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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 111 115
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +19
Contract jobs citing PaaS 21 19 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.08% 0.82% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 2.02% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 37
10th Percentile £464 £408 £468
25th Percentile £504 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +10.17%
75th Percentile £743 £675 £725
90th Percentile £813 £811 £845
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

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 773 941 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.56% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 637 930
10th Percentile £333 £388 £325
25th Percentile £425 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +15 20 £613 +4.26% 16
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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) CICS
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (14.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) IaaS
3 10 (47.62%) SaaS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (19.05%) GCP
6 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (9.52%) Mimecast
7 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.76%) AWS
8 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub
8 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
1 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.76%) International Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Django Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Head of Technology
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) CSS
2 3 (14.29%) Django
2 3 (14.29%) HTML
2 3 (14.29%) Leaflet
2 3 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
2 3 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.76%) ADO
4 1 (4.76%) Middleware
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
3 5 (23.81%) TOGAF
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) SDLC
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) ArchiMate
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) CRM
5 3 (14.29%) ITSM
5 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Bicep
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.52%) MCITP
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) GDPR
2 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (14.29%) COBIT
4 2 (9.52%) SLA
4 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
5 1 (4.76%) GAAP
5 1 (4.76%) IFRS
5 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) SCOM
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Istio
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Google
2 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (14.29%) Workday
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) DocuSign
4 2 (9.52%) HP
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp