PaaS Job Trends in the East of England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 145 125
Rank change year-on-year -3 -20 +10
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 11 35 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.26% 0.98% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 3.21% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7 18 7
10th Percentile £38,300 £44,610 £59,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £50,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -30.69% +31.82%
75th Percentile £59,375 £70,938 £73,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £78,750 £77,750
England median annual salary £70,039 £69,308 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -7.59% +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,201 1,089 682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 28.81% 30.36% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 624 592 582
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £51,250 £51,609
Median % change year-on-year -9.93% -0.69% -6.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the East of England

PaaS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the East of England

PaaS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +4 5 £33,500 -53.79% 16
Hertfordshire +12 4 £43,000 -28.33% 25
Essex - 2 £62,500 - 23
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) IaaS
2 9 (81.82%) Azure
3 8 (72.73%) SaaS
4 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
6 3 (27.27%) AWS
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (18.18%) Google Workspace
8 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (9.09%) GitHub
8 1 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
8 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
8 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DHCP
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
1 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) IPv4
2 1 (9.09%) IPv6
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) IT Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Operations Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) IT Architect
3 2 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) AI
3 2 (18.18%) API Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (18.18%) ITSM
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) LLM
4 1 (9.09%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (9.09%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (18.18%) ISSAP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) MCP
2 1 (9.09%) MCSA
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Okta
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) Foundry
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (9.09%) VMware