Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 168 190
Rank change year-on-year -144 +22 -33
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 889 2,273 3,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 2.18% 2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 5.07% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 742 1,201 1,933
10th Percentile £45,125 £42,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £54,391 £53,750 £54,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,481
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.41% +2.47%

All Cloud Skills
UK

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,224 44,804 74,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.90% 43.07% 48.01%
Number of salaries quoted 26,669 29,303 41,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PaaS.

Salary trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -134 754 £71,000 +1.43% 181
UK excluding London -210 442 £65,000 +8.33% 122
Work from Home -152 356 £70,000 +2.49% 97
London -52 343 £85,000 +4.94% 76
North of England -127 104 £60,000 -7.69% 35
South East -98 94 £62,500 +8.70% 27
South West -58 92 £70,000 +30.84% 19
Midlands -68 84 £65,000 - 18
West Midlands 0 73 £69,235 +8.60% 13
North West -99 61 £67,500 - 19
Scotland -138 48 £59,526 -0.79% 16
Yorkshire -1 37 £59,526 -6.63% 9
East of England -25 13 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Wales -28 8 £52,101 -13.17% 1
East Midlands -66 8 £45,500 -30.00% 5
North East -22 6 £44,250 -34.44% 7
Northern Ireland -10 2 £89,750 +99.44% 3

