PaaS Contracts in England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 227 192
Rank change year-on-year -21 -35 -52
Contract jobs citing PaaS 253 387 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.79% 3.27% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 241 480
10th Percentile £421 £397 £425
25th Percentile £500 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +3.04% -0.04%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £780 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 7
10th Percentile - - £71.05
25th Percentile - £25.50 £74.71
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £80.99
90th Percentile - - £90.19
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud 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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in England

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in England.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in England

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in England

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in England.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in England

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 1 May 2025. 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 -7 144 £575 +3.37% 140
South East +48 58 £575 +9.00% 73
North of England +1 18 £488 -16.31% 49
South West 0 16 £582 -10.50% 27
Midlands +11 9 £550 -8.33% 41
Yorkshire +6 8 £425 -19.05% 18
West Midlands +4 8 £544 -9.38% 28
North East +4 5 £534 -17.85% 4
North West -3 5 £450 -26.83% 28
East of England +29 1 £751 +82.06% 19
East Midlands +9 1 £575 - 10
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (8.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.32%) Confluence
3 12 (4.74%) SharePoint
4 8 (3.16%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.79%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.40%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 166 (65.61%) IaaS
2 151 (59.68%) Azure
3 132 (52.17%) SaaS
4 93 (36.76%) AWS
5 48 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (18.58%) Serverless
7 41 (16.21%) GCP
8 38 (15.02%) Microsoft 365
9 31 (12.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (10.67%) Azure AKS
11 24 (9.49%) Entra ID
12 17 (6.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (6.32%) Snowflake
14 14 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (5.53%) GitHub
15 13 (5.14%) Amazon S3
16 12 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (4.74%) OCI
17 11 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 10 (3.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (11.07%) Firewall
2 19 (7.51%) DNS
2 19 (7.51%) VPN
3 14 (5.53%) DHCP
4 11 (4.35%) PBX
4 11 (4.35%) VoIP
5 9 (3.56%) SMTP
6 8 (3.16%) VSAN
7 5 (1.98%) SAN
8 4 (1.58%) iSCSI
8 4 (1.58%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.58%) Network Security
8 4 (1.58%) TCP/IP
9 3 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.19%) HTTP
9 3 (1.19%) SSL
9 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.79%) 4G
10 2 (0.79%) IPsec
10 2 (0.79%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (7.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (5.93%) Big Data
3 15 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.56%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.16%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.77%) Power BI
7 7 (2.77%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.37%) Apache Hive
8 6 (2.37%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.98%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.98%) MySQL
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.79%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 21 (8.30%) GitLab
2 19 (7.51%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.51%) JIRA
3 13 (5.14%) Git
4 9 (3.56%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (0.79%) JMeter
7 2 (0.79%) Maven
7 2 (0.79%) Selenium
7 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.40%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.40%) MLflow
8 1 (0.40%) MSI
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) Serena SBM
8 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 45 (17.79%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.21%) Finance
3 24 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.14%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.74%) Legal
7 11 (4.35%) Marketing
8 6 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Banking
9 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.58%) Local Government
11 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.79%) Automotive
12 2 (0.79%) Aviation
12 2 (0.79%) Electronics
12 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.40%) Billing
13 1 (0.40%) Front Office
13 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (33.99%) Architect
2 32 (12.65%) Senior
3 31 (12.25%) Azure Engineer
4 28 (11.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.28%) Cloud Architect
6 22 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (8.70%) Technical Architect
7 20 (7.91%) Azure Architect
8 19 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (7.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (7.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.32%) Lead
11 14 (5.53%) Senior Architect
12 13 (5.14%) Enterprise Architect
