PaaS Job Trends in the North West

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 154 168 104
Rank change year-on-year +14 -64 +110
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 32 37 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.50% 0.73% 2.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 2.37% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 20 24 90
10th Percentile £52,600 £47,500 £46,125
25th Percentile £56,438 £51,875 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £60,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% -17.24% +17.89%
75th Percentile £79,092 £74,144 £86,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,375 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,039 £69,308 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -7.59% +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,759 1,563 1,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 43.31% 30.93% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,019 894 1,433
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,292 £83,200 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the North West

PaaS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for PaaS in the North West

PaaS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Manchester +15 22 £67,539 +12.57% 5
Cheshire -17 6 £70,000 +40.00% 2
Cumbria - 3 £65,500 -
Lancashire +10 1 £70,932 +41.86% 3
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) Azure
2 21 (65.63%) SaaS
3 20 (62.50%) IaaS
4 7 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) AWS
6 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.25%) dbt
7 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.25%) GCP
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (3.13%) Datadog
8 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
8 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Redis
2 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) GitLab
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.13%) JMeter
3 1 (3.13%) Locust
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Law
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 10 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Architect
5 5 (15.63%) Lead
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Analyst
8 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Head of Development
8 2 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.25%) Blazor
1 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
1 2 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.13%) Django
2 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Android
2 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) Agile
3 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (31.25%) Microservices
4 9 (28.13%) ArchiMate
4 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 9 (28.13%) UML
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Design Patterns
6 7 (21.88%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (18.75%) BPMN
7 6 (18.75%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) Digital Innovation
7 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Observability
8 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (9.38%) Bash
2 3 (9.38%) Bicep
2 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.38%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) Go
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (3.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) BiZZdesign
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Google
4 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle
5 2 (6.25%) Xamarin
6 1 (3.13%) VMware