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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 233 209
Rank change year-on-year -64 -24 -12
Contract jobs citing PaaS 303 273 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 2.92% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 171 237
10th Percentile £400 £425 £393
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% - -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £539 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.91% +1.74% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £48.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £52.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.10 - £55.24
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.86%

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 13,494 9,353 12,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.04% 37.96% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,274 6,490 8,861
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £412 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 155 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.41 £19.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.44
90th Percentile £79.90 £71.75 £62.63
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.38% +21.67% -14.52%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -33 164 £539 -6.30% 51
South East -55 45 £675 +17.39% 33
North of England -47 41 £457 -6.26% 22
Yorkshire -43 28 £525 +23.53% 4
East of England -3 24 £475 -29.68% 8
Midlands -61 15 £488 -17.02% 16
North West -32 13 £436 -3.11% 16
West Midlands -65 10 £618 +3.00% 9
South West -34 8 £575 -8.00% 18
East Midlands -29 5 £418 -27.39% 6
North East -20 1 - - 2
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 27 (8.91%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.96%) Confluence
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.99%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.99%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.66%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) CMS
7 1 (0.33%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (5.61%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.33%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.33%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 204 (67.33%) Azure
2 178 (58.75%) IaaS
3 105 (34.65%) SaaS
4 61 (20.13%) Entra ID
5 59 (19.47%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (19.14%) AWS
7 45 (14.85%) GitHub
7 45 (14.85%) OCI
8 43 (14.19%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (12.54%) Serverless
10 36 (11.88%) Azure AKS
11 31 (10.23%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (9.57%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (7.59%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (6.27%) Azure Functions
16 18 (5.94%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (5.61%) Azure Sentinel
18 16 (5.28%) Azure App Service
19 14 (4.62%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 44 (14.52%) Firewall
2 26 (8.58%) DNS
3 24 (7.92%) VPN
4 21 (6.93%) DHCP
5 12 (3.96%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (2.97%) WAN
7 8 (2.64%) SAN
7 8 (2.64%) VLAN
8 7 (2.31%) IPsec
8 7 (2.31%) LAN
8 7 (2.31%) Network Security
9 5 (1.65%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.65%) PSTN
9 5 (1.65%) SMTP
9 5 (1.65%) SSL
9 5 (1.65%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.32%) BGP
10 4 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.99%) Internet
11 3 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.95%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (3.63%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.65%) Metadata
5 5 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.99%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.99%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.66%) Power BI
8 2 (0.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (7.59%) Git
2 20 (6.60%) JIRA
3 18 (5.94%) Postman
4 11 (3.63%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.64%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.31%) GitLab
7 6 (1.98%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.66%) ERwin
9 2 (0.66%) Gradle
9 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.66%) Selenium
10 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.83%) Finance
3 36 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 33 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.94%) Banking
6 11 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.97%) Legal
8 8 (2.64%) Aviation
8 8 (2.64%) Military
9 5 (1.65%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Marketing
11 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.99%) Local Government
11 3 (0.99%) Retail
12 2 (0.66%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.66%) Law
12 2 (0.66%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 78 (25.74%) Architect
2 52 (17.16%) Azure Engineer
3 49 (16.17%) Senior
4 35 (11.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (9.90%) Developer
6 26 (8.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (6.93%) Lead
9 19 (6.27%) Technical Architect
10 16 (5.28%) Azure Architect
11 14 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.96%) Azure Developer
13 12 (3.96%) Cloud Specialist
13 12 (3.96%) Integration Specialist
13 12 (3.96%) IT Engineer
13 12 (3.96%) Oracle Specialist
14 9 (2.97%) Senior IT Engineer
14 9 (2.97%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.51%) .NET
2 41 (13.53%) REST
3 37 (12.21%) Web Services
4 35 (11.55%) SOAP
5 33 (10.89%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (7.92%) OAuth
7 23 (7.59%) ARM Templates
8 22 (7.26%) JSON
9 19 (6.27%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (5.94%) OpenID
10 18 (5.94%) SAML
10 18 (5.94%) YAML
11 15 (4.95%) RESTful
11 15 (4.95%) XML
12 14 (4.62%) .NET Framework
13 12 (3.96%) Entity Framework
14 11 (3.63%) PyTorch
14 11 (3.63%) Semantic Kernel
14 11 (3.63%) TensorFlow
14 11 (3.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.62%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.62%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.96%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.63%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.64%) IoT
6 8 (2.64%) PKI
7 6 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
8 5 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.88%) Windows
2 28 (9.24%) Linux
3 13 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.65%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.32%) VMS
6 3 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.99%) Unix
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (44.88%) DevOps
2 95 (31.35%) CI/CD
3 89 (29.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (23.43%) Agile
5 67 (22.11%) Migration
5 67 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (17.49%) Roadmaps
7 41 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
8 40 (13.20%) Analytics
8 40 (13.20%) Observability
9 39 (12.87%) ERP
10 38 (12.54%) Microservices
11 36 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 32 (10.56%) AI
12 32 (10.56%) Architectural Patterns
12 32 (10.56%) TOGAF
13 31 (10.23%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 56 (18.48%) PowerShell
1 56 (18.48%) SQL
2 47 (15.51%) Python
3 25 (8.25%) Bicep
4 21 (6.93%) C#
5 19 (6.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 9 (2.97%) Java
7 8 (2.64%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.31%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.98%) Bash
9 6 (1.98%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.66%) PHP
10 2 (0.66%) Ruby
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (34.98%) Security Cleared
2 65 (21.45%) SC Cleared
3 44 (14.52%) Azure Certification
4 31 (10.23%) Degree
5 28 (9.24%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.29%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 11 (3.63%) CISSP
9 9 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.31%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.31%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.32%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.99%) PMP
13 3 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.94%) NIST
2 12 (3.96%) SLA
3 11 (3.63%) EU AI Act
3 11 (3.63%) GDPR
4 9 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.98%) NCSC
7 5 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.99%) PMO
9 2 (0.66%) Basel III
9 2 (0.66%) GAAP
9 2 (0.66%) GRC
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.66%) QA
9 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (13.20%) Active Directory
2 31 (10.23%) Docker
3 17 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.97%) vCloud
6 7 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.65%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (1.65%) RACF
8 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.32%) vSphere
9 3 (0.99%) NFS
9 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.66%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.66%) Postfix
10 2 (0.66%) Varnish
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.33%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 80 (26.40%) Terraform
2 44 (14.52%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.93%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.29%) Ansible
5 13 (4.29%) vCenter Server
6 11 (3.63%) SCCM
7 9 (2.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.65%) Puppet
8 5 (1.65%) vMotion
9 4 (1.32%) Grafana
10 3 (0.99%) Control-M
11 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.66%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.66%) systemd
11 2 (0.66%) vRealize
11 2 (0.66%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 140 (46.20%) Microsoft
2 53 (17.49%) Oracle
3 34 (11.22%) VMware
4 13 (4.29%) Foundry
5 12 (3.96%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.97%) SAP
6 9 (2.97%) Tenable
7 8 (2.64%) Databricks
8 7 (2.31%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.31%) Citrix
8 7 (2.31%) Google
9 5 (1.65%) Cisco
9 5 (1.65%) NetApp
9 5 (1.65%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.32%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.32%) Informatica
10 4 (1.32%) Meraki
10 4 (1.32%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.32%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.32%) Splunk