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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 170 200
Rank change year-on-year -163 +30 -35
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 857 2,207 3,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 2.22% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 5.14% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 697 1,118 1,893
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,493 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,724 £54,129 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £91,250 £89,688 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £101,250
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 35,439 42,907 78,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.11% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,676 28,199 41,290
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,000 £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 19 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 19 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 -148 722 £70,000 - 214
UK excluding London -213 428 £65,000 +4.00% 134
Work from Home -177 337 £70,000 - 120
London -76 326 £85,000 +4.94% 95
North of England -124 107 £59,763 -8.06% 32
South West -48 91 £66,250 +20.45% 19
South East -126 86 £61,250 +6.52% 43
Midlands -69 77 £69,235 +6.51% 21
West Midlands -6 69 £69,235 +6.51% 15
North West -109 66 £65,000 -6.36% 19
Scotland -152 46 £59,526 -0.79% 10
Yorkshire -9 35 £59,526 -8.42% 5
East of England -24 13 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Wales -43 9 £52,101 -13.17%
North East -16 6 £44,250 -29.20% 8
East Midlands -66 6 £45,000 -21.74% 6
Northern Ireland -18 2 £89,750 +88.95% 5

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 39 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.17%) CMS
4 9 (1.05%) Confluence
5 8 (0.93%) IIS
5 8 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (0.93%) WordPress
6 6 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.70%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.70%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.47%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Liferay
9 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.12%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.47%) Trello
4 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) HFM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 696 (81.21%) Azure
2 610 (71.18%) IaaS
3 432 (50.41%) SaaS
4 280 (32.67%) AWS
5 190 (22.17%) Azure DevOps
6 181 (21.12%) Microsoft 365
7 131 (15.29%) GCP
8 100 (11.67%) Entra ID
9 81 (9.45%) Power Platform
10 60 (7.00%) GitHub
11 55 (6.42%) Serverless
12 51 (5.95%) Cloud Computing
13 42 (4.90%) Azure AKS
14 33 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
15 31 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 21 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (2.45%) Azure Stack
16 21 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 13 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 122 (14.24%) Firewall
2 78 (9.10%) WAN
3 77 (8.98%) DNS
3 77 (8.98%) VPN
4 48 (5.60%) LAN
5 47 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (5.13%) SD-WAN
7 34 (3.97%) DHCP
8 30 (3.50%) SAN
9 29 (3.38%) Network Security
10 19 (2.22%) Internet
11 15 (1.75%) BGP
11 15 (1.75%) Wireless
12 14 (1.63%) VLAN
13 12 (1.40%) Unified Communications
14 11 (1.28%) NGFW
15 10 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (1.17%) MPLS
15 10 (1.17%) SSL
16 9 (1.05%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (12.95%) SQL Server
2 51 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 45 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 39 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.92%) MySQL
6 24 (2.80%) Relational Database
7 23 (2.68%) Data Lake
8 19 (2.22%) Power BI
9 15 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.52%) Big Data
10 13 (1.52%) Redis
10 13 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.28%) Metadata
11 11 (1.28%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.70%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.70%) Delta Lake
15 5 (0.58%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 57 (6.65%) Git
2 46 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 18 (2.10%) GitLab
4 16 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 15 (1.75%) JIRA
6 13 (1.52%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.52%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.17%) Postman
8 8 (0.93%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.58%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.35%) 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%) Maven
11 2 (0.23%) Moq
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 193 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 159 (18.55%) Finance
3 76 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 52 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (5.83%) Banking
7 32 (3.73%) Law
8 31 (3.62%) Marketing
9 20 (2.33%) Retail
10 16 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.75%) Legal
12 14 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 12 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (1.28%) Police
15 10 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.82%) Electronics
16 7 (0.82%) Games
16 7 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (27.65%) Architect
2 162 (18.90%) Senior
3 98 (11.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 95 (11.09%) Azure Engineer
5 92 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
6 87 (10.15%) Lead
7 83 (9.68%) Developer
8 76 (8.87%) Cloud Architect
9 69 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 51 (5.95%) Consultant
11 47 (5.48%) Azure Architect
11 47 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
12 43 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (4.90%) Analyst
14 35 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 34 (3.97%) Security Engineer
