PaaS Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 105 99
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing PaaS 20 68 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 1.87% 2.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 4.92% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 49 68
10th Percentile £383 £450 £450
25th Percentile £390 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £590 £608
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -2.88% +8.00%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £590 £615
% change year-on-year -11.02% -4.07% +17.70%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,383 1,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.92% 38.03% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 935 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £314 £406
25th Percentile £450 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £29.23 -
25th Percentile £17.39 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +383.78% -7.43%
75th Percentile £32.81 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £57.30 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
% change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%

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 27 April 2024.

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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) IaaS
2 10 (50.00%) SaaS
3 8 (40.00%) Azure
4 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (20.00%) AWS
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Mimecast
5 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.00%) Akamai
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 4 (20.00%) FTP
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) DHCP
4 1 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Implementation Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Integration Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Development Director
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Applications Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Unix
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) B2B
4 4 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) API Management
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Go
2 1 (5.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (20.00%) HDFS
2 4 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Citrix
2 4 (20.00%) Isilon
3 3 (15.00%) Okta
3 3 (15.00%) Ping Identity
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.00%) Adobe
5 1 (5.00%) New Relic
5 1 (5.00%) PagerDuty
5 1 (5.00%) SAP