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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 226 207
Rank change year-on-year -76 -19 -17
Contract jobs citing PaaS 307 265 432
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.09% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 2.88% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 163 232
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £450 £500 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +2.00% -2.80%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £743 £771
UK median daily rate £538 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -8.12% +4.00% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
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 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -66.67%

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 13,807 9,206 12,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.81% 37.92% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,518 6,471 8,752
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £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 418 176 331
10th Percentile £15.89 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £63.24 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.38 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

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 25 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 25 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 -47 168 £531 -7.61% 32
South East -51 48 £700 +21.74% 23
North of England -48 44 £454 -6.87% 14
Yorkshire -38 29 £525 +23.53% 2
East of England -14 20 £550 -26.76% 4
North West -30 15 £426 -5.23% 10
Midlands -65 15 £488 -15.22% 13
West Midlands -53 10 £618 +7.48% 10
South West -35 9 £575 -8.00% 11
East Midlands -29 5 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -17 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 30 (9.77%) SharePoint
2 29 (9.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.91%) Confluence
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.98%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.98%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.65%) Apache
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.33%) IIS
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 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.89%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.65%) 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 (66.45%) Azure
2 190 (61.89%) IaaS
3 109 (35.50%) SaaS
4 63 (20.52%) Entra ID
5 59 (19.22%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (18.89%) AWS
7 48 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (14.66%) OCI
9 43 (14.01%) GitHub
10 36 (11.73%) Serverless
11 30 (9.77%) Azure AKS
11 30 (9.77%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (9.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (7.49%) Azure Service Bus
15 17 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (5.21%) Azure App Service
16 16 (5.21%) Azure Functions
17 14 (4.56%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (4.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 46 (14.98%) Firewall
2 29 (9.45%) DNS
3 26 (8.47%) VPN
4 23 (7.49%) DHCP
5 14 (4.56%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (3.58%) WAN
7 9 (2.93%) SAN
7 9 (2.93%) VLAN
8 8 (2.61%) LAN
9 7 (2.28%) IPsec
9 7 (2.28%) Network Security
10 6 (1.95%) PSTN
10 6 (1.95%) SMTP
10 6 (1.95%) Unified Communications
11 5 (1.63%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.63%) SSL
12 4 (1.30%) BGP
12 4 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (0.98%) Internet
13 3 (0.98%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.91%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.95%) Metadata
6 5 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.98%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.65%) Flink
8 2 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.65%) Power BI
8 2 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (9.12%) Git
2 20 (6.51%) JIRA
3 18 (5.86%) Postman
4 8 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.61%) SoapUI
5 7 (2.28%) Chocolatey
6 4 (1.30%) GitLab
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.65%) ERwin
8 2 (0.65%) Gradle
8 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.65%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 69 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.29%) Finance
3 39 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.86%) Banking
6 13 (4.23%) Legal
7 11 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.95%) Military
11 5 (1.63%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.30%) Aviation
12 4 (1.30%) Law
12 4 (1.30%) Marketing
13 3 (0.98%) Local Government
13 3 (0.98%) Retail
14 2 (0.65%) Billing
14 2 (0.65%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 88 (28.66%) Architect
2 51 (16.61%) Azure Engineer
3 50 (16.29%) Senior
4 31 (10.10%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (8.47%) Developer
6 25 (8.14%) Lead
7 24 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (7.82%) Technical Architect
8 21 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.54%) Azure Architect
10 14 (4.56%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (3.91%) Cloud Specialist
11 12 (3.91%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (3.91%) IT Engineer
11 12 (3.91%) Oracle Specialist
12 11 (3.58%) Azure Developer
12 11 (3.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.58%) VMware Architect
13 10 (3.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.01%) .NET
2 39 (12.70%) REST
3 38 (12.38%) Web Services
4 35 (11.40%) SOAP
5 30 (9.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (7.82%) OAuth
7 23 (7.49%) ARM Templates
8 20 (6.51%) JSON
8 20 (6.51%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (5.86%) YAML
10 15 (4.89%) XML
11 14 (4.56%) .NET Framework
11 14 (4.56%) OpenID
11 14 (4.56%) SAML
12 12 (3.91%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.58%) JWT
13 11 (3.58%) RESTful
13 11 (3.58%) XSLT
14 8 (2.61%) .NET Core
15 7 (2.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.56%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.56%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.58%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.93%) IoT
7 9 (2.93%) PKI
7 9 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.61%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.28%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.95%) Clustering
10 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.95%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.38%) Windows
2 27 (8.79%) Linux
3 14 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.95%) VMS
4 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.33%) CentOS
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (42.67%) DevOps
2 98 (31.92%) CI/CD
3 90 (29.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (22.80%) Agile
5 67 (21.82%) Migration
6 59 (19.22%) Roadmaps
7 56 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (13.68%) Microservices
10 40 (13.03%) Analytics
10 40 (13.03%) Observability
11 38 (12.38%) ERP
12 37 (12.05%) Architectural Patterns
13 35 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 35 (11.40%) TOGAF
14 33 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
14 33 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 31 (10.10%) Containerisation
16 29 (9.45%) AI
16 29 (9.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.57%) PowerShell
1 57 (18.57%) SQL
2 48 (15.64%) Python
3 26 (8.47%) Bicep
4 20 (6.51%) C#
5 19 (6.19%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (4.56%) Java
7 7 (2.28%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.28%) Ruby
8 6 (1.95%) Bash
9 5 (1.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.65%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) PHP
11 1 (0.33%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 115 (37.46%) Security Cleared
2 69 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.64%) Azure Certification
4 34 (11.07%) DV Cleared
5 31 (10.10%) Degree
6 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (3.58%) CISSP
8 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 7 (2.28%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.28%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.56%) NIST
1 14 (4.56%) SLA
2 12 (3.91%) GDPR
3 9 (2.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.28%) EU AI Act
6 6 (1.95%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.95%) NCSC
7 5 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.65%) Basel III
9 2 (0.65%) GAAP
9 2 (0.65%) GRC
9 2 (0.65%) IFRS
9 2 (0.65%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.65%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.65%) PMO
9 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 42 (13.68%) Active Directory
2 31 (10.10%) Docker
3 18 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.58%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.58%) vCloud
5 8 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.95%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.95%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (1.63%) RACF
8 4 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.98%) NFS
9 3 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.65%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.65%) Postfix
10 2 (0.65%) Varnish
11 1 (0.33%) Firmware
11 1 (0.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 78 (25.41%) Terraform
2 42 (13.68%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.84%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (5.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (5.21%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.23%) Ansible
7 12 (3.91%) SCCM
8 9 (2.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.95%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.95%) Puppet
9 6 (1.95%) vMotion
10 3 (0.98%) Control-M
10 3 (0.98%) Grafana
11 2 (0.65%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.65%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.65%) systemd
11 2 (0.65%) vRealize
11 2 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 141 (45.93%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.59%) Oracle
3 37 (12.05%) VMware
4 14 (4.56%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.91%) SAP
6 10 (3.26%) Tenable
7 9 (2.93%) Foundry
8 8 (2.61%) Citrix
9 7 (2.28%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.28%) Databricks
9 7 (2.28%) Google
10 6 (1.95%) iManage
10 6 (1.95%) Intapp
10 6 (1.95%) NetApp
11 5 (1.63%) Cisco
11 5 (1.63%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.30%) Informatica
12 4 (1.30%) Meraki
12 4 (1.30%) SolarWinds