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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 254 275
Rank change year-on-year -59 +21 -127
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 95 147 357
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 1.10% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 2.47% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 82 109 317
10th Percentile £47,639 £37,170 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,813 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £81,057 £77,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.77% -0.70% +3.57%

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 6,788 5,953 14,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.82% 44.61% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,577 4,672 12,046
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,376 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,373 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.80% +8.47% -11.54%

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 24 April 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 9 (9.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.11%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) FileNet
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (82.11%) Azure
2 60 (63.16%) IaaS
3 34 (35.79%) SaaS
4 33 (34.74%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (34.74%) Entra ID
5 21 (22.11%) GitHub
6 17 (17.89%) AWS
6 17 (17.89%) Serverless
7 16 (16.84%) Azure AKS
7 16 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (12.63%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (12.63%) Power Platform
10 10 (10.53%) Azure App Service
10 10 (10.53%) dbt
11 9 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (7.37%) GCP
13 6 (6.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (6.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.74%) Firewall
2 8 (8.42%) VPN
3 6 (6.32%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.26%) DNS
5 2 (2.11%) DHCP
5 2 (2.11%) DSL
5 2 (2.11%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.11%) LAN
5 2 (2.11%) SAN
5 2 (2.11%) WAN
6 1 (1.05%) MPLS
6 1 (1.05%) NAS
6 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.95%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.47%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (5.26%) Redis
5 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.16%) Power BI
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.11%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.11%) MySQL
6 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.11%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.05%) Power Query
7 1 (1.05%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Git
2 5 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.26%) JMeter
2 5 (5.26%) Locust
3 3 (3.16%) JIRA
4 2 (2.11%) Selenium
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.05%) GitLab
5 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (11.58%) Legal
5 9 (9.47%) Billing
6 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.26%) Law
8 3 (3.16%) Advertising
9 2 (2.11%) German Language
9 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.05%) Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Marketing
10 1 (1.05%) Military
10 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (24.21%) Lead
2 21 (22.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (18.95%) Architect
4 18 (18.95%) Senior
5 12 (12.63%) Developer
6 10 (10.53%) .NET Developer
6 10 (10.53%) Lead .NET Developer
6 10 (10.53%) Lead Developer
7 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (7.37%) Azure Developer
8 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) SaaS Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Technical Developer
9 6 (6.32%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.26%) Senior Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.68%) .NET
2 11 (11.58%) RESTful
3 10 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 10 (10.53%) React
4 9 (9.47%) ASP.NET Web API
4 9 (9.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 9 (9.47%) Entity Framework
4 9 (9.47%) Razor View Engine
5 8 (8.42%) Middleware
6 6 (6.32%) ARM Templates
7 5 (5.26%) Django
7 5 (5.26%) Gherkin
7 5 (5.26%) JSON
8 4 (4.21%) Node.js
9 3 (3.16%) ADO
9 3 (3.16%) CSS
9 3 (3.16%) HTML
10 2 (2.11%) LDAP
10 2 (2.11%) REST
10 2 (2.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
6 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Replication
6 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Linux
1 12 (12.63%) Windows
2 7 (7.37%) Unix
2 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.05%) AIX
3 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.05%) Solaris
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.95%) DevOps
2 49 (51.58%) CI/CD
3 44 (46.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (37.89%) Agile
5 28 (29.47%) Mentoring
6 25 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (25.26%) Containerisation
8 21 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (21.05%) Test Automation
10 19 (20.00%) Project Delivery
11 17 (17.89%) Microservices
11 17 (17.89%) Observability
11 17 (17.89%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (14.74%) Analytics
13 14 (14.74%) Continuous Delivery
14 13 (13.68%) Computer Science
14 13 (13.68%) Decision-Making
15 12 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 12 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) PowerShell
2 21 (22.11%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) Python
4 14 (14.74%) Java
5 12 (12.63%) Bicep
6 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.26%) Bash
7 5 (5.26%) C#
8 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.11%) PHP
10 1 (1.05%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (14.74%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) Security Cleared
4 8 (8.42%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.16%) CISSP
6 3 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.05%) IISP
7 1 (1.05%) ISACA
7 1 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) QA
2 9 (9.47%) NIST
3 8 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 5 (5.26%) WCAG
5 4 (4.21%) GDPR
6 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (3.16%) NCSC
7 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
8 1 (1.05%) GRC
8 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Docker
2 16 (16.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.05%) vCloud
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (42.11%) Terraform
2 18 (18.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.32%) Ansible
3 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.32%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (5.26%) Grafana
5 2 (2.11%) Packer
6 1 (1.05%) CASB
6 1 (1.05%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.05%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (46.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Google
3 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.21%) VMware
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.11%) Apple
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco
6 1 (1.05%) Commvault
6 1 (1.05%) Databricks
6 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) IBM
6 1 (1.05%) Logitech
6 1 (1.05%) Mercator
6 1 (1.05%) NetApp
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (1.05%) Yealink
6 1 (1.05%) Zscaler