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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 121
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 17 19
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.43% 0.86% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 2.00% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 12
10th Percentile £437 £519 -
25th Percentile £453 £562 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £663 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +26.19% -11.76%
75th Percentile £612 £751 £596
90th Percentile £710 £765 £707
London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -1.48%

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 955 849 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.49% 43.10% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 555 706
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £453 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £735 £744
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.32 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.11 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £35.00 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.63 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.24
% change year-on-year +22.12% +10.79% -25.03%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -16 10 £523 -21.13% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) IaaS
1 6 (60.00%) SaaS
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (20.00%) OCI
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) Azure WebJobs
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) ERwin
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Observability
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Threat Modelling
2 3 (30.00%) UML
3 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) OSCP
2 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GRC
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NCSC
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Rapid7