PaaS Jobs in the West Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 182 173
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 -21
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 31 71 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.90% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.95% 2.84% 3.73%
Number of salaries quoted 27 63 67
10th Percentile - £54,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,235 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +6.51% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £99,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £115,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% -3.45% +3.16%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,051 2,499 2,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.13% 31.66% 37.86%
Number of salaries quoted 785 2,123 1,508
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £39,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England 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 West Midlands

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the West Midlands

PaaS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for PaaS in the West Midlands

PaaS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the West Midlands

PaaS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Birmingham +27 15 £45,000 -57.14% 11
Warwickshire -4 3 £70,000 +7.69% 1
Coventry -12 3 £67,500 -2.51% 1
Staffordshire +21 2 £80,000 +45.45% 8
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (29.03%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (96.77%) IaaS
3 18 (58.06%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (41.94%) SaaS
5 12 (38.71%) Power Platform
6 11 (35.48%) AWS
6 11 (35.48%) GitHub
6 11 (35.48%) Power Automate
7 9 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (29.03%) PowerApps
8 7 (22.58%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (19.35%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (16.13%) Azure Functions
10 5 (16.13%) Serverless
11 4 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (12.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
13 2 (6.45%) Azure AI
13 2 (6.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Power BI
2 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (29.03%) Star Schema
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
4 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) DB2
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (19.35%) SonarQube
3 3 (9.68%) Git
4 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.90%) Advertising
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Business Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
1 9 (29.03%) ETL Developer
1 9 (29.03%) Power BI Developer
1 9 (29.03%) SQL BI Developer
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Developer
2 7 (22.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Architect
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) SSIS Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Lead
6 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Technical Leader
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) ARM Templates
1 6 (19.35%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (9.68%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Management Information System
2 6 (19.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.45%) NHS
5 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Analytics
2 11 (35.48%) CRM
3 10 (32.26%) Data Mapping
4 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (29.03%) Case Management
4 9 (29.03%) Critical Thinking
4 9 (29.03%) Customer Service
4 9 (29.03%) Decision-Making
4 9 (29.03%) ETL
4 9 (29.03%) Kimball Methodology
4 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
5 8 (25.81%) Project Management
6 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 7 (22.58%) Migration
7 6 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (19.35%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 6 (19.35%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.45%) Bicep
3 2 (6.45%) Python
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Azure Certification
2 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.45%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) Data Quality
2 7 (22.58%) NCSC
3 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) Ansible
2 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) Databricks
3 2 (6.45%) Meraki
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle