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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 152 208
Rank change year-on-year -198 +56 -44
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 811 2,190 3,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 2.35% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 5.43% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 654 1,085 1,887
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,477 £45,000
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 £88,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £61,240
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.14% -0.42%

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 36,441 40,322 83,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.70% 43.19% 48.65%
Number of salaries quoted 27,115 27,151 41,754
10th Percentile £30,190 £34,250 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.45% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 8 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 8 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 -175 681 £70,000 -3.45% 180
UK excluding London -248 400 £62,500 -3.85% 107
Work from Home -209 313 £70,000 - 111
London -92 309 £82,500 +1.85% 80
North of England -168 96 £57,500 -17.86% 36
Midlands -89 82 £65,000 +8.33% 16
South West -85 81 £62,500 +5.00% 16
South East -117 80 £63,750 +2.00% 19
West Midlands -13 74 £69,235 +10.78% 13
North West -143 60 £65,000 -7.14% 21
Scotland -150 40 £60,000 - 13
Yorkshire -23 28 £55,430 -7.25% 11
East of England -31 12 £60,000 +4.35% 5
North East -27 8 £43,500 -37.86% 4
Wales -46 8 £52,101 -13.17%
East Midlands -89 6 £45,000 -21.74% 3
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 (4.56%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.36%) CMS
3 11 (1.36%) Confluence
4 8 (0.99%) Sitecore CMS
4 8 (0.99%) WordPress
5 7 (0.86%) IIS
6 6 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.74%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.25%) Apache
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.25%) Liferay
9 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.49%) Trello
5 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.62%) 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
1 653 (80.52%) Azure
2 570 (70.28%) IaaS
3 403 (49.69%) SaaS
4 263 (32.43%) AWS
5 176 (21.70%) Microsoft 365
6 174 (21.45%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (12.95%) GCP
8 96 (11.84%) Entra ID
9 78 (9.62%) Power Platform
10 51 (6.29%) Cloud Computing
11 48 (5.92%) GitHub
11 48 (5.92%) Serverless
12 41 (5.06%) Azure AKS
13 35 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.59%) Azure Stack
17 16 (1.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 15 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 129 (15.91%) Firewall
2 85 (10.48%) WAN
3 75 (9.25%) DNS
4 74 (9.12%) VPN
5 52 (6.41%) LAN
6 49 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
7 47 (5.80%) SD-WAN
8 32 (3.95%) DHCP
9 25 (3.08%) SAN
10 24 (2.96%) Network Security
11 20 (2.47%) BGP
12 17 (2.10%) Internet
12 17 (2.10%) Unified Communications
13 16 (1.97%) Wireless
14 11 (1.36%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (1.36%) MPLS
15 10 (1.23%) OSPF
15 10 (1.23%) SSL
15 10 (1.23%) VLAN
16 9 (1.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 50 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 31 (3.82%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.96%) MySQL
5 24 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.34%) Power BI
7 15 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (1.48%) Big Data
9 12 (1.48%) Redis
10 11 (1.36%) Metadata
10 11 (1.36%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.23%) RDBMS
12 8 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.86%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.74%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.74%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 61 (7.52%) Git
2 31 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.47%) JIRA
4 16 (1.97%) GitLab
4 16 (1.97%) SonarQube
5 14 (1.73%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.60%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.23%) Postman
8 6 (0.74%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.62%) SoapUI
9 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.25%) Bower
11 2 (0.25%) gulp
11 2 (0.25%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.25%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.25%) Maven
11 2 (0.25%) MLflow
11 2 (0.25%) Moq
11 2 (0.25%) NUnit
General
1 199 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 120 (14.80%) Finance
3 77 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.58%) Law
7 28 (3.45%) Marketing
8 21 (2.59%) Banking
9 20 (2.47%) Legal
10 18 (2.22%) Retail
11 13 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.99%) Police
15 7 (0.86%) Games
16 6 (0.74%) Electronics
16 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 206 (25.40%) Architect
2 151 (18.62%) Senior
3 90 (11.10%) Azure Engineer
4 88 (10.85%) Developer
5 86 (10.60%) Lead
6 83 (10.23%) Solutions Architect
7 79 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 66 (8.14%) Cloud Architect
9 63 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (5.92%) Consultant
11 47 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
12 44 (5.43%) Analyst
13 42 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (4.69%) Azure Architect
15 33 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.21%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.21%) Infrastructure Architect
