PaaS Job Trends in the South West

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 63 125
Rank change year-on-year -107 +62 +34
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 14 160 94
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.28% 3.75% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 11.73% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 78
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,750 £46,792
25th Percentile £54,457 £52,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.11% +30.77%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,886 £84,056
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,079 £69,308 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -7.59% +7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,165 1,364 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.20% 32.00% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 778 746 1,489
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the South West

PaaS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the South West

PaaS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Bristol -8 5 £67,500 - 6
Devon 0 3 £67,500 -10.00%
Gloucestershire -38 3 £55,891 +3.98% 2
Cornwall - 3 - -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) IaaS
2 12 (85.71%) Azure
3 10 (71.43%) SaaS
4 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (35.71%) AWS
5 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
6 4 (28.57%) Azure Stack
6 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (14.29%) Serverless
8 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.14%) Matillion
8 1 (7.14%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VLAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
1 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) BYOD
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) AI
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
6 1 (7.14%) Process Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
2 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Aruba
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam