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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 286 247
Rank change year-on-year -64 -39 -33
Contract jobs citing PaaS 283 238 318
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 2.30% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 148 242
10th Percentile £413 £390 £351
25th Percentile £453 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £725 £753 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -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 15,975 10,361 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.75% 37.34% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,671 7,016 7,872
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 268 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.88 £18.51 £18.07
Median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £82.56 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.75 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.37% -4.17% -14.29%

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 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 30 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 -39 174 £538 -6.52% 92
South East -64 32 £700 +27.27% 40
Midlands -40 29 £514 -9.87% 18
North of England -76 25 £477 +0.42% 12
West Midlands -43 18 £525 -13.79% 12
Yorkshire -39 16 £500 -9.05% 2
East Midlands -3 11 £488 +8.33% 6
South West -44 10 £500 -23.08% 7
East of England -19 9 £638 -11.30% 7
North West -63 9 £439 +21.09% 9
North East -38 3 £638 +27.50% 1
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 18 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.89%) SAS
4 6 (2.12%) Confluence
5 4 (1.41%) Apache
5 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Mendix
6 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.18%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (2.83%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.35%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 205 (72.44%) Azure
2 167 (59.01%) IaaS
3 108 (38.16%) SaaS
4 69 (24.38%) AWS
5 66 (23.32%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (20.49%) Entra ID
7 43 (15.19%) GitHub
8 34 (12.01%) OCI
9 32 (11.31%) Azure Monitor
10 27 (9.54%) Azure AKS
10 27 (9.54%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (9.54%) Serverless
11 25 (8.83%) Azure Key Vault
12 22 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (7.42%) GCP
14 17 (6.01%) Azure App Service
15 15 (5.30%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (4.24%) Power Platform
17 11 (3.89%) Azure Functions
18 9 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.01%) DNS
1 34 (12.01%) Firewall
2 25 (8.83%) VPN
3 17 (6.01%) DHCP
4 13 (4.59%) SAN
5 8 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (2.12%) NAS
6 6 (2.12%) Network Security
6 6 (2.12%) SMTP
6 6 (2.12%) VLAN
7 5 (1.77%) Internet
8 4 (1.41%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.41%) WAN
9 3 (1.06%) FTP
9 3 (1.06%) IPv4
9 3 (1.06%) LAN
10 2 (0.71%) NaaS
10 2 (0.71%) PSTN
10 2 (0.71%) SSL
10 2 (0.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.07%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (6.71%) SQL Server
3 12 (4.24%) Oracle Database
3 12 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (3.89%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (3.18%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (2.47%) Big Data
6 7 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.12%) Power BI
8 5 (1.77%) Db2
8 5 (1.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.06%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.06%) Metadata
11 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (8.13%) Git
2 8 (2.83%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) Chocolatey
3 6 (2.12%) GitLab
4 4 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.41%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.35%) Postman
6 1 (0.35%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.43%) Finance
3 41 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.07%) Banking
6 18 (6.36%) Legal
7 16 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.77%) Law
8 5 (1.77%) Military
9 4 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.71%) Aviation
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Marketing
11 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) International Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (31.80%) Architect
2 49 (17.31%) Azure Engineer
3 31 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 31 (10.95%) Senior
4 29 (10.25%) Solutions Architect
5 28 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (8.83%) Azure Architect
7 22 (7.77%) Cloud Architect
7 22 (7.77%) Lead
8 20 (7.07%) Developer
9 19 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (6.01%) Technical Architect
11 16 (5.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.89%) Lead Architect
13 11 (3.89%) Release Manager
14 10 (3.53%) Azure Developer
15 9 (3.18%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (22.97%) Terraform
2 33 (11.66%) REST
3 27 (9.54%) .NET
4 19 (6.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 18 (6.36%) .NET Framework
6 16 (5.65%) SOAP
7 14 (4.95%) Middleware
8 13 (4.59%) Web Services
9 12 (4.24%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.53%) JSON
11 8 (2.83%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.83%) Entity Framework
11 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Graph
12 7 (2.47%) OAuth
12 7 (2.47%) XML
13 5 (1.77%) React
13 5 (1.77%) SAML
13 5 (1.77%) YAML
14 4 (1.41%) LDAP
15 3 (1.06%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 14 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.59%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.89%) PKI
6 10 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.83%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (2.83%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.47%) Clustering
8 7 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.47%) SCADA
9 6 (2.12%) Wiki
10 5 (1.77%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.77%) IoT
10 5 (1.77%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.77%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.77%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.55%) Windows
2 27 (9.54%) Linux
3 16 (5.65%) Unix
4 11 (3.89%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.18%) VMS
6 6 (2.12%) Android
6 6 (2.12%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.12%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.41%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (43.11%) DevOps
2 116 (40.99%) CI/CD
3 78 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (24.73%) Migration
5 52 (18.37%) Agile
6 45 (15.90%) Analytics
6 45 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 40 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.13%) Roadmaps
8 38 (13.43%) RBAC
9 36 (12.72%) Observability
9 36 (12.72%) Platform Engineering
10 35 (12.37%) Containerisation
10 35 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
11 31 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (10.60%) ERP
13 28 (9.89%) Disaster Recovery
14 27 (9.54%) ITIL
15 24 (8.48%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.31%) PowerShell
2 42 (14.84%) Python
3 38 (13.43%) Bicep
4 36 (12.72%) SQL
5 23 (8.13%) C#
6 15 (5.30%) Bash
7 12 (4.24%) Java
7 12 (4.24%) Ruby
8 7 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.77%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.77%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.06%) Groovy
12 2 (0.71%) Delphi
12 2 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) C
13 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 113 (39.93%) Security Cleared
2 74 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.78%) Azure Certification
4 28 (9.89%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.77%) Degree
6 10 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.18%) CISSP
7 9 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.83%) AWS Certification
8 8 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.47%) CISM
9 7 (2.47%) GIAC
10 6 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.77%) CESG Certified Professional
11 5 (1.77%) CRISC
11 5 (1.77%) SANS
11 5 (1.77%) SSCP
11 5 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.41%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.53%) GDPR
1 10 (3.53%) SLA
2 9 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.83%) NIST
3 8 (2.83%) QA
4 7 (2.47%) NCSC
5 6 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.12%) ISO 31000
6 4 (1.41%) PMO
7 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.01%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.07%) Docker
3 15 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.83%) NFS
6 6 (2.12%) BitLocker
6 6 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 6 (2.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.41%) Postfix
7 4 (1.41%) Varnish
7 4 (1.41%) vCloud
7 4 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.06%) Sendmail
8 3 (1.06%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.71%) Firmware
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.95%) Ansible
3 12 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.53%) vCenter Server
5 7 (2.47%) SCCM
6 6 (2.12%) Puppet
6 6 (2.12%) vMotion
7 4 (1.41%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.41%) Grafana
7 4 (1.41%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.06%) Nagios
8 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.35%) Amdocs OSS
10 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 112 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 63 (22.26%) Oracle
3 24 (8.48%) VMware
4 13 (4.59%) Databricks
5 8 (2.83%) Dynatrace
5 8 (2.83%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.83%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.47%) Tenable
7 6 (2.12%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.12%) Citrix
7 6 (2.12%) Google
7 6 (2.12%) SAP
7 6 (2.12%) Sybase
8 5 (1.77%) Greenplum
8 5 (1.77%) Okta
8 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.77%) Splunk
9 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.06%) Intapp
9 3 (1.06%) Litera