16 32 (3.73%) Infrastructure Architect
17 30 (3.50%) Citrix Architect
17 30 (3.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 28 (3.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (13.42%) .NET
2 63 (7.35%) ARM Templates
3 59 (6.88%) JSON
4 43 (5.02%) Middleware
5 39 (4.55%) Web Services
6 33 (3.85%) YAML
7 28 (3.27%) RESTful
8 25 (2.92%) .NET Framework
8 25 (2.92%) XML
9 22 (2.57%) HTML
9 22 (2.57%) REST
10 18 (2.10%) .NET Core
11 17 (1.98%) Node.js
11 17 (1.98%) OpenID
12 16 (1.87%) React
13 15 (1.75%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.75%) CSS
13 15 (1.75%) SOAP
14 14 (1.63%) Azure Blueprints
14 14 (1.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (17.50%) Public Cloud
2 107 (12.49%) Cloud Native
3 54 (6.30%) Management Information System
4 52 (6.07%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.97%) Product Ownership
6 33 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 30 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 22 (2.57%) Private Cloud
10 20 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.33%) Mobile App
11 18 (2.10%) Replication
11 18 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.98%) Mainframe
13 16 (1.87%) Blockchain
14 15 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (1.63%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.52%) Driving Licence
17 10 (1.17%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 120 (14.00%) Windows
2 83 (9.68%) Linux
3 57 (6.65%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.73%) Unix
5 16 (1.87%) VMS
5 16 (1.87%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.93%) Solaris
9 6 (0.70%) Android
9 6 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.70%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (0.47%) DC/OS
11 3 (0.35%) CentOS
11 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (42.82%) DevOps
2 243 (28.35%) Agile
3 202 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 176 (20.54%) CI/CD
5 129 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
6 117 (13.65%) Roadmaps
7 114 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 112 (13.07%) ITIL
9 110 (12.84%) Microservices
10 93 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (10.74%) Cloud Security
12 90 (10.50%) Mentoring
13 75 (8.75%) Analytics
14 74 (8.63%) Migration
15 72 (8.40%) TOGAF
16 69 (8.05%) Information Security
16 69 (8.05%) Software Engineering
17 68 (7.93%) Containerisation
17 68 (7.93%) Platform Engineering
18 65 (7.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 159 (18.55%) PowerShell
2 139 (16.22%) SQL
3 111 (12.95%) Python
4 75 (8.75%) C#
5 59 (6.88%) Bicep
6 52 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 45 (5.25%) Bash
8 41 (4.78%) Java
9 16 (1.87%) Go
10 10 (1.17%) Ruby
11 8 (0.93%) PHP
11 8 (0.93%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.70%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.58%) C++
14 4 (0.47%) Scala
15 3 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.23%) C
16 2 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 116 (13.54%) Degree
2 108 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 104 (12.14%) Azure Certification
4 63 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 37 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (3.97%) AWS Certification
8 33 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (2.80%) CISSP
11 22 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (2.57%) DV Cleared
12 21 (2.45%) Master's Degree
13 20 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.98%) CCNA
15 16 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (1.40%) A+ Certification
17 11 (1.28%) CISM
18 10 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 10 (1.17%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (3.85%) NIST
3 25 (2.92%) GDPR
3 25 (2.92%) QA
4 21 (2.45%) NCSC
5 14 (1.63%) COBIT
5 14 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.52%) HIPAA
6 13 (1.52%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.40%) SLA
8 8 (0.93%) NIST 800
9 7 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.82%) Data Quality
10 6 (0.70%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.70%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.58%) PMO
12 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 130 (15.17%) Active Directory
2 88 (10.27%) Docker
3 59 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.57%) vSphere
6 20 (2.33%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (1.63%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.47%) XenApp
10 3 (0.35%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.23%) NFS
12 1 (0.12%) Firmware
12 1 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) RACF
12 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 235 (27.42%) Terraform
2 144 (16.80%) Kubernetes
3 82 (9.57%) Ansible
4 52 (6.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (3.15%) Puppet
6 24 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (2.22%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.17%) Istio
10 8 (0.93%) SCCM
11 7 (0.82%) Nessus
11 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.70%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.70%) NetCrunch
13 5 (0.58%) Grafana
13 5 (0.58%) Kibana
13 5 (0.58%) Packer
13 5 (0.58%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
14 4 (0.47%) QRadar
Vendors
1 354 (41.31%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.87%) VMware
3 64 (7.47%) Cisco
4 56 (6.53%) Google
5 51 (5.95%) Oracle
6 36 (4.20%) Citrix
7 27 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.57%) Splunk
8 22 (2.57%) Veeam
9 21 (2.45%) SAP
9 21 (2.45%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.22%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.98%) Databricks
12 16 (1.87%) NetApp
13 12 (1.40%) Meraki
13 12 (1.40%) Sparx
14 10 (1.17%) Automation Anywhere
14 10 (1.17%) Blue Prism
14 10 (1.17%) SolarWinds
14 10 (1.17%) UiPath