PaaS Job Trends in Birmingham

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 106 87
Rank change year-on-year +10 -19 +18
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 12 24 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.69% 1.33% 1.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 3.64% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 21
10th Percentile £58,500 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,161 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +15.51% -12.73%
75th Percentile £78,145 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £80,170 £112,500 -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,172 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.13% +6.63% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

PaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 573 659 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.93% 36.53% 41.52%
Number of salaries quoted 404 386 505
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £31,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,188 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,357 £80,070
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

PaaS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

PaaS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PaaS in Birmingham

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) IaaS
3 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (25.00%) SaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (16.67%) dbt
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub
6 2 (16.67%) Serverless
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (8.33%) JMeter
1 1 (8.33%) Locust
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Django
1 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) API Management
2 6 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 6 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 6 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 6 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (33.33%) AI
4 4 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Case Management
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Document Management
4 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (33.33%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAI