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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 292 266
Rank change year-on-year -99 -26 -55
Contract jobs citing PaaS 257 240 282
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.86% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 2.27% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 143 201
10th Percentile £413 £363 £356
25th Percentile £468 £416 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £675
90th Percentile £725 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £545 £539 £575
% change year-on-year +1.21% -6.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £35.50 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £54.63 £78.75 -
90th Percentile £55.15 £88.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £110.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -45.45% +41.03%

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 16,052 10,588 11,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 38.16% 34.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,706 7,178 7,442
10th Percentile £319 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.20%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 245 157
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.09 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £69.82 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.05 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +6.06%

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 30 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 30 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 -65 153 £600 +4.35% 118
Midlands -24 35 £508 -10.96% 37
North of England -84 26 £513 +29.32% 44
South East -70 23 £569 +26.39% 34
West Midlands -44 20 £540 -11.33% 23
Yorkshire -37 16 £550 - 17
East Midlands -4 15 £500 +11.11% 14
East of England -29 8 £438 -16.67% 13
South West -38 8 £500 -31.03% 14
North East -34 7 £638 +27.50% 6
North West -60 6 £500 +38.89% 22
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 9 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.50%) SAS
2 8 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.95%) Confluence
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Mendix
5 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.72%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 199 (77.43%) Azure
2 153 (59.53%) IaaS
3 105 (40.86%) SaaS
4 64 (24.90%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (23.35%) Entra ID
6 58 (22.57%) AWS
7 32 (12.45%) GitHub
8 30 (11.67%) Azure Monitor
9 26 (10.12%) Azure AKS
9 26 (10.12%) OCI
10 25 (9.73%) Serverless
11 23 (8.95%) GCP
12 18 (7.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (5.06%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (4.67%) Azure Functions
15 12 (4.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (4.67%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.28%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 40 (15.56%) Firewall
2 31 (12.06%) DNS
3 23 (8.95%) VPN
4 14 (5.45%) DHCP
5 10 (3.89%) SAN
6 6 (2.33%) Network Security
6 6 (2.33%) VLAN
6 6 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.95%) NAS
7 5 (1.95%) SMTP
8 4 (1.56%) Internet
8 4 (1.56%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.17%) FTP
9 3 (1.17%) IPv4
10 2 (0.78%) SSL
10 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.39%) HTTP
11 1 (0.39%) LAN
11 1 (0.39%) PSTN
11 1 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 21 (8.17%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.67%) Data Lake
4 11 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.89%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.50%) Big Data
6 9 (3.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 9 (3.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 6 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (1.95%) Apache Hive
8 5 (1.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.56%) Db2
9 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.56%) Power BI
9 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.78%) Redis
11 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (5.84%) Git
2 9 (3.50%) GitLab
3 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.95%) JIRA
4 4 (1.56%) Chocolatey
4 4 (1.56%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.78%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 43 (16.73%) Finance
3 34 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.23%) Banking
6 15 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (4.67%) Legal
8 8 (3.11%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.95%) Military
10 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.78%) Aviation
11 2 (0.78%) Law
11 2 (0.78%) Local Government
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Retail
12 1 (0.39%) International Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (29.18%) Architect
2 52 (20.23%) Azure Engineer
3 39 (15.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (12.06%) Senior
5 30 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (11.28%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (9.34%) Azure Architect
8 21 (8.17%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (7.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (6.23%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.45%) Lead
13 13 (5.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.06%) Developer
14 10 (3.89%) Technical Architect
15 9 (3.50%) Analyst
15 9 (3.50%) Release Manager
16 8 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (26.46%) Terraform
2 24 (9.34%) REST
3 17 (6.61%) .NET
4 15 (5.84%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (4.67%) .NET Framework
5 12 (4.67%) Middleware
6 11 (4.28%) .NET Core
7 10 (3.89%) ARM Templates
8 8 (3.11%) Entity Framework
8 8 (3.11%) JSON
9 7 (2.72%) React
9 7 (2.72%) SOAP
10 6 (2.33%) OAuth
10 6 (2.33%) XML
11 5 (1.95%) SAML
11 5 (1.95%) Web Services
11 5 (1.95%) YAML
12 4 (1.56%) LDAP
13 3 (1.17%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.78%) Data Centre
3 18 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.06%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.50%) PKI
6 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.72%) SCADA
7 6 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
7 6 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (2.33%) Wiki
8 5 (1.95%) Clustering
8 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.95%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.56%) CCTV
9 4 (1.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 44 (17.12%) Windows
2 26 (10.12%) Linux
3 15 (5.84%) Unix
4 12 (4.67%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.11%) VMS
6 7 (2.72%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.33%) Android
7 6 (2.33%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (47.08%) DevOps
2 114 (44.36%) CI/CD
3 85 (33.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (27.24%) Migration
5 41 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 40 (15.56%) Agile
6 40 (15.56%) Analytics
6 40 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 35 (13.62%) RBAC
8 33 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
8 33 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (12.06%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (11.67%) Roadmaps
11 29 (11.28%) Containerisation
12 26 (10.12%) Observability
13 24 (9.34%) Cloud Security
13 24 (9.34%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (9.34%) Validation
14 22 (8.56%) ERP
14 22 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.90%) PowerShell
2 39 (15.18%) SQL
3 34 (13.23%) Python
4 33 (12.84%) Bicep
5 18 (7.00%) C#
6 15 (5.84%) Bash
7 7 (2.72%) Java
7 7 (2.72%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.33%) Ruby
9 5 (1.95%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.17%) Groovy
11 3 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.78%) Delphi
12 2 (0.78%) Perl
13 1 (0.39%) Korn
13 1 (0.39%) R
13 1 (0.39%) RPG
13 1 (0.39%) Scala
13 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (12.84%) Azure Certification
4 22 (8.56%) Degree
5 16 (6.23%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.50%) CISSP
6 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.11%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.72%) CISM
8 7 (2.72%) GIAC
9 6 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.33%) SANS
10 5 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.95%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (1.95%) CRISC
10 5 (1.95%) SSCP
10 5 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.56%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.45%) QA
2 12 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.28%) GDPR
4 8 (3.11%) NIST
5 7 (2.72%) NCSC
5 7 (2.72%) SLA
6 6 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.33%) ISO 31000
7 3 (1.17%) PMO
8 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (14.01%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.78%) Docker
3 13 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.72%) NFS
6 4 (1.56%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.56%) Postfix
6 4 (1.56%) Varnish
6 4 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.17%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.17%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.78%) Firmware
9 1 (0.39%) etcd
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.39%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 34 (13.23%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.06%) Ansible
3 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.95%) SCCM
4 5 (1.95%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.56%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.56%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.56%) Puppet
5 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.56%) vMotion
6 3 (1.17%) Grafana
6 3 (1.17%) Nagios
7 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 101 (39.30%) Microsoft
2 49 (19.07%) Oracle
3 18 (7.00%) VMware
4 17 (6.61%) Databricks
5 12 (4.67%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.89%) Google
7 9 (3.50%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.50%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.11%) Splunk
9 7 (2.72%) Okta
10 5 (1.95%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.95%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.95%) Sybase
10 5 (1.95%) Tenable
11 4 (1.56%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.56%) Citrix
11 4 (1.56%) Commvault
11 4 (1.56%) Greenplum
11 4 (1.56%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.56%) Veeam