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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 250 200
Rank change year-on-year -54 -50 -24
Contract jobs citing PaaS 245 293 489
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 0.95% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.66% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 204 305
10th Percentile £363 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £540 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -7.69% -0.43% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £35.50 - £75.00
25th Percentile £43.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £78.75 - £89.38
90th Percentile £88.50 - £93.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £110.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -45.45% +41.03% +48.57%

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 11,344 11,021 14,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.92% 35.64% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,663 7,311 10,320
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 143 294
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.66 £14.53
25th Percentile £18.78 £23.80 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%
75th Percentile £44.43 £64.73 £58.56
90th Percentile £71.62 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.87%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 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 -23 130 £563 +0.45% 73
North of England -24 34 £425 -32.67% 26
South East -17 24 £450 -22.41% 44
East of England 0 22 £550 +57.14% 4
Midlands -28 22 £570 -6.86% 14
West Midlands -30 20 £609 -0.49% 10
North West -20 17 £360 -40.00% 12
Yorkshire -18 15 £525 -17.65% 10
South West -19 5 £725 +16.00% 10
North East -11 2 £500 - 4
East Midlands -15 2 £450 -7.69% 4
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 (4.08%) Confluence
2 9 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.04%) SAS
6 4 (1.63%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.82%) FileNet
8 2 (0.82%) nginx
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.41%) CICS
9 1 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.41%) Luigi
9 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.67%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.63%) Workday HCM
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 177 (72.24%) Azure
2 124 (50.61%) IaaS
3 112 (45.71%) SaaS
4 53 (21.63%) AWS
5 41 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (16.33%) Entra ID
7 38 (15.51%) GCP
8 37 (15.10%) Azure AKS
9 35 (14.29%) GitHub
10 27 (11.02%) Serverless
11 25 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (9.39%) OCI
13 17 (6.94%) Azure Functions
14 16 (6.53%) Power Platform
15 14 (5.71%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (5.71%) OpenShift
16 13 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
17 12 (4.90%) Azure Storage
18 11 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.20%) Firewall
2 14 (5.71%) DNS
3 10 (4.08%) VPN
4 8 (3.27%) DHCP
5 7 (2.86%) SAN
6 6 (2.45%) Network Security
7 5 (2.04%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.04%) SSL
8 4 (1.63%) WAN
9 3 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (1.22%) NGFW
9 3 (1.22%) VLAN
10 2 (0.82%) BGP
10 2 (0.82%) Internet
10 2 (0.82%) NAS
10 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.41%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.41%) MPLS
11 1 (0.41%) OSPF
11 1 (0.41%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.16%) Relational Database
2 17 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.08%) Power BI
6 7 (2.86%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.45%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.45%) MySQL
8 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.04%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.04%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.04%) Redis
8 5 (2.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 5 (2.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.12%) SonarQube
2 14 (5.71%) JIRA
3 11 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.67%) Git
5 8 (3.27%) Postman
6 7 (2.86%) GitLab
7 4 (1.63%) Gradle
7 4 (1.63%) Maven
7 4 (1.63%) SonarLint
8 3 (1.22%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.22%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.41%) ERwin
10 1 (0.41%) JMeter
10 1 (0.41%) Selenium
10 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.96%) Finance
3 31 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.53%) Banking
6 7 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.45%) Retail
8 5 (2.04%) Aviation
8 5 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Local Government
9 4 (1.63%) Marketing
9 4 (1.63%) Military
10 3 (1.22%) Front Office
10 3 (1.22%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (25.31%) Architect
2 25 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (10.20%) Lead
3 23 (9.39%) Senior
4 21 (8.57%) Developer
5 19 (7.76%) Azure Architect
5 19 (7.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.90%) Consultant
9 11 (4.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.49%) Infrastructure Architect
10 9 (3.67%) Environment Manager
11 8 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (2.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Data Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Oracle Specialist
12 7 (2.86%) Site Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (16.73%) .NET
2 29 (11.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 28 (11.43%) RESTful
4 25 (10.20%) REST
5 18 (7.35%) SOAP
6 17 (6.94%) AngularJS
7 14 (5.71%) Web Services
8 13 (5.31%) Node.js
9 11 (4.49%) ARM Templates
9 11 (4.49%) PyTorch
9 11 (4.49%) Semantic Kernel
9 11 (4.49%) TensorFlow
10 10 (4.08%) JSON
11 9 (3.67%) ADO
12 8 (3.27%) Middleware
12 8 (3.27%) OAuth
13 7 (2.86%) React
13 7 (2.86%) SAML
14 6 (2.45%) CSS
14 6 (2.45%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.73%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.90%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.67%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.27%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.04%) IoT
8 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.63%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.73%) Linux
1 41 (16.73%) Windows
2 13 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.86%) VMS
4 5 (2.04%) Unix
5 2 (0.82%) Debian
6 1 (0.41%) AIX
6 1 (0.41%) Solaris
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (37.96%) DevOps
2 70 (28.57%) Agile
3 60 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 58 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (22.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (15.51%) Migration
7 36 (14.69%) Roadmaps
8 33 (13.47%) Containerisation
9 32 (13.06%) AI
10 30 (12.24%) Cloud Security
11 29 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 28 (11.43%) ERP
13 27 (11.02%) Machine Learning
14 25 (10.20%) ETL
15 24 (9.80%) Analytics
15 24 (9.80%) Observability
15 24 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (9.39%) Software Engineering
17 22 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (8.98%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.27%) Python
2 55 (22.45%) SQL
3 33 (13.47%) PowerShell
4 30 (12.24%) Bicep
5 15 (6.12%) C#
6 10 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.08%) PHP
7 9 (3.67%) Java
8 8 (3.27%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.86%) Bash
9 7 (2.86%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.63%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) COBOL
12 1 (0.41%) Scala
12 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 20 (8.16%) Degree
5 11 (4.49%) MCP
6 7 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.04%) CISSP
8 5 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.82%) CCNP
10 2 (0.82%) ISEB
10 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.82%) MCITP
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.53%) GDPR
2 15 (6.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.31%) NIST
4 11 (4.49%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.86%) QA
6 6 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.45%) SLA
6 6 (2.45%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.63%) COBIT
7 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.22%) GAAP
8 3 (1.22%) NCSC
9 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.82%) PMO
10 1 (0.41%) GRC
10 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS
10 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 31 (12.65%) Active Directory
1 31 (12.65%) Docker
2 11 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.63%) vSphere
4 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.82%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 73 (29.80%) Terraform
2 56 (22.86%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.12%) Ansible
4 13 (5.31%) Grafana
5 12 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.82%) Control-M
8 2 (0.82%) logstash
8 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.82%) Puppet
8 2 (0.82%) SCOM
9 1 (0.41%) Istio
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) SCCM
9 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (38.78%) Microsoft
2 59 (24.08%) Oracle
3 20 (8.16%) Google
4 16 (6.53%) VMware
5 14 (5.71%) Databricks
5 14 (5.71%) Foundry
6 13 (5.31%) AppDynamics
7 12 (4.90%) Salesforce
8 9 (3.67%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.67%) Workday
9 8 (3.27%) IBM
9 8 (3.27%) SAP
10 7 (2.86%) HP
11 6 (2.45%) Cisco
11 6 (2.45%) Citrix
11 6 (2.45%) DocuSign
11 6 (2.45%) F5
11 6 (2.45%) Informatica
11 6 (2.45%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.04%) Palo Alto