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.35%) CMS
4 9 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (0.90%) Confluence
5 8 (0.90%) WordPress
6 7 (0.79%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.67%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.67%) IIS
8 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.45%) NServiceBus
9 3 (0.34%) Apache
10 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.22%) Kentico
10 2 (0.22%) Liferay
10 2 (0.22%) Magnolia
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.45%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) HFM
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 721 (81.10%) Azure
2 632 (71.09%) IaaS
3 442 (49.72%) SaaS
4 275 (30.93%) AWS
5 199 (22.38%) Azure DevOps
6 191 (21.48%) Microsoft 365
7 126 (14.17%) GCP
8 96 (10.80%) Entra ID
9 84 (9.45%) Power Platform
10 57 (6.41%) Serverless
11 55 (6.19%) GitHub
12 46 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
13 34 (3.82%) Azure AKS
13 34 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (2.36%) Azure Stack
16 21 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 16 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 122 (13.72%) Firewall
2 85 (9.56%) VPN
3 78 (8.77%) DNS
4 76 (8.55%) WAN
5 50 (5.62%) LAN
6 48 (5.40%) Wi-Fi
7 42 (4.72%) SD-WAN
8 38 (4.27%) DHCP
9 35 (3.94%) SAN
10 31 (3.49%) Network Security
11 19 (2.14%) Internet
12 18 (2.02%) VLAN
13 14 (1.57%) NGFW
13 14 (1.57%) Wireless
14 13 (1.46%) BGP
15 10 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.12%) HTTP
15 10 (1.12%) SSL
16 9 (1.01%) MPLS
16 9 (1.01%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 48 (5.40%) NoSQL
4 41 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (3.26%) Data Lake
5 29 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.47%) Power BI
7 21 (2.36%) MySQL
8 15 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.57%) Big Data
9 14 (1.57%) RDBMS
10 12 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.24%) Metadata
12 10 (1.12%) Redis
13 8 (0.90%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.79%) MongoDB
15 6 (0.67%) Delta Lake
16 5 (0.56%) Data Mining
17 4 (0.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 57 (6.41%) Git
2 44 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.14%) GitLab
4 14 (1.57%) JIRA
4 14 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.46%) SonarQube
6 11 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 11 (1.24%) Postman
7 9 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.67%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (0.34%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.22%) Bower
11 2 (0.22%) gulp
11 2 (0.22%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.22%) Moq
11 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 186 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.13%) Finance
3 69 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.52%) Banking
4 58 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 53 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (3.82%) Law
6 34 (3.82%) Marketing
7 20 (2.25%) Retail
8 19 (2.14%) Legal
9 16 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.12%) Police
13 8 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.79%) Front Office
14 7 (0.79%) Publishing
15 6 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 254 (28.57%) Architect
2 165 (18.56%) Senior
3 103 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 96 (10.80%) Solutions Architect
5 95 (10.69%) Azure Engineer
6 92 (10.35%) Developer
7 85 (9.56%) Lead
8 79 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
9 70 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 55 (6.19%) Azure Architect
11 53 (5.96%) Consultant
12 43 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (4.39%) Citrix Architect
14 38 (4.27%) Infrastructure Architect
15 37 (4.16%) Analyst
15 37 (4.16%) Security Engineer
16 36 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
17 34 (3.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
18 30 (3.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 28 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (13.84%) .NET
2 67 (7.54%) ARM Templates
3 64 (7.20%) JSON
4 44 (4.95%) Web Services
5 43 (4.84%) Middleware
6 37 (4.16%) YAML
7 33 (3.71%) RESTful
8 30 (3.37%) XML
9 27 (3.04%) .NET Framework
9 27 (3.04%) HTML
10 24 (2.70%) REST
11 21 (2.36%) OpenID
12 20 (2.25%) .NET Core
12 20 (2.25%) CSS
13 19 (2.14%) React
14 18 (2.02%) Node.js
15 17 (1.91%) ASP.NET
16 16 (1.80%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.80%) SOAP
17 14 (1.57%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 160 (18.00%) Public Cloud
2 101 (11.36%) Cloud Native
3 57 (6.41%) Management Information System
4 50 (5.62%) Data Centre
5 38 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 35 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.81%) Data Structures
9 22 (2.47%) Private Cloud
10 21 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
10 21 (2.36%) Mainframe
11 20 (2.25%) Blockchain
11 20 (2.25%) Mobile App
12 19 (2.14%) Replication
13 17 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.57%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.46%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.46%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 125 (14.06%) Windows
2 81 (9.11%) Linux
3 61 (6.86%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.82%) Unix
5 19 (2.14%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.69%) VMS
7 13 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (0.79%) Solaris
9 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.67%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.45%) Android
11 4 (0.45%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.45%) DC/OS
12 2 (0.22%) CentOS
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (42.41%) DevOps
2 252 (28.35%) Agile
3 211 (23.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 186 (20.92%) CI/CD
5 131 (14.74%) Cybersecurity
6 130 (14.62%) Roadmaps
7 120 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 116 (13.05%) ITIL
9 115 (12.94%) Microservices
10 91 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (10.12%) Cloud Security
12 87 (9.79%) Mentoring
13 79 (8.89%) Migration
14 75 (8.44%) TOGAF
15 74 (8.32%) Analytics
16 73 (8.21%) Information Security
17 71 (7.99%) Software Engineering
18 67 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence
18 67 (7.54%) Containerisation
18 67 (7.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 167 (18.79%) PowerShell
2 144 (16.20%) SQL
3 120 (13.50%) Python
4 83 (9.34%) C#
5 63 (7.09%) Bicep
6 59 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 47 (5.29%) Java
8 41 (4.61%) Bash
9 18 (2.02%) Go
10 10 (1.12%) Ruby
11 9 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.90%) PHP
13 7 (0.79%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.45%) C++
14 4 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.45%) Scala
15 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.22%) C
16 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 115 (12.94%) Degree
2 107 (12.04%) Azure Certification
3 104 (11.70%) Security Cleared
4 61 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 39 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.16%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (3.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (3.49%) AWS Certification
9 29 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (3.04%) CISSP
11 24 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (2.70%) DV Cleared
12 21 (2.36%) Master's Degree
13 19 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.91%) CCNA
15 16 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
16 14 (1.57%) CISM
17 12 (1.35%) A+ Certification
18 10 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 10 (1.12%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (3.71%) NIST
3 27 (3.04%) GDPR
4 26 (2.92%) QA
5 19 (2.14%) NCSC
6 15 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 14 (1.57%) COBIT
8 13 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.35%) HIPAA
10 11 (1.24%) SLA
11 10 (1.12%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.90%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.79%) Accessibility
14 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.67%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 4 (0.45%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.45%) PMO
16 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.11%) GRC
17 1 (0.11%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 135 (15.19%) Active Directory
2 81 (9.11%) Docker
3 63 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (2.70%) vSphere
6 22 (2.47%) Hyper-V
7 20 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.57%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.45%) XenApp
11 3 (0.34%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.22%) NFS
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.11%) RACF
13 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 235 (26.43%) Terraform
2 135 (15.19%) Kubernetes
3 76 (8.55%) Ansible
4 53 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (3.26%) Puppet
6 21 (2.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (1.91%) FortiGate
8 16 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.12%) SCCM
10 8 (0.90%) Istio
11 7 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.67%) Nessus
12 6 (0.67%) NetCrunch
13 5 (0.56%) Grafana
13 5 (0.56%) Kibana
13 5 (0.56%) Packer
13 5 (0.56%) QRadar
14 4 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 372 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 87 (9.79%) VMware
3 62 (6.97%) Cisco
4 53 (5.96%) Google
5 51 (5.74%) Oracle
6 48 (5.40%) Citrix
7 27 (3.04%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.59%) Veeam
9 21 (2.36%) SAP
9 21 (2.36%) Splunk
10 20 (2.25%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.14%) Databricks
11 19 (2.14%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.80%) NetApp
13 14 (1.57%) AppDynamics
14 13 (1.46%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.35%) Sparx
16 11 (1.24%) Automation Anywhere
16 11 (1.24%) Blue Prism
16 11 (1.24%) UiPath