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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 187 134
Rank change year-on-year -20 -53 +2
Contract jobs citing PaaS 198 391 843
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 1.46% 2.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.91% 3.75% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 264 569
10th Percentile £383 £413 £450
25th Percentile £450 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £723 £677 £695
90th Percentile £780 £784 £800
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £81.50 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £83.75 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.11% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £96.25 -
90th Percentile - £100.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

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 6,811 10,414 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.21% 38.95% 41.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,029 7,614 12,150
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £478
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 £785 £765
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 87 88
10th Percentile £17.47 £20.00 £16.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.00 £22.85
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.70% +9.08% +6.67%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £59.50 £88.30 £78.98
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

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 6 May 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 6 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -5 23 £525 -8.70% 10
West London +24 2 £500 -15.25% 4
South London +10 1 £568 +15.52%
East London -8 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 (4.55%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.04%) Confluence
2 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.03%) Apache
4 5 (2.53%) nginx
5 4 (2.02%) IIS
6 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 116 (58.59%) Azure
2 107 (54.04%) IaaS
3 92 (46.46%) SaaS
4 52 (26.26%) AWS
5 34 (17.17%) Entra ID
6 32 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (15.15%) Serverless
8 23 (11.62%) Cloud Computing
9 19 (9.60%) GCP
10 18 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (8.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (8.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 15 (7.58%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (6.57%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (6.57%) Power Platform
15 12 (6.06%) Azure API Management
15 12 (6.06%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.15%) Firewall
2 22 (11.11%) DNS
3 15 (7.58%) DHCP
4 13 (6.57%) TCP/IP
5 12 (6.06%) FTP
5 12 (6.06%) VPN
6 9 (4.55%) Kerberos
6 9 (4.55%) NAS
6 9 (4.55%) SAN
7 8 (4.04%) VLAN
8 6 (3.03%) Internet
9 5 (2.53%) HTTP
10 4 (2.02%) SSH
10 4 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.52%) LAN
11 3 (1.52%) WAN
12 1 (0.51%) IPsec
12 1 (0.51%) S/MIME
12 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.63%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (7.07%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.57%) Hadoop
5 10 (5.05%) Data Lake
6 9 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.53%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.53%) Power BI
9 4 (2.02%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.02%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.52%) Big Data
10 3 (1.52%) OLAP
10 3 (1.52%) OLTP
11 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.01%) Redis
11 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (17.17%) Git
2 22 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.07%) TeamCity
4 10 (5.05%) JIRA
5 9 (4.55%) Postman
6 6 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.53%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (2.53%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.02%) Selenium
9 3 (1.52%) GitLab
9 3 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.52%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.51%) InstallShield
10 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (28.28%) Finance
2 46 (23.23%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.12%) Telecoms
5 21 (10.61%) Manufacturing
6 17 (8.59%) Marketing
7 14 (7.07%) Electronics
8 13 (6.57%) Banking
9 10 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.02%) Legal
13 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.52%) Law
14 2 (1.01%) Czech Language
14 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.01%) Italian Language
14 2 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (29.29%) Architect
2 27 (13.64%) Senior
3 22 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.61%) Developer
5 20 (10.10%) Cloud Architect
6 17 (8.59%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (7.07%) Lead
9 13 (6.57%) Azure Architect
9 13 (6.57%) Security Architect
10 12 (6.06%) Implementation Specialist
11 10 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Analyst
12 9 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Cloud Security Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
12 9 (4.55%) Senior Security Architect
13 8 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.15%) LDAP
2 26 (13.13%) .NET
3 16 (8.08%) REST
4 12 (6.06%) JSON
5 10 (5.05%) OAuth
5 10 (5.05%) Web Services
6 9 (4.55%) ARM Templates
6 9 (4.55%) OpenID
6 9 (4.55%) Swagger
7 8 (4.04%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.04%) Middleware
8 7 (3.54%) .NET Core
8 7 (3.54%) SAML
8 7 (3.54%) YAML
9 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.03%) RESTful
9 6 (3.03%) SOAP
10 5 (2.53%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (2.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.11%) Replication
2 16 (8.08%) IoT
3 14 (7.07%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.57%) Clustering
5 12 (6.06%) Cloud Native
6 10 (5.05%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.55%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.55%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.54%) Client/Server
9 6 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.02%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.02%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (2.02%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.52%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.52%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 51 (25.76%) Linux
2 42 (21.21%) Windows
3 25 (12.63%) Unix
4 14 (7.07%) Windows Server
5 11 (5.56%) Solaris
6 10 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (4.04%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (4.04%) VMS
8 5 (2.53%) Android
8 5 (2.53%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.53%) CentOS
8 5 (2.53%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.35%) DevOps
2 63 (31.82%) Agile
3 48 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 44 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (16.16%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (14.65%) Roadmaps
7 27 (13.64%) Migration
8 26 (13.13%) Cloud Security
9 25 (12.63%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (12.12%) SDLC
10 24 (12.12%) Software Engineering
11 23 (11.62%) Microservices
12 20 (10.10%) Deployment Automation
13 19 (9.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (9.09%) API Management
14 18 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (9.09%) Scrum
15 17 (8.59%) B2C
15 17 (8.59%) Test Automation
16 16 (8.08%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.75%) Python
2 46 (23.23%) SQL
3 31 (15.66%) PowerShell
4 24 (12.12%) C#
5 16 (8.08%) Bash
6 12 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.05%) Go
8 6 (3.03%) Java
9 5 (2.53%) Bicep
10 4 (2.02%) C
10 4 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.52%) Scala
12 2 (1.01%) Ruby
13 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.51%) Groovy
13 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.51%) R
13 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.60%) Degree
4 9 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.02%) APMP
7 4 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.02%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.02%) PMP
8 2 (1.01%) 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 (7.58%) NIST
2 11 (5.56%) GDPR
3 9 (4.55%) QA
4 8 (4.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (3.03%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.53%) SLA
7 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (24.75%) Active Directory
2 24 (12.12%) Docker
3 16 (8.08%) NFS
4 12 (6.06%) HDFS
4 12 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.53%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 59 (29.80%) Terraform
2 38 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 26 (13.13%) Ansible
4 11 (5.56%) Netcool
5 9 (4.55%) Grafana
6 8 (4.04%) EMC NetWorker
6 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (4.04%) Tivoli
6 8 (4.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 7 (3.54%) Prometheus
8 5 (2.53%) Puppet
8 5 (2.53%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.01%) Nessus
10 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 82 (41.41%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.10%) Isilon
2 20 (10.10%) Oracle
3 18 (9.09%) SAP
4 13 (6.57%) Splunk
4 13 (6.57%) VMware
5 12 (6.06%) Dell
6 10 (5.05%) HP
7 9 (4.55%) IBM
7 9 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.04%) Cisco
8 8 (4.04%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.04%) Databricks
8 8 (4.04%) EMC
8 8 (4.04%) Qualys
8 8 (4.04%) Serena
9 7 (3.54%) Citrix
10 6 (3.03%) MuleSoft
10 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.53%) Google