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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 299 314
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -193
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 133 139 317
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.65% 0.89% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 2.34% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 107 102 258
10th Percentile £48,334 £36,342 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £44,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +0.37% -3.57%
75th Percentile £86,125 £81,688 £84,688
90th Percentile £97,750 £96,453 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 7,739 5,931 14,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 38.12% 42.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,461 4,320 12,106
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,735 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 23 June 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 14 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 120 (90.23%) Azure
2 75 (56.39%) IaaS
3 56 (42.11%) SaaS
4 49 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (30.08%) Entra ID
6 32 (24.06%) Serverless
7 31 (23.31%) AWS
8 26 (19.55%) GitHub
9 22 (16.54%) Azure Functions
9 22 (16.54%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (15.79%) Azure AKS
11 18 (13.53%) GCP
11 18 (13.53%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (8.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (7.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (7.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (7.52%) dbt
14 8 (6.02%) Power Platform
15 7 (5.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.78%) VPN
2 13 (9.77%) Firewall
3 6 (4.51%) DNS
4 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.01%) Kerberos
5 4 (3.01%) SAN
6 3 (2.26%) DHCP
6 3 (2.26%) DSL
6 3 (2.26%) WAN
7 2 (1.50%) Network Security
7 2 (1.50%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.50%) Wireless
8 1 (0.75%) LAN
8 1 (0.75%) NAS
8 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.02%) Redis
4 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.01%) MySQL
6 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.01%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.50%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.50%) Power BI
7 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 17 (12.78%) Git
2 5 (3.76%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.76%) JMeter
2 5 (3.76%) Locust
3 3 (2.26%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) Selenium
4 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (30.08%) Finance
1 40 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (15.04%) Law
4 11 (8.27%) Legal
5 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.26%) Billing
7 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Advertising
8 3 (2.26%) Aviation
9 2 (1.50%) German Language
10 1 (0.75%) Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 34 (25.56%) Architect
2 30 (22.56%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (18.80%) Lead
4 24 (18.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (17.29%) Senior
6 20 (15.04%) Solutions Architect
7 14 (10.53%) Analyst
8 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) C# Software Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Digital Architect
10 9 (6.77%) Digital Solutions Architect
10 9 (6.77%) Lead Architect
10 9 (6.77%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Software Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Architect
11 8 (6.02%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) .NET
2 13 (9.77%) ARM Templates
3 8 (6.02%) RESTful
4 7 (5.26%) React
5 5 (3.76%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.76%) Django
5 5 (3.76%) Gherkin
5 5 (3.76%) Node.js
6 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 4 (3.01%) Entity Framework
6 4 (3.01%) LDAP
6 4 (3.01%) Middleware
6 4 (3.01%) OAuth
6 4 (3.01%) OpenID
6 4 (3.01%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (3.01%) SAML
7 3 (2.26%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.26%) Playwright
7 3 (2.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.56%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.53%) Security Posture
3 12 (9.02%) Public Cloud
4 10 (7.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.52%) Podcast
5 7 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.01%) Data Fabric
8 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.01%) Replication
9 3 (2.26%) Clustering
9 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.54%) Windows
2 17 (12.78%) Linux
3 10 (7.52%) VMS
4 8 (6.02%) Unix
5 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.75%) AIX
6 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (60.90%) DevOps
2 66 (49.62%) CI/CD
2 66 (49.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (39.85%) Agile
4 32 (24.06%) Cloud Security
4 32 (24.06%) Platform Engineering
5 31 (23.31%) Roadmaps
6 29 (21.80%) Observability
7 28 (21.05%) Analytics
7 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 28 (21.05%) Microservices
8 25 (18.80%) Containerisation
9 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (16.54%) Scrum
11 20 (15.04%) AI
11 20 (15.04%) Migration
12 19 (14.29%) Computer Science
12 19 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
12 19 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (30.83%) PowerShell
2 29 (21.80%) Bicep
3 27 (20.30%) Python
3 27 (20.30%) SQL
4 16 (12.03%) Bash
5 15 (11.28%) C#
5 15 (11.28%) Java
6 10 (7.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.01%) Ruby
10 2 (1.50%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.53%) Azure Certification
3 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.77%) Degree
5 11 (8.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.02%) CISSP
7 7 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.50%) CISM
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.75%) GIAC
10 1 (0.75%) IISP
10 1 (0.75%) ISACA
10 1 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.75%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 9 (6.77%) NIST
3 7 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.51%) GDPR
5 5 (3.76%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.76%) WCAG
6 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 37 (27.82%) Active Directory
2 22 (16.54%) Docker
3 14 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (9.02%) vSphere
5 11 (8.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (45.86%) Terraform
2 20 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.52%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.76%) Ansible
4 5 (3.76%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (3.76%) Grafana
4 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.26%) Packer
6 2 (1.50%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.75%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 70 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.28%) VMware
3 11 (8.27%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.52%) ScienceLogic
5 6 (4.51%) Google
6 5 (3.76%) Databricks
7 4 (3.01%) Cisco
7 4 (3.01%) Oracle
7 4 (3.01%) SAP
7 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.26%) Meraki
8 3 (2.26%) Veeam
9 2 (1.50%) Apple
9 2 (1.50%) Broadcom
9 2 (1.50%) EMC
9 2 (1.50%) Sophos
9 2 (1.50%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.75%) Commvault
10 1 (0.75%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.75%) Red Hat