Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 131 198 175
Rank change year-on-year +67 -23 -23
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 1,349 2,391 2,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.58% 1.96% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 4.54% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 841 1,653 2,036
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,230 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £51,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,497 52,651 59,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 43.04% 43.08% 47.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17,604 35,422 42,741
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,351 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +5.00%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PaaS.

Salary trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +66 1,104 £75,000 +7.14% 284
UK excluding London +100 814 £65,000 +4.00% 175
Work from Home +83 773 £72,750 +7.78% 160
London +43 446 £83,750 +4.69% 125
North of England +137 290 £70,576 +8.58% 49
North West +166 166 £75,000 +25.00% 22
South East +55 123 £65,000 +4.00% 45
South West +58 118 £66,750 +30.77% 20
Yorkshire +66 117 £70,000 +2.23% 23
Scotland +57 117 £62,500 -3.85% 12
Midlands +77 83 £60,000 -7.69% 32
East Midlands +56 44 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Wales +33 44 £58,000 -7.20% 11
West Midlands +66 38 £60,000 -4.00% 26
Northern Ireland +51 29 £46,250 -19.57% 4
East of England +23 10 £72,500 +31.82% 3
North East +28 7 £65,000 - 6
Isle of Man - 1 £72,500 -

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 59 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.70%) MS Exchange
3 19 (1.41%) IIS
4 11 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 9 (0.67%) Apache
5 9 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 8 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.52%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.37%) CMS
8 5 (0.37%) Confluence
8 5 (0.37%) NServiceBus
9 4 (0.30%) ArcSDE
9 4 (0.30%) nginx
10 3 (0.22%) Drupal
11 2 (0.15%) Kentico
12 1 (0.074%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.074%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.074%) Skype for Business
12 1 (0.074%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.52%) AutoCAD
2 7 (0.52%) PTC Creo
2 7 (0.52%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (0.30%) Autodesk Inventor
3 4 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 223 (16.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,131 (83.84%) Azure
2 1,002 (74.28%) IaaS
3 839 (62.19%) SaaS
4 313 (23.20%) AWS
5 296 (21.94%) Serverless
6 280 (20.76%) Power Platform
7 245 (18.16%) GCP
8 241 (17.87%) Azure Functions
9 240 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
10 231 (17.12%) Dynamics 365
11 171 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
12 107 (7.93%) Entra ID
13 93 (6.89%) GitHub
14 62 (4.60%) OCI
15 48 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 48 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
16 43 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
17 36 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (2.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 29 (2.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 114 (8.45%) Firewall
2 101 (7.49%) SAN
3 91 (6.75%) VPN
4 81 (6.00%) DNS
5 62 (4.60%) DHCP
6 48 (3.56%) WAN
7 46 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
8 43 (3.19%) Network Security
9 39 (2.89%) VLAN
10 34 (2.52%) LAN
11 24 (1.78%) SD-WAN
12 23 (1.70%) NGFW
13 15 (1.11%) TCP/IP
14 14 (1.04%) BGP
15 11 (0.82%) Wireless
16 9 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.67%) DMZ
16 9 (0.67%) WLAN
17 8 (0.59%) Internet
18 7 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (9.93%) SQL Server
2 133 (9.86%) Data Lake
3 129 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
4 121 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 56 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 46 (3.41%) Power BI
7 24 (1.78%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (1.19%) Big Data
10 14 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 13 (0.96%) Redis
12 12 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 11 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.67%) GIS
14 9 (0.67%) Oracle ODI
15 8 (0.59%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.59%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.59%) SAP HANA
16 6 (0.44%) DTS
Development Applications
1 137 (10.16%) Jenkins
2 72 (5.34%) Git
3 23 (1.70%) TeamCity
4 18 (1.33%) GitLab
5 14 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 10 (0.74%) CircleCI
6 10 (0.74%) JIRA
7 9 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (0.67%) Visual Studio Team System
8 8 (0.59%) Chocolatey
8 8 (0.59%) Selenium
9 7 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.37%) Gatling
11 5 (0.37%) JUnit
11 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.37%) Maven
11 5 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.30%) Cucumber
General
1 621 (46.03%) Finance
2 238 (17.64%) Banking
3 231 (17.12%) Social Skills
4 145 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 85 (6.30%) Presentation Skills
6 81 (6.00%) Retail
7 55 (4.08%) Marketing
8 48 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (2.30%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.15%) Law
11 16 (1.19%) Financial Institution
12 13 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.89%) Front Office
14 11 (0.82%) Legal
15 9 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 7 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.52%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 657 (48.70%) Architect
2 208 (15.42%) CRM Architect
2 208 (15.42%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 208 (15.42%) Dynamics CRM Architect
3 141 (10.45%) Senior
4 126 (9.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 120 (8.90%) Enterprise Architect
6 119 (8.82%) Infrastructure Architect
7 116 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 111 (8.23%) Solutions Architect
