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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 293 247
Rank change year-on-year +12 -46 -134
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 189 131 268
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.79% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 2.29% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 150 102 148
10th Percentile £53,850 £37,170 £49,468
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £74,375 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +14.42% -10.34%
75th Percentile £100,000 £83,375 £77,813
90th Percentile - £96,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.93% +3.85% -8.21%

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 8,696 5,724 9,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.69% 34.63% 42.96%
Number of salaries quoted 6,359 4,055 5,895
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,350
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 £87,348
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +4.00%

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 14 October 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 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.12%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 173 (91.53%) Azure
2 84 (44.44%) IaaS
3 60 (31.75%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (31.22%) SaaS
5 35 (18.52%) Serverless
6 30 (15.87%) GitHub
7 29 (15.34%) Entra ID
8 28 (14.81%) Azure Functions
9 25 (13.23%) AWS
10 21 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 21 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (8.47%) Azure AKS
12 16 (8.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 13 (6.88%) GCP
14 10 (5.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 8 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
18 5 (2.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.34%) VPN
2 15 (7.94%) Firewall
3 10 (5.29%) DNS
4 6 (3.17%) DHCP
4 6 (3.17%) WAN
5 5 (2.65%) Network Security
5 5 (2.65%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.12%) SAN
7 3 (1.59%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.59%) LAN
8 2 (1.06%) FTP
8 2 (1.06%) Wireless
9 1 (0.53%) DSL
9 1 (0.53%) SSL
9 1 (0.53%) VLAN
9 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.12%) Redis
5 3 (1.59%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.06%) Metadata
6 2 (1.06%) MySQL
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.06%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) Big Data
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Git
2 4 (2.12%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.53%) Selenium
3 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 90 (47.62%) Finance
2 47 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.64%) Law
4 16 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.29%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.23%) Legal
8 5 (2.65%) Banking
8 5 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.59%) Aviation
10 2 (1.06%) Police
11 1 (0.53%) Advertising
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 68 (35.98%) Lead
2 67 (35.45%) Azure Engineer
3 52 (27.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 45 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
5 43 (22.75%) Architect
6 42 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 34 (17.99%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 34 (17.99%) Senior
8 24 (12.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 22 (11.64%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (8.47%) Lead Architect
12 13 (6.88%) Analyst
12 13 (6.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 13 (6.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 10 (5.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) .NET Software Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
14 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
14 9 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (39.15%) Terraform
2 17 (8.99%) ARM Templates
3 15 (7.94%) .NET
4 6 (3.17%) RESTful
5 4 (2.12%) YAML
6 3 (1.59%) LDAP
6 3 (1.59%) Middleware
6 3 (1.59%) OAuth
6 3 (1.59%) OpenID
6 3 (1.59%) REST
6 3 (1.59%) SAML
7 2 (1.06%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.06%) React
7 2 (1.06%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.53%) JSON
8 1 (0.53%) Kafka
8 1 (0.53%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.40%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 17 (8.99%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.35%) Podcast
5 11 (5.82%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.65%) Replication
8 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.59%) Clustering
9 3 (1.59%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.59%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.11%) Windows
2 12 (6.35%) VMS
3 11 (5.82%) Linux
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.79%) DevOps
2 77 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (40.21%) Platform Engineering
4 74 (39.15%) CI/CD
5 54 (28.57%) Agile
6 50 (26.46%) Cloud Security
7 39 (20.63%) Roadmaps
8 37 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (17.99%) Analytics
10 32 (16.93%) Mentoring
11 30 (15.87%) AI
12 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
13 27 (14.29%) Microservices
14 26 (13.76%) Disaster Recovery
15 25 (13.23%) Observability
16 24 (12.70%) Computer Science
16 24 (12.70%) Root Cause Analysis
16 24 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (12.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.51%) PowerShell
2 48 (25.40%) Bicep
3 36 (19.05%) SQL
4 25 (13.23%) Python
5 21 (11.11%) Bash
6 17 (8.99%) C#
7 12 (6.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.65%) Ruby
9 4 (2.12%) Java
10 2 (1.06%) ABAP
10 2 (1.06%) Go
10 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (16.40%) Azure Certification
2 27 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.52%) Degree
4 17 (8.99%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.17%) CISSP
8 3 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.06%) CISM
9 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) CCNP
10 1 (0.53%) CISA
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.53%) CRISC
10 1 (0.53%) GIAC
10 1 (0.53%) HND
10 1 (0.53%) IISP
10 1 (0.53%) ISACA
10 1 (0.53%) MCITP
10 1 (0.53%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) NIST
2 7 (3.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.06%) GDPR
3 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.06%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (19.58%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (7.41%) vSphere
5 13 (6.88%) Docker
6 6 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.23%) Ansible
3 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.59%) Grafana
5 2 (1.06%) WhatsUp Gold
6 1 (0.53%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.53%) Packer
6 1 (0.53%) QRadar
6 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 88 (46.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.58%) VMware
3 12 (6.35%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (5.29%) Oracle
5 9 (4.76%) YouTube
6 8 (4.23%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.17%) SAP
8 4 (2.12%) Cisco
8 4 (2.12%) Databricks
9 3 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.59%) Meraki
10 2 (1.06%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.06%) EMC
10 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.06%) Sophos
10 2 (1.06%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (1.06%) Veeam
11 1 (0.53%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.53%) Splunk