PaaS Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 207 238
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -35
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 50 46 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.68% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.95% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 38 32 103
10th Percentile £24,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% - -
75th Percentile £77,481 £74,983 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,703 £83,625 £99,051
England median annual salary £70,079 £72,500 £74,000
% change year-on-year -3.34% -2.03% +5.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,061 2,358 5,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 35.21% 34.77% 36.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,344 1,666 4,605
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,125 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the North of England

PaaS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
North West -8 31 £63,000 +2.47% 12
North East -17 10 £74,401 +7.35% 2
Yorkshire -45 9 £70,932 +9.13% 3
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (76.00%) IaaS
2 34 (68.00%) SaaS
3 30 (60.00%) Azure
4 11 (22.00%) AWS
5 10 (20.00%) dbt
6 8 (16.00%) GCP
6 8 (16.00%) GitHub
7 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 5 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 5 (10.00%) Pulumi
8 5 (10.00%) Sentry
9 4 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
10 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
2 1 (2.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (10.00%) Redis
2 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (4.00%) JMeter
1 2 (4.00%) Locust
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.00%) GitLab
2 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.00%) Legal
4 3 (6.00%) Law
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Senior
3 9 (18.00%) Lead
4 8 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (14.00%) Azure Architect
5 7 (14.00%) IT Technician
6 5 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Technician
6 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Business Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.00%) IT Support
8 2 (4.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) Django
2 3 (6.00%) Middleware
3 2 (4.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (12.00%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.00%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
3 4 (8.00%) Windows
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) DevOps
2 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (18.00%) Agile
5 9 (18.00%) Design Patterns
5 9 (18.00%) Microservices
5 9 (18.00%) Project Delivery
6 8 (16.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
6 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (14.00%) Observability
7 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) BPMN
8 6 (12.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.00%) Digital Innovation
8 6 (12.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) Python
2 8 (16.00%) Java
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Terraform
2 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Google
3 6 (12.00%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.00%) F5
5 1 (2.00%) HP
5 1 (2.00%) VMware