PaaS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 131 191
Rank change year-on-year -165 +60 -47
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 341 1,092 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.01% 2.68% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 5.59% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 293 550 1,038
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £71,368
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% +5.73%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.70%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,610 19,552 37,021
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.31% 48.05% 52.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,911 14,275 21,740
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

PaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PaaS.

PaaS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PaaS over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

PaaS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.17%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 3 (0.88%) IIS
5 2 (0.59%) Apache
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 281 (82.40%) Azure
2 219 (64.22%) IaaS
3 163 (47.80%) SaaS
4 108 (31.67%) Azure DevOps
5 104 (30.50%) AWS
6 72 (21.11%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (12.61%) Entra ID
8 40 (11.73%) GCP
8 40 (11.73%) GitHub
9 18 (5.28%) Power Platform
9 18 (5.28%) Serverless
10 14 (4.11%) Azure AKS
10 14 (4.11%) Azure Stack
11 13 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.93%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 10 (2.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (2.93%) WhatsApp
14 9 (2.64%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 44 (12.90%) Firewall
2 26 (7.62%) VPN
3 20 (5.87%) LAN
3 20 (5.87%) WAN
4 17 (4.99%) DNS
5 14 (4.11%) SAN
5 14 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (3.81%) Network Security
7 11 (3.23%) Internet
7 11 (3.23%) NGFW
8 10 (2.93%) SD-WAN
9 7 (2.05%) DHCP
10 5 (1.47%) IPv4
10 5 (1.47%) SSL
11 4 (1.17%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.17%) Wireless
12 3 (0.88%) BGP
12 3 (0.88%) OSPF
12 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 26 (7.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.64%) MySQL
4 9 (2.64%) Redis
5 8 (2.35%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.76%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.47%) Big Data
7 5 (1.47%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.17%) GIS
8 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.59%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.59%) Power BI
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.62%) Jenkins
2 18 (5.28%) Git
3 9 (2.64%) Postman
4 8 (2.35%) JIRA
4 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.05%) GitLab
6 5 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.47%) SoapUI
6 5 (1.47%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.59%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.29%) Gatling
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 86 (25.22%) Social Skills
2 76 (22.29%) Finance
3 44 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 27 (7.92%) Banking
6 22 (6.45%) Law
7 10 (2.93%) Police
8 9 (2.64%) Marketing
8 9 (2.64%) Retail
9 8 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.05%) Front Office
11 6 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.47%) Japanese Language
12 5 (1.47%) Publishing
12 5 (1.47%) Welsh Language
13 4 (1.17%) Advertising
13 4 (1.17%) Legal
14 3 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (28.45%) Architect
2 69 (20.23%) Senior
3 49 (14.37%) Developer
4 45 (13.20%) Solutions Architect
5 43 (12.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (11.73%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (10.26%) Lead
8 31 (9.09%) Azure Architect
8 31 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
9 30 (8.80%) Citrix Architect
10 28 (8.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 24 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (6.74%) Consultant
12 23 (6.74%) Security Engineer
13 21 (6.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
14 20 (5.87%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 20 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
15 19 (5.57%) Infrastructure Architect
16 17 (4.99%) Salesforce Architect
16 17 (4.99%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (16.13%) .NET
2 31 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 29 (8.50%) JSON
4 24 (7.04%) Middleware
5 18 (5.28%) .NET Framework
5 18 (5.28%) REST
6 17 (4.99%) YAML
7 13 (3.81%) Web Services
8 12 (3.52%) SOAP
9 11 (3.23%) .NET Core
10 10 (2.93%) HTML
11 9 (2.64%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (2.64%) XML
12 8 (2.35%) RESTful
13 7 (2.05%) ASP.NET
13 7 (2.05%) Node.js
14 6 (1.76%) WCF
15 5 (1.47%) XML Schema
16 4 (1.17%) Vue
16 4 (1.17%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.05%) Public Cloud
2 26 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (7.33%) Management Information System
4 24 (7.04%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.87%) Data Centre
6 18 (5.28%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.81%) Private Cloud
8 12 (3.52%) Onboarding
9 11 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.05%) Kindle
12 6 (1.76%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 4 (1.17%) Housing Association
14 4 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.44%) Windows
2 23 (6.74%) Windows Server
3 12 (3.52%) Linux
4 8 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.47%) Unix
5 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.17%) VMS
6 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (43.99%) DevOps
2 108 (31.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 102 (29.91%) Agile
4 78 (22.87%) CI/CD
5 52 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
6 46 (13.49%) Microservices
7 43 (12.61%) SDLC
8 42 (12.32%) Cloud Security
9 40 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (10.85%) TOGAF
11 36 (10.56%) Mentoring
11 36 (10.56%) Roadmaps
12 34 (9.97%) Software Engineering
13 33 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (9.68%) Migration
14 31 (9.09%) Containerisation
14 31 (9.09%) ITIL
15 30 (8.80%) Information Security
16 29 (8.50%) Business Strategy
16 29 (8.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.30%) PowerShell
1 59 (17.30%) SQL
2 57 (16.72%) Python
3 30 (8.80%) JavaScript
4 27 (7.92%) C#
5 20 (5.87%) Bicep
6 19 (5.57%) Java
7 10 (2.93%) Bash
8 5 (1.47%) Go
9 4 (1.17%) C++
10 3 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.88%) PHP
10 3 (0.88%) Ruby
10 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.29%) Groovy
11 1 (0.29%) Julia
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 60 (17.60%) Azure Certification
3 57 (16.72%) Degree
4 41 (12.02%) SC Cleared
5 22 (6.45%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (4.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.52%) CISM
8 12 (3.52%) CISSP
9 10 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.76%) GIAC
11 6 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.76%) SANS
12 5 (1.47%) HNC
12 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.88%) CIPD
13 3 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.99%) NIST
3 16 (4.69%) QA
4 9 (2.64%) NCSC
5 8 (2.35%) GDPR
6 7 (2.05%) COBIT
7 6 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.76%) SLA
7 6 (1.76%) Web Application Security Consortium
8 4 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) GRC
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 49 (14.37%) Docker
2 43 (12.61%) Active Directory
3 30 (8.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (4.69%) vSphere
6 15 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.64%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (31.38%) Terraform
2 44 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.04%) Ansible
4 12 (3.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (3.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (1.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 4 (1.17%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (1.17%) Grafana
6 4 (1.17%) Kibana
6 4 (1.17%) SCCM
6 4 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.17%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.88%) Istio
7 3 (0.88%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.88%) Puppet
8 2 (0.59%) Packer
8 2 (0.59%) WSUS
9 1 (0.29%) NetCrunch
9 1 (0.29%) SCOM
9 1 (0.29%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 131 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.56%) VMware
3 30 (8.80%) Citrix
3 30 (8.80%) Google
4 24 (7.04%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.11%) ServiceNow
6 13 (3.81%) Oracle
7 12 (3.52%) Cisco
8 10 (2.93%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.93%) Blue Prism
8 10 (2.93%) SAP
8 10 (2.93%) UiPath
9 7 (2.05%) Sparx
10 6 (1.76%) Aruba
10 6 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.76%) Veeam
11 5 (1.47%) EMC
11 5 (1.47%) Splunk
12 4 (1.17%) 3PAR
12 4 (1.17%) Commvault