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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 237 211
Rank change year-on-year -56 -26 -17
Contract jobs citing PaaS 262 278 424
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.03% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 2.80% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 180 250
10th Percentile £401 £413 £400
25th Percentile £447 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.75% +1.78%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £661
90th Percentile £725 £744 £738
UK median daily rate £543 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.26% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £49.90 - £69.79
25th Percentile £55.75 - £73.14
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £76.50
75th Percentile £82.75 - £78.00
90th Percentile £90.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £76.50
% change year-on-year - - +45.71%

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 12,082 9,927 12,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.04% 36.82% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,365 6,613 8,879
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 136 236
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -0.57%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.81 £50.40
90th Percentile £76.96 £68.75 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -35 135 £550 -4.35% 41
South East -32 41 £575 +4.55% 39
North of England -25 33 £525 +16.67% 14
East of England -2 21 £450 -18.18% 12
Yorkshire -30 20 £563 +32.35% 6
Midlands -44 18 £526 -13.70% 15
West Midlands -40 15 £540 -11.76% 8
North West -19 13 £363 -19.44% 7
South West -36 6 £575 -6.12% 15
East Midlands -28 3 £418 -7.22% 7
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 (3.82%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.44%) Confluence
3 8 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.91%) SAS
6 4 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.15%) ArcGIS
7 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.38%) Apache
8 1 (0.38%) CMS
8 1 (0.38%) FileNet
8 1 (0.38%) Luigi
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (5.34%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 177 (67.56%) Azure
2 123 (46.95%) IaaS
3 95 (36.26%) SaaS
4 49 (18.70%) AWS
5 46 (17.56%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (15.27%) GitHub
7 37 (14.12%) Entra ID
8 36 (13.74%) OCI
9 33 (12.60%) Serverless
10 30 (11.45%) Azure AKS
11 25 (9.54%) GCP
12 23 (8.78%) Azure Functions
12 23 (8.78%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (8.40%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (6.87%) Azure Key Vault
15 18 (6.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 18 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (6.11%) Power Platform
17 13 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.07%) Firewall
2 14 (5.34%) VPN
3 11 (4.20%) DHCP
3 11 (4.20%) DNS
4 6 (2.29%) Network Security
5 3 (1.15%) BGP
5 3 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.15%) NX-OS
5 3 (1.15%) SMTP
6 2 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.76%) IPsec
6 2 (0.76%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.76%) SAN
6 2 (0.76%) VLAN
6 2 (0.76%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.76%) WAN
6 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.38%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (5.34%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.20%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.44%) Power BI
6 7 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.67%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.91%) MySQL
7 5 (1.91%) Redis
7 5 (1.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 5 (1.91%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.53%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.53%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (8.40%) Git
2 18 (6.87%) Postman
3 14 (5.34%) JIRA
4 13 (4.96%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.20%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.29%) GitLab
6 6 (2.29%) Gradle
7 4 (1.53%) Maven
7 4 (1.53%) SoapUI
7 4 (1.53%) SonarLint
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.76%) Selenium
10 1 (0.38%) ERwin
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.65%) Public Sector
3 37 (14.12%) Finance
4 24 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.20%) Banking
6 8 (3.05%) Aviation
7 6 (2.29%) Military
7 6 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.91%) Marketing
8 5 (1.91%) Retail
9 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.53%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Billing
10 3 (1.15%) Front Office
10 3 (1.15%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Local Government
11 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (19.85%) Architect
2 28 (10.69%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (10.31%) Senior
4 25 (9.54%) Developer
5 24 (9.16%) Lead
6 23 (8.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.73%) Azure Architect
9 13 (4.96%) Technical Architect
