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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 285 272
Rank change year-on-year -87 -13 -49
Contract jobs citing PaaS 263 244 288
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.88% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 2.33% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 148 210
10th Percentile £413 £363 £369
25th Percentile £464 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £753 £740
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £35.50 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 £36.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +55.84% -50.64%
75th Percentile £54.63 £78.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £55.15 £88.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year -12.50% -19.19% -4.81%

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 16,039 10,456 11,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 37.88% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,685 7,075 7,552
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 558 245 165
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.73% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £33.27
% change year-on-year +16.07% -15.84% -4.94%

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 September 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 September 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 -59 158 £590 +2.61% 144
Midlands -34 35 £500 -12.28% 40
South East -74 26 £600 +16.22% 63
North of England -81 24 £513 +29.32% 43
West Midlands -38 20 £539 -11.58% 26
Yorkshire -37 16 £550 - 18
East Midlands -6 15 £500 +11.11% 14
South West -36 9 £525 -27.59% 14
East of England -32 7 £450 -14.29% 15
North West -60 6 £500 +38.89% 20
North East -35 5 £638 +27.50% 6
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 10 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (3.80%) SAS
2 8 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.90%) Confluence
3 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.52%) Apache
5 1 (0.38%) CMS
5 1 (0.38%) Mendix
5 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.66%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.28%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 201 (76.43%) Azure
2 158 (60.08%) IaaS
3 107 (40.68%) SaaS
4 64 (24.33%) AWS
5 62 (23.57%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (21.29%) Entra ID
7 34 (12.93%) GitHub
8 27 (10.27%) Azure Monitor
8 27 (10.27%) OCI
9 26 (9.89%) Azure AKS
9 26 (9.89%) Serverless
10 22 (8.37%) GCP
11 19 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (6.46%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (4.94%) Power Platform
15 12 (4.56%) Azure Functions
15 12 (4.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (4.18%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 41 (15.59%) Firewall
2 31 (11.79%) DNS
3 23 (8.75%) VPN
4 15 (5.70%) DHCP
5 12 (4.56%) SAN
6 7 (2.66%) VLAN
6 7 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.28%) NAS
8 5 (1.90%) Network Security
8 5 (1.90%) SMTP
9 4 (1.52%) Internet
9 4 (1.52%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.14%) FTP
10 3 (1.14%) IPv4
11 2 (0.76%) SSL
11 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.38%) HTTP
12 1 (0.38%) LAN
12 1 (0.38%) SNMP
12 1 (0.38%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.60%) Azure SQL Database
1 20 (7.60%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.56%) Data Lake
3 11 (4.18%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.18%) Oracle Database
3 11 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 10 (3.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (3.42%) Big Data
6 6 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.90%) Apache Hive
7 5 (1.90%) Db2
7 5 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (1.90%) Power BI
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.76%) Redis
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (6.84%) Git
2 9 (3.42%) GitLab
3 5 (1.90%) Chocolatey
3 5 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.90%) JIRA
4 4 (1.52%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 45 (17.11%) Finance
3 36 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.46%) Banking
6 16 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (5.32%) Legal
8 8 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.90%) Military
10 3 (1.14%) Law
10 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.76%) Aviation
11 2 (0.76%) Local Government
11 2 (0.76%) Marketing
11 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.38%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 83 (31.56%) Architect
2 50 (19.01%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (14.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (11.79%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (11.41%) Senior
6 28 (10.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (9.51%) Azure Architect
8 21 (7.98%) Cloud Architect
9 17 (6.46%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (6.46%) Lead
10 15 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (5.32%) Technical Architect
12 13 (4.94%) Developer
13 12 (4.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 11 (4.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.80%) Release Manager
16 8 (3.04%) Analyst
16 8 (3.04%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (24.71%) Terraform
2 24 (9.13%) REST
3 18 (6.84%) .NET
4 15 (5.70%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (4.56%) .NET Framework
5 12 (4.56%) Middleware
6 11 (4.18%) .NET Core
7 9 (3.42%) ARM Templates
8 8 (3.04%) Entity Framework
8 8 (3.04%) JSON
9 7 (2.66%) React
9 7 (2.66%) SOAP
10 6 (2.28%) OAuth
10 6 (2.28%) XML
11 5 (1.90%) SAML
11 5 (1.90%) Web Services
11 5 (1.90%) YAML
12 4 (1.52%) LDAP
13 3 (1.14%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.22%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.42%) PKI
7 8 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.66%) SCADA
9 6 (2.28%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.28%) Wiki
10 5 (1.90%) Clustering
10 5 (1.90%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.90%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.52%) CCTV
11 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (16.73%) Windows
2 26 (9.89%) Linux
3 16 (6.08%) Unix
4 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.04%) VMS
6 7 (2.66%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.28%) Android
7 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (46.01%) DevOps
2 117 (44.49%) CI/CD
3 84 (31.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (27.00%) Migration
5 43 (16.35%) Agile
6 42 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (14.45%) Analytics
8 37 (14.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (13.31%) RBAC
9 35 (13.31%) Roadmaps
10 34 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (11.79%) Containerisation
12 29 (11.03%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (10.27%) Observability
14 25 (9.51%) Enterprise Architecture
14 25 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (9.13%) Cloud Security
16 23 (8.75%) Architectural Patterns
16 23 (8.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.73%) PowerShell
2 37 (14.07%) SQL
3 36 (13.69%) Python
4 33 (12.55%) Bicep
5 18 (6.84%) C#
6 15 (5.70%) Bash
7 9 (3.42%) Java
8 8 (3.04%) Ruby
9 7 (2.66%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.90%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.14%) Groovy
12 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.76%) Delphi
13 2 (0.76%) Perl
14 1 (0.38%) Korn
14 1 (0.38%) R
14 1 (0.38%) RPG
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
14 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (35.74%) Security Cleared
2 65 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.93%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.98%) Degree
5 19 (7.22%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.42%) CISSP
6 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.66%) CISM
8 7 (2.66%) GIAC
9 6 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.28%) SANS
9 6 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (1.90%) CRISC
10 5 (1.90%) SSCP
11 4 (1.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.94%) QA
2 12 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.18%) GDPR
4 8 (3.04%) NIST
4 8 (3.04%) SLA
5 7 (2.66%) NCSC
6 6 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.28%) ISO 31000
7 3 (1.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.60%) Docker
3 14 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.04%) NFS
6 5 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.52%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (1.52%) Postfix
7 4 (1.52%) Varnish
7 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.14%) Sendmail
8 3 (1.14%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.76%) Firmware
9 2 (0.76%) vCloud
10 1 (0.38%) etcd
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.94%) Ansible
3 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.28%) SCCM
4 6 (2.28%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.52%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.52%) Puppet
5 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.52%) vMotion
6 3 (1.14%) Grafana
6 3 (1.14%) Nagios
7 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 102 (38.78%) Microsoft
2 52 (19.77%) Oracle
3 20 (7.60%) VMware
4 18 (6.84%) Databricks
5 10 (3.80%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.80%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.42%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.04%) Google
7 8 (3.04%) Splunk
8 7 (2.66%) Okta
9 6 (2.28%) Sybase
9 6 (2.28%) Tenable
10 5 (1.90%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.90%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.90%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.90%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.52%) Citrix
11 4 (1.52%) SAP
12 3 (1.14%) HP
12 3 (1.14%) Symantec