06%) Serverless
12 41 (4.97%) Azure AKS
13 36 (4.36%) Dynamics 365
14 29 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.55%) Azure Stack
17 17 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 15 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 126 (15.27%) Firewall
2 82 (9.94%) WAN
3 75 (9.09%) VPN
4 73 (8.85%) DNS
5 49 (5.94%) LAN
5 49 (5.94%) Wi-Fi
6 47 (5.70%) SD-WAN
7 30 (3.64%) DHCP
8 26 (3.15%) SAN
9 23 (2.79%) Network Security
10 19 (2.30%) BGP
11 17 (2.06%) Internet
12 16 (1.94%) Unified Communications
13 15 (1.82%) Wireless
14 10 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (1.21%) MPLS
14 10 (1.21%) OSPF
14 10 (1.21%) SSL
14 10 (1.21%) VLAN
15 8 (0.97%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (12.85%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 36 (4.36%) NoSQL
4 30 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.03%) MySQL
6 24 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.30%) Power BI
8 15 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.58%) Redis
9 13 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.45%) Big Data
10 12 (1.45%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.33%) Metadata
11 11 (1.33%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.21%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.85%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.73%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 60 (7.27%) Git
2 39 (4.73%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.30%) JIRA
4 17 (2.06%) GitLab
5 16 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 13 (1.58%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.21%) Postman
9 7 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.61%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.24%) Bower
13 2 (0.24%) gulp
13 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.24%) Maven
13 2 (0.24%) MLflow
13 2 (0.24%) Moq
13 2 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 196 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 137 (16.61%) Finance
3 76 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.12%) Banking
7 30 (3.64%) Law
7 30 (3.64%) Marketing
8 19 (2.30%) Legal
8 19 (2.30%) Retail
9 15 (1.82%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.58%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.09%) Police
14 7 (0.85%) Games
15 6 (0.73%) Electronics
15 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 213 (25.82%) Architect
2 158 (19.15%) Senior
3 92 (11.15%) Azure Engineer
4 88 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 86 (10.42%) Developer
5 86 (10.42%) Lead
6 85 (10.30%) Solutions Architect
7 69 (8.36%) Cloud Architect
8 66 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (5.82%) Consultant
9 48 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 44 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (5.21%) Analyst
12 39 (4.73%) Azure Architect
13 34 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.27%) Security Engineer
15 26 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 25 (3.03%) Infrastructure Architect
17 24 (2.91%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (13.82%) .NET
2 63 (7.64%) ARM Templates
3 56 (6.79%) JSON
4 37 (4.48%) Middleware
5 31 (3.76%) Web Services
6 28 (3.39%) RESTful
7 27 (3.27%) YAML
8 26 (3.15%) .NET Framework
9 22 (2.67%) REST
9 22 (2.67%) XML
10 21 (2.55%) HTML
11 17 (2.06%) Azure Blueprints
11 17 (2.06%) Node.js
12 16 (1.94%) .NET Core
12 16 (1.94%) CSS
12 16 (1.94%) React
13 15 (1.82%) SOAP
14 14 (1.70%) ASP.NET
15 13 (1.58%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 126 (15.27%) Public Cloud
2 105 (12.73%) Cloud Native
3 54 (6.55%) Data Centre
3 54 (6.55%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 20 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 19 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.18%) Replication
10 17 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 16 (1.94%) Private Cloud
12 15 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.58%) Driving Licence
14 10 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.21%) Security Posture
15 9 (1.09%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.30%) Windows
2 81 (9.82%) Linux
3 56 (6.79%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.91%) Unix
5 15 (1.82%) VMS
5 15 (1.82%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 9 (1.09%) Solaris
10 7 (0.85%) Android
10 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.73%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.48%) DC/OS
12 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.36%) CentOS
14 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (42.06%) DevOps
2 222 (26.91%) Agile
3 179 (21.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 156 (18.91%) CI/CD
5 108 (13.09%) Cybersecurity
5 108 (13.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 106 (12.85%) ITIL
7 99 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 98 (11.88%) Microservices
9 91 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (10.79%) Mentoring
11 84 (10.18%) Cloud Security
12 77 (9.33%) Analytics
13 73 (8.85%) TOGAF
14 69 (8.36%) Migration
14 69 (8.36%) Platform Engineering
15 67 (8.12%) Software Engineering
16 65 (7.88%) Containerisation
17 62 (7.52%) Information Security
17 62 (7.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 155 (18.79%) PowerShell
2 134 (16.24%) SQL
3 107 (12.97%) Python
4 73 (8.85%) C#
5 58 (7.03%) Bicep
6 52 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 44 (5.33%) Bash
8 41 (4.97%) Java
9 16 (1.94%) Go
10 10 (1.21%) Ruby
11 8 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.85%) PHP
13 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.61%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 3 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.24%) C
17 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.24%) VB
17 2 (0.24%) XAML
Qualifications
1 123 (14.91%) Degree
2 104 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 95 (11.52%) Azure Certification
4 57 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (4.12%) AWS Certification
8 32 (3.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (2.67%) CISSP
11 22 (2.67%) Master's Degree
12 20 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.30%) DV Cleared
14 17 (2.06%) CCNA
15 16 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.45%) A+ Certification
17 10 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (1.21%) CCSP
18 9 (1.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (3.03%) NIST
2 25 (3.03%) QA
3 24 (2.91%) NCSC
4 23 (2.79%) GDPR
5 16 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.58%) SLA
7 8 (0.97%) COBIT
7 8 (0.97%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.73%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.73%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.73%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.61%) PMO
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 120 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 81 (9.82%) Docker
3 54 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 19 (2.30%) vSphere
7 15 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.70%) VMware NSX
9 11 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.48%) XenApp
11 3 (0.36%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.12%) Firmware
12 1 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) NFS
12 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 220 (26.67%) Terraform
2 133 (16.12%) Kubernetes
3 83 (10.06%) Ansible
4 51 (6.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (2.91%) Puppet
6 22 (2.67%) FortiGate
7 18 (2.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.33%) Istio
8 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.85%) Nessus
9 7 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 6 (0.73%) NetCrunch
10 6 (0.73%) SCCM
11 5 (0.61%) Grafana
11 5 (0.61%) Kibana
11 5 (0.61%) Packer
12 4 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.48%) Nagios
12 4 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 339 (41.09%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.12%) Cisco
2 67 (8.12%) VMware
3 50 (6.06%) Google
4 48 (5.82%) Oracle
5 27 (3.27%) Citrix
6 26 (3.15%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.67%) Splunk
8 21 (2.55%) Veeam
9 20 (2.42%) Palo Alto
10 19 (2.30%) SAP
11 16 (1.94%) Databricks
11 16 (1.94%) NetApp
12 15 (1.82%) Meraki
13 12 (1.45%) Sparx
14 10 (1.21%) Automation Anywhere
14 10 (1.21%) Blue Prism
14 10 (1.21%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.21%) UiPath