Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 19 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 275 179
Rank change year-on-year 0 -96 +13
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 576 970 2,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 1.10% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.62% 2.92% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 305 769 1,361
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £91,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,308 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,904 33,168 48,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.28% 37.69% 42.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,009 25,757 31,584
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +7.61%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 19 March 2025.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Top 17 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 19 March 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
England +11 539 £72,500 -2.03% 249
UK excluding London +69 378 £69,308 +6.63% 162
Work from Home -23 182 £71,991 -1.72% 193
London -67 165 £82,500 -2.94% 116
South West +123 153 £71,991 +2.84% 20
South East +68 87 £75,000 +17.65% 45
Midlands +27 50 £75,000 +15.38% 29
North of England -13 46 £65,000 - 35
West Midlands +22 42 £72,500 +8.02% 18
North West -14 27 £61,482 -12.17% 18
East of England +52 22 £50,000 -16.67% 18
Yorkshire +31 15 £65,000 +9.20% 11
Scotland +54 14 £59,500 -0.04% 12
Northern Ireland +33 7 £69,308 +40.02% 2
East Midlands +32 7 £80,000 +39.13% 10
North East +35 4 £69,308 +54.02% 6
Wales +32 3 £69,308 +32.01% 5

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 35 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 30 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.08%) CMS
4 9 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 8 (1.39%) Tomcat
6 6 (1.04%) Confluence
6 6 (1.04%) IIS
7 5 (0.87%) NetWeaver
8 4 (0.69%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.52%) Apache
10 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.17%) nginx
11 1 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Strapi
11 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.69%) Trello
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Maya
Business Applications
1 12 (2.08%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 9 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.35%) thinkFolio
6 1 (0.17%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 473 (82.12%) Azure
2 367 (63.72%) IaaS
3 247 (42.88%) SaaS
4 227 (39.41%) Azure DevOps
5 148 (25.69%) Serverless
6 143 (24.83%) Power Platform
7 134 (23.26%) AWS
8 133 (23.09%) Azure Functions
9 132 (22.92%) Azure Logic Apps
10 130 (22.57%) PowerApps
11 128 (22.22%) Power Automate
12 74 (12.85%) GCP
13 69 (11.98%) Microsoft 365
14 50 (8.68%) Entra ID
15 41 (7.12%) GitHub
16 27 (4.69%) OCI
17 24 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
19 21 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 21 (3.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.94%) Firewall
2 34 (5.90%) DNS
3 28 (4.86%) VPN
4 21 (3.65%) DHCP
5 20 (3.47%) SAN
5 20 (3.47%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.78%) Internet
7 15 (2.60%) Network Security
7 15 (2.60%) WAN
8 14 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.91%) LAN
9 11 (1.91%) VLAN
10 10 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (1.56%) DMZ
12 8 (1.39%) FTP
12 8 (1.39%) IPv4
12 8 (1.39%) PBX
12 8 (1.39%) SMTP
12 8 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
13 7 (1.22%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (26.56%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 20 (3.47%) Redis
5 15 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.60%) Power BI
6 14 (2.43%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.39%) MySQL
9 7 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
10 6 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.87%) SAP BW
11 5 (0.87%) SAP Data Services
11 5 (0.87%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (4.17%) Git
3 16 (2.78%) SonarQube
4 10 (1.74%) JIRA
5 9 (1.56%) GitLab
5 9 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.87%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.35%) Gradle
9 2 (0.35%) Maven
9 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.17%) Travis CI
General
1 154 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 150 (26.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 134 (23.26%) Finance
4 56 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (8.85%) Public Sector
6 31 (5.38%) Law
7 29 (5.03%) Banking
8 24 (4.17%) Telecoms
9 22 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (3.47%) Marketing
11 19 (3.30%) Legal
12 17 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.95%) Retail
13 11 (1.91%) Police
14 9 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.22%) General Ledger
17 5 (0.87%) Advertising
18 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
19 3 (0.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 154 (26.74%) Senior
2 113 (19.62%) Lead
3 102 (17.71%) Analyst
4 73 (12.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 65 (11.28%) Architect
6 64 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 47 (8.16%) Senior Analyst
8 45 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (7.47%) Applications Support
