PaaS Contracts in London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 179 130
Rank change year-on-year -33 -49 +9
Contract jobs citing PaaS 195 397 859
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.47% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 3.76% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 270 581
10th Percentile £383 £409 £450
25th Percentile £441 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -8.00% +13.42%
75th Percentile £718 £675 £700
90th Percentile £780 £775 £800
England median daily rate £590 £575 £580
% change year-on-year +2.61% -0.86% +11.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £80.75 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £81.88 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.29% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £96.88 -
90th Percentile - £100.25 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +53.01%

All Cloud Skills
London

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,676 10,565 16,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.70% 39.02% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,924 7,715 12,114
10th Percentile £341 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 91 86
10th Percentile £17.78 £20.00 £16.08
25th Percentile £21.06 £24.00 £21.10
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%
75th Percentile £38.28 £70.00 £61.44
90th Percentile £62.13 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in London

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -7 22 £525 -11.02% 12
West London +18 2 £500 -15.25% 4
South London +12 1 £568 +15.52%
East London -6 1 - -
North London - 1 £425 -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (4.62%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.10%) Confluence
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.59%) Apache
4 5 (2.56%) nginx
5 4 (2.05%) IIS
6 3 (1.54%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.03%) Apache Solr
7 2 (1.03%) EPiServer
7 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.03%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (58.46%) Azure
2 105 (53.85%) IaaS
3 92 (47.18%) SaaS
4 51 (26.15%) AWS
5 34 (17.44%) Entra ID
6 33 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (15.38%) Serverless
8 23 (11.79%) Cloud Computing
9 19 (9.74%) GCP
10 18 (9.23%) Azure Service Bus
10 18 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (8.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (6.15%) Azure API Management
14 12 (6.15%) Azure Storage
15 11 (5.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.36%) Firewall
2 23 (11.79%) DNS
3 16 (8.21%) DHCP
4 13 (6.67%) TCP/IP
5 12 (6.15%) FTP
5 12 (6.15%) VPN
6 9 (4.62%) Kerberos
6 9 (4.62%) NAS
6 9 (4.62%) SAN
7 8 (4.10%) VLAN
8 7 (3.59%) Internet
9 5 (2.56%) HTTP
10 4 (2.05%) SSH
10 4 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.54%) LAN
11 3 (1.54%) WAN
12 1 (0.51%) IPsec
12 1 (0.51%) S/MIME
12 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (7.18%) Hadoop
4 12 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.62%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.56%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.54%) Power BI
8 3 (1.54%) Redis
8 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.03%) Big Data
9 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.03%) MySQL
9 2 (1.03%) OLAP
9 2 (1.03%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 31 (15.90%) Git
2 19 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 10 (5.13%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) Postman
6 6 (3.08%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.56%) Selenium
7 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (1.54%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.54%) GitLab
8 3 (1.54%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.54%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.03%) Jasmine
9 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.03%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.51%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (26.15%) Finance
2 44 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.31%) Telecoms
5 21 (10.77%) Manufacturing
6 17 (8.72%) Marketing
7 14 (7.18%) Electronics
8 13 (6.67%) Banking
9 10 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (2.05%) Legal
14 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (1.03%) Czech Language
15 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
15 2 (1.03%) Italian Language
15 2 (1.03%) Law
15 2 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (28.21%) Architect
2 25 (12.82%) Senior
3 22 (11.28%) Developer
4 21 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (9.74%) Cloud Architect
6 17 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (8.21%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.67%) Security Architect
9 12 (6.15%) Azure Architect
9 12 (6.15%) Implementation Specialist
9 12 (6.15%) Lead
10 10 (5.13%) Senior Architect
11 9 (4.62%) Analyst
11 9 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Cloud Security Architect
11 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.62%) Senior Security Architect
12 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.90%) LDAP
2 27 (13.85%) .NET
3 18 (9.23%) REST
4 12 (6.15%) JSON
5 11 (5.64%) Web Services
6 10 (5.13%) OAuth
7 9 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.62%) ARM Templates
7 9 (4.62%) OpenID
7 9 (4.62%) Swagger
8 7 (3.59%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.59%) SAML
8 7 (3.59%) YAML
9 6 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.08%) Middleware
9 6 (3.08%) SOAP
10 5 (2.56%) Entity Framework
10 5 (2.56%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (2.56%) Node.js
10 5 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Replication
2 16 (8.21%) IoT
3 14 (7.18%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 12 (6.15%) Clustering
6 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.10%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.59%) Client/Server
8 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
11 4 (2.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (2.05%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.54%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.54%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.13%) Linux
2 40 (20.51%) Windows
3 22 (11.28%) Unix
4 14 (7.18%) Windows Server
5 11 (5.64%) Solaris
6 10 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (4.10%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (4.10%) VMS
8 5 (2.56%) CentOS
8 5 (2.56%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.54%) Android
9 3 (1.54%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.38%) DevOps
2 64 (32.82%) Agile
3 45 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 43 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (13.33%) Roadmaps
7 25 (12.82%) Cloud Security
7 25 (12.82%) Migration
8 24 (12.31%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (12.31%) SDLC
8 24 (12.31%) Software Engineering
9 23 (11.79%) Microservices
10 20 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (10.26%) Scrum
10 20 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 18 (9.23%) API Management
11 18 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.72%) B2C
12 17 (8.72%) TDD
13 16 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.10%) SQL
2 46 (23.59%) Python
3 30 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 25 (12.82%) C#
5 16 (8.21%) Bash
6 12 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.64%) Go
8 7 (3.59%) Java
9 5 (2.56%) Bicep
9 5 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.05%) C
11 3 (1.54%) Ruby
11 3 (1.54%) Scala
12 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.51%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.26%) Degree
4 9 (4.62%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.05%) APMP
7 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.05%) PMP
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) GIAC
9 1 (0.51%) MCSA
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) NIST
2 11 (5.64%) GDPR
3 9 (4.62%) QA
4 8 (4.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.56%) SLA
6 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (25.13%) Active Directory
2 23 (11.79%) Docker
3 16 (8.21%) NFS
4 12 (6.15%) HDFS
4 12 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 56 (28.72%) Terraform
2 33 (16.92%) Kubernetes
3 25 (12.82%) Ansible
4 11 (5.64%) Netcool
5 10 (5.13%) Grafana
6 8 (4.10%) EMC NetWorker
6 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.10%) Tivoli
6 8 (4.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 7 (3.59%) Prometheus
8 6 (3.08%) Puppet
9 5 (2.56%) ZABBIX
10 4 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.54%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.03%) Nessus
13 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 81 (41.54%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.26%) Isilon
2 20 (10.26%) Oracle
3 19 (9.74%) SAP
4 13 (6.67%) Splunk
4 13 (6.67%) VMware
5 12 (6.15%) Dell
6 10 (5.13%) HP
7 9 (4.62%) IBM
7 9 (4.62%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.10%) Cisco
8 8 (4.10%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.10%) EMC
8 8 (4.10%) Qualys
8 8 (4.10%) Serena
9 7 (3.59%) Citrix
9 7 (3.59%) Databricks
9 7 (3.59%) Salesforce
10 6 (3.08%) MuleSoft
11 5 (2.56%) Google