PaaS Contracts in Central London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 112 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing PaaS 15 23 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.94% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.40% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 51
10th Percentile £538 £383 £450
25th Percentile £575 £398 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.64% -4.47%
75th Percentile £751 £668 £675
90th Percentile - £750 £763
London median daily rate £570 £563 £564
% change year-on-year +1.33% -0.22% -6.04%

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 864 958 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.24% 39.25% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 693 1,015
10th Percentile £365 £351 £313
25th Percentile £458 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £665 £650 £700
90th Percentile £739 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Central London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in Central London

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 2 May 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 +1 15 £600 +14.29% 7
PaaS
London

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (73.33%) IaaS
3 8 (53.33%) SaaS
4 6 (40.00%) Serverless
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (20.00%) AWS
6 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (20.00%) GCP
7 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub
8 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
8 1 (6.67%) Rubrik
8 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Serena SBM
2 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Architect
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Architect
3 7 (46.67%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 4 (26.67%) Senior
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (20.00%) Senior Architect
7 2 (13.33%) Consultant
7 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
8 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (13.33%) Reinsurance
5 1 (6.67%) Clustering
5 1 (6.67%) PKI
5 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (26.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) Service Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
7 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Bicep
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Control-M
3 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
3 1 (6.67%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Nessus
3 1 (6.67%) QRadar
3 1 (6.67%) Tivoli
3 1 (6.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Serena
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable
3 1 (6.67%) Tripwire
3 1 (6.67%) VMware