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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 275 237
Rank change year-on-year -76 -38 -32
Contract jobs citing PaaS 303 237 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.86% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 2.31% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 145 265
10th Percentile £413 £401 £352
25th Percentile £452 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £650 £675
90th Percentile £731 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £35.50 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 £36.75
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +55.84% -51.27%
75th Percentile £55.13 £78.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £55.35 £88.50 -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year -10.42% -19.19% -6.01%

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 15,975 10,267 11,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,947 7,935
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 271 219
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.31 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £83.54 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 August 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 August 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 -17 183 £531 -7.61% 98
South East -73 37 £700 +21.74% 40
Midlands -42 30 £519 -8.99% 24
North of England -81 28 £477 -4.60% 30
West Midlands -46 18 £531 -12.81% 22
Yorkshire -37 17 £500 -9.05% 8
East Midlands -8 12 £488 +8.33% 2
South West -46 11 £500 -31.03% 10
North West -51 11 £439 +20.26% 21
East of England -18 10 £638 -11.30% 10
North East -41 3 £638 +27.50% 3
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 20 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.30%) SAS
4 7 (2.31%) Confluence
5 5 (1.65%) Apache
6 4 (1.32%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.66%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.33%) IIS
8 1 (0.33%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.97%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.64%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 222 (73.27%) Azure
2 186 (61.39%) IaaS
3 113 (37.29%) SaaS
4 71 (23.43%) AWS
5 67 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (19.80%) Entra ID
7 43 (14.19%) GitHub
8 37 (12.21%) OCI
9 33 (10.89%) Azure Monitor
10 32 (10.56%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (9.57%) Serverless
12 28 (9.24%) Azure AKS
13 27 (8.91%) Azure Key Vault
14 22 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (6.93%) GCP
16 18 (5.94%) Azure App Service
17 17 (5.61%) Azure Service Bus
18 11 (3.63%) Azure Functions
18 11 (3.63%) Power Platform
19 10 (3.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (12.21%) DNS
2 35 (11.55%) Firewall
3 27 (8.91%) VPN
4 20 (6.60%) DHCP
5 15 (4.95%) SAN
6 10 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.64%) VLAN
8 7 (2.31%) Network Security
9 6 (1.98%) Internet
9 6 (1.98%) NAS
9 6 (1.98%) SMTP
10 4 (1.32%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.32%) WAN
11 3 (0.99%) FTP
11 3 (0.99%) IPv4
11 3 (0.99%) LAN
12 2 (0.66%) NaaS
12 2 (0.66%) PSTN
12 2 (0.66%) SSL
12 2 (0.66%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.26%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.96%) Oracle Database
3 12 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 10 (3.30%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (2.97%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (2.31%) Big Data
6 7 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.65%) Db2
8 5 (1.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.65%) Power BI
8 5 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.32%) Metadata
10 3 (0.99%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 26 (8.58%) Git
2 9 (2.97%) JIRA
3 8 (2.64%) Chocolatey
4 6 (1.98%) GitLab
5 5 (1.65%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.32%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (1.32%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
8 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.14%) Finance
3 40 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.59%) Banking
6 19 (6.27%) Legal
7 14 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.65%) Law
8 5 (1.65%) Military
9 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.66%) Aviation
11 2 (0.66%) Local Government
11 2 (0.66%) Marketing
11 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.33%) International Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (33.00%) Architect
2 53 (17.49%) Azure Engineer
3 34 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 34 (11.22%) Senior
4 31 (10.23%) Solutions Architect
5 29 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (8.58%) Azure Architect
6 26 (8.58%) Lead
7 22 (7.26%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (7.26%) Developer
8 20 (6.60%) Technical Architect
9 18 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.61%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.29%) Lead Architect
13 12 (3.96%) Azure Developer
13 12 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.63%) Technical Leader
15 10 (3.30%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.55%) REST