17 24 (2.96%) Technical Manager
18 23 (2.84%) Senior Architect
19 22 (2.71%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (14.06%) .NET
2 60 (7.40%) ARM Templates
3 56 (6.91%) JSON
4 37 (4.56%) Middleware
5 32 (3.95%) Web Services
6 28 (3.45%) RESTful
7 26 (3.21%) .NET Framework
7 26 (3.21%) YAML
8 22 (2.71%) REST
8 22 (2.71%) XML
9 21 (2.59%) HTML
10 17 (2.10%) Azure Blueprints
10 17 (2.10%) Node.js
11 16 (1.97%) .NET Core
11 16 (1.97%) CSS
11 16 (1.97%) React
12 15 (1.85%) SOAP
13 14 (1.73%) ASP.NET
14 13 (1.60%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 115 (14.18%) Public Cloud
2 104 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 55 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 54 (6.66%) Management Information System
5 32 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 22 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 20 (2.47%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.34%) Replication
11 18 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (2.22%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.85%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.60%) Driving Licence
15 10 (1.23%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 9 (1.11%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 119 (14.67%) Windows
2 80 (9.86%) Linux
3 58 (7.15%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.34%) Unix
5 14 (1.73%) VMS
5 14 (1.73%) Windows 10
5 14 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (1.23%) Ubuntu
8 9 (1.11%) Solaris
9 8 (0.99%) Android
9 8 (0.99%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.74%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.49%) DC/OS
11 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.37%) CentOS
13 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (41.80%) DevOps
2 206 (25.40%) Agile
3 170 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (18.25%) CI/CD
5 108 (13.32%) ITIL
6 107 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 100 (12.33%) Cybersecurity
8 92 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (11.22%) Microservices
10 89 (10.97%) Mentoring
11 87 (10.73%) Roadmaps
12 79 (9.74%) Cloud Security
13 76 (9.37%) Analytics
14 71 (8.75%) TOGAF
15 68 (8.38%) Migration
16 67 (8.26%) Platform Engineering
17 64 (7.89%) Containerisation
17 64 (7.89%) Information Security
18 63 (7.77%) Software Engineering
19 61 (7.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 156 (19.24%) PowerShell
2 133 (16.40%) SQL
3 98 (12.08%) Python
4 73 (9.00%) C#
5 57 (7.03%) Bicep
6 52 (6.41%) JavaScript
7 43 (5.30%) Bash
8 40 (4.93%) Java
9 16 (1.97%) Go
10 10 (1.23%) Ruby
11 8 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.86%) PHP
13 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.62%) C++
15 4 (0.49%) Scala
16 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.25%) C
17 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.25%) VB
17 2 (0.25%) XAML
Qualifications
1 122 (15.04%) Degree
2 101 (12.45%) Security Cleared
3 93 (11.47%) Azure Certification
4 53 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 40 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (4.07%) AWS Certification
8 32 (3.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (2.71%) CISSP
11 22 (2.71%) Master's Degree
12 19 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (2.34%) DV Cleared
13 17 (2.10%) CCNA
14 16 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
15 12 (1.48%) A+ Certification
16 10 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (1.23%) CCSP
17 9 (1.11%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.21%) NCSC
3 25 (3.08%) NIST
4 24 (2.96%) QA
5 23 (2.84%) GDPR
6 18 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.60%) HIPAA
7 13 (1.60%) SLA
8 8 (0.99%) COBIT
8 8 (0.99%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.74%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.74%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 5 (0.62%) PMO
12 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 120 (14.80%) Active Directory
2 72 (8.88%) Docker
3 54 (6.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (2.59%) Hyper-V
6 19 (2.34%) vSphere
7 16 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.73%) VMware NSX
9 10 (1.23%) 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
1 209 (25.77%) Terraform
2 123 (15.17%) Kubernetes
3 83 (10.23%) Ansible
4 52 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (2.96%) Puppet
6 23 (2.84%) FortiGate
7 17 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.36%) Istio
9 10 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.99%) Nessus
11 7 (0.86%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.74%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.74%) SCCM
13 5 (0.62%) Grafana
13 5 (0.62%) Kibana
13 5 (0.62%) Packer
14 4 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.49%) Nagios
14 4 (0.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 339 (41.80%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.51%) Cisco
3 67 (8.26%) VMware
4 46 (5.67%) Oracle
5 43 (5.30%) Google
6 26 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.96%) Citrix
8 22 (2.71%) Palo Alto
8 22 (2.71%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.71%) Splunk
8 22 (2.71%) Veeam
9 19 (2.34%) SAP
10 16 (1.97%) Databricks
10 16 (1.97%) Meraki
11 15 (1.85%) NetApp
12 12 (1.48%) Sparx
13 11 (1.36%) CheckPoint
14 10 (1.23%) Automation Anywhere
14 10 (1.23%) CA
14 10 (1.23%) SolarWinds