10 41 (7.12%) Developer
11 40 (6.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 31 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (5.03%) Security Engineer
14 28 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.86%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (3.82%) Consultant
16 17 (2.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 15 (2.60%) Data Architect
17 15 (2.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 14 (2.43%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.77%) .NET
2 25 (4.34%) ARM Templates
2 25 (4.34%) React
3 21 (3.65%) .NET Framework
4 20 (3.47%) Node.js
5 19 (3.30%) OAuth
6 18 (3.13%) SAML
7 16 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
8 15 (2.60%) OAuth2
9 14 (2.43%) Django
10 13 (2.26%) YAML
11 11 (1.91%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.91%) Kafka
12 10 (1.74%) Middleware
12 10 (1.74%) RESTful
13 9 (1.56%) JSON
13 9 (1.56%) Web Services
14 8 (1.39%) REST
15 7 (1.22%) Vue
16 6 (1.04%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 124 (21.53%) Data Structures
2 53 (9.20%) Public Cloud
3 51 (8.85%) Management Information System
4 40 (6.94%) Cloud Native
5 30 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (3.30%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.78%) Private Cloud
8 16 (2.78%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
10 13 (2.26%) Blockchain
11 12 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
13 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.04%) DataPower
15 5 (0.87%) PKI
15 5 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 74 (12.85%) Windows
2 65 (11.28%) Linux
3 38 (6.60%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.47%) Unix
5 14 (2.43%) Android
6 11 (1.91%) Windows 10
7 9 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.04%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.87%) AIX
9 5 (0.87%) VMS
10 2 (0.35%) SUSE
11 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (59.38%) DevOps
2 260 (45.14%) Agile
3 163 (28.30%) CI/CD
4 102 (17.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
6 75 (13.02%) Containerisation
7 71 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 71 (12.33%) Mentoring
8 63 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (10.24%) Cloud Security
9 59 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
10 54 (9.38%) Analytics
11 53 (9.20%) Continuous Delivery
12 50 (8.68%) Computer Science
12 50 (8.68%) Test Automation
13 47 (8.16%) High Availability
13 47 (8.16%) Roadmaps
14 46 (7.99%) Coaching
15 44 (7.64%) DevSecOps
15 44 (7.64%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (32.12%) SQL
2 104 (18.06%) Python
3 88 (15.28%) PowerShell
4 24 (4.17%) Bash
4 24 (4.17%) C#
4 24 (4.17%) Java
4 24 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 15 (2.60%) Bicep
6 8 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.04%) C
7 6 (1.04%) Ruby
8 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.52%) Go
8 3 (0.52%) PHP
8 3 (0.52%) Rust
9 2 (0.35%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.35%) C++
9 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.35%) SOQL
9 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (28.47%) Azure Certification
2 80 (13.89%) Degree
3 69 (11.98%) Security Cleared
4 45 (7.81%) SC Cleared
5 25 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (2.95%) Master's Degree
9 14 (2.43%) AWS Certification
10 13 (2.26%) CCNA
10 13 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.26%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.56%) CISSP
12 8 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (1.22%) CEH
14 5 (0.87%) CCNP
14 5 (0.87%) ISSAP
14 5 (0.87%) MBA
15 2 (0.35%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.51%) NCSC
1 26 (4.51%) NIST
2 22 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (3.47%) GDPR
4 13 (2.26%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.74%) QA
6 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (13.02%) Docker
2 68 (11.81%) Active Directory
3 45 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 16 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.52%) Firmware
9 2 (0.35%) HDFS
9 2 (0.35%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (20.31%) Terraform
2 95 (16.49%) Kubernetes
3 50 (8.68%) Ansible
4 32 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (2.60%) SCCM
6 14 (2.43%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (1.56%) Puppet
7 9 (1.56%) WSUS
8 7 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (0.87%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.69%) CASB
10 4 (0.69%) SCOM
10 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.52%) QRadar
12 2 (0.35%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.35%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.35%) Istio
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 294 (51.04%) Microsoft
2 55 (9.55%) VMware
3 38 (6.60%) Google
4 35 (6.08%) Cisco
4 35 (6.08%) Oracle
5 26 (4.51%) IBM
6 22 (3.82%) Citrix
7 20 (3.47%) Databricks
8 18 (3.13%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.08%) PeopleSoft
10 10 (1.74%) SAP
11 9 (1.56%) Apple
11 9 (1.56%) Veeam
12 7 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 7 (1.22%) Splunk
13 6 (1.04%) Aruba
14 5 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.87%) ServiceNow
15 4 (0.69%) AppDynamics
15 4 (0.69%) Rapid7