9 102 (7.56%) Cloud Architect
10 90 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
11 85 (6.30%) Azure Architect
12 84 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 82 (6.08%) Lead
14 76 (5.63%) Security Engineer
15 58 (4.30%) Citrix Architect
16 56 (4.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 52 (3.85%) Developer
18 49 (3.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.12%) OpenID
2 99 (7.34%) .NET
3 74 (5.49%) Web Services
4 73 (5.41%) REST
5 61 (4.52%) Kafka
6 58 (4.30%) ARM Templates
7 54 (4.00%) Middleware
8 49 (3.63%) YAML
9 47 (3.48%) JSON
10 41 (3.04%) JWT
11 31 (2.30%) OAuth
12 28 (2.08%) XML
13 24 (1.78%) React
14 21 (1.56%) Node.js
15 20 (1.48%) SAML
16 18 (1.33%) .NET Framework
17 17 (1.26%) AngularJS
18 16 (1.19%) .NET Core
18 16 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
19 15 (1.11%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 328 (24.31%) Public Cloud
2 111 (8.23%) Private Cloud
3 104 (7.71%) Blockchain
4 102 (7.56%) Mainframe
5 86 (6.38%) Cloud Native
6 61 (4.52%) Data Centre
7 60 (4.45%) Product Ownership
7 60 (4.45%) Virtual Team
8 56 (4.15%) Management Information System
9 47 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
12 16 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.11%) PKI
14 13 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.96%) IoT
14 13 (0.96%) Operational Technology
15 12 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 219 (16.23%) Windows
2 140 (10.38%) Linux
3 113 (8.38%) Unix
4 89 (6.60%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 20 (1.48%) VMS
6 20 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.22%) Android
11 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.074%) CentOS
12 1 (0.074%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.074%) Solaris
12 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (53.67%) Agile
2 482 (35.73%) Roadmaps
3 472 (34.99%) DevOps
4 360 (26.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 328 (24.31%) Strategic Roadmap
6 314 (23.28%) Actionable Insight
7 301 (22.31%) CI/CD
8 248 (18.38%) Cybersecurity
9 237 (17.57%) CRM
10 229 (16.98%) Presales
11 220 (16.31%) Microservices
12 209 (15.49%) Project Planning
13 208 (15.42%) Work Breakdown Structure
14 173 (12.82%) Containerisation
15 145 (10.75%) Zero Trust
16 142 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
17 134 (9.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 132 (9.79%) Mentoring
19 130 (9.64%) Customer Service
20 124 (9.19%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 212 (15.72%) Python
2 196 (14.53%) PowerShell
3 163 (12.08%) SQL
4 96 (7.12%) Bash
5 81 (6.00%) C#
6 74 (5.49%) Java
7 53 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 33 (2.45%) Bicep
9 25 (1.85%) Go
10 21 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 20 (1.48%) Ruby
12 14 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.67%) PHP
14 8 (0.59%) Groovy
14 8 (0.59%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.52%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.44%) C++
17 5 (0.37%) Perl
17 5 (0.37%) Scala
18 4 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (8.38%) Azure Certification
2 107 (7.93%) Degree
3 80 (5.93%) Security Cleared
4 52 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 43 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 38 (2.82%) SC Cleared
7 34 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (1.48%) MCSA
9 19 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.33%) CISSP
11 17 (1.26%) CISMP
12 16 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.19%) MCSE
13 14 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.96%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.82%) CCNA
16 11 (0.82%) GSEC
17 7 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (2.37%) QA
3 26 (1.93%) NIST
4 21 (1.56%) GDPR
5 20 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 18 (1.33%) GRC
6 18 (1.33%) NCSC
7 14 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.89%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.67%) COBIT
10 7 (0.52%) SLA
11 6 (0.44%) GAAP
12 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.22%) PSD2
14 2 (0.15%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.15%) PMO
15 1 (0.074%) SOC 2
System Software
1 206 (15.27%) Active Directory
2 174 (12.90%) Docker
3 78 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
5 33 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (2.15%) Hyper-V
7 26 (1.93%) vSphere
8 23 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.37%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.22%) KVM
10 3 (0.22%) XenApp
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.15%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.074%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.074%) NFS
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.074%) RACF
12 1 (0.074%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 378 (28.02%) Terraform
2 302 (22.39%) Kubernetes
3 179 (13.27%) Ansible
4 45 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 33 (2.45%) SCCM
6 31 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (2.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 26 (1.93%) Puppet
9 13 (0.96%) Grafana
10 11 (0.82%) SCOM
11 10 (0.74%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.59%) Prometheus
13 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.44%) Istio
15 5 (0.37%) QRadar
16 4 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.30%) Stealthwatch
16 4 (0.30%) WSUS
17 3 (0.22%) Nagios
17 3 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 598 (44.33%) Microsoft
2 146 (10.82%) Oracle
3 121 (8.97%) VMware
4 80 (5.93%) Citrix
5 73 (5.41%) Google
6 46 (3.41%) Cisco
7 37 (2.74%) Databricks
7 37 (2.74%) Dynatrace
8 33 (2.45%) Palo Alto
9 27 (2.00%) AppDynamics
10 25 (1.85%) SAP
11 20 (1.48%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.26%) TOWER Software
13 15 (1.11%) iManage
14 13 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.89%) F5
15 12 (0.89%) ServiceNow
16 11 (0.82%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.82%) Okta
16 11 (0.82%) SolarWinds