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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 246 211
Rank change year-on-year -51 -35 -12
Contract jobs citing PaaS 285 270 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.05% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 2.79% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 167 225
10th Percentile £400 £425 £409
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +1.74% -2.54%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £747 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £36.77
90th Percentile - - £76.50
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

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 13,018 9,667 12,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 37.45% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,988 6,472 9,007
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 143 308
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.15 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -31 158 £541 -7.54% 37
South East -45 41 £600 +4.80% 33
North of England -41 35 £463 +2.89% 16
East of England -4 23 £475 -29.68% 8
Yorkshire -35 23 £525 +23.53% 2
North West -25 12 £425 -5.56% 12
Midlands -62 12 £463 -19.57% 15
West Midlands -53 9 £659 +9.83% 12
South West -32 7 £575 -8.00% 17
East Midlands -25 3 £418 -18.54% 3
North East -16 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 18 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (5.26%) Confluence
4 4 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.05%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (7.02%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.40%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 185 (64.91%) Azure
2 155 (54.39%) IaaS
3 101 (35.44%) SaaS
4 52 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (18.25%) Entra ID
5 51 (17.89%) AWS
6 42 (14.74%) OCI
7 37 (12.98%) GitHub
8 36 (12.63%) Serverless
9 34 (11.93%) Azure AKS
10 31 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (8.07%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (8.07%) Azure Service Bus
12 21 (7.37%) Azure Key Vault
13 20 (7.02%) Azure Functions
13 20 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (6.67%) GCP
15 17 (5.96%) Power Platform
16 15 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.68%) Firewall
2 22 (7.72%) VPN
3 19 (6.67%) DNS
4 17 (5.96%) DHCP
5 10 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.81%) WAN
7 7 (2.46%) IPsec
8 6 (2.11%) LAN
8 6 (2.11%) Network Security
8 6 (2.11%) VLAN
9 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.75%) PSTN
9 5 (1.75%) SAN
9 5 (1.75%) SSL
9 5 (1.75%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.40%) BGP
10 4 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.40%) SMTP
11 3 (1.05%) NX-OS
11 3 (1.05%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.86%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.75%) Power BI
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.05%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.05%) Metadata
8 3 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (1.05%) Redis
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (8.07%) JIRA
1 23 (8.07%) Postman
2 20 (7.02%) Git
3 11 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.81%) GitLab
5 7 (2.46%) SoapUI
6 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.05%) Chocolatey
7 3 (1.05%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.70%) ERwin
8 2 (0.70%) Gradle
8 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.70%) Selenium
8 2 (0.70%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.74%) Finance
3 40 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.91%) Banking
6 11 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.16%) Military
9 8 (2.81%) Aviation
10 5 (1.75%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.75%) Marketing
11 4 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.40%) Legal
11 4 (1.40%) Retail
12 3 (1.05%) Local Government
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
13 2 (0.70%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (23.16%) Architect
2 43 (15.09%) Senior
3 42 (14.74%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.77%) Developer
7 23 (8.07%) Lead
8 22 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (6.32%) Azure Architect
10 16 (5.61%) Oracle Specialist
11 15 (5.26%) Cloud Specialist
11 15 (5.26%) Integration Specialist
11 15 (5.26%) Technical Architect
12 14 (4.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) Principal Engineer
14 10 (3.51%) Senior Architect
15 9 (3.16%) Consultant
16 8 (2.81%) IT Engineer
16 8 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
17 7 (2.46%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (15.79%) .NET
2 40 (14.04%) REST
3 37 (12.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 36 (12.63%) SOAP
5 33 (11.58%) Web Services
6 26 (9.12%) OAuth
7 24 (8.42%) JSON
8 22 (7.72%) ARM Templates
9 18 (6.32%) RESTful
9 18 (6.32%) SAML
10 17 (5.96%) OpenID
10 17 (5.96%) YAML
11 15 (5.26%) XML
12 12 (4.21%) XSLT
13 11 (3.86%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.86%) JWT
13 11 (3.86%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (3.86%) Model Context Protocol
13 11 (3.86%) PyTorch
13 11 (3.86%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 43 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.21%) Algorithms
2 12 (4.21%) Public Cloud
3 11 (3.86%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.16%) IoT
5 9 (3.16%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.81%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.46%) PKI
8 6 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.75%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.40%) Clustering
10 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.23%) Windows
2 28 (9.82%) Linux
3 11 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.75%) VMS
5 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.35%) Unix
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (46.32%) DevOps
2 95 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 91 (31.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (25.96%) Agile
5 65 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (16.84%) Migration
7 46 (16.14%) Roadmaps
8 41 (14.39%) ERP
9 37 (12.98%) Technical Leadership
10 36 (12.63%) Microservices
11 34 (11.93%) AI
12 31 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (10.53%) TOGAF
14 29 (10.18%) Containerisation
14 29 (10.18%) Decision-Making
14 29 (10.18%) Observability
15 28 (9.82%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (9.47%) Analytics
16 27 (9.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.35%) SQL
2 45 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 45 (15.79%) Python
3 28 (9.82%) Bicep
4 17 (5.96%) C#
5 12 (4.21%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (3.86%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.16%) Java
8 8 (2.81%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.75%) Bash
9 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.05%) PHP
11 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 92 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 58 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 35 (12.28%) Azure Certification
4 32 (11.23%) Degree
5 20 (7.02%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 11 (3.86%) CISSP
7 11 (3.86%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.40%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.05%) OSCP
11 3 (1.05%) PMP
11 3 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.67%) NIST
2 15 (5.26%) GDPR
3 11 (3.86%) EU AI Act
3 11 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.81%) SLA
5 7 (2.46%) NCSC
6 5 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.70%) Basel III
8 2 (0.70%) GAAP
8 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 2 (0.70%) IFRS
8 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.70%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.70%) PMO
8 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 32 (11.23%) Docker
3 16 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.46%) vCloud
6 6 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.75%) RACF
8 4 (1.40%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.40%) vSphere
9 2 (0.70%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.70%) NFS
10 1 (0.35%) Firmware
10 1 (0.35%) Postfix
10 1 (0.35%) Varnish
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 84 (29.47%) Terraform
2 49 (17.19%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.47%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (5.26%) Ansible
5 14 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.51%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (2.81%) SCCM
9 5 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.40%) Grafana
10 4 (1.40%) Puppet
10 4 (1.40%) vMotion
11 3 (1.05%) Control-M
12 2 (0.70%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.70%) logstash
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.70%) systemd
12 2 (0.70%) vRealize
12 2 (0.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 122 (42.81%) Microsoft
2 50 (17.54%) Oracle
3 28 (9.82%) VMware
4 14 (4.91%) Foundry
5 13 (4.56%) Google
6 8 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.46%) Cisco
7 7 (2.46%) Databricks
7 7 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.46%) SAP
8 6 (2.11%) Citrix
8 6 (2.11%) Tenable
9 5 (1.75%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.75%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.40%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.40%) DocuSign
10 4 (1.40%) NetApp
10 4 (1.40%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.40%) Splunk