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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 227 230
Rank change year-on-year -58 +3 -87
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 110 193 379
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 1.39% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 2.93% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 92 139 336
10th Percentile £46,010 £46,250 £46,278
25th Percentile £61,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £70,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.41% +9.63%
75th Percentile £82,344 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,932 £71,991 £72,750
% change year-on-year -1.47% -1.04% +3.93%

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 6,248 6,587 13,560
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.26% 47.43% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,246 4,735 11,797
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,319 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 12 March 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 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.91%) FileNet
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 94 (85.45%) Azure
2 73 (66.36%) IaaS
3 44 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 41 (37.27%) SaaS
5 39 (35.45%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (22.73%) GitHub
7 20 (18.18%) Serverless
8 18 (16.36%) AWS
8 18 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (15.45%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (12.73%) Azure AKS
11 13 (11.82%) Azure App Service
11 13 (11.82%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (11.82%) Power Platform
12 11 (10.00%) GCP
13 10 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (8.18%) dbt
15 6 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.27%) Firewall
2 15 (13.64%) VPN
3 11 (10.00%) DNS
4 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.73%) DHCP
5 3 (2.73%) LAN
6 2 (1.82%) DSL
6 2 (1.82%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.82%) WAN
7 1 (0.91%) MPLS
7 1 (0.91%) SAN
7 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.91%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.55%) Power BI
4 5 (4.55%) Redis
5 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.73%) Power Query
6 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.82%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.91%) Metadata
8 1 (0.91%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) Git
2 6 (5.45%) JIRA
3 4 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 4 (3.64%) JMeter
3 4 (3.64%) Locust
4 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.82%) Selenium
5 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.91%) GitLab
6 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 12 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.09%) Legal
5 9 (8.18%) Billing
6 6 (5.45%) Law
7 3 (2.73%) Marketing
8 2 (1.82%) Advertising
8 2 (1.82%) German Language
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Military
9 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (23.64%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (22.73%) Lead
3 23 (20.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (18.18%) Architect
5 16 (14.55%) Senior
6 15 (13.64%) Developer
7 13 (11.82%) .NET Developer
7 13 (11.82%) Lead .NET Developer
7 13 (11.82%) Lead Developer
8 11 (10.00%) Azure Developer
9 10 (9.09%) Analyst
9 10 (9.09%) SaaS Developer
10 8 (7.27%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) Support Engineer
12 6 (5.45%) Technical Developer
12 6 (5.45%) Technical Leader
13 5 (4.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.55%) .NET
2 14 (12.73%) .NET Framework
2 14 (12.73%) RESTful
3 13 (11.82%) React
4 12 (10.91%) ASP.NET Web API
4 12 (10.91%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 12 (10.91%) Entity Framework
4 12 (10.91%) Razor View Engine
5 7 (6.36%) JSON
5 7 (6.36%) Middleware
6 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.55%) Django
8 4 (3.64%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.73%) ADO
9 3 (2.73%) Node.js
9 3 (2.73%) YAML
10 2 (1.82%) CSS
10 2 (1.82%) LDAP
10 2 (1.82%) SAML
10 2 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.73%) Social Media
6 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Blog
7 1 (0.91%) Clustering
7 1 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.64%) Windows
2 11 (10.00%) Linux
3 8 (7.27%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.36%) Unix
5 4 (3.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (57.27%) DevOps
2 54 (49.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (47.27%) CI/CD
4 41 (37.27%) Agile
5 36 (32.73%) Mentoring
6 27 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (22.73%) Project Delivery
8 24 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 21 (19.09%) Analytics
10 21 (19.09%) Containerisation
11 20 (18.18%) Microservices
12 19 (17.27%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
14 17 (15.45%) Scrum
14 17 (15.45%) Technical Leadership
15 16 (14.55%) Design Patterns
16 15 (13.64%) Kanban
16 15 (13.64%) Task Automation
17 14 (12.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 28 (25.45%) SQL
3 19 (17.27%) Bicep
4 16 (14.55%) Python
5 14 (12.73%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.91%) Java
7 5 (4.55%) Bash
8 3 (2.73%) C#
9 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.91%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Degree
1 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 20 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (12.73%) Azure Certification
4 11 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 11 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.73%) CISSP
7 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.45%) QA
2 10 (9.09%) NIST
3 8 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.55%) NCSC
4 5 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.64%) WCAG
6 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.73%) GDPR
7 2 (1.82%) GRC
8 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (24.55%) Active Directory
2 21 (19.09%) Docker
3 10 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.91%) vCloud
5 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (44.55%) Terraform
2 15 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.45%) Ansible
4 6 (5.45%) SCOM
5 5 (4.55%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.64%) Grafana
7 2 (1.82%) Packer
8 1 (0.91%) CASB
8 1 (0.91%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 56 (50.91%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) Google
3 10 (9.09%) VMware
4 3 (2.73%) Mercator
5 2 (1.82%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.82%) Sparx
6 1 (0.91%) Adobe
6 1 (0.91%) Apple
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco
6 1 (0.91%) Databricks
6 1 (0.91%) Dell
6 1 (0.91%) HP
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) Logitech
6 1 (0.91%) NetApp
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle
6 1 (0.91%) Yealink
6 1 (0.91%) Zscaler