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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 297 288
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 -168
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 170 144 247
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.77% 0.87% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.38% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 138 107 187
10th Percentile £48,848 £37,170 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,050 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £69,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.45% -4.83%

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 8,612 6,059 10,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.77% 36.64% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 6,204 4,468 8,477
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,705 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £46,581
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.43% -3.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £83,759
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

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 1 August 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 16 (9.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 156 (91.76%) Azure
2 78 (45.88%) IaaS
3 59 (34.71%) SaaS
4 53 (31.18%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (22.35%) Entra ID
6 34 (20.00%) Serverless
7 33 (19.41%) AWS
8 26 (15.29%) GitHub
9 24 (14.12%) Azure Functions
10 21 (12.35%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (11.18%) GCP
13 16 (9.41%) Azure AKS
14 15 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
15 14 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (8.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (5.88%) dbt
17 9 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 8 (4.71%) Datadog
18 8 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.29%) VPN
2 10 (5.88%) Firewall
3 8 (4.71%) DNS
4 5 (2.94%) DHCP
4 5 (2.94%) Kerberos
4 5 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.35%) SAN
6 3 (1.76%) Network Security
6 3 (1.76%) WAN
7 2 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.18%) Wireless
8 1 (0.59%) DSL
8 1 (0.59%) LAN
8 1 (0.59%) NAS
8 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.71%) Redis
5 5 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.35%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.76%) MySQL
8 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.59%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.59%) Metadata
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.59%) Power BI
9 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.59%) Git
2 5 (2.94%) Cucumber
2 5 (2.94%) JMeter
2 5 (2.94%) Locust
3 3 (1.76%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 72 (42.35%) Finance
2 47 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (13.53%) Law
4 11 (6.47%) Legal
5 8 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.76%) Advertising
7 3 (1.76%) Aviation
8 2 (1.18%) Banking
8 2 (1.18%) Billing
9 1 (0.59%) German Language
9 1 (0.59%) Military
9 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 54 (31.76%) Azure Engineer
1 54 (31.76%) Lead
2 42 (24.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (22.35%) Architect
4 32 (18.82%) Platform Engineer
5 24 (14.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 24 (14.12%) Senior
6 21 (12.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 21 (12.35%) Solutions Architect
7 16 (9.41%) Analyst
7 16 (9.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 13 (7.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) Lead Architect
10 9 (5.29%) .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) C# Software Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Digital Architect
10 9 (5.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.41%) ARM Templates
2 13 (7.65%) .NET
3 6 (3.53%) RESTful
4 5 (2.94%) Django
4 5 (2.94%) Gherkin
4 5 (2.94%) LDAP
4 5 (2.94%) OAuth
4 5 (2.94%) OpenID
4 5 (2.94%) React
4 5 (2.94%) SAML
5 3 (1.76%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.76%) Middleware
5 3 (1.76%) REST
5 3 (1.76%) YAML
6 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.18%) HTML
6 2 (1.18%) JSON
6 2 (1.18%) Node.js
6 2 (1.18%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (1.18%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.76%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 17 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 12 (7.06%) Podcast
4 10 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.71%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.35%) Data Fabric
8 4 (2.35%) Replication
9 3 (1.76%) Blog
9 3 (1.76%) Clustering
9 3 (1.76%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.76%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.88%) Windows
2 16 (9.41%) Linux
3 12 (7.06%) VMS
4 6 (3.53%) Unix
5 5 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.59%) AIX
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (55.29%) DevOps
2 80 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (45.29%) CI/CD
4 66 (38.82%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (33.53%) Agile
6 40 (23.53%) Cloud Security
7 35 (20.59%) Mentoring
8 34 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (20.00%) Observability
9 33 (19.41%) Analytics
10 31 (18.24%) Roadmaps
11 27 (15.88%) Containerisation
12 26 (15.29%) Microservices
13 25 (14.71%) Cost Optimisation
13 25 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (14.12%) Identity Access Management
14 24 (14.12%) Task Automation
15 23 (13.53%) AI
16 22 (12.94%) Computer Science
16 22 (12.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.76%) PowerShell
2 40 (23.53%) Bicep
3 35 (20.59%) Python
4 27 (15.88%) SQL
5 21 (12.35%) Bash
6 15 (8.82%) Java
7 14 (8.24%) C#
8 12 (7.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.53%) Ruby
10 4 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.76%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.18%) Go
13 1 (0.59%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (15.29%) Azure Certification
2 25 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.24%) Degree
5 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.29%) CISSP
7 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.18%) CISM
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) GIAC
10 1 (0.59%) IISP
10 1 (0.59%) ISACA
10 1 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.59%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.47%) NIST
2 9 (5.29%) QA
3 8 (4.71%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.94%) WCAG
6 4 (2.35%) GDPR
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.59%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (24.71%) Active Directory
2 23 (13.53%) Docker
3 17 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (8.24%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (8.24%) vSphere
5 4 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (42.94%) Terraform
2 24 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.47%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (2.94%) Grafana
6 4 (2.35%) Ansible
7 2 (1.18%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.59%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.59%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Flashback
8 1 (0.59%) Packer
8 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.59%) QRadar
Vendors
1 84 (49.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.59%) VMware
3 12 (7.06%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.71%) Oracle
6 6 (3.53%) Google
7 5 (2.94%) Databricks
7 5 (2.94%) SAP
8 4 (2.35%) Cisco
8 4 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.76%) Meraki
9 3 (1.76%) Veeam
10 2 (1.18%) Apple
10 2 (1.18%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.18%) EMC
10 2 (1.18%) Sophos
10 2 (1.18%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.59%) Commvault
11 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.59%) Splunk