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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 103 108
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing PaaS 23 23 20
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.92% 1.17% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 2.95% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 18
10th Percentile £440 £464 £400
25th Percentile £453 £504 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -11.13%
75th Percentile £638 £705 £663
90th Percentile £653 £813 £792
London median daily rate £550 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% -8.33%

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 1,027 780 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.23% 39.74% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 526 627
10th Percentile £351 £328 £387
25th Percentile £460 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.17% -1.29%
75th Percentile £656 £662 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £750
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 4
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 £49.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £75.25
London median hourly rate £34.62 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.66% +3.33% -36.84%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -19 22 £558 -3.04% 3
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 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) IaaS
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) SaaS
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub
5 4 (17.39%) GCP
6 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
6 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.35%) OCI
8 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 4 (17.39%) DHCP
2 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 4 (17.39%) VPN
3 3 (13.04%) SMTP
4 1 (4.35%) FTP
4 1 (4.35%) SAN
4 1 (4.35%) VLAN
4 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Big Data
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Architect
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Migration Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) JSON
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Clustering
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (13.04%) PKI
4 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
2 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) ERP
3 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
4 6 (26.09%) Containerisation
4 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
4 6 (26.09%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Observability
4 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
5 5 (21.74%) API Design
5 5 (21.74%) Community of Practice
5 5 (21.74%) Data Flow Diagram
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Systems Thinking
5 5 (21.74%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Ruby
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.04%) BitLocker
3 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (13.04%) Terminal Services
3 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Nagios
2 3 (13.04%) Puppet
2 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
2 3 (13.04%) vMotion
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
1 7 (30.43%) VMware
2 5 (21.74%) Databricks
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Citrix
3 3 (13.04%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) HP
3 3 (13.04%) Symantec
4 1 (4.35%) Cloudera