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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 120 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing PaaS 14 6 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.68% 0.28% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 0.70% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 25
10th Percentile £416 £509 £478
25th Percentile £482 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £719 £650
Median % change year-on-year -27.16% +10.62% +10.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £725
90th Percentile £718 £773 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +1.69%

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 841 858 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.02% 40.36% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 557 730
10th Percentile £343 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £18.83 £26.75 -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £27.31
90th Percentile £42.50 - £47.68
London median hourly rate £27.61 £31.35 £33.25
% change year-on-year -11.93% -5.73% +28.65%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -5 13 £523 -27.33% 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) SaaS
3 7 (50.00%) IaaS
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 2 (14.29%) Mimecast
6 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
6 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Environment Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Change Control
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) AI
4 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) ERP
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Release Management
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (14.29%) MCITP
4 1 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CCSP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) OSCP
4 1 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) GRC
2 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 2 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) SCOM
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Google
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) DocuSign
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce