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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 217 220
Rank change year-on-year -52 +3 -60
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 110 240 394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.68% 1.53% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 3.26% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 95 141 344
10th Percentile £46,662 £47,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £83,188 £82,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,737 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.05% -0.82% +0.82%

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 6,069 7,355 12,660
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.59% 46.88% 45.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,172 4,761 11,075
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 February 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 10 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.91%) FileNet
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 91 (82.73%) Azure
2 74 (67.27%) IaaS
3 47 (42.73%) SaaS
4 41 (37.27%) Entra ID
5 39 (35.45%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (25.45%) GitHub
7 26 (23.64%) Serverless
8 20 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (17.27%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (12.73%) Azure AKS
11 13 (11.82%) Azure App Service
12 12 (10.91%) Power Platform
13 11 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (8.18%) AWS
15 7 (6.36%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (5.45%) GCP
17 5 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 5 (4.55%) Azure Functions
17 5 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.18%) Firewall
2 15 (13.64%) VPN
3 12 (10.91%) DNS
4 4 (3.64%) DHCP
5 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.82%) DSL
6 2 (1.82%) LAN
6 2 (1.82%) WAN
7 1 (0.91%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.91%) MPLS
7 1 (0.91%) Network Security
7 1 (0.91%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.82%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.55%) Power BI
4 4 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.73%) Power Query
5 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.82%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.82%) MySQL
6 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.82%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Git
2 5 (4.55%) JIRA
3 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.82%) Selenium
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.91%) GitLab
5 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.64%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.18%) Billing
5 9 (8.18%) Legal
6 6 (5.45%) Law
7 3 (2.73%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Advertising
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) German Language
8 1 (0.91%) Military
8 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) Lead
2 28 (25.45%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (19.09%) Architect
5 15 (13.64%) Developer
6 13 (11.82%) .NET Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Lead .NET Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Lead Developer
7 12 (10.91%) Azure Developer
7 12 (10.91%) SaaS Developer
8 11 (10.00%) Senior
9 8 (7.27%) Analyst
9 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.36%) Lead Product Manager
10 7 (6.36%) Product Manager
10 7 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.45%) Technical Developer
11 6 (5.45%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
13 4 (3.64%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.45%) .NET
2 16 (14.55%) RESTful
3 14 (12.73%) .NET Framework
4 13 (11.82%) ASP.NET Web API
4 13 (11.82%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 13 (11.82%) Entity Framework
4 13 (11.82%) Razor View Engine
4 13 (11.82%) React
5 8 (7.27%) JSON
6 7 (6.36%) Middleware
7 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
8 4 (3.64%) Node.js
9 3 (2.73%) ADO
9 3 (2.73%) YAML
10 2 (1.82%) CSS
10 2 (1.82%) HTML
10 2 (1.82%) REST
10 2 (1.82%) Smarty
10 2 (1.82%) Symfony
10 2 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.73%) Social Media
6 2 (1.82%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
6 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.91%) Clustering
7 1 (0.91%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.73%) Windows
2 9 (8.18%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.45%) Linux
4 4 (3.64%) VMS
5 2 (1.82%) Unix
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (55.45%) DevOps
2 46 (41.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 38 (34.55%) Mentoring
5 37 (33.64%) Agile
6 31 (28.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (24.55%) Test Automation
8 26 (23.64%) Microservices
8 26 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (23.64%) Project Delivery
9 24 (21.82%) Roadmaps
10 22 (20.00%) Analytics
10 22 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (19.09%) Collaborative Culture
11 21 (19.09%) Computer Science
12 18 (16.36%) Decision-Making
12 18 (16.36%) Design Patterns
13 17 (15.45%) Scrum
14 16 (14.55%) Kanban
15 15 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 29 (26.36%) SQL
3 20 (18.18%) Bicep
4 15 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.45%) Python
6 5 (4.55%) Bash
7 3 (2.73%) C#
7 3 (2.73%) Java
8 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (22.73%) Degree
2 20 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 15 (13.64%) Master's Degree
4 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 14 (12.73%) Security Cleared
5 13 (11.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.82%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.91%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.73%) QA
2 10 (9.09%) NIST
3 9 (8.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.55%) NCSC
4 5 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.64%) GDPR
6 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.82%) GRC
8 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.00%) Docker
3 10 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.91%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 41 (37.27%) Terraform
2 10 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.45%) Ansible
4 6 (5.45%) SCOM
5 2 (1.82%) Packer
6 1 (0.91%) CASB
6 1 (0.91%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (52.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.00%) VMware
3 5 (4.55%) Google
4 4 (3.64%) BiZZdesign
5 3 (2.73%) Mercator
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) Sparx
7 1 (0.91%) Adobe
7 1 (0.91%) Apple
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) Databricks
7 1 (0.91%) Dell
7 1 (0.91%) HP
7 1 (0.91%) IBM
7 1 (0.91%) NetApp
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle
7 1 (0.91%) Veeam
7 1 (0.91%) Zscaler