PaaS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 223 203
Rank change year-on-year -124 -20 +26
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 163 434 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 1.21% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 3.74% 4.04%
Number of salaries quoted 111 190 425
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £53,875 £51,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £61,482 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -5.41% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £82,241 £92,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £70,737 £69,308 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.06% -4.40% +3.57%

All Cloud Computing 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 13,614 11,604 12,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.10% 32.30% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,850 6,313 10,415
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

PaaS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
North of England +9 57 £67,500 +12.50% 14
South East -24 36 £50,000 -33.33% 39
North West +14 32 £67,750 +12.92% 7
Midlands -3 31 £70,542 +1.78% 16
West Midlands -11 20 £72,172 +4.13% 9
North East +22 16 £67,500 -2.61% 1
South West -102 13 £65,000 +8.33% 15
East Midlands +1 11 £60,000 - 7
Scotland -7 11 £73,801 +34.18% 7
East of England 0 9 £43,000 -14.00% 12
Yorkshire -16 9 £61,500 +29.47% 6
Wales +8 4 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Northern Ireland -13 3 £75,509 +8.95% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (7.36%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) FileNet
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 110 (67.48%) Azure
2 99 (60.74%) IaaS
3 92 (56.44%) SaaS
4 43 (26.38%) AWS
5 32 (19.63%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (19.63%) Entra ID
6 28 (17.18%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (11.04%) Power Platform
8 16 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (9.82%) dbt
8 16 (9.82%) GCP
8 16 (9.82%) Serverless
9 12 (7.36%) Azure AKS
9 12 (7.36%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (6.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (6.75%) GitHub
11 10 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (6.13%) Azure Functions
11 10 (6.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.66%) Firewall
2 14 (8.59%) DNS
2 14 (8.59%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.75%) VPN
4 10 (6.13%) PuTTY
4 10 (6.13%) SSH
5 9 (5.52%) DHCP
6 4 (2.45%) WAN
7 2 (1.23%) MPLS
7 2 (1.23%) Network Security
7 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.61%) BGP
8 1 (0.61%) IPv4
8 1 (0.61%) IPv6
8 1 (0.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (6.13%) Elasticsearch
1 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (6.13%) Redis
2 5 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.61%) Power BI
5 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.91%) Git
2 7 (4.29%) JIRA
3 6 (3.68%) Cucumber
3 6 (3.68%) JMeter
3 6 (3.68%) Locust
4 3 (1.84%) GitLab
4 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.86%) Finance
3 23 (14.11%) Legal
4 12 (7.36%) Law
5 7 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.07%) Billing
7 5 (3.07%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (24.54%) Architect
2 37 (22.70%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (16.56%) Senior
4 26 (15.95%) Lead
5 20 (12.27%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (11.04%) Support Engineer
7 17 (10.43%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (7.98%) Technical Support
9 12 (7.36%) Azure Architect
9 12 (7.36%) Technical Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) Analyst
10 10 (6.13%) Developer
10 10 (6.13%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.13%) Technical Support Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Oracle Architect
12 6 (3.68%) Product Manager
12 6 (3.68%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.98%) .NET
2 11 (6.75%) ARM Templates
3 10 (6.13%) .NET Framework
3 10 (6.13%) Django
4 7 (4.29%) CSS
4 7 (4.29%) HTML
4 7 (4.29%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (3.68%) Gherkin
5 6 (3.68%) React
6 5 (3.07%) Middleware
6 5 (3.07%) YAML
7 3 (1.84%) REST
7 3 (1.84%) RESTful
7 3 (1.84%) SOAP
8 2 (1.23%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.23%) Blazor
8 2 (1.23%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.23%) OAuth
8 2 (1.23%) Web Services
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 25 (15.34%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (6.75%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (6.13%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.68%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.07%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) Clustering
7 4 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (15.95%) Windows
2 25 (15.34%) Linux
3 13 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.13%) Unix
4 10 (6.13%) VMS
5 3 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.23%) Android
6 2 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (47.85%) DevOps
2 53 (32.52%) CI/CD
3 46 (28.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (27.61%) Agile
5 41 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (19.63%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (12.88%) Mentoring
8 21 (12.88%) Roadmaps
8 21 (12.88%) Test Automation
9 20 (12.27%) Migration
9 20 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (11.66%) Observability
11 18 (11.04%) Microservices
12 17 (10.43%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.43%) Enterprise Architecture
12 17 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (10.43%) Project Delivery
13 16 (9.82%) Software Engineering
13 16 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.95%) PowerShell
2 24 (14.72%) Python
2 24 (14.72%) SQL
3 14 (8.59%) Bicep
4 11 (6.75%) C#
5 10 (6.13%) DCL
5 10 (6.13%) Java
5 10 (6.13%) Tcl
6 8 (4.91%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.07%) Bash
8 2 (1.23%) Go
8 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.61%) Delphi
9 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.61%) VB
9 1 (0.61%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.52%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.52%) Degree
4 8 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.07%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.61%) MCP
8 1 (0.61%) MCSA
8 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.98%) QA
2 8 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.91%) NIST
3 6 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.68%) NCSC
3 6 (3.68%) WCAG
4 4 (2.45%) GDPR
4 4 (2.45%) SLA
5 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 29 (17.79%) Active Directory
2 27 (16.56%) Docker
3 10 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (29.45%) Terraform
2 21 (12.88%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.13%) AWS Copilot
3 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.29%) Grafana
5 6 (3.68%) Ansible
6 3 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.23%) SCCM
8 1 (0.61%) CASB
8 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (42.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.66%) Google
3 12 (7.36%) Oracle
4 9 (5.52%) BiZZdesign
5 8 (4.91%) VMware
6 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (2.45%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.45%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.84%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.23%) Okta
9 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.23%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.61%) Adobe
10 1 (0.61%) Apple
10 1 (0.61%) Cisco
10 1 (0.61%) Foundry
10 1 (0.61%) IBM
10 1 (0.61%) Veeam
10 1 (0.61%) Zscaler