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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 242 202
Rank change year-on-year -66 -40 -18
Contract jobs citing PaaS 250 281 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.79% 1.02% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.79% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 185 251
10th Percentile £400 £413 £403
25th Percentile £439 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +0.43%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £660
90th Percentile £725 £748 £738
UK median daily rate £543 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.26% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £49.90 - £70.54
25th Percentile £55.75 - £75.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £82.75 - -
90th Percentile £90.10 - £84.45
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +48.57%

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 11,984 10,058 12,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.60% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,294 6,722 9,121
10th Percentile £304 £313 £280
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 134 235
10th Percentile £14.48 £16.41 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +26.47% -2.17%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.18 £50.79
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.63 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.11
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.01% +2.70%

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 4 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PaaS in England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 4 January 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 -26 131 £550 -5.17% 43
South East -41 37 £571 +3.86% 35
North of England -39 27 £525 +16.67% 7
East of England +5 21 £450 -18.18% 1
Midlands -52 19 £537 -12.25% 5
Yorkshire -32 17 £538 +26.47% 2
West Midlands -51 16 £579 -5.39% 5
North West -21 10 £363 -19.44% 5
South West -25 6 £575 -4.17% 14
East Midlands -24 3 £418 -7.22%
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 10 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.60%) Confluence
3 8 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.00%) SAS
6 4 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.20%) ArcGIS
7 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.80%) FileNet
9 1 (0.40%) Apache
9 1 (0.40%) CICS
9 1 (0.40%) CMS
9 1 (0.40%) Luigi
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (5.60%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.20%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.40%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 173 (69.20%) Azure
2 112 (44.80%) IaaS
3 89 (35.60%) SaaS
4 48 (19.20%) AWS
5 43 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (15.20%) GitHub
7 36 (14.40%) Entra ID
8 34 (13.60%) OCI
9 32 (12.80%) Serverless
10 30 (12.00%) Azure AKS
11 25 (10.00%) GCP
12 23 (9.20%) Azure Functions
12 23 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (8.80%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (7.20%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (6.80%) Power Platform
17 16 (6.40%) Azure Key Vault
18 13 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.80%) Firewall
2 13 (5.20%) VPN
3 10 (4.00%) DHCP
3 10 (4.00%) DNS
4 6 (2.40%) Network Security
5 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.80%) IPsec
5 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.80%) SAN
5 2 (0.80%) SMTP
5 2 (0.80%) VLAN
5 2 (0.80%) WAN
5 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) PBX
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VoIP
6 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.40%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.80%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.40%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.60%) Power BI
6 8 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.80%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.00%) MySQL
8 5 (2.00%) Redis
8 5 (2.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 5 (2.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.60%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.60%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.60%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (8.00%) Git
2 18 (7.20%) Postman
3 14 (5.60%) JIRA
4 13 (5.20%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.40%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.40%) GitLab
6 6 (2.40%) Gradle
7 4 (1.60%) Maven
7 4 (1.60%) SoapUI
7 4 (1.60%) SonarLint
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Selenium
10 1 (0.40%) ERwin
10 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 35 (14.00%) Finance
4 23 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.00%) Banking
6 8 (3.20%) Aviation
7 5 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.00%) Marketing
7 5 (2.00%) Military
8 4 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.60%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.20%) Billing
9 3 (1.20%) Front Office
9 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Local Government
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (19.20%) Architect
2 27 (10.80%) Senior
3 26 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
4 25 (10.00%) Developer
5 24 (9.60%) Lead
6 23 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.20%) Azure Architect
9 13 (5.20%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (4.80%) Technical Architect
11 11 (4.40%) Integration Specialist
12 10 (4.00%) Cloud Specialist
13 9 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Consultant
13 9 (3.60%) Environment Manager
13 9 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (3.20%) .NET Developer
14 8 (3.20%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (18.80%) .NET
2 38 (15.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (13.60%) REST
4 31 (12.40%) SOAP
5 24 (9.60%) RESTful
6 23 (9.20%) Web Services
7 21 (8.40%) ARM Templates
8 20 (8.00%) JSON
9 16 (6.40%) OAuth
10 14 (5.60%) YAML
11 13 (5.20%) SAML
12 12 (4.80%) JWT
12 12 (4.80%) OpenID
12 12 (4.80%) XML
13 11 (4.40%) PyTorch
13 11 (4.40%) Semantic Kernel
13 11 (4.40%) TensorFlow
14 10 (4.00%) AngularJS
15 9 (3.60%) Entity Framework
15 9 (3.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.80%) Algorithms
3 10 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.40%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.00%) PKI
8 4 (1.60%) IoT
8 4 (1.60%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.00%) Windows
2 28 (11.20%) Linux
3 11 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
6 1 (0.40%) Unix
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (44.00%) DevOps
2 81 (32.40%) CI/CD
3 70 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (27.20%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (26.80%) Agile
6 42 (16.80%) Roadmaps
7 41 (16.40%) Migration
8 37 (14.80%) ERP
9 33 (13.20%) AI
10 29 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.20%) Analytics
11 28 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (10.80%) Containerisation
13 26 (10.40%) API Management
13 26 (10.40%) Mentoring
14 24 (9.60%) Machine Learning
14 24 (9.60%) Observability
14 24 (9.60%) Software Engineering
15 23 (9.20%) Microservices
16 22 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (21.20%) SQL
2 48 (19.20%) Python
3 31 (12.40%) PowerShell
4 29 (11.60%) Bicep
5 21 (8.40%) C#
6 12 (4.80%) Java
6 12 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.60%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.40%) PHP
10 5 (2.00%) Bash
10 5 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) COBOL
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.20%) Azure Certification
4 23 (9.20%) Degree
5 11 (4.40%) MCP
6 10 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.60%) CISSP
8 7 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.80%) CCSP
12 2 (0.80%) ISEB
12 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.80%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.40%) NIST
2 12 (4.80%) GDPR
2 12 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.40%) EU AI Act
4 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.00%) NCSC
5 5 (2.00%) SLA
6 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.80%) Basel III
7 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.80%) GAAP
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.80%) PMO
7 2 (0.80%) QA
7 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (12.80%) Active Directory
1 32 (12.80%) Docker
2 12 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.60%) vSphere
6 3 (1.20%) vCloud
7 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.80%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.80%) NFS
7 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.40%) Firmware
8 1 (0.40%) RACF
Systems Management
1 72 (28.80%) Terraform
2 43 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.20%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (4.00%) Ansible
5 6 (2.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (2.40%) Grafana
5 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.40%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.20%) Control-M
6 3 (1.20%) Puppet
6 3 (1.20%) SCCM
7 2 (0.80%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.80%) logstash
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.80%) SCOM
7 2 (0.80%) systemd
7 2 (0.80%) vMotion
7 2 (0.80%) vRealize
7 2 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 106 (42.40%) Microsoft
2 61 (24.40%) Oracle
3 18 (7.20%) VMware
4 16 (6.40%) Google
5 13 (5.20%) Foundry
6 11 (4.40%) SAP
7 8 (3.20%) Databricks
7 8 (3.20%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.80%) Workday
9 6 (2.40%) DocuSign
10 5 (2.00%) AppDynamics
10 5 (2.00%) Cisco
10 5 (2.00%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.00%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.60%) Adobe
11 4 (1.60%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.60%) IBM
11 4 (1.60%) Informatica
11 4 (1.60%) Splunk