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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 281 252
Rank change year-on-year 0 -29 -134
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 183 139 261
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.75% 0.86% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.42% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 146 110 144
10th Percentile £54,734 £36,925 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,273 £45,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +0.81% -14.48%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,241 £74,144
90th Percentile - £96,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -1.92% -8.80%

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 8,722 5,736 9,350
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.62% 35.54% 41.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6,410 4,118 6,406
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,569 £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 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 22 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 16 (8.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.19%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (91.26%) Azure
2 78 (42.62%) IaaS
3 59 (32.24%) SaaS
4 54 (29.51%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (18.58%) Serverless
6 30 (16.39%) Entra ID
7 28 (15.30%) AWS
8 27 (14.75%) GitHub
9 26 (14.21%) Azure Functions
10 20 (10.93%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (10.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (8.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (7.65%) Azure AKS
14 14 (7.65%) GCP
15 8 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (3.28%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (14.21%) VPN
2 13 (7.10%) Firewall
3 10 (5.46%) DNS
4 7 (3.83%) DHCP
5 6 (3.28%) WAN
6 5 (2.73%) SAN
6 5 (2.73%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.19%) Network Security
8 3 (1.64%) Kerberos
8 3 (1.64%) LAN
9 2 (1.09%) Wireless
10 1 (0.55%) DSL
10 1 (0.55%) NAS
10 1 (0.55%) SSL
10 1 (0.55%) VLAN
10 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.19%) Redis
5 4 (2.19%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.09%) Metadata
6 2 (1.09%) MySQL
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.09%) Power BI
7 1 (0.55%) Big Data
7 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.38%) Git
2 4 (2.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.55%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) JMeter
3 1 (0.55%) Locust
3 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 87 (47.54%) Finance
2 46 (25.14%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.02%) Law
4 15 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.92%) Legal
6 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.73%) Banking
9 3 (1.64%) Aviation
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.55%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 68 (37.16%) Lead
2 63 (34.43%) Azure Engineer
3 50 (27.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 44 (24.04%) Platform Engineer
5 43 (23.50%) Architect
6 41 (22.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 33 (18.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 29 (15.85%) Senior
9 23 (12.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 21 (11.48%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (9.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (8.74%) Lead Architect
13 13 (7.10%) Analyst
13 13 (7.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (7.10%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 10 (5.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (4.92%) .NET Software Engineer
15 9 (4.92%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (4.92%) Enterprise Architect
15 9 (4.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (38.25%) Terraform
2 16 (8.74%) ARM Templates
3 11 (6.01%) .NET
4 3 (1.64%) LDAP
4 3 (1.64%) OAuth
4 3 (1.64%) OpenID
4 3 (1.64%) React
4 3 (1.64%) REST
4 3 (1.64%) RESTful
4 3 (1.64%) SAML
4 3 (1.64%) YAML
5 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.09%) Middleware
5 2 (1.09%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.55%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.55%) JSON
6 1 (0.55%) Node.js
6 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.39%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.93%) Security Posture
3 17 (9.29%) Public Cloud
4 13 (7.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (6.56%) Podcast
6 10 (5.46%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.73%) Replication
10 4 (2.19%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.64%) Blog
11 3 (1.64%) Clustering
11 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.64%) e-Learning
11 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.57%) Windows
2 12 (6.56%) Linux
2 12 (6.56%) VMS
3 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) AIX
4 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.55%) Solaris
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (46.99%) DevOps
2 77 (42.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (40.98%) Platform Engineering
4 67 (36.61%) CI/CD
5 52 (28.42%) Agile
6 46 (25.14%) Cloud Security
7 40 (21.86%) Roadmaps
8 34 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (18.03%) Analytics
9 33 (18.03%) Mentoring
10 30 (16.39%) AI
11 27 (14.75%) Cost Optimisation
11 27 (14.75%) Microservices
12 25 (13.66%) Observability
13 24 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (13.11%) Migration
13 24 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (12.57%) Computer Science
14 23 (12.57%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.87%) PowerShell
2 46 (25.14%) Bicep
3 33 (18.03%) SQL
4 27 (14.75%) Python
5 22 (12.02%) Bash
6 12 (6.56%) C#
6 12 (6.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (3.28%) Java
7 6 (3.28%) Ruby
8 2 (1.09%) ABAP
8 2 (1.09%) Go
8 2 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (15.30%) Azure Certification
2 21 (11.48%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.20%) Degree
4 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.28%) CISSP
7 3 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CISM
9 1 (0.55%) CCNP
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.55%) GIAC
9 1 (0.55%) HND
9 1 (0.55%) IISP
9 1 (0.55%) ISACA
9 1 (0.55%) MCITP
9 1 (0.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.37%) NIST
2 6 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.19%) QA
4 3 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.09%) GDPR
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (20.22%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (8.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (7.65%) vSphere
5 11 (6.01%) Docker
6 5 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.37%) Ansible
3 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.64%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.09%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.55%) Packer
7 1 (0.55%) QRadar
7 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (45.36%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.93%) VMware
3 12 (6.56%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (5.46%) Oracle
5 9 (4.92%) YouTube
6 8 (4.37%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.83%) SAP
8 5 (2.73%) Databricks
9 4 (2.19%) Cisco
10 3 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.64%) Meraki
10 3 (1.64%) Veeam
11 2 (1.09%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.09%) EMC
11 2 (1.09%) Sophos
11 2 (1.09%) Ubiquiti
12 1 (0.55%) Apple
12 1 (0.55%) Commvault
12 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.55%) Red Hat