PaaS Contract Job Trends in England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 223 205
Rank change year-on-year -69 -18 -13
Contract jobs citing PaaS 307 274 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 2.94% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 170 232
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £450 £500 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +2.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £751 £771
UK median daily rate £538 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -8.12% +4.00% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £48.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £52.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -66.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,781 9,334 12,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.86% 37.80% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,496 6,518 8,753
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 174 332
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.91 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.86% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.63 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

PaaS job vacancy trend in England

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in England over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in England

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the England region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
London -26 167 £538 -6.52% 34
South East -64 46 £700 +21.74% 27
North of England -46 45 £454 -6.87% 16
Yorkshire -41 30 £525 +23.53% 2
East of England -6 21 £550 -26.76% 6
North West -20 15 £426 -5.23% 12
Midlands -62 15 £488 -17.02% 14
West Midlands -61 10 £618 +3.00% 10
South West -37 9 £575 -8.00% 11
East Midlands -31 5 £418 -27.39% 4
North East -21 1 - - 2
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 30 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 28 (9.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.91%) Confluence
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.98%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
7 1 (0.33%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (5.21%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.33%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (66.45%) Azure
2 187 (60.91%) IaaS
3 108 (35.18%) SaaS
4 63 (20.52%) Entra ID
5 59 (19.22%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (18.57%) AWS
7 47 (15.31%) OCI
8 46 (14.98%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (13.36%) GitHub
10 36 (11.73%) Serverless
11 30 (9.77%) Azure AKS
11 30 (9.77%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (9.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (7.49%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (5.21%) Azure App Service
16 16 (5.21%) Azure Functions
17 15 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
18 14 (4.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.66%) Firewall
2 28 (9.12%) DNS
3 25 (8.14%) VPN
4 22 (7.17%) DHCP
5 13 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (3.58%) WAN
7 8 (2.61%) LAN
7 8 (2.61%) SAN
7 8 (2.61%) VLAN
8 7 (2.28%) IPsec
8 7 (2.28%) Network Security
9 6 (1.95%) PSTN
9 6 (1.95%) SMTP
9 6 (1.95%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.63%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.63%) SSL
11 4 (1.30%) BGP
11 4 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.98%) Internet
12 3 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.21%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.91%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (1.95%) Metadata
7 5 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.98%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.65%) Flink
9 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.65%) Power BI
9 2 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (8.47%) Git
2 20 (6.51%) JIRA
3 18 (5.86%) Postman
4 8 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.61%) SoapUI
5 6 (1.95%) Chocolatey
6 4 (1.30%) GitLab
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.65%) ERwin
8 2 (0.65%) Gradle
8 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.65%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 70 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.61%) Finance
3 38 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.54%) Banking
6 11 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (3.26%) Legal
8 7 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.95%) Military
10 5 (1.63%) Aviation
10 5 (1.63%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.30%) Marketing
12 3 (0.98%) Law
12 3 (0.98%) Local Government
12 3 (0.98%) Retail
13 2 (0.65%) Billing
13 2 (0.65%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 84 (27.36%) Architect
2 51 (16.61%) Azure Engineer
3 50 (16.29%) Senior
4 32 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (9.12%) Developer
6 25 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (7.82%) Lead
8 22 (7.17%) Technical Architect
9 21 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.54%) Azure Architect
11 14 (4.56%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (3.91%) Cloud Specialist
12 12 (3.91%) Integration Specialist
12 12 (3.91%) IT Engineer
12 12 (3.91%) Oracle Specialist
13 11 (3.58%) Azure Developer
13 11 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.26%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.01%) .NET
2 41 (13.36%) REST
3 38 (12.38%) Web Services
4 35 (11.40%) SOAP
5 32 (10.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (7.82%) OAuth
7 23 (7.49%) ARM Templates
8 22 (7.17%) JSON
9 20 (6.51%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (5.86%) YAML
11 15 (4.89%) OpenID
11 15 (4.89%) SAML
11 15 (4.89%) XML
12 14 (4.56%) .NET Framework
13 12 (3.91%) Entity Framework
14 11 (3.58%) JWT
14 11 (3.58%) RESTful
14 11 (3.58%) XSLT
15 8 (2.61%) .NET Core
16 7 (2.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.56%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.56%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.58%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.26%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.93%) IoT
6 9 (2.93%) PKI
6 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.61%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.95%) Clustering
8 6 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.38%) Windows
2 27 (8.79%) Linux
3 15 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.95%) VMS
4 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (43.32%) DevOps
2 96 (31.27%) CI/CD
3 89 (28.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (22.80%) Agile
5 66 (21.50%) Migration
6 56 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (18.24%) Roadmaps
7 42 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
8 41 (13.36%) Microservices
9 40 (13.03%) Analytics
10 39 (12.70%) Observability
11 38 (12.38%) ERP
12 35 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 34 (11.07%) Architectural Patterns
13 34 (11.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (11.07%) TOGAF
14 32 (10.42%) Disaster Recovery
15 29 (9.45%) AI
15 29 (9.45%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (9.45%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.57%) PowerShell
1 57 (18.57%) SQL
2 46 (14.98%) Python
3 26 (8.47%) Bicep
4 20 (6.51%) C#
5 19 (6.19%) Kusto Query Language
6 13 (4.23%) Java
7 7 (2.28%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.28%) PL/SQL
8 6 (1.95%) Bash
9 5 (1.63%) Ruby
9 5 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (36.16%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 47 (15.31%) Azure Certification
4 32 (10.42%) Degree
4 32 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (4.56%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (3.58%) CISSP
7 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 7 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.56%) NIST
2 13 (4.23%) SLA
3 12 (3.91%) GDPR
4 9 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.28%) EU AI Act
7 6 (1.95%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.95%) NCSC
8 5 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.65%) Basel III
10 2 (0.65%) GAAP
10 2 (0.65%) GRC
10 2 (0.65%) IFRS
10 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.65%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.65%) PMO
10 2 (0.65%) QA
10 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (13.68%) Active Directory
2 31 (10.10%) Docker
3 18 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.58%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.26%) vCloud
6 8 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.95%) BitLocker
7 6 (1.95%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.63%) RACF
9 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.30%) vSphere
10 3 (0.98%) NFS
11 2 (0.65%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.65%) Postfix
11 2 (0.65%) Varnish
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.33%) Firmware
12 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 79 (25.73%) Terraform
2 42 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.84%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (5.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.89%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.23%) Ansible
7 11 (3.58%) SCCM
8 9 (2.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.95%) Puppet
9 6 (1.95%) vMotion
10 4 (1.30%) Grafana
11 3 (0.98%) Control-M
12 2 (0.65%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.65%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.65%) systemd
12 2 (0.65%) vRealize
12 2 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 139 (45.28%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.59%) Oracle
3 36 (11.73%) VMware
4 13 (4.23%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.58%) SAP
6 9 (2.93%) Foundry
6 9 (2.93%) Tenable
7 8 (2.61%) Citrix
8 7 (2.28%) Databricks
8 7 (2.28%) Google
9 6 (1.95%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.95%) NetApp
10 5 (1.63%) Cisco
10 5 (1.63%) iManage
10 5 (1.63%) Intapp
10 5 (1.63%) Rapid7
10 5 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.30%) Aderant
11 4 (1.30%) Meraki
11 4 (1.30%) SolarWinds