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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 345 403
Rank change year-on-year -37 +58 -188
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 223 207 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.43% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 161 105 345
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,170 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,996 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.40% +1.42% -

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 16,890 8,525 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.32% 28.77% 31.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,990 5,790 17,803
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.35%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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
South East -30 62 £65,000 +13.04% 31
Midlands -40 51 £70,039 +5.72% 14
West Midlands -19 38 £75,000 +7.14% 9
North of England -28 36 £46,042 -26.33% 5
South West -44 25 £37,500 -47.91% 11
North West -11 20 £34,000 -53.10% 2
East of England -16 16 £81,000 +74.19% 8
East Midlands -34 13 £33,500 -7.59% 5
Scotland +8 10 £75,000 +36.36% 6
Wales -40 9 £74,401 +95.31%
Yorkshire -51 9 £45,000 -28.00% 2
Isle of Man - 9 - -
Northern Ireland -32 7 £80,000 +85.65% 3
North East - 7 £75,000 - 1
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 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.69%) IIS
4 4 (1.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Exchequer
1 4 (1.79%) Primavera
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 134 (60.09%) IaaS
2 128 (57.40%) Azure
3 104 (46.64%) SaaS
4 48 (21.52%) Entra ID
5 42 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (13.00%) dbt
8 24 (10.76%) AWS
9 20 (8.97%) Azure AKS
10 14 (6.28%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (5.83%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.93%) GitHub
12 11 (4.93%) Serverless
13 10 (4.48%) Azure App Service
13 10 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (2.69%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.69%) GCP
16 5 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (2.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.45%) Firewall
2 15 (6.73%) DNS
3 14 (6.28%) VPN
4 13 (5.83%) DHCP
5 12 (5.38%) TCP/IP
6 11 (4.93%) VLAN
7 6 (2.69%) PuTTY
7 6 (2.69%) SSH
7 6 (2.69%) WAN
8 4 (1.79%) SAN
9 3 (1.35%) LAN
9 3 (1.35%) Network Security
10 2 (0.90%) NAS
10 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.45%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.45%) MPLS
11 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.14%) Redis
6 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.35%) Power BI
7 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.90%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (3.14%) JIRA
2 6 (2.69%) Git
3 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 4 (1.79%) JMeter
3 4 (1.79%) Locust
4 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle APEX
General
1 59 (26.46%) Finance
2 47 (21.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (5.83%) Legal
5 11 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.04%) Billing
7 7 (3.14%) Law
8 5 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.79%) Retail
10 3 (1.35%) Aviation
10 3 (1.35%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.90%) Banking
11 2 (0.90%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (17.94%) Lead
2 36 (16.14%) Azure Engineer
3 33 (14.80%) Architect
4 25 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (11.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (11.21%) Test Leader
5 20 (8.97%) Senior
6 19 (8.52%) IT Engineer
7 17 (7.62%) Analyst
8 16 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (6.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) IT Support
11 12 (5.38%) IT Technician
11 12 (5.38%) Support Analyst
12 11 (4.93%) Support Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.04%) Azure Architect
14 9 (4.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.28%) Ruby on Rails
2 8 (3.59%) .NET
2 8 (3.59%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.79%) Django
3 4 (1.79%) Gherkin
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.35%) Middleware
4 3 (1.35%) Node.js
4 3 (1.35%) YAML
5 2 (0.90%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.90%) REST
5 2 (0.90%) SOAP
6 1 (0.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth
6 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.45%) OpenID
6 1 (0.45%) WCF
6 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.04%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.24%) Replication
7 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.35%) Clustering
8 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.35%) PKI
8 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) BYOD
9 2 (0.90%) Cyberattack
9 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.90%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) Podcast
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.18%) Windows
2 27 (12.11%) Windows Server
3 21 (9.42%) Linux
4 12 (5.38%) VMS
5 7 (3.14%) Unix
6 6 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.90%) Solaris
7 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.45%) AIX
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (35.43%) DevOps
2 70 (31.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (22.87%) CI/CD
4 44 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (16.14%) Agile
6 34 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 30 (13.45%) Cybersecurity
7 30 (13.45%) Test Automation
8 29 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (11.21%) BDD
11 23 (10.31%) Cloud Security
12 22 (9.87%) Customer-Centricity
13 20 (8.97%) Containerisation
13 20 (8.97%) Observability
14 19 (8.52%) API Management
14 19 (8.52%) Identity Access Management
14 19 (8.52%) Roadmaps
14 19 (8.52%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (8.07%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.83%) Python
2 36 (16.14%) SQL
3 32 (14.35%) Java
4 31 (13.90%) PowerShell
5 17 (7.62%) Bicep
6 14 (6.28%) Ruby
7 7 (3.14%) Bash
8 6 (2.69%) C#
8 6 (2.69%) DCL
8 6 (2.69%) Tcl
9 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.45%) Delphi
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.45%) VB
10 1 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (8.52%) Degree
1 19 (8.52%) SC Cleared
1 19 (8.52%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.17%) Azure Certification
3 10 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.24%) Network+ Certification
5 5 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.35%) CISSP
6 3 (1.35%) ICAEW
7 2 (0.90%) CISM
7 2 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.45%) IISP
8 1 (0.45%) ISACA
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.45%) PMP
8 1 (0.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.38%) NIST
3 10 (4.48%) GDPR
4 8 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.59%) QA
5 6 (2.69%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.79%) WCAG
7 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.35%) SLA
8 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (18.83%) Active Directory
2 19 (8.52%) Docker
3 12 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.69%) vSphere
6 4 (1.79%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 64 (28.70%) Terraform
2 17 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.24%) Grafana
6 4 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (1.79%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (1.79%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.90%) Ansible
7 2 (0.90%) CASB
8 1 (0.45%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 90 (40.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.83%) VMware
3 8 (3.59%) Oracle
4 7 (3.14%) Sage
4 7 (3.14%) SolarWinds
5 6 (2.69%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.79%) Google
7 4 (1.79%) Veeam
8 3 (1.35%) Cisco
8 3 (1.35%) HP
9 2 (0.90%) Aruba
9 2 (0.90%) Commvault
9 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.90%) Meraki
9 2 (0.90%) ScienceLogic
10 1 (0.45%) F5
10 1 (0.45%) Jitterbit
10 1 (0.45%) New Relic
10 1 (0.45%) SnapLogic