PaaS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 139 165
Rank change year-on-year -34 +26 +20
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 18 56 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.48% 1.29% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 4.60% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 20
10th Percentile £47,500 £58,125 £49,943
25th Percentile £50,000 £80,000 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £87,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.77% +25.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £92,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £94,875 £83,875
South East median annual salary £62,500 £71,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +9.62% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,102 1,218 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.60% 28.08% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 518 606 927
10th Percentile £30,050 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,875 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £46,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.55% -4.35%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PaaS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the Thames Valley

PaaS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Berkshire -21 14 £70,000 -13.85% 10
Oxfordshire - 3 £50,000 -
Buckinghamshire -20 1 £65,000 -26.14%
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 10 (55.56%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) SaaS
3 10 (55.56%) iPaaS
4 5 (27.78%) IaaS
5 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 3 (16.67%) AWS
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.11%) Azure AI
7 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
8 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (61.11%) Finance
3 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (55.56%) Legal
3 10 (55.56%) Marketing
3 10 (55.56%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Architect
2 7 (38.89%) Applications Architect
2 7 (38.89%) IT Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 13 (72.22%) Migration
3 10 (55.56%) Coaching
3 10 (55.56%) Creative Thinking
3 10 (55.56%) Data Governance
3 10 (55.56%) ERP
3 10 (55.56%) Marketing Automation
3 10 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 10 (55.56%) Practice Management
3 10 (55.56%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (55.56%) Risk Management
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) API Management
6 3 (16.67%) Log Analytics
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Bicep
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle