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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 172 192
Rank change year-on-year -154 +20 -30
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 881 2,219 3,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.89% 2.20% 2.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.49% 5.13% 4.36%
Number of salaries quoted 723 1,147 1,905
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,477 £45,200
25th Percentile £53,750 £54,088 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 35,402 43,277 76,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.84% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26,746 28,483 41,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,790 £33,779
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 £96,250 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -138 743 £70,000 - 179
UK excluding London -211 438 £65,000 +4.00% 112
Work from Home -168 348 £70,000 - 103
London -58 337 £85,000 +6.25% 80
North of England -111 110 £60,000 -7.69% 29
South West -52 92 £70,000 +27.27% 15
South East -112 89 £62,500 +8.70% 25
Midlands -85 78 £65,000 - 20
West Midlands -24 69 £69,235 +6.51% 13
North West -106 67 £65,000 -5.55% 15
Scotland -137 48 £59,526 -0.79% 9
Yorkshire +2 37 £59,526 -6.63% 8
East of England -10 13 £60,000 -20.00% 9
Wales -36 9 £52,101 -15.39%
East Midlands -68 7 £45,000 -21.74% 7
North East -22 6 £44,250 -34.44% 6
Northern Ireland -19 2 £89,750 +88.95% 7

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 40 (4.54%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.36%) CMS
4 9 (1.02%) Confluence
4 9 (1.02%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (0.91%) IIS
5 8 (0.91%) WordPress
6 7 (0.79%) Umbraco
7 6 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.68%) Apache Solr
8 4 (0.45%) Apache
8 4 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.23%) Kentico
10 2 (0.23%) Liferay
10 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.45%) Trello
4 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) HFM
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 712 (80.82%) Azure
2 625 (70.94%) IaaS
3 439 (49.83%) SaaS
4 281 (31.90%) AWS
5 194 (22.02%) Azure DevOps
6 183 (20.77%) Microsoft 365
7 132 (14.98%) GCP
8 100 (11.35%) Entra ID
9 82 (9.31%) Power Platform
10 58 (6.58%) GitHub
11 56 (6.36%) Serverless
12 50 (5.68%) Cloud Computing
13 40 (4.54%) Azure AKS
14 33 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
15 31 (3.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 21 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.27%) Azure Stack
18 17 (1.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 15 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 122 (13.85%) Firewall
2 80 (9.08%) VPN
3 78 (8.85%) WAN
4 77 (8.74%) DNS
5 49 (5.56%) LAN
6 46 (5.22%) Wi-Fi
7 44 (4.99%) SD-WAN
8 35 (3.97%) DHCP
9 31 (3.52%) SAN
10 29 (3.29%) Network Security
11 19 (2.16%) Internet
12 14 (1.59%) BGP
12 14 (1.59%) VLAN
12 14 (1.59%) Wireless
13 12 (1.36%) NGFW
14 11 (1.25%) Unified Communications
15 10 (1.14%) SSL
16 9 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (1.02%) HTTP
16 9 (1.02%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (13.62%) SQL Server
2 52 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 49 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 27 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 24 (2.72%) MySQL
8 20 (2.27%) Power BI
9 14 (1.59%) Big Data
9 14 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.36%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.36%) Redis
12 11 (1.25%) Metadata
13 10 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.91%) DynamoDB
14 8 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.68%) Data Mining
15 6 (0.68%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 58 (6.58%) Git
2 46 (5.22%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.04%) GitLab
4 16 (1.82%) JIRA
5 14 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 13 (1.48%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.14%) Postman
8 8 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.57%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.23%) Bower
11 2 (0.23%) gulp
11 2 (0.23%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.23%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.23%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.23%) Moq
11 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.23%) webpack
General
1 193 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 169 (19.18%) Finance
3 73 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.04%) Public Sector
5 57 (6.47%) Banking
6 53 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (3.75%) Law
8 31 (3.52%) Marketing
9 20 (2.27%) Retail
10 16 (1.82%) Legal
10 16 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.25%) Police
14 9 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.79%) Electronics
16 7 (0.79%) Front Office
16 7 (0.79%) Games
Job Titles
1 246 (27.92%) Architect
2 164 (18.62%) Senior
3 100 (11.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 95 (10.78%) Azure Engineer
5 93 (10.56%) Solutions Architect
6 92 (10.44%) Developer
7 89 (10.10%) Lead
8 78 (8.85%) Cloud Architect
9 70 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 51 (5.79%) Azure Architect
10 51 (5.79%) Consultant
11 46 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 41 (4.65%) Analyst
12 41 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (3.97%) Security Engineer
14 33 (3.75%) Citrix Architect
14 33 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.75%) Infrastructure Architect
15 30 (3.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
