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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 288 260
Rank change year-on-year +1 -28 -148
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 177 133 255
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.74% 0.82% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.04% 2.29% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 142 104 144
10th Percentile £54,521 £37,170 £48,975
25th Percentile £63,125 £47,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £82,241 £74,358
90th Percentile - £96,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% +2.27% -6.48%

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 8,695 5,808 9,548
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 35.66% 40.80%
Number of salaries quoted 6,367 4,200 6,728
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,943
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 £86,063
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 13 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 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.26%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 161 (90.96%) Azure
2 75 (42.37%) IaaS
3 59 (33.33%) SaaS
4 51 (28.81%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (17.51%) Serverless
6 27 (15.25%) Entra ID
7 26 (14.69%) AWS
8 25 (14.12%) GitHub
9 23 (12.99%) Azure Functions
10 18 (10.17%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (9.04%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (7.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 14 (7.91%) GCP
13 13 (7.34%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 7 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (3.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.12%) VPN
2 11 (6.21%) Firewall
3 9 (5.08%) DNS
4 7 (3.95%) DHCP
5 6 (3.39%) WAN
6 5 (2.82%) SAN
6 5 (2.82%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.69%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.69%) LAN
7 3 (1.69%) Network Security
8 2 (1.13%) Wireless
9 1 (0.56%) DSL
9 1 (0.56%) NAS
9 1 (0.56%) VLAN
9 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (8.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.26%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.69%) Redis
6 2 (1.13%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.56%) Metadata
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
7 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (9.60%) Git
2 2 (1.13%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) JMeter
3 1 (0.56%) Locust
3 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 86 (48.59%) Finance
2 44 (24.86%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.43%) Law
4 14 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.08%) Legal
6 7 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Banking
9 4 (2.26%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.69%) Aviation
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 68 (38.42%) Lead
2 61 (34.46%) Azure Engineer
3 49 (27.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 42 (23.73%) Platform Engineer
5 41 (23.16%) Architect
6 39 (22.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 31 (17.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 24 (13.56%) Senior
9 23 (12.99%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 20 (11.30%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (9.04%) Lead Architect
12 14 (7.91%) Analyst
13 13 (7.34%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (7.34%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 10 (5.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 9 (5.08%) .NET Software Engineer
15 9 (5.08%) C# Software Engineer
15 9 (5.08%) Enterprise Architect
15 9 (5.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (36.72%) Terraform
2 15 (8.47%) ARM Templates
3 10 (5.65%) .NET
4 3 (1.69%) LDAP
4 3 (1.69%) OAuth
4 3 (1.69%) OpenID
4 3 (1.69%) React
4 3 (1.69%) RESTful
4 3 (1.69%) SAML
4 3 (1.69%) YAML
5 2 (1.13%) REST
5 2 (1.13%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (1.13%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.56%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.56%) JSON
6 1 (0.56%) Kafka
6 1 (0.56%) Node.js
6 1 (0.56%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.73%) Security Posture
3 17 (9.60%) Public Cloud
4 13 (7.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (6.78%) Podcast
6 8 (4.52%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.26%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (2.26%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.26%) Replication
10 3 (1.69%) Blog
10 3 (1.69%) Clustering
10 3 (1.69%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.69%) SystemC
11 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.56%) Windows
2 12 (6.78%) VMS
3 10 (5.65%) Linux
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) AIX
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Solaris
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (45.20%) DevOps
2 72 (40.68%) Platform Engineering
3 71 (40.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (35.59%) CI/CD
5 49 (27.68%) Agile
6 42 (23.73%) Cloud Security
7 38 (21.47%) Roadmaps
8 32 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (17.51%) Analytics
9 31 (17.51%) Mentoring
10 28 (15.82%) AI
11 25 (14.12%) Cost Optimisation
11 25 (14.12%) Microservices
12 24 (13.56%) Observability
12 24 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (12.43%) Computer Science
13 22 (12.43%) Disaster Recovery
14 21 (11.86%) Risk Management
14 21 (11.86%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (11.30%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.68%) PowerShell
2 42 (23.73%) Bicep
3 28 (15.82%) SQL
4 26 (14.69%) Python
5 22 (12.43%) Bash
6 12 (6.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (6.21%) C#
8 6 (3.39%) Java
8 6 (3.39%) Ruby
9 2 (1.13%) ABAP
9 2 (1.13%) Go
9 2 (1.13%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (14.12%) Azure Certification
2 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.91%) Degree
4 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (6.21%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.39%) CISSP
8 2 (1.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) GIAC
9 1 (0.56%) HND
9 1 (0.56%) IISP
9 1 (0.56%) ISACA
9 1 (0.56%) MCITP
9 1 (0.56%) SSCP
9 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.52%) NIST
2 6 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.26%) QA
4 2 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.13%) GDPR
4 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) PMO
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (21.47%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.04%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (7.91%) vSphere
5 10 (5.65%) Docker
6 4 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.39%) Ansible
2 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.13%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (0.56%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (0.56%) Packer
4 1 (0.56%) QRadar
4 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 77 (43.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.30%) VMware
3 12 (6.78%) ScienceLogic
4 8 (4.52%) Oracle
4 8 (4.52%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.95%) SAP
5 7 (3.95%) YouTube
6 5 (2.82%) Databricks
7 4 (2.26%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) Meraki
8 3 (1.69%) Veeam
9 2 (1.13%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.13%) EMC
9 2 (1.13%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.13%) Sophos
9 2 (1.13%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.56%) Apple
10 1 (0.56%) Commvault
10 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.56%) Splunk