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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 118 108
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +26
Contract jobs citing PaaS 18 11 32
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.90% 0.47% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.20% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 27
10th Percentile £422 £483 £485
25th Percentile £495 £521 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -3.85% +9.70%
75th Percentile £706 £738 £725
90th Percentile £793 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -

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 821 920 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.89% 39.54% 40.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 599 804
10th Percentile £329 £388 £350
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 £652 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 10
10th Percentile £19.07 - £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.80 - £34.44
90th Percentile £46.94 £69.50 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -16.51% -16.00% +20.97%

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 22 December 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 22 December 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 17 £563 -10.00% 13
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 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) CICS
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) SaaS
3 10 (55.56%) IaaS
4 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (22.22%) GCP
6 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (11.11%) AWS
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
7 2 (11.11%) GitHub
7 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
7 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 3 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Environment Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
2 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
2 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Change Control
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 2 (11.11%) Business Case
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Log Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Proactive Management
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) COBOL
2 1 (5.56%) Java
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.11%) MCITP
4 1 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) CCSP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) OSCP
4 1 (5.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (11.11%) GRC
3 2 (11.11%) NCSC
3 2 (11.11%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (5.56%) COBIT
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Google
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) DocuSign
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) NetApp
5 1 (5.56%) Rapid7
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Workday