PaaS Job Trends in Salford

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Salford requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 2.24% 4.12% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.00% 8.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £66,635 - -
25th Percentile £67,452 £64,471 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% - -
75th Percentile £80,515 £74,144 -
90th Percentile £81,550 - -
Manchester median annual salary £67,539 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.57% -17.24% +13.73%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25 48 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 18.66% 49.48% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 21
10th Percentile £42,750 £44,543 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,713 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,442 £59,430 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -8.57% +23.81%
75th Percentile £78,431 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,790 - £82,500
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +0.80%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Salford

PaaS
Salary Trend in Salford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
2 1 (33.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Locust
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google