PaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 387 177
Rank change year-on-year +10 -210 +37
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 215 437 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.62% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.41% 1.86% 5.17%
Number of salaries quoted 120 380 510
10th Percentile £37,170 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,688 £49,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £71,991 £70,037 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.79% +0.05% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,924 23,460 22,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.83% 33.11% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,058 17,389 13,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
South East +86 76 £66,250 +8.16% 71
Midlands +40 52 £68,750 +2.43% 24
West Midlands +20 33 £70,000 +1.11% 19
North of England -20 33 £65,000 +8.33% 44
South West +46 22 £71,991 +2.84% 25
East Midlands +50 19 £35,000 -22.22% 5
Yorkshire +44 16 £62,500 +5.00% 18
North West -52 16 £73,750 +13.46% 19
East of England +42 13 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Wales +40 9 £38,094 -26.88% 2
Scotland +73 7 £64,000 +7.52% 11
Northern Ireland +45 3 - - 12
North East +37 1 - - 8
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 30 (13.95%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.98%) CMS
3 5 (2.33%) IIS
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.40%) NetWeaver
4 3 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.40%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.93%) Apache
5 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Oracle Smart View
1 2 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 178 (82.79%) Azure
2 130 (60.47%) SaaS
3 117 (54.42%) IaaS
4 67 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (28.37%) AWS
6 33 (15.35%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (14.42%) Entra ID
7 31 (14.42%) Power Platform
8 25 (11.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 24 (11.16%) GCP
9 24 (11.16%) Power Automate
10 22 (10.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 20 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (8.37%) Azure Key Vault
13 17 (7.91%) Serverless
14 16 (7.44%) GitHub
14 16 (7.44%) iPaaS
15 14 (6.51%) Azure AI
16 12 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (5.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (13.49%) DNS
2 26 (12.09%) Firewall
3 19 (8.84%) VPN
4 16 (7.44%) SD-WAN
4 16 (7.44%) WAN
5 7 (3.26%) Network Security
6 4 (1.86%) DHCP
6 4 (1.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.93%) Internet
7 2 (0.93%) LAN
7 2 (0.93%) VoIP
7 2 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) Extranet
8 1 (0.47%) SAN
8 1 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.09%) Power BI
2 19 (8.84%) MySQL
2 19 (8.84%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.37%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (4.19%) Star Schema
6 4 (1.86%) Big Data
7 3 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.40%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.40%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (1.40%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.40%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.40%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.93%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.93%) GIS
8 2 (0.93%) HBase
8 2 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (12.56%) Git
2 12 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (3.26%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (3.26%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.93%) GitLab
5 2 (0.93%) JIRA
5 2 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.47%) Gradle
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
General
1 86 (40.00%) Finance
2 61 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 41 (19.07%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.70%) Presentation Skills
5 21 (9.77%) Organisational Skills
6 20 (9.30%) Law
6 20 (9.30%) Marketing
7 17 (7.91%) Legal
8 15 (6.98%) Public Sector
9 13 (6.05%) Banking
10 10 (4.65%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.72%) Welsh Language
12 6 (2.79%) Advertising
12 6 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.33%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.86%) Retail
15 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.40%) Police
16 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (25.12%) Architect
2 35 (16.28%) Senior
3 32 (14.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (13.02%) Lead
5 23 (10.70%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (8.84%) Developer
6 19 (8.84%) IT Architect
7 18 (8.37%) Security Engineer
7 18 (8.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.44%) Cloud Architect
8 16 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.98%) Applications Architect
10 14 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.19%) Business Developer
12 9 (4.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (4.19%) ETL Developer
12 9 (4.19%) Power BI Developer
12 9 (4.19%) SQL BI Developer
12 9 (4.19%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.30%) .NET
2 17 (7.91%) YAML
3 14 (6.51%) .NET Framework
4 11 (5.12%) ARM Templates
4 11 (5.12%) React
5 9 (4.19%) Middleware
5 9 (4.19%) Node.js
5 9 (4.19%) REST
6 8 (3.72%) AngularJS
6 8 (3.72%) SOAP
7 7 (3.26%) Azure Blueprints
7 7 (3.26%) Web Services
8 6 (2.79%) HTML
8 6 (2.79%) React Native
9 5 (2.33%) CSS
9 5 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.40%) JSON
10 3 (1.40%) LDAP
10 3 (1.40%) OAuth
10 3 (1.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.95%) Management Information System
2 20 (9.30%) Public Cloud
3 16 (7.44%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
4 15 (6.98%) Security Posture
5 14 (6.51%) NHS
6 9 (4.19%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.72%) Driving Licence
7 8 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.72%) IoT
7 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
8 7 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (3.26%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.79%) DataPower
10 4 (1.86%) PKI
10 4 (1.86%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.86%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (18.14%) Windows
2 29 (13.49%) Linux
3 25 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.79%) Android
4 6 (2.79%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.79%) Unix
5 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.86%) VMS
6 3 (1.40%) AIX
7 2 (0.93%) SUSE
7 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (49.30%) DevOps
2 85 (39.53%) Agile
3 76 (35.35%) CI/CD
4 60 (27.91%) Mentoring
5 52 (24.19%) Coaching
5 52 (24.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (21.40%) Migration
7 42 (19.53%) Analytics
8 41 (19.07%) ITIL
9 38 (17.67%) Creative Thinking
9 38 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (17.21%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (16.74%) Roadmaps
12 31 (14.42%) Cloud Security
13 30 (13.95%) Project Management
13 30 (13.95%) Risk Management
14 27 (12.56%) Computer Science
14 27 (12.56%) Service Management
14 27 (12.56%) Test Automation
15 26 (12.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.58%) PowerShell
2 46 (21.40%) SQL
3 31 (14.42%) Python
4 26 (12.09%) Bicep
5 17 (7.91%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.44%) Java
7 13 (6.05%) Bash
8 10 (4.65%) C#
9 3 (1.40%) C
10 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.93%) Ruby
10 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.47%) PHP
11 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (20.47%) Degree
2 42 (19.53%) Azure Certification
3 23 (10.70%) DBS Check
4 22 (10.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (10.23%) Security Cleared
5 18 (8.37%) Master's Degree
6 17 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (7.91%) MCSE
7 16 (7.44%) MCSA
8 11 (5.12%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.72%) CCNA
9 8 (3.72%) CCNP
9 8 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.72%) MCP
10 7 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.33%) CISSP
12 4 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.40%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.23%) NCSC
2 21 (9.77%) NIST
3 20 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (5.58%) Data Quality
5 8 (3.72%) SLA
6 7 (3.26%) QA
7 6 (2.79%) GDPR
8 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.40%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (12.09%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.37%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (7.91%) Docker
4 8 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.40%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.93%) HDFS
7 2 (0.93%) vSphere
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (19.07%) Terraform
2 24 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.70%) Ansible
4 14 (6.51%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.33%) SCCM
7 3 (1.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.93%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.93%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.93%) Puppet
8 2 (0.93%) SCOM
9 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.47%) Grafana
9 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 74 (34.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.84%) Databricks
3 16 (7.44%) Oracle
3 16 (7.44%) VMware
4 14 (6.51%) Meraki
5 10 (4.65%) IBM
6 7 (3.26%) Google
7 6 (2.79%) Apple
7 6 (2.79%) Cisco
8 4 (1.86%) Aruba
9 3 (1.40%) Citrix
9 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.40%) SAP
10 2 (0.93%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.93%) arcserve
10 2 (0.93%) Avaya
10 2 (0.93%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.93%) Rapid7
10 2 (0.93%) Ruckus Wireless