10 12 (4.58%) Oracle Specialist
11 11 (4.20%) Integration Specialist
12 10 (3.82%) Cloud Specialist
13 9 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) Environment Manager
13 9 (3.44%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) .NET Developer
14 8 (3.05%) Consultant
14 8 (3.05%) Security Architect
14 8 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (18.70%) .NET
2 38 (14.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 34 (12.98%) REST
4 31 (11.83%) SOAP
5 24 (9.16%) RESTful
6 23 (8.78%) Web Services
7 22 (8.40%) ARM Templates
8 20 (7.63%) JSON
9 17 (6.49%) OAuth
10 14 (5.34%) SAML
10 14 (5.34%) YAML
11 13 (4.96%) OpenID
12 12 (4.58%) JWT
12 12 (4.58%) XML
13 11 (4.20%) PyTorch
13 11 (4.20%) Semantic Kernel
13 11 (4.20%) TensorFlow
14 10 (3.82%) AngularJS
15 9 (3.44%) Entity Framework
15 9 (3.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.96%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.58%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.44%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.29%) PKI
7 6 (2.29%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.53%) IoT
8 4 (1.53%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.53%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.69%) Windows
2 27 (10.31%) Linux
3 12 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.15%) VMS
4 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (44.66%) DevOps
2 88 (33.59%) CI/CD
3 77 (29.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (26.34%) Agile
5 68 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (17.94%) Roadmaps
7 40 (15.27%) Migration
8 37 (14.12%) ERP
9 34 (12.98%) AI
10 31 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
11 29 (11.07%) Analytics
11 29 (11.07%) Containerisation
11 29 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.69%) Microservices
13 27 (10.31%) Mentoring
14 26 (9.92%) API Management
14 26 (9.92%) Observability
15 24 (9.16%) Software Engineering
16 23 (8.78%) Machine Learning
16 23 (8.78%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.99%) SQL
2 50 (19.08%) Python
3 33 (12.60%) PowerShell
4 30 (11.45%) Bicep
5 21 (8.02%) C#
6 13 (4.96%) Java
7 12 (4.58%) JavaScript
8 10 (3.82%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.44%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (2.29%) PHP
11 5 (1.91%) Bash
11 5 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.53%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (33.59%) Security Cleared
2 56 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.45%) Azure Certification
4 27 (10.31%) Degree
5 14 (5.34%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.20%) CISSP
6 11 (4.20%) MCP
7 10 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.29%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.53%) CCSP
12 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.15%) OSCP
12 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.87%) NIST
2 14 (5.34%) GDPR
3 12 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.20%) EU AI Act
5 6 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.29%) NCSC
6 5 (1.91%) SLA
7 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.15%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.76%) Basel III
9 2 (0.76%) GRC
9 2 (0.76%) IFRS
9 2 (0.76%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.76%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.76%) PMO
9 2 (0.76%) QA
9 2 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (13.36%) Docker
2 33 (12.60%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.29%) vCloud
6 5 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.53%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.53%) vSphere
8 3 (1.15%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.76%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.76%) NFS
10 1 (0.38%) Firmware
10 1 (0.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 77 (29.39%) Terraform
2 47 (17.94%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.87%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (4.20%) Ansible
5 8 (3.05%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (2.29%) Grafana
6 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.91%) SCCM
8 4 (1.53%) Puppet
9 3 (1.15%) Control-M
9 3 (1.15%) vMotion
10 2 (0.76%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.76%) logstash
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.76%) SCOM
10 2 (0.76%) systemd
10 2 (0.76%) vRealize
10 2 (0.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 106 (40.46%) Microsoft
2 60 (22.90%) Oracle
3 22 (8.40%) VMware
4 17 (6.49%) Google
5 13 (4.96%) Foundry
6 10 (3.82%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.82%) SAP
7 8 (3.05%) Databricks
7 8 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.67%) Cisco
8 7 (2.67%) Workday
9 6 (2.29%) DocuSign
10 5 (1.91%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.91%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.91%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.53%) Anaplan
11 4 (1.53%) Gigya
11 4 (1.53%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.53%) Informatica
11 4 (1.53%) Splunk