2 29 (9.57%) .NET
3 20 (6.60%) .NET Framework
4 19 (6.27%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (5.61%) SOAP
6 14 (4.62%) Middleware
6 14 (4.62%) Web Services
7 13 (4.29%) .NET Core
8 11 (3.63%) JSON
9 10 (3.30%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (2.97%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.97%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.64%) OAuth
12 7 (2.31%) XML
13 6 (1.98%) React
13 6 (1.98%) SAML
14 5 (1.65%) YAML
15 4 (1.32%) LDAP
15 4 (1.32%) OpenID
16 3 (0.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.16%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.28%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.62%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.63%) PKI
7 10 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (3.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.30%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.31%) Clustering
8 7 (2.31%) SCADA
9 6 (1.98%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.98%) Wiki
10 5 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.65%) IoT
10 5 (1.65%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (15.84%) Windows
2 29 (9.57%) Linux
3 18 (5.94%) Unix
4 12 (3.96%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.97%) VMS
6 6 (1.98%) Android
6 6 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.98%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (0.99%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (41.58%) DevOps
2 120 (39.60%) CI/CD
3 81 (26.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (26.73%) Migration
4 55 (18.15%) Agile
5 46 (15.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (14.85%) Analytics
6 45 (14.85%) Roadmaps
7 44 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (13.53%) RBAC
9 38 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 37 (12.21%) Observability
11 35 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
11 35 (11.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 34 (11.22%) Containerisation
12 34 (11.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 33 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (9.90%) ERP
15 29 (9.57%) ITIL
16 28 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (17.82%) PowerShell
2 45 (14.85%) Python
3 40 (13.20%) Bicep
4 37 (12.21%) SQL
5 25 (8.25%) C#
6 15 (4.95%) Bash
7 13 (4.29%) Ruby
8 12 (3.96%) Java
9 7 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.65%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.65%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.32%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.99%) Groovy
13 2 (0.66%) Delphi
13 2 (0.66%) Perl
13 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.33%) C
14 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (40.59%) Security Cleared
2 80 (26.40%) SC Cleared
3 43 (14.19%) Azure Certification
4 31 (10.23%) DV Cleared
5 23 (7.59%) Degree
6 11 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.97%) CISSP
9 8 (2.64%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.31%) CISM
10 7 (2.31%) GIAC
10 7 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.65%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (1.65%) CRISC
12 5 (1.65%) SANS
12 5 (1.65%) SSCP
13 4 (1.32%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.96%) SLA
2 11 (3.63%) GDPR
3 8 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.31%) NCSC
4 7 (2.31%) NIST
5 6 (1.98%) ISO 31000
5 6 (1.98%) QA
6 4 (1.32%) PMO
7 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (12.54%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.27%) Docker
3 16 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.97%) NFS
6 6 (1.98%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.98%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.98%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.65%) Postfix
7 5 (1.65%) Varnish
7 5 (1.65%) vCloud
7 5 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.32%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.99%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.66%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 69 (22.77%) Terraform
2 32 (10.56%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.95%) Ansible
3 15 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.63%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.97%) SCCM
6 6 (1.98%) Puppet
6 6 (1.98%) vMotion
7 5 (1.65%) Grafana
7 5 (1.65%) HAProxy
8 4 (1.32%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.99%) Nagios
9 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.33%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.33%) QRadar
11 1 (0.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 122 (40.26%) Microsoft
2 66 (21.78%) Oracle
3 28 (9.24%) VMware
4 14 (4.62%) Databricks
5 11 (3.63%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.97%) Tenable
7 8 (2.64%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.64%) SAP
8 7 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.31%) Sybase
9 6 (1.98%) Citrix
9 6 (1.98%) Google
10 5 (1.65%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.65%) Okta
10 5 (1.65%) Splunk
11 4 (1.32%) iManage
11 4 (1.32%) Intapp
11 4 (1.32%) Litera
11 4 (1.32%) OpenAI