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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 293 290
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 -175
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 172 138 244
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 0.84% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 2.30% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 141 102 176
10th Percentile £48,890 £37,170 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,319 £65,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% +1.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,425 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £69,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -1.43% -3.45%

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 8,723 6,002 10,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.59% 36.41% 41.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,302 4,421 8,145
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,000 £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 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 7 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 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.74%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 158 (91.86%) Azure
2 76 (44.19%) IaaS
3 59 (34.30%) SaaS
4 53 (30.81%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (20.93%) Entra ID
6 34 (19.77%) Serverless
7 32 (18.60%) AWS
8 26 (15.12%) GitHub
9 24 (13.95%) Azure Functions
10 22 (12.79%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (11.05%) GCP
12 18 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (8.72%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (8.14%) Azure AKS
15 13 (7.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (7.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 10 (5.81%) dbt
17 9 (5.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 8 (4.65%) Datadog
18 8 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.95%) VPN
2 9 (5.23%) Firewall
3 8 (4.65%) DNS
4 5 (2.91%) DHCP
4 5 (2.91%) Kerberos
4 5 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.33%) SAN
6 3 (1.74%) Network Security
6 3 (1.74%) WAN
7 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.16%) Wireless
8 1 (0.58%) DSL
8 1 (0.58%) LAN
8 1 (0.58%) NAS
8 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (4.65%) Redis
5 5 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.33%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.74%) MySQL
8 2 (1.16%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.58%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.58%) Metadata
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.58%) Power BI
9 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (10.47%) Git
2 5 (2.91%) Cucumber
2 5 (2.91%) JMeter
2 5 (2.91%) Locust
3 3 (1.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.58%) GitLab
4 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 75 (43.60%) Finance
2 47 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (13.37%) Law
4 11 (6.40%) Legal
5 8 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.74%) Advertising
7 3 (1.74%) Aviation
7 3 (1.74%) Banking
8 1 (0.58%) German Language
8 1 (0.58%) Military
8 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Retail
8 1 (0.58%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 57 (33.14%) Lead
2 54 (31.40%) Azure Engineer
3 41 (23.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 38 (22.09%) Architect
5 35 (20.35%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (15.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 23 (13.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 23 (13.37%) Senior
8 21 (12.21%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (9.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 16 (9.30%) Analyst
11 14 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (7.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 12 (6.98%) Lead Architect
14 9 (5.23%) .NET Software Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Azure Architect
14 9 (5.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (5.23%) Digital Architect
14 9 (5.23%) Digital Solutions Architect
14 9 (5.23%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.72%) ARM Templates
2 13 (7.56%) .NET
3 6 (3.49%) RESTful
4 5 (2.91%) Django
4 5 (2.91%) Gherkin
4 5 (2.91%) LDAP
4 5 (2.91%) OAuth
4 5 (2.91%) OpenID
4 5 (2.91%) React
4 5 (2.91%) SAML
5 3 (1.74%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.74%) Middleware
5 3 (1.74%) REST
5 3 (1.74%) YAML
6 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.16%) CSS
6 2 (1.16%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.16%) JSON
6 2 (1.16%) Node.js
6 2 (1.16%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.47%) Security Posture
3 17 (9.88%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.98%) Podcast
5 9 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.65%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.33%) Data Fabric
9 4 (2.33%) Replication
10 3 (1.74%) Blog
10 3 (1.74%) Clustering
10 3 (1.74%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 2 (1.16%) SystemC
11 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.70%) Windows
2 16 (9.30%) Linux
3 12 (6.98%) VMS
4 6 (3.49%) Unix
5 5 (2.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) AIX
6 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (54.65%) DevOps
2 78 (45.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (42.44%) CI/CD
4 69 (40.12%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (33.14%) Agile
6 40 (23.26%) Cloud Security
7 35 (20.35%) Mentoring
8 34 (19.77%) Observability
9 33 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (18.60%) Analytics
11 30 (17.44%) Roadmaps
12 27 (15.70%) Containerisation
13 26 (15.12%) Cost Optimisation
13 26 (15.12%) Microservices
14 24 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (13.37%) AI
15 23 (13.37%) Task Automation
16 22 (12.79%) Identity Access Management
16 22 (12.79%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (12.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.81%) PowerShell
2 39 (22.67%) Bicep
3 34 (19.77%) Python
4 27 (15.70%) SQL
5 21 (12.21%) Bash
6 15 (8.72%) Java
7 14 (8.14%) C#
8 12 (6.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.49%) Ruby
10 4 (2.33%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.16%) Go
13 1 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (14.53%) Azure Certification
1 25 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.47%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.56%) Degree
3 13 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.23%) CISSP
5 7 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.16%) CISM
8 1 (0.58%) GIAC
8 1 (0.58%) IISP
8 1 (0.58%) ISACA
8 1 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.81%) NIST
2 9 (5.23%) QA
3 7 (4.07%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.91%) WCAG
6 4 (2.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.58%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (24.42%) Active Directory
2 22 (12.79%) Docker
3 18 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (8.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (8.14%) vSphere
6 4 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (41.86%) Terraform
2 23 (13.37%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.91%) Ansible
5 5 (2.91%) AWS Copilot
5 5 (2.91%) Grafana
6 2 (1.16%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.58%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.58%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.58%) Packer
7 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.58%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (48.26%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.05%) VMware
3 12 (6.98%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (5.81%) Salesforce
5 8 (4.65%) Oracle
6 6 (3.49%) Google
7 5 (2.91%) Cisco
7 5 (2.91%) Databricks
7 5 (2.91%) SAP
8 4 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.74%) Meraki
9 3 (1.74%) Veeam
10 2 (1.16%) Apple
10 2 (1.16%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.16%) EMC
10 2 (1.16%) Sophos
10 2 (1.16%) Ubiquiti
11 1 (0.58%) Logitech
11 1 (0.58%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.58%) Yealink