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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 140 217
Rank change year-on-year -23 +77 -62
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 7 22 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.14% 0.80% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.53% 2.49% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 19
10th Percentile £58,625 £61,250 £41,841
25th Percentile £60,313 £75,000 £44,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £81,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +35.42% -11.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £92,813 £64,375
90th Percentile £67,250 £119,375 £77,500
South East median annual salary £63,750 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.93% +12.00% +4.17%

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 1,327 883 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.75% 32.12% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 809 519 1,544
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +16.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -9.09%

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
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 April 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
Buckinghamshire -19 5 £62,500 -24.47% 6
Berkshire -6 1 £60,000 -25.00% 1
Oxfordshire -8 1 £67,500 -28.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) IaaS
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Security Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Security Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) ERP
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) IT Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Predictive Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Security Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco