PaaS Contracts in Central London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 110 118
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing PaaS 23 24 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.18% 1.02% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 2.47% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 35
10th Percentile £558 £383 £450
25th Percentile £563 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £751 £639 £684
90th Percentile £768 £694 £825
London median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

All Cloud 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 823 970 1,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.05% 41.35% 40.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 687 994
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
75th Percentile £668 £650 £699
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +23.08% -53.78% +32.35%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in Central London

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 1 July 2025. 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 +6 23 £600 +11.63% 52
PaaS
London

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (8.70%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) IaaS
3 11 (47.83%) SaaS
4 9 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) Serverless
6 4 (17.39%) Azure AKS
6 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (13.04%) GCP
8 2 (8.70%) AWS
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub
9 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (56.52%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.35%) International Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Architect
2 10 (43.48%) Azure Architect
2 10 (43.48%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Cloud Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Django Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Python Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Python/Django Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Consultant
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) Django
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) Leaflet
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Web Services
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Private Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Public Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (8.70%) Reinsurance
5 1 (4.35%) CMDB
5 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
1 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Migration
5 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
6 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (17.39%) ETL
6 4 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (17.39%) Service Migration
6 4 (17.39%) Service-Level Objective
7 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (13.04%) High Availability
7 3 (13.04%) SDLC
7 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
7 3 (13.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Bicep
2 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) SOC 2
3 2 (8.70%) COBIT
4 1 (4.35%) GAAP
4 1 (4.35%) IFRS
4 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Istio
3 1 (4.35%) Nessus
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) Workday
4 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Tenable
4 1 (4.35%) Tripwire