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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 161 198
Rank change year-on-year -186 +37 -33
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 832 2,213 3,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 2.27% 2.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 5.26% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 684 1,083 1,897
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,038 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,169 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 28 May 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 28 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 -163 699 £70,000 - 190
UK excluding London -235 416 £62,500 -3.85% 106
Work from Home -184 330 £68,500 -2.14% 107
London -71 312 £82,500 +3.13% 91
North of England -138 102 £59,526 -13.51% 33
South West -70 90 £62,500 +5.00% 15
South East -127 82 £63,750 +10.87% 22
Midlands -65 78 £65,000 - 17
West Midlands -6 70 £69,235 +6.51% 14
North West -127 63 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Scotland -148 43 £59,526 -0.79% 12
Yorkshire -22 33 £59,526 -4.76% 10
East of England -29 12 £60,000 -20.00% 7
Wales -48 8 £52,101 -13.17%
North East -19 6 £44,250 -19.55% 6
East Midlands -69 6 £45,000 -21.74% 3
Northern Ireland -21 4 £100,000 +110.53% 4

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 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.20%) CMS
3 10 (1.20%) Confluence
4 8 (0.96%) IIS
4 8 (0.96%) Sitecore CMS
4 8 (0.96%) WordPress
5 6 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (0.72%) Apache Solr
5 6 (0.72%) Umbraco
6 4 (0.48%) Apache
6 4 (0.48%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.24%) Liferay
8 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.84%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.48%) Trello
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
6 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.60%) 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
1 671 (80.65%) Azure
2 583 (70.07%) IaaS
3 414 (49.76%) SaaS
4 272 (32.69%) AWS
5 184 (22.12%) Azure DevOps
6 174 (20.91%) Microsoft 365
7 124 (14.90%) GCP
8 97 (11.66%) Entra ID
9 81 (9.74%) Power Platform
10 59 (7.09%) GitHub
11 50 (6.01%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (5.89%) Serverless
13 41 (4.93%) Azure AKS
14 33 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (3.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (2.52%) Azure Stack
17 21 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 15 (1.80%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 123 (14.78%) Firewall
2 79 (9.50%) WAN
3 74 (8.89%) VPN
4 73 (8.77%) DNS
5 48 (5.77%) LAN
6 46 (5.53%) Wi-Fi
7 45 (5.41%) SD-WAN
8 31 (3.73%) DHCP
9 27 (3.25%) SAN
10 23 (2.76%) Network Security
11 18 (2.16%) BGP
12 17 (2.04%) Internet
13 15 (1.80%) Wireless
14 14 (1.68%) Unified Communications
15 11 (1.32%) VLAN
16 10 (1.20%) Cisco ISE
16 10 (1.20%) MPLS
16 10 (1.20%) SSL
17 9 (1.08%) OSPF
18 8 (0.96%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 37 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 31 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.00%) MySQL
6 24 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.40%) Power BI
8 15 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.68%) Data Lake
10 13 (1.56%) Big Data
10 13 (1.56%) Redis
10 13 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.32%) Metadata
11 11 (1.32%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.20%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.84%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.72%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.72%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 60 (7.21%) Git
2 45 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.04%) GitLab
3 17 (2.04%) JIRA
4 15 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
4 15 (1.80%) SonarQube
5 13 (1.56%) Visual Studio
6 10 (1.20%) Postman
7 7 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.60%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.36%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.24%) Bower
10 2 (0.24%) gulp
10 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
10 2 (0.24%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.24%) Maven
10 2 (0.24%) Moq
10 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 195 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 144 (17.31%) Finance
3 74 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (4.93%) Banking
7 31 (3.73%) Law
8 29 (3.49%) Marketing
9 18 (2.16%) Retail
10 16 (1.92%) Legal
11 15 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.56%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.20%) Police
15 7 (0.84%) Games
16 6 (0.72%) Electronics
16 6 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 219 (26.32%) Architect
2 163 (19.59%) Senior
3 97 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
4 92 (11.06%) Azure Engineer
5 87 (10.46%) Solutions Architect
6 83 (9.98%) Lead
7 82 (9.86%) Developer
8 71 (8.53%) Cloud Architect
9 66 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (5.89%) Consultant
11 47 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 44 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (5.17%) Analyst
14 40 (4.81%) Azure Architect
15 34 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 33 (3.97%) Security Engineer
