PaaS Contracts in the City of London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 104 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing PaaS 16 21 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.96% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.45% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 52
10th Percentile £538 £383 £450
25th Percentile £566 £390 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -3.13%
75th Percentile £720 £671 £675
90th Percentile £751 £756 £756
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £581
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -4.32%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 857 1,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.39% 39.28% 37.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 609 926
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% +3.26%
75th Percentile £669 £670 £713
90th Percentile £750 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +3.49% -6.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) IaaS
3 8 (50.00%) SaaS
4 6 (37.50%) Serverless
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (18.75%) AWS
6 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
6 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (18.75%) GCP
7 2 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (6.25%) GitHub
8 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
8 1 (6.25%) Rubrik
8 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (6.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Serena SBM
2 1 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Architect
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Architect
3 7 (43.75%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (31.25%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 4 (25.00%) Senior
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (18.75%) Senior Architect
7 2 (12.50%) Consultant
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 2 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Architect
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (6.25%) Developer
8 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
8 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (6.25%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
8 1 (6.25%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) Django
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) LDAP
3 1 (6.25%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Private Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (12.50%) Reinsurance
5 1 (6.25%) Clustering
5 1 (6.25%) PKI
5 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Migration
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 3 (18.75%) High Availability
7 3 (18.75%) Service Migration
8 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
8 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
8 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
9 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Bicep
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Ruby
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Control-M
3 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
3 1 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Nessus
3 1 (6.25%) QRadar
3 1 (6.25%) Tivoli
3 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Qualys
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) EMC
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Serena
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable
3 1 (6.25%) Tripwire
3 1 (6.25%) VMware