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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 122 157
Rank change year-on-year -46 +35 -2
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 3 57 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.075% 1.65% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 5.04% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3 24 20
10th Percentile £49,500 £75,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £77,500 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £88,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +46.67% -28.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £93,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £66,500 £95,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +15.38% +4.00%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,219 1,132 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.57% 32.73% 31.59%
Number of salaries quoted 620 581 878
10th Percentile £31,200 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,840 £78,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

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 2 January 2026.

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 2 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
Oxfordshire +20 1 £50,000 -64.29% 1
Buckinghamshire -19 1 £65,000 -26.14% 3
Berkshire -38 1 £60,000 -29.41% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft