Hybrid/Remote PaaS Job Trends

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 290 283
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 -178
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 176 124 244
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.77% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.17% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 142 93 146
10th Percentile £55,125 £36,434 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,273 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £97,350 £91,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £68,750
% change year-on-year +18.52% -1.82% -2.59%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

PaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,653 5,719 9,651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.02% 35.64% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,339 4,142 7,069
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.97% -2.07%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PaaS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PaaS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PaaS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PaaS over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

PaaS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 15 (8.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 160 (90.91%) Azure
2 73 (41.48%) IaaS
3 58 (32.95%) SaaS
4 51 (28.98%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (18.18%) Serverless
6 27 (15.34%) AWS
7 26 (14.77%) Entra ID
7 26 (14.77%) GitHub
8 24 (13.64%) Azure Functions
9 18 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
9 18 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (7.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 14 (7.95%) GCP
12 13 (7.39%) Azure AKS
13 8 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.41%) OCI
15 5 (2.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.20%) VPN
2 11 (6.25%) Firewall
3 9 (5.11%) DNS
4 7 (3.98%) DHCP
5 6 (3.41%) WAN
6 5 (2.84%) SAN
6 5 (2.84%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.70%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.70%) LAN
7 3 (1.70%) Network Security
8 2 (1.14%) Wireless
9 1 (0.57%) DSL
9 1 (0.57%) NAS
9 1 (0.57%) VLAN
9 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.27%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.70%) MySQL
6 3 (1.70%) Redis
7 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.57%) Metadata
7 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.57%) Power BI
7 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (9.66%) Git
2 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.14%) JMeter
2 2 (1.14%) Locust
3 1 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 85 (48.30%) Finance
2 43 (24.43%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.50%) Law
4 15 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.11%) Legal
6 8 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Banking
9 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.70%) Aviation
11 1 (0.57%) Advertising
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 68 (38.64%) Lead
2 60 (34.09%) Azure Engineer
3 48 (27.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (23.30%) Platform Engineer
5 39 (22.16%) Architect
6 38 (21.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 30 (17.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 24 (13.64%) Senior
9 23 (13.07%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 19 (10.80%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (8.52%) Lead Architect
13 14 (7.95%) Analyst
14 13 (7.39%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 12 (6.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 10 (5.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 9 (5.11%) .NET Software Engineer
17 9 (5.11%) C# Software Engineer
17 9 (5.11%) Enterprise Architect
17 9 (5.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (37.50%) Terraform
2 15 (8.52%) ARM Templates
3 11 (6.25%) .NET
4 4 (2.27%) RESTful
5 3 (1.70%) LDAP
5 3 (1.70%) OAuth
5 3 (1.70%) OpenID
5 3 (1.70%) React
5 3 (1.70%) REST
5 3 (1.70%) SAML
5 3 (1.70%) YAML
6 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.14%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.14%) JSON
6 2 (1.14%) Node.js
6 2 (1.14%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.14%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.57%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.57%) Kafka
7 1 (0.57%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.05%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.80%) Security Posture
3 17 (9.66%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.82%) Podcast
5 7 (3.98%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (2.27%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.27%) Replication
8 3 (1.70%) Blog
8 3 (1.70%) Clustering
8 3 (1.70%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.70%) SystemC
9 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.64%) Windows
2 12 (6.82%) VMS
3 10 (5.68%) Linux
4 3 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) AIX
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Solaris
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (46.02%) DevOps
2 72 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 72 (40.91%) Platform Engineering
3 64 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 49 (27.84%) Agile
5 41 (23.30%) Cloud Security
6 38 (21.59%) Roadmaps
7 33 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 31 (17.61%) Analytics
10 27 (15.34%) AI
11 26 (14.77%) Observability
12 25 (14.20%) Cost Optimisation
12 25 (14.20%) Microservices
13 23 (13.07%) Computer Science
13 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (11.93%) Root Cause Analysis
15 21 (11.93%) Technical Leadership
16 20 (11.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.84%) PowerShell
2 41 (23.30%) Bicep
3 27 (15.34%) Python
3 27 (15.34%) SQL
4 22 (12.50%) Bash
5 12 (6.82%) C#
5 12 (6.82%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (3.98%) Java
7 6 (3.41%) Ruby
8 3 (1.70%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.14%) ABAP
9 2 (1.14%) Go
9 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (14.20%) Azure Certification
2 17 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.95%) Degree
4 12 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.68%) SC Cleared
6 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.41%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) CISM
9 1 (0.57%) GIAC
9 1 (0.57%) IISP
9 1 (0.57%) ISACA
9 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) SSCP
9 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) NIST
2 6 (3.41%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.84%) QA
4 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) GDPR
4 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (21.59%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (7.95%) vSphere
5 11 (6.25%) Docker
6 4 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (10.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Ansible
2 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.14%) Grafana
3 2 (1.14%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (0.57%) Packer
4 1 (0.57%) QRadar
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (43.18%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.36%) VMware
3 12 (6.82%) ScienceLogic
4 9 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.55%) Oracle
6 7 (3.98%) SAP
6 7 (3.98%) YouTube
7 5 (2.84%) Databricks
8 4 (2.27%) Cisco
9 3 (1.70%) Meraki
9 3 (1.70%) Veeam
10 2 (1.14%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.14%) EMC
10 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.14%) Sophos
10 2 (1.14%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.57%) Apple
11 1 (0.57%) Commvault
11 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.57%) Splunk