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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 159 205
Rank change year-on-year -186 +46 -40
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 818 2,194 3,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 2.34% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 5.42% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 664 1,087 1,884
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,477 £45,900
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% -0.80%

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 36,434 40,499 83,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 43.14% 48.68%
Number of salaries quoted 27,132 27,203 41,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,140 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +2.62% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -174 687 £70,000 -3.45% 177
UK excluding London -261 404 £62,500 -3.85% 103
Work from Home -210 316 £70,000 - 96
London -91 311 £82,500 +3.13% 78
North of England -167 99 £59,526 -14.96% 32
South West -84 82 £62,500 +5.00% 15
South East -127 81 £65,000 +8.33% 20
Midlands -71 80 £65,000 +8.33% 18
West Midlands -32 72 £69,235 +6.51% 14
North West -143 63 £65,000 -7.14% 18
Scotland -159 41 £59,763 -0.40% 12
Yorkshire -24 29 £58,513 -2.09% 10
East of England -35 12 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Wales -45 8 £52,101 -13.17%
North East -29 7 £44,250 -36.79% 4
East Midlands -79 6 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Northern Ireland -23 4 £100,000 +100.00% 4

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 37 (4.52%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.34%) CMS
3 11 (1.34%) Confluence
4 8 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
4 8 (0.98%) WordPress
5 7 (0.86%) IIS
6 6 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.73%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.73%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.24%) Apache
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) Liferay
9 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.49%) Trello
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) HFM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 659 (80.56%) Azure
2 572 (69.93%) IaaS
3 409 (50.00%) SaaS
4 268 (32.76%) AWS
5 178 (21.76%) Azure DevOps
6 174 (21.27%) Microsoft 365
7 115 (14.06%) GCP
8 95 (11.61%) Entra ID
9 78 (9.54%) Power Platform
10 53 (6.48%) GitHub
11 51 (6.23%) Cloud Computing
12 48 (5.87%) Serverless
13 41 (5.01%) Azure AKS
14 35 (4.28%) Dynamics 365
15 28 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 22 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (2.57%) Azure Stack
18 17 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 15 (1.83%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 126 (15.40%) Firewall
2 83 (10.15%) WAN
3 73 (8.92%) DNS
3 73 (8.92%) VPN
4 50 (6.11%) LAN
5 49 (5.99%) Wi-Fi
6 47 (5.75%) SD-WAN
7 30 (3.67%) DHCP
8 25 (3.06%) SAN
9 23 (2.81%) Network Security
10 20 (2.44%) BGP
11 17 (2.08%) Internet
11 17 (2.08%) Unified Communications
12 16 (1.96%) Wireless
13 11 (1.34%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.34%) MPLS
14 10 (1.22%) OSPF
14 10 (1.22%) SSL
14 10 (1.22%) VLAN
15 9 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 51 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 34 (4.16%) NoSQL
4 28 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.93%) MySQL
5 24 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.32%) Power BI
7 15 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (1.47%) Big Data
9 12 (1.47%) Redis
10 11 (1.34%) Metadata
10 11 (1.34%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.22%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.86%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.73%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 60 (7.33%) Git
2 36 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.44%) JIRA
4 16 (1.96%) GitLab
4 16 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 14 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.59%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.22%) Postman
8 6 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.61%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
12 2 (0.24%) Bower
12 2 (0.24%) gulp
12 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
12 2 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
12 2 (0.24%) Maven
12 2 (0.24%) MLflow
12 2 (0.24%) Moq
12 2 (0.24%) NUnit
General
1 197 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 130 (15.89%) Finance
3 76 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 49 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.55%) Banking
6 29 (3.55%) Law
7 28 (3.42%) Marketing
8 20 (2.44%) Legal
9 18 (2.20%) Retail
10 15 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.98%) Police
15 7 (0.86%) Games
16 6 (0.73%) Electronics
16 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 210 (25.67%) Architect
2 157 (19.19%) Senior
3 90 (11.00%) Azure Engineer
4 87 (10.64%) Developer
5 86 (10.51%) Lead
6 85 (10.39%) Solutions Architect
7 84 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 67 (8.19%) Cloud Architect
9 65 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (5.87%) Consultant
11 47 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 43 (5.26%) Analyst
12 43 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
13 39 (4.77%) Azure Architect
14 33 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 25 (3.06%) Infrastructure Architect
16 25 (3.06%) Security Engineer
17 24 (2.93%) Technical Manager
