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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 242 204
Rank change year-on-year -62 -38 -6
Contract jobs citing PaaS 279 269 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.02% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 2.75% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 172 240
10th Percentile £400 £418 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £579
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -0.69% +0.70%
75th Percentile £647 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £731 £738
UK median daily rate £540 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile £49.90 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £82.75 - £36.77
90th Percentile £90.10 - £76.50
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

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 12,417 9,792 12,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.85% 37.01% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,624 6,490 9,147
10th Percentile £304 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 136 289
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.71 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
% change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -25 151 £550 -5.98% 30
South East -33 41 £571 +3.86% 28
North of England -40 34 £525 +16.67% 12
East of England +8 21 £450 -18.18% 7
Yorkshire -36 18 £575 +35.29% 4
Midlands -54 17 £515 -10.43% 8
North West -20 16 £395 -12.22% 8
West Midlands -40 14 £539 -11.29% 6
South West -37 6 £575 -6.12% 7
East Midlands -33 3 £418 -18.54% 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 11 (3.94%) Confluence
2 10 (3.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.79%) SAS
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 3 (1.08%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Apache
7 1 (0.36%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (6.45%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (3.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.08%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (1.08%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (66.31%) Azure
2 138 (49.46%) IaaS
3 100 (35.84%) SaaS
4 51 (18.28%) AWS
4 51 (18.28%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (15.77%) Entra ID
6 42 (15.05%) GitHub
6 42 (15.05%) OCI
7 36 (12.90%) Serverless
8 33 (11.83%) Azure AKS
9 23 (8.24%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (7.89%) Azure Functions
10 22 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (7.89%) GCP
10 22 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (7.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 20 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
12 19 (6.81%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (5.73%) Power Platform
14 14 (5.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.47%) Firewall
2 14 (5.02%) DNS
2 14 (5.02%) VPN
3 13 (4.66%) DHCP
4 6 (2.15%) Network Security
5 3 (1.08%) BGP
5 3 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (1.08%) IPsec
5 3 (1.08%) NX-OS
5 3 (1.08%) SMTP
6 2 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.72%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.72%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.72%) SAN
6 2 (0.72%) SSL
6 2 (0.72%) VLAN
6 2 (0.72%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.72%) WAN
6 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (5.38%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 11 (3.94%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.23%) Power BI
6 7 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.51%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.15%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.15%) Redis
8 5 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.79%) MySQL
8 5 (1.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 5 (1.79%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.43%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.08%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 25 (8.96%) Git
2 22 (7.89%) Postman
3 18 (6.45%) JIRA
4 15 (5.38%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.94%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.87%) GitLab
7 6 (2.15%) Gradle
7 6 (2.15%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.43%) Maven
8 4 (1.43%) SonarLint
9 3 (1.08%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.08%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.72%) Selenium
11 1 (0.36%) ERwin
11 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 72 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 43 (15.41%) Finance
4 28 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.58%) Banking
6 9 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.87%) Aviation
7 8 (2.87%) Military
8 7 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.15%) Marketing
10 5 (1.79%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 4 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.08%) Front Office
12 3 (1.08%) Local Government
13 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.72%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (19.71%) Architect
2 35 (12.54%) Azure Engineer
3 30 (10.75%) Senior
4 28 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (8.96%) Developer
6 25 (8.96%) Lead
7 19 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.45%) Azure Architect
9 15 (5.38%) Integration Specialist
9 15 (5.38%) Oracle Specialist
9 15 (5.38%) Technical Architect
10 14 (5.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.02%) Cloud Specialist
11 10 (3.58%) Consultant
12 9 (3.23%) Environment Manager
12 9 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (2.87%) .NET Developer
14 7 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.92%) .NET
2 44 (15.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 38 (13.62%) REST
4 34 (12.19%) SOAP
5 27 (9.68%) Web Services
6 24 (8.60%) ARM Templates
6 24 (8.60%) JSON
7 23 (8.24%) RESTful
8 22 (7.89%) OAuth
9 16 (5.73%) YAML
10 15 (5.38%) SAML
11 14 (5.02%) JWT
11 14 (5.02%) OpenID
11 14 (5.02%) XML
12 11 (3.94%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.94%) PyTorch
12 11 (3.94%) Semantic Kernel
12 11 (3.94%) TensorFlow
12 11 (3.94%) XSLT
13 9 (3.23%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 45 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.02%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.23%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.15%) PKI
10 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.43%) IoT
11 4 (1.43%) N-Tier
11 4 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.75%) Linux
2 28 (10.04%) Windows
3 12 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.08%) VMS
4 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.36%) CentOS
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (46.59%) DevOps
2 98 (35.13%) CI/CD
3 85 (30.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (26.88%) Agile
5 71 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (18.28%) Roadmaps
7 44 (15.77%) ERP
8 43 (15.41%) Migration
9 39 (13.98%) AI
10 35 (12.54%) Technical Leadership
11 34 (12.19%) Microservices
12 33 (11.83%) Containerisation
13 30 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (10.75%) Mentoring
14 29 (10.39%) Analytics
15 28 (10.04%) Observability
16 26 (9.32%) TOGAF
17 25 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 24 (8.60%) API Management
18 24 (8.60%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (20.43%) SQL
2 52 (18.64%) Python
3 37 (13.26%) PowerShell
4 28 (10.04%) Bicep
5 20 (7.17%) C#
6 14 (5.02%) Java
7 12 (4.30%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (3.94%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.15%) PHP
10 5 (1.79%) Bash
10 5 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.43%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 97 (34.77%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.75%) Azure Certification
4 29 (10.39%) Degree
5 14 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.94%) CISSP
6 11 (3.94%) MCP
7 10 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.51%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.43%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.08%) OSCP
12 3 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.81%) NIST
2 15 (5.38%) GDPR
3 12 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.94%) EU AI Act
5 8 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.51%) SLA
7 6 (2.15%) NCSC
8 5 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.79%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.43%) Data Quality
10 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.72%) Basel III
11 2 (0.72%) GRC
11 2 (0.72%) IFRS
11 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.72%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.72%) PMO
11 2 (0.72%) QA
11 2 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (13.98%) Docker
2 36 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.51%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.15%) vCloud
6 5 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.43%) vSphere
8 3 (1.08%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.72%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.72%) NFS
9 2 (0.72%) RACF
10 1 (0.36%) Firmware
10 1 (0.36%) Postfix
10 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 82 (29.39%) Terraform
2 52 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.60%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (4.66%) Ansible
5 9 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (2.87%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.15%) Grafana
9 5 (1.79%) SCCM
10 4 (1.43%) Puppet
11 3 (1.08%) Control-M
11 3 (1.08%) vMotion
12 2 (0.72%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.72%) logstash
12 2 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.72%) SCOM
12 2 (0.72%) systemd
12 2 (0.72%) vRealize
12 2 (0.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 107 (38.35%) Microsoft
2 64 (22.94%) Oracle
3 23 (8.24%) VMware
4 15 (5.38%) Google
5 14 (5.02%) Foundry
6 10 (3.58%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.58%) SAP
7 7 (2.51%) Cisco
7 7 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.51%) Workday
8 6 (2.15%) Databricks
8 6 (2.15%) DocuSign
9 5 (1.79%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.79%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.79%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.79%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.43%) Anaplan
10 4 (1.43%) Gigya
10 4 (1.43%) Hyperion
10 4 (1.43%) Splunk