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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 231 203
Rank change year-on-year -51 -28 -58
Contract jobs citing PaaS 228 386 602
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 1.03% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 3.17% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 275 415
10th Percentile £413 £358 £436
25th Percentile £500 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 10
10th Percentile - - £71.33
25th Percentile - £25.50 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -66.67% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £81.49
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -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 9,828 12,164 17,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 32.54% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,627 8,683 12,603
10th Percentile £311 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 330 288
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.11 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%
75th Percentile £39.06 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -29 128 £600 +9.09% 172
South East +48 39 £575 -2.13% 53
North of England -9 24 £500 -16.67% 66
South West -15 15 £702 +7.96% 25
Midlands +6 12 £600 +14.29% 43
Yorkshire +2 9 £425 -28.57% 17
West Midlands 0 9 £618 +14.98% 23
North West -12 8 £363 -38.21% 41
North East +7 7 £534 -17.85% 8
East of England +20 4 £676 +93.00% 17
East Midlands +3 3 £450 -14.29% 20
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 17 (7.46%) Confluence
1 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.19%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.88%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.88%) Camunda
5 2 (0.88%) nginx
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.32%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.44%) Actimize
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 155 (67.98%) Azure
2 154 (67.54%) IaaS
3 124 (54.39%) SaaS
4 65 (28.51%) AWS
5 51 (22.37%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (21.93%) GCP
7 39 (17.11%) Entra ID
7 39 (17.11%) Serverless
8 33 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (14.04%) Azure AKS
10 18 (7.89%) GitHub
11 17 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (7.46%) OpenShift
12 15 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (5.70%) Azure Storage
14 11 (4.82%) OCI
15 10 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (16.23%) Firewall
2 24 (10.53%) DNS
3 22 (9.65%) VPN
4 15 (6.58%) DHCP
5 11 (4.82%) PBX
5 11 (4.82%) SAN
5 11 (4.82%) VoIP
6 9 (3.95%) SMTP
7 5 (2.19%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (2.19%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.19%) SSL
8 4 (1.75%) Network Security
8 4 (1.75%) WAN
9 2 (0.88%) 4G
9 2 (0.88%) 5G
9 2 (0.88%) NAS
9 2 (0.88%) NGFW
9 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (5.70%) Big Data
2 13 (5.70%) Relational Database
2 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
3 11 (4.82%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.63%) Power BI
7 4 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.75%) Apache Hive
7 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.32%) MySQL
8 3 (1.32%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.88%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.44%) Parquet
10 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (8.77%) JIRA
2 15 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.14%) GitLab
4 7 (3.07%) Git
5 5 (2.19%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.88%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.88%) JMeter
7 2 (0.88%) Selenium
7 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) MSI
8 1 (0.44%) Postman
8 1 (0.44%) Vagrant
General
1 51 (22.37%) Finance
2 38 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 18 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.26%) Banking
5 12 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.95%) Marketing
7 7 (3.07%) Local Government
7 7 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.75%) Legal
9 3 (1.32%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.44%) French Language
11 1 (0.44%) International Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (36.40%) Architect
2 33 (14.47%) Azure Engineer
3 30 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
4 27 (11.84%) Azure Architect
4 27 (11.84%) Cloud Architect
5 26 (11.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (6.58%) Senior
8 14 (6.14%) Support Engineer
9 13 (5.70%) Lead
10 12 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
10 12 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 12 (5.26%) Consultant
10 12 (5.26%) Developer
10 12 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
10 12 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.02%) ARM Templates
2 15 (6.58%) .NET
2 15 (6.58%) REST
3 14 (6.14%) AngularJS
4 9 (3.95%) ADO
5 8 (3.51%) RESTful
6 7 (3.07%) CSS
6 7 (3.07%) HTML
6 7 (3.07%) Middleware
7 6 (2.63%) React
8 5 (2.19%) Django
8 5 (2.19%) Node.js
8 5 (2.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (2.19%) SOAP
9 4 (1.75%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.75%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.75%) J2EE
9 4 (1.75%) OAuth
9 4 (1.75%) SAML
9 4 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (7.02%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.14%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.26%) PKI
5 12 (5.26%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.39%) Blackberry
6 10 (4.39%) Clustering
6 10 (4.39%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.19%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.75%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.32%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (18.86%) Windows
2 36 (15.79%) Linux
3 25 (10.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.19%) Unix
5 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.32%) VMS
7 2 (0.88%) Debian
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) Solaris
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (42.98%) DevOps
2 72 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (25.44%) CI/CD
4 52 (22.81%) Agile
5 50 (21.93%) Migration
6 38 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.35%) Roadmaps
8 32 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 31 (13.60%) Cloud Security
10 27 (11.84%) Microservices
11 26 (11.40%) Analytics
11 26 (11.40%) ETL
12 25 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 20 (8.77%) Enterprise Architecture
14 19 (8.33%) TOGAF
15 18 (7.89%) Scrum
15 18 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
16 17 (7.46%) Machine Learning
16 17 (7.46%) Project Delivery
16 17 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.93%) SQL
2 47 (20.61%) PowerShell
3 29 (12.72%) Python
4 27 (11.84%) Bicep
5 19 (8.33%) Java
6 18 (7.89%) C#
7 17 (7.46%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.39%) Bash
9 6 (2.63%) PHP
10 4 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) Go
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (25.44%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.28%) Azure Certification
4 26 (11.40%) Degree
5 24 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 19 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (7.02%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.82%) CCNP
9 10 (4.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.75%) OCP
12 4 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.32%) CCNA
13 3 (1.32%) CISM
14 2 (0.88%) CISSP
14 2 (0.88%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.58%) GDPR
2 8 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.51%) SOC 2
3 7 (3.07%) SLA
4 5 (2.19%) QA
5 4 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.75%) NCSC
6 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.32%) COBIT
6 3 (1.32%) GAAP
7 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) IFRS
8 1 (0.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.44%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (20.61%) Active Directory
2 39 (17.11%) Docker
3 31 (13.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.70%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (5.26%) Hyper-V
5 12 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (4.39%) vSphere
7 9 (3.95%) BitLocker
7 9 (3.95%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (3.95%) Terminal Services
8 7 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.19%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 73 (32.02%) Terraform
2 62 (27.19%) Kubernetes
3 33 (14.47%) Ansible
4 14 (6.14%) Puppet
5 10 (4.39%) Grafana
5 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.95%) Nagios
6 9 (3.95%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.95%) vMotion
7 8 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.19%) Data Guard
8 5 (2.19%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.75%) SCCM
10 2 (0.88%) Control-M
10 2 (0.88%) Nessus
10 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.44%) Netcool
11 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 88 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.98%) VMware
3 30 (13.16%) Oracle
4 22 (9.65%) Google
5 18 (7.89%) Cisco
6 16 (7.02%) Databricks
7 15 (6.58%) F5
7 15 (6.58%) Palo Alto
8 14 (6.14%) Citrix
9 13 (5.70%) HP
10 11 (4.82%) Ericsson
10 11 (4.82%) Juniper
10 11 (4.82%) Nokia
11 10 (4.39%) Avaya
11 10 (4.39%) Ribbon
12 9 (3.95%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.95%) Symantec
13 8 (3.51%) IBM
14 7 (3.07%) Cloudera
15 5 (2.19%) AppDynamics