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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 102 116
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +6
Contract jobs citing PaaS 18 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.69% 1.19% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.80% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 17
10th Percentile £453 £558 £383
25th Percentile £454 £563 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £644 £751 £575
90th Percentile £675 £768 £700
London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

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 1,006 822 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.50% 42.37% 41.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 523 694
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.26%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £763
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 7
10th Percentile £23.16 £22.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £31.38 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.77 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.71% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £93.25 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +10.94% +18.65% -47.38%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -18 18 £625 +4.17% 4
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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) IaaS
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) SaaS
4 6 (33.33%) Azure
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 4 (22.22%) GitHub
5 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
7 2 (11.11%) OCI
7 2 (11.11%) Serverless
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) DHCP
2 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 3 (16.67%) SMTP
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) ERwin
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Architect
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) JWT
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) XML
3 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (16.67%) Clustering
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Android
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) ERP
2 6 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
3 5 (27.78%) Observability
3 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
3 5 (27.78%) UML
4 4 (22.22%) Community of Practice
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
4 4 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
1 4 (22.22%) Python
1 4 (22.22%) Ruby
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) BitLocker
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
1 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (16.67%) Terminal Services
1 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Nagios
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
2 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 3 (16.67%) vMotion
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Databricks
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Citrix
3 3 (16.67%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) HP
3 3 (16.67%) Symantec
3 3 (16.67%) VMware