PaaS Job Trends in the Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 188 157
Rank change year-on-year +1 -31 +52
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 32 58 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.41% 0.87% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 2.72% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 37 48
10th Percentile £36,831 £51,780 £47,675
25th Percentile £57,188 £53,300 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,172 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.29% - -8.88%
75th Percentile £79,652 £75,000 £89,000
90th Percentile £84,724 £82,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,039 £69,308 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -7.59% +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,841 2,131 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.44% 31.90% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,225 1,711
10th Percentile £27,930 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £79,560 £77,500
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 Midlands

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

PaaS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the Midlands

PaaS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
West Midlands -2 21 £73,801 +23.00% 81
East Midlands 0 11 £60,000 - 57
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (3.13%) FileNet
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 18 (56.25%) IaaS
2 18 (56.25%) SaaS
3 9 (28.13%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (18.75%) GCP
6 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (12.50%) Azure AKS
8 4 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (12.50%) Datadog
8 4 (12.50%) GitHub
8 4 (12.50%) OCI
8 4 (12.50%) Serverless
9 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
9 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) DNS
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) VPN
3 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.13%) Metadata
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Redis
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) JMeter
3 1 (3.13%) Locust
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Architect
2 8 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (21.88%) Oracle Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Lead
5 4 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Oracle Data Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Analyst
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) IT Support
6 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Junior
6 3 (9.38%) Junior IT Support
6 3 (9.38%) Junior Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (6.25%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) Django
3 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 7 (21.88%) Data Privacy
4 7 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
4 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
5 6 (18.75%) API Management
5 6 (18.75%) Architectural Design
5 6 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 6 (18.75%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (15.63%) ERP
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Migration
6 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) Go
3 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
2 3 (9.38%) SLA
3 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Docker
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Google
4 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.13%) Adobe
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) OpenAI