17 31 (3.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 26 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 26 (3.13%) Senior Security Engineer
19 25 (3.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.58%) .NET
2 63 (7.57%) ARM Templates
3 55 (6.61%) JSON
4 38 (4.57%) Middleware
5 31 (3.73%) Web Services
6 28 (3.37%) RESTful
6 28 (3.37%) YAML
7 26 (3.13%) .NET Framework
8 24 (2.88%) XML
9 21 (2.52%) HTML
9 21 (2.52%) REST
10 17 (2.04%) Node.js
11 16 (1.92%) .NET Core
11 16 (1.92%) Azure Blueprints
11 16 (1.92%) CSS
11 16 (1.92%) React
12 14 (1.68%) ASP.NET
12 14 (1.68%) SOAP
13 13 (1.56%) AngularJS
14 12 (1.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 137 (16.47%) Public Cloud
2 107 (12.86%) Cloud Native
3 53 (6.37%) Data Centre
4 50 (6.01%) Management Information System
5 35 (4.21%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 31 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.76%) Enterprise Cloud
9 20 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.28%) Mobile App
11 18 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (2.16%) Replication
11 18 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.92%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.80%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.56%) Driving Licence
15 10 (1.20%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.20%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.08%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.18%) Windows
2 83 (9.98%) Linux
3 57 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.00%) Unix
5 15 (1.80%) VMS
5 15 (1.80%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.08%) Solaris
9 6 (0.72%) Android
9 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.72%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.48%) DC/OS
10 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.36%) CentOS
12 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (42.55%) DevOps
2 227 (27.28%) Agile
3 191 (22.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 165 (19.83%) CI/CD
5 114 (13.70%) Cybersecurity
6 110 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 107 (12.86%) Roadmaps
8 106 (12.74%) ITIL
9 101 (12.14%) Microservices
10 91 (10.94%) Cloud Security
11 90 (10.82%) Mentoring
11 90 (10.82%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (9.38%) Analytics
13 74 (8.89%) TOGAF
14 71 (8.53%) Migration
15 67 (8.05%) Platform Engineering
15 67 (8.05%) Software Engineering
16 66 (7.93%) Containerisation
17 64 (7.69%) Information Security
18 62 (7.45%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 156 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 136 (16.35%) SQL
3 114 (13.70%) Python
4 72 (8.65%) C#
5 58 (6.97%) Bicep
6 51 (6.13%) JavaScript
7 46 (5.53%) Bash
8 40 (4.81%) Java
9 16 (1.92%) Go
10 10 (1.20%) Ruby
11 8 (0.96%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.84%) PHP
13 6 (0.72%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.60%) C++
15 4 (0.48%) Scala
16 3 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.24%) C
17 2 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 120 (14.42%) Degree
2 105 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 99 (11.90%) Azure Certification
4 59 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (4.21%) AWS Certification
8 33 (3.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 23 (2.76%) CISSP
9 23 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (2.52%) DV Cleared
11 21 (2.52%) Master's Degree
12 17 (2.04%) CCNA
13 16 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
14 12 (1.44%) A+ Certification
15 10 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (1.20%) CCSP
15 10 (1.20%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.13%) NIST
3 24 (2.88%) GDPR
3 24 (2.88%) QA
4 22 (2.64%) NCSC
5 14 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.56%) SLA
7 8 (0.96%) COBIT
7 8 (0.96%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.84%) Data Quality
8 7 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.72%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.72%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.60%) PMO
11 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 122 (14.66%) Active Directory
2 85 (10.22%) Docker
3 54 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.40%) Hyper-V
6 19 (2.28%) vSphere
7 15 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.68%) VMware NSX
9 12 (1.44%) 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
1 228 (27.40%) Terraform
2 139 (16.71%) Kubernetes
3 85 (10.22%) Ansible
4 49 (5.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (3.13%) Puppet
6 21 (2.52%) FortiGate
7 20 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.32%) Istio
10 7 (0.84%) Nessus
10 7 (0.84%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.72%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.72%) NetCrunch
11 6 (0.72%) SCCM
12 5 (0.60%) Grafana
12 5 (0.60%) Kibana
12 5 (0.60%) Packer
13 4 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (0.48%) Nagios
13 4 (0.48%) QRadar
Vendors
1 343 (41.23%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.17%) VMware
3 66 (7.93%) Cisco
4 56 (6.73%) Google
5 50 (6.01%) Oracle
6 29 (3.49%) Citrix
7 27 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.64%) Splunk
9 21 (2.52%) Veeam
10 20 (2.40%) SAP
11 19 (2.28%) Palo Alto
12 17 (2.04%) Databricks
13 16 (1.92%) NetApp
14 14 (1.68%) Meraki
15 12 (1.44%) Sparx
16 10 (1.20%) Automation Anywhere
16 10 (1.20%) Blue Prism
16 10 (1.20%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.20%) UiPath