13 12 (4.74%) Support Engineer
14 11 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 11 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
14 11 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 11 (4.35%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.74%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.95%) CSS
2 10 (3.95%) HTML
2 10 (3.95%) REST
3 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
4 8 (3.16%) .NET
5 6 (2.37%) OAuth
5 6 (2.37%) SAML
5 6 (2.37%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.98%) OpenID
6 5 (1.98%) RESTful
7 4 (1.58%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.58%) Azure Blueprints
7 4 (1.58%) J2EE
7 4 (1.58%) Kafka
7 4 (1.58%) MACH
7 4 (1.58%) Node.js
7 4 (1.58%) React
7 4 (1.58%) SPFx
7 4 (1.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.30%) Public Cloud
3 20 (7.91%) PKI
4 13 (5.14%) Data Centre
5 12 (4.74%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.35%) Clustering
7 10 (3.95%) Blackberry
7 10 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (3.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.98%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.58%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.58%) Replication
11 4 (1.58%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.19%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.25%) Windows
2 22 (8.70%) Windows Server
3 20 (7.91%) Linux
4 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.79%) Solaris
6 2 (0.79%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.40%) CentOS
7 1 (0.40%) Unix
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (38.74%) DevOps
2 86 (33.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 66 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (18.97%) Agile
6 47 (18.58%) Migration
7 45 (17.79%) Containerisation
8 38 (15.02%) Roadmaps
9 36 (14.23%) Cloud Security
10 33 (13.04%) Microservices
11 26 (10.28%) TOGAF
12 25 (9.88%) Analytics
12 25 (9.88%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (9.88%) Enterprise Architecture
13 23 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (7.91%) Problem Management
14 20 (7.91%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (7.51%) DevSecOps
15 19 (7.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.37%) Python
2 47 (18.58%) PowerShell
3 46 (18.18%) SQL
4 30 (11.86%) Java
5 29 (11.46%) JavaScript
6 22 (8.70%) C#
7 16 (6.32%) Bicep
8 11 (4.35%) Bash
9 8 (3.16%) Ruby
10 6 (2.37%) PHP
11 3 (1.19%) R
11 3 (1.19%) Scala
12 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.79%) Perl
12 2 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.40%) Go
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 50 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 35 (13.83%) Degree
4 25 (9.88%) DV Cleared
5 20 (7.91%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.51%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (7.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 15 (5.93%) AWS Certification
9 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (3.95%) CCNP
11 8 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.16%) MCSE
12 5 (1.98%) CCNA
12 5 (1.98%) CCSAS
12 5 (1.98%) CEH
12 5 (1.98%) CREST Certified
12 5 (1.98%) GIAC
12 5 (1.98%) GPEN
12 5 (1.98%) GWAPT
12 5 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.14%) NCSC
2 9 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (3.56%) NIST
3 8 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.16%) GDPR
4 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.37%) SLA
5 5 (1.98%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.19%) PMO
7 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.40%) QA
8 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 39 (15.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (15.02%) Docker
4 17 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (5.93%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (3.95%) Hyper-V
7 10 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (3.56%) BitLocker
8 9 (3.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 9 (3.56%) Terminal Services
9 6 (2.37%) vSphere
10 4 (1.58%) NFS
11 3 (1.19%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.79%) RACF
13 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 79 (31.23%) Terraform
2 47 (18.58%) Kubernetes
3 31 (12.25%) Ansible
4 14 (5.53%) Puppet
5 10 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (3.56%) Nagios
6 9 (3.56%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.56%) vMotion
7 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.77%) Data Guard
9 6 (2.37%) SCCM
10 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.58%) Grafana
11 4 (1.58%) vRealize
11 4 (1.58%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (1.19%) Packer
13 2 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.79%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 90 (35.57%) Microsoft
2 45 (17.79%) VMware
3 27 (10.67%) Cisco
4 24 (9.49%) Palo Alto
5 22 (8.70%) Oracle
6 18 (7.11%) Databricks
6 18 (7.11%) Google
7 12 (4.74%) Cloudera
8 11 (4.35%) Ericsson
8 11 (4.35%) F5
8 11 (4.35%) Juniper
8 11 (4.35%) Nokia
9 10 (3.95%) Avaya
9 10 (3.95%) Ribbon
10 9 (3.56%) Citrix
10 9 (3.56%) HP
10 9 (3.56%) Symantec
11 6 (2.37%) SAP
11 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.98%) Splunk