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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 153 162
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 +24
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 19 44 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.90% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 3.35% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 21
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,375 £50,075
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £74,375 £91,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,450 £95,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -

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 1,056 1,315 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.36% 27.04% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 479 718 1,121
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £56,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -7.73% -5.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £90,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.04%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -17 13 £78,500 +57.00% 7
Oxfordshire +27 4 £50,000 +5.26%
Buckinghamshire -22 2 £71,250 -17.39%
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (52.63%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) Azure
2 15 (78.95%) SaaS
3 10 (52.63%) iPaaS
4 6 (31.58%) IaaS
5 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.79%) AWS
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AI
7 2 (10.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (10.53%) Power Automate
8 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (5.26%) GitHub
8 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.53%) VPN
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 13 (68.42%) Social Skills
2 11 (57.89%) Finance
3 10 (52.63%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (52.63%) Legal
3 10 (52.63%) Marketing
3 10 (52.63%) Organisational Skills
3 10 (52.63%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Advertising
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Applications Architect
2 7 (36.84%) IT Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) NHS
2 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 13 (68.42%) Migration
3 10 (52.63%) Coaching
3 10 (52.63%) Creative Thinking
3 10 (52.63%) Data Governance
3 10 (52.63%) ERP
3 10 (52.63%) Marketing Automation
3 10 (52.63%) Mentoring
3 10 (52.63%) Practice Management
3 10 (52.63%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (52.63%) Risk Management
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) Waterfall
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (15.79%) API Management
7 3 (15.79%) Customer Engagement
7 3 (15.79%) Log Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) C#
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle