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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 120 119
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing PaaS 23 18 30
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.20% 0.76% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 1.94% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 25
10th Percentile £431 £408 £504
25th Percentile £495 £519 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £680
Median % change year-on-year - -15.44% +15.25%
75th Percentile £760 £732 £775
90th Percentile £815 £761 £875
London median daily rate £550 £563 £614
% change year-on-year -2.22% -8.35% +2.29%

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 789 929 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.18% 39.33% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 609 850
10th Percentile £340 £400 £349
25th Percentile £430 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 11
10th Percentile £18.61 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £51.00 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.93 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.89% +49.02%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 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 +5 22 £613 +4.26% 29
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 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.70%) Confluence
4 1 (4.35%) CICS
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (13.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) SaaS
3 11 (47.83%) IaaS
4 9 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
6 4 (17.39%) GCP
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
7 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
8 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (8.70%) Mimecast
8 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.35%) AWS
9 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
2 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Django Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Environment Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Python/Django Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) Django
3 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 2 (8.70%) Leaflet
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) CMDB
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) AIX
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
2 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) ITIL
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (21.74%) TOGAF
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Security
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 4 (17.39%) Security Architecture
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.04%) ArchiMate
5 3 (13.04%) Change Control
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) IT Governance
5 3 (13.04%) ITSM
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) Python
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Bicep
2 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Certification
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (8.70%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
1 5 (21.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) COBIT
3 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (8.70%) SLA
3 2 (8.70%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (4.35%) GRC
4 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (4.35%) NCSC
4 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (17.39%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Google
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) Salesforce
4 3 (13.04%) Databricks
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.04%) Workday
5 2 (8.70%) Cisco
5 2 (8.70%) DocuSign
5 2 (8.70%) HP
5 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.35%) NetApp