PaaS Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 87 125
Rank change year-on-year -43 +38 -43
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 11 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.27% 1.27% 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 4.45% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 9
10th Percentile £45,000 - £41,103
25th Percentile £45,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £47,500 £45,107
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +5.31% -36.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,500 £60,000
90th Percentile - £72,625 £61,281
Yorkshire median annual salary £78,750 £47,500 £45,107
% change year-on-year +65.79% +5.31% -24.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 876 427 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.11% 28.58% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 624 350 583
10th Percentile £31,325 £28,925 £33,150
25th Percentile £44,688 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.56% +1.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +0.37%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

PaaS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PaaS
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PaaS in West Yorkshire

PaaS
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Leeds -34 10 £97,500 +14.71% 3
Bradford - 1 £50,321 -
PaaS
Yorkshire

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) IaaS
3 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 1 (9.09%) Rubrik
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) LAN
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) VLAN
2 2 (18.18%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Lead
2 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) Meraki
2 1 (9.09%) VMware