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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 244 207
Rank change year-on-year -73 -37 -26
Contract jobs citing PaaS 246 313 479
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.00% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.78% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 219 294
10th Percentile £364 £372 £400
25th Percentile £414 £478 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +1.69%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £679
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile £33.20 - £74.26
25th Percentile £38.00 - -
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £70.50 - £88.75
90th Percentile £85.20 - £93.75
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 11,711 11,263 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.52% 35.84% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 7,484 10,089
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 151 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +26.84% +18.89%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +12.27% +25.00%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -19 129 £550 -4.35% 32
North of England -18 35 £475 -6.17% 18
South East -32 27 £480 -12.73% 33
Midlands -38 23 £537 -11.89% 14
East of England -3 21 £463 +32.14% 4
West Midlands -26 19 £618 +0.98% 12
Yorkshire -16 18 £525 - 9
North West -15 17 £360 -28.89% 8
South West -27 5 £725 +16.00% 12
East Midlands -11 4 £434 -11.03% 1
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 12 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.07%) Confluence
2 10 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.03%) SAS
5 4 (1.63%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.81%) FileNet
8 1 (0.41%) Apache
8 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.41%) CICS
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Luigi
8 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.66%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.63%) Workday HCM
5 3 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.41%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 181 (73.58%) Azure
2 115 (46.75%) IaaS
3 108 (43.90%) SaaS
4 53 (21.54%) AWS
5 42 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (16.67%) GitHub
7 38 (15.45%) GCP
8 37 (15.04%) Entra ID
9 36 (14.63%) Azure AKS
10 29 (11.79%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (10.98%) Serverless
12 25 (10.16%) OCI
13 19 (7.72%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (7.32%) Azure Functions
15 17 (6.91%) Power Platform
16 16 (6.50%) Azure Service Bus
17 15 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (5.69%) Azure Key Vault
18 14 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
18 14 (5.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.98%) Firewall
2 13 (5.28%) DNS
3 11 (4.47%) VPN
4 9 (3.66%) DHCP
5 7 (2.85%) SAN
6 6 (2.44%) Network Security
7 5 (2.03%) WAN
8 3 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.22%) VLAN
9 2 (0.81%) BGP
9 2 (0.81%) Internet
9 2 (0.81%) NAS
9 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.41%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.41%) LAN
10 1 (0.41%) MPLS
10 1 (0.41%) OSPF
10 1 (0.41%) PBX
10 1 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.91%) Azure SQL Database
1 17 (6.91%) Relational Database
2 12 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.07%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.07%) Power BI
4 6 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.44%) MySQL
5 5 (2.03%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.03%) Oracle Database
5 5 (2.03%) Redis
5 5 (2.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (2.03%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.63%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.10%) Git
2 13 (5.28%) SonarQube
3 12 (4.88%) JIRA
4 11 (4.47%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.07%) Postman
6 7 (2.85%) 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 (0.81%) 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 63 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 46 (18.70%) Finance
3 35 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.69%) Banking
6 8 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.85%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.44%) Aviation
8 6 (2.44%) Retail
9 5 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Front Office
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Local Government
10 4 (1.63%) Military
11 3 (1.22%) Billing
11 3 (1.22%) Marketing
11 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (23.17%) Architect
2 27 (10.98%) Senior
3 25 (10.16%) Developer
4 23 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (9.35%) Lead
5 21 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.88%) Azure Architect
10 11 (4.47%) Consultant
11 10 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.66%) Environment Manager
13 8 (3.25%) .NET Developer
13 8 (3.25%) Oracle Specialist
14 7 (2.85%) Administrator
14 7 (2.85%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.85%) Infrastructure Architect
14 7 (2.85%) Security Architect
15 6 (2.44%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (19.51%) .NET
2 29 (11.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 28 (11.38%) RESTful
4 27 (10.98%) REST
5 22 (8.94%) SOAP
6 19 (7.72%) Web Services
7 17 (6.91%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.28%) Node.js
9 12 (4.88%) JSON
10 11 (4.47%) PyTorch
10 11 (4.47%) SAML
10 11 (4.47%) Semantic Kernel
10 11 (4.47%) TensorFlow
11 10 (4.07%) ARM Templates
11 10 (4.07%) OpenID
12 9 (3.66%) OAuth
13 8 (3.25%) ADO
13 8 (3.25%) React
14 7 (2.85%) .NET Framework
14 7 (2.85%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.88%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.07%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 8 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.25%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.85%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.03%) IoT
10 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Mainframe
10 4 (1.63%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.63%) Linux
1 36 (14.63%) Windows
2 11 (4.47%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.85%) VMS
4 5 (2.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) AIX
5 1 (0.41%) Solaris
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.43%) DevOps
2 70 (28.46%) Agile
3 64 (26.02%) CI/CD
4 58 (23.58%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (15.85%) Migration
7 37 (15.04%) Roadmaps
8 34 (13.82%) AI
8 34 (13.82%) Containerisation
9 30 (12.20%) Observability
10 27 (10.98%) Cloud Security
10 27 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (10.98%) ERP
10 27 (10.98%) Machine Learning
11 26 (10.57%) Analytics
12 25 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (9.76%) TOGAF
14 23 (9.35%) Software Engineering
15 22 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 61 (24.80%) Python
2 49 (19.92%) SQL
3 34 (13.82%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.98%) Bicep
5 21 (8.54%) C#
6 12 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.47%) PHP
8 10 (4.07%) Java
9 9 (3.66%) Bash
9 9 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.25%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
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 59 (23.98%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.13%) Degree
4 18 (7.32%) Azure Certification
5 11 (4.47%) MCP
6 8 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.25%) CISSP
6 8 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.03%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.22%) CCNP
9 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.81%) CCIE
10 2 (0.81%) CCSP
10 2 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.81%) ISEB
10 2 (0.81%) MCITP
10 2 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.32%) GDPR
2 16 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.50%) NIST
3 11 (4.47%) EU AI Act
4 6 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.44%) SLA
5 5 (2.03%) QA
5 5 (2.03%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.63%) COBIT
7 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.22%) NCSC
7 3 (1.22%) PMO
8 2 (0.81%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (13.01%) Docker
2 28 (11.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.63%) vSphere
5 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.81%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (28.86%) Terraform
2 52 (21.14%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.28%) Grafana
4 12 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (4.47%) Ansible
6 7 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.22%) SCCM
9 2 (0.81%) logstash
9 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.81%) Puppet
9 2 (0.81%) SCOM
10 1 (0.41%) Istio
10 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (42.28%) Microsoft
2 58 (23.58%) Oracle
3 22 (8.94%) Google
4 16 (6.50%) VMware
5 14 (5.69%) Databricks
5 14 (5.69%) Foundry
6 13 (5.28%) AppDynamics
7 12 (4.88%) Salesforce
8 11 (4.47%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.66%) Workday
10 7 (2.85%) HP
10 7 (2.85%) SAP
11 6 (2.44%) Cisco
11 6 (2.44%) Citrix
11 6 (2.44%) DocuSign
11 6 (2.44%) F5
11 6 (2.44%) IBM
12 5 (2.03%) MuleSoft
12 5 (2.03%) Palo Alto
13 4 (1.63%) Anaplan