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 citing PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing PaaS 19 24 18
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.83% 1.28% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 3.15% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 17
10th Percentile £438 £475 £408
25th Percentile £455 £511 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% - -12.38%
75th Percentile £602 £760 £732
90th Percentile £638 £815 £761
London median daily rate £600 £575 £560
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.68% -6.67%

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 citing cloud computing skills in Central London.

6 months to
31 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 987 762 928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 43.12% 40.68% 39.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 555 604
10th Percentile £335 £335 £396
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £660 £653 £675
90th Percentile £763 £745 £750
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 4
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.85 £29.40
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.47 £33.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.16 £49.38
90th Percentile £69.75 £63.81 £75.25
London median hourly rate £32.12 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.11% -24.86% -9.68%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -21 18 £590 -3.67% 2
PaaS
London

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1IaaS57.9%11
2AWS36.8%7
3Azure31.6%6
4Azure DevOps21.1%4
4SaaS21.1%4
6Azure AKS15.8%3
6Azure Data Factory15.8%3
6GCP15.8%3
6GitHub15.8%3
6OpenShift15.8%3
11Azure Functions5.3%1
11Azure Key Vault5.3%1
11Azure Logic Apps5.3%1
11Azure Service Bus5.3%1
11Entra ID5.3%1
11Microsoft 3655.3%1
11Power Platform5.3%1
11Serverless5.3%1
11Snowflake5.3%1