PaaS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 109 109
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 -1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 11 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.45% 0.81% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.87% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £453 £538 £383
25th Percentile £468 £566 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +14.29% -9.68%
75th Percentile £631 £720 £668
90th Percentile £663 £751 £750
London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -1.74%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

PaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 964 856 959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.20% 43.19% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 552 688
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £754
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £26.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £57.83 £45.00 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £94.88 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -45.26%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

PaaS job vacancy trend in Central London

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
City of London -15 11 £544 -9.38% 6
PaaS
London

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) IaaS
1 7 (63.64%) SaaS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 3 (27.27%) OCI
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) ERwin
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) JSON
4 1 (9.09%) JWT
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) TOGAF
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) ERP
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Observability
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (27.27%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) UML
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) OSCP
2 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Rapid7