18 23 (2.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (13.81%) .NET
2 60 (7.33%) ARM Templates
3 55 (6.72%) JSON
4 37 (4.52%) Middleware
5 32 (3.91%) Web Services
6 28 (3.42%) RESTful
7 26 (3.18%) .NET Framework
8 25 (3.06%) YAML
9 22 (2.69%) REST
9 22 (2.69%) XML
10 21 (2.57%) HTML
11 17 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
11 17 (2.08%) Node.js
12 16 (1.96%) .NET Core
12 16 (1.96%) CSS
12 16 (1.96%) React
13 15 (1.83%) SOAP
14 14 (1.71%) ASP.NET
15 13 (1.59%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 122 (14.91%) Public Cloud
2 104 (12.71%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.72%) Data Centre
3 55 (6.72%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 20 (2.44%) Data Structures
9 18 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.20%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.20%) Replication
10 16 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.59%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.22%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.10%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 116 (14.18%) Windows
2 80 (9.78%) Linux
3 57 (6.97%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.69%) Unix
5 14 (1.71%) VMS
5 14 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (1.22%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.10%) Solaris
9 7 (0.86%) Android
9 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.49%) DC/OS
11 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.37%) CentOS
13 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (42.05%) DevOps
2 214 (26.16%) Agile
3 176 (21.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 152 (18.58%) CI/CD
5 108 (13.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 106 (12.96%) Cybersecurity
6 106 (12.96%) ITIL
7 95 (11.61%) Microservices
7 95 (11.61%) Roadmaps
8 92 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (10.88%) Mentoring
10 82 (10.02%) Cloud Security
11 77 (9.41%) Analytics
12 72 (8.80%) TOGAF
13 69 (8.44%) Migration
14 68 (8.31%) Platform Engineering
15 65 (7.95%) Software Engineering
16 64 (7.82%) Containerisation
17 63 (7.70%) Information Security
18 61 (7.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 155 (18.95%) PowerShell
2 134 (16.38%) SQL
3 104 (12.71%) Python
4 73 (8.92%) C#
5 57 (6.97%) Bicep
6 52 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 43 (5.26%) Bash
8 40 (4.89%) Java
9 16 (1.96%) Go
10 10 (1.22%) Ruby
11 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.86%) PHP
13 6 (0.73%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.61%) C++
15 4 (0.49%) Scala
16 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.24%) C
17 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.24%) VB
17 2 (0.24%) XAML
Qualifications
1 121 (14.79%) Degree
2 102 (12.47%) Security Cleared
3 94 (11.49%) Azure Certification
4 54 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 41 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (4.16%) AWS Certification
8 32 (3.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (2.69%) CISSP
11 22 (2.69%) Master's Degree
12 20 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.32%) DV Cleared
14 17 (2.08%) CCNA
15 16 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.47%) A+ Certification
17 10 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (1.22%) CCSP
18 9 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (3.06%) NCSC
2 25 (3.06%) NIST
3 24 (2.93%) QA
4 23 (2.81%) GDPR
5 16 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.59%) SLA
7 8 (0.98%) COBIT
7 8 (0.98%) NIST 800
8 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.73%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.73%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.73%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.61%) PMO
11 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.12%) GRC
System Software
1 118 (14.43%) Active Directory
2 78 (9.54%) Docker
3 53 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (2.44%) Hyper-V
6 18 (2.20%) vSphere
7 15 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.71%) VMware NSX
9 10 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.49%) XenApp
11 3 (0.37%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.12%) Firmware
12 1 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) NFS
12 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 215 (26.28%) Terraform
2 130 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 83 (10.15%) Ansible
4 51 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (2.93%) Puppet
6 22 (2.69%) FortiGate
7 17 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.34%) Istio
9 10 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.98%) Nessus
11 7 (0.86%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.73%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.73%) NetCrunch
13 5 (0.61%) Grafana
13 5 (0.61%) Kibana
13 5 (0.61%) Packer
13 5 (0.61%) SCCM
14 4 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.49%) Nagios
14 4 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 337 (41.20%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.31%) Cisco
3 65 (7.95%) VMware
4 48 (5.87%) Google
5 47 (5.75%) Oracle
6 26 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 25 (3.06%) Citrix
8 22 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.69%) Splunk
9 21 (2.57%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.57%) Veeam
10 19 (2.32%) SAP
11 17 (2.08%) Databricks
12 16 (1.96%) NetApp
13 15 (1.83%) Meraki
14 12 (1.47%) Sparx
15 11 (1.34%) CheckPoint
16 10 (1.22%) Blue Prism
16 10 (1.22%) CA
16 10 (1.22%) SolarWinds