15 30 (3.41%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (13.62%) .NET
2 64 (7.26%) ARM Templates
3 63 (7.15%) JSON
4 43 (4.88%) Middleware
5 41 (4.65%) Web Services
6 35 (3.97%) YAML
7 29 (3.29%) RESTful
8 28 (3.18%) XML
9 26 (2.95%) .NET Framework
9 26 (2.95%) HTML
10 23 (2.61%) REST
11 21 (2.38%) OpenID
12 20 (2.27%) .NET Core
13 18 (2.04%) CSS
14 17 (1.93%) Node.js
15 16 (1.82%) ASP.NET
15 16 (1.82%) React
16 15 (1.70%) SOAP
17 14 (1.59%) Azure Blueprints
18 13 (1.48%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (17.48%) Public Cloud
2 106 (12.03%) Cloud Native
3 57 (6.47%) Management Information System
4 50 (5.68%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.09%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.72%) Data Structures
9 23 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 22 (2.50%) Private Cloud
11 21 (2.38%) Mainframe
12 20 (2.27%) Blockchain
12 20 (2.27%) Mobile App
13 18 (2.04%) Replication
13 18 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.59%) Onboarding
17 13 (1.48%) Algorithms
17 13 (1.48%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 123 (13.96%) Windows
2 84 (9.53%) Linux
3 61 (6.92%) Windows Server
4 35 (3.97%) Unix
5 17 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.82%) VMS
7 15 (1.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.79%) Solaris
11 6 (0.68%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.57%) Android
12 5 (0.57%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.45%) DC/OS
13 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.34%) CentOS
15 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (42.34%) DevOps
2 253 (28.72%) Agile
3 205 (23.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 181 (20.54%) CI/CD
5 133 (15.10%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (14.19%) Roadmaps
7 116 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 115 (13.05%) ITIL
9 114 (12.94%) Microservices
10 93 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (10.44%) Cloud Security
12 90 (10.22%) Mentoring
13 79 (8.97%) Migration
14 75 (8.51%) Analytics
15 74 (8.40%) TOGAF
16 73 (8.29%) Software Engineering
17 70 (7.95%) Information Security
18 66 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence
18 66 (7.49%) Containerisation
19 65 (7.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (18.73%) PowerShell
2 144 (16.35%) SQL
3 117 (13.28%) Python
4 79 (8.97%) C#
5 60 (6.81%) Bicep
6 56 (6.36%) JavaScript
7 46 (5.22%) Java
8 44 (4.99%) Bash
9 16 (1.82%) Go
10 10 (1.14%) Ruby
11 8 (0.91%) PHP
11 8 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.68%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.57%) C++
14 4 (0.45%) Scala
15 3 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.23%) C
16 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 118 (13.39%) Degree
2 108 (12.26%) Security Cleared
3 105 (11.92%) Azure Certification
4 62 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 40 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (3.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 32 (3.63%) AWS Certification
9 26 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.84%) CISSP
11 23 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (2.61%) DV Cleared
12 21 (2.38%) Master's Degree
13 19 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.93%) CCNA
15 16 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.36%) A+ Certification
16 12 (1.36%) CISM
17 10 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (1.14%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (3.86%) NIST
3 26 (2.95%) GDPR
4 24 (2.72%) QA
5 19 (2.16%) NCSC
6 14 (1.59%) COBIT
6 14 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.48%) HIPAA
7 13 (1.48%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.36%) SLA
9 10 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.91%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.68%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 5 (0.57%) PMO
14 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 133 (15.10%) Active Directory
2 85 (9.65%) Docker
3 62 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (2.61%) vSphere
6 22 (2.50%) Hyper-V
7 18 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.59%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.45%) XenApp
10 3 (0.34%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.23%) NFS
12 1 (0.11%) Firmware
12 1 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.11%) RACF
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 237 (26.90%) Terraform
2 142 (16.12%) Kubernetes
3 82 (9.31%) Ansible
4 52 (5.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (3.18%) Puppet
6 23 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (2.16%) FortiGate
8 15 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.14%) Istio
10 8 (0.91%) SCCM
11 7 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.68%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.68%) Nessus
12 6 (0.68%) NetCrunch
13 5 (0.57%) Grafana
13 5 (0.57%) Kibana
13 5 (0.57%) Packer
13 5 (0.57%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.45%) QRadar
Vendors
1 366 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 81 (9.19%) VMware
3 62 (7.04%) Cisco
4 56 (6.36%) Google
5 51 (5.79%) Oracle
6 40 (4.54%) Citrix
7 27 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 23 (2.61%) Veeam
9 22 (2.50%) Splunk
10 21 (2.38%) SAP
10 21 (2.38%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.04%) Databricks
11 18 (2.04%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.82%) NetApp
13 12 (1.36%) Meraki
13 12 (1.36%) Sparx
14 11 (1.25%) Automation Anywhere
14 11 (1.25%) Blue Prism
14 11 (1.25%) UiPath
15 10 (1.14%) AppDynamics