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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 104 117
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PaaS 23 20 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.27% 0.97% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.11% 2.40% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £495 £383 £459
25th Percentile £513 £400 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £519 £642
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -19.23% +9.32%
75th Percentile £760 £663 £716
90th Percentile £825 £792 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +4.55% -13.73% +8.28%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 740 835 1,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.02% 40.30% 41.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 573 894
10th Percentile £335 £383 £327
25th Percentile £434 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.09% -4.26% -
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £759 £767 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.95
25th Percentile £26.23 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% -10.74% -39.50%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £48.15
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £30.25
% change year-on-year +25.93% -10.74% -27.11%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PaaS

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 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing PaaS

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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
3 1 (4.35%) CICS
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (13.04%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 22 (95.65%) Azure
2 13 (56.52%) IaaS
3 11 (47.83%) SaaS
4 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Serverless
7 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
7 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
8 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.35%) AWS
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.35%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 8 (34.78%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Azure Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Django Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Python Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Python/Django Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) CSS
2 3 (13.04%) Django
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) Leaflet
2 3 (13.04%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Web Services
3 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) ADO
4 1 (4.35%) Middleware
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) CMDB
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) AIX
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (21.74%) ITIL
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 5 (21.74%) TOGAF
5 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 4 (17.39%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) SDLC
5 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) ArchiMate
6 3 (13.04%) Change Management
6 3 (13.04%) CRM
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) ITSM
6 3 (13.04%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) Bicep
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) COBOL
4 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (8.70%) MCITP
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
2 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 3 (13.04%) COBIT
4 2 (8.70%) SLA
4 2 (8.70%) SOC 2
5 1 (4.35%) GAAP
5 1 (4.35%) IFRS
5 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) SCOM
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Nessus
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Google
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
2 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.04%) Workday
3 2 (8.70%) DocuSign
3 2 (8.70%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.35%) Qualys
4 1 (4.35%) Tenable
4 1 (4.35%) Tripwire