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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 270 230
Rank change year-on-year -25 -40 -28
Contract jobs citing PaaS 340 213 378
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.80% 0.87% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 2.31% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 128 264
10th Percentile £413 £413 £375
25th Percentile £454 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £691 £630 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £779
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £55.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 - £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 14,873 9,206 11,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.77% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,111 6,274 8,526
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 224 329
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.01 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +69.97% +16.52% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £42.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.14% +30.23% -44.55%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -9 193 £525 -12.50% 54
South East -46 53 £700 +21.74% 31
North of England -43 46 £454 -9.20% 6
Yorkshire -39 29 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -46 22 £539 -10.25% 11
North West -19 17 £425 -5.56% 3
West Midlands -50 15 £540 -10.00% 7
East of England -23 12 £650 -3.77% 8
South West -30 11 £550 -21.62% 9
East Midlands -22 7 £418 -27.39% 4
North East -28 4 £638 +19.38% 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 27 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 26 (7.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (3.82%) Confluence
4 10 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.94%) SAS
5 5 (1.47%) Apache
6 4 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.88%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.59%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.29%) IIS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.29%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 220 (64.71%) IaaS
2 217 (63.82%) Azure
3 121 (35.59%) SaaS
4 74 (21.76%) AWS
5 62 (18.24%) Entra ID
6 57 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (15.00%) OCI
8 40 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (11.47%) Serverless
10 31 (9.12%) GitHub
11 27 (7.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 23 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (5.29%) Azure Service Bus
13 18 (5.29%) Power Platform
14 17 (5.00%) GCP
15 16 (4.71%) Azure AKS
15 16 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (3.53%) Azure Service Fabric
17 11 (3.24%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.18%) DNS
2 37 (10.88%) Firewall
3 25 (7.35%) VPN
4 21 (6.18%) DHCP
5 13 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.94%) SAN
6 10 (2.94%) WAN
7 9 (2.65%) SMTP
8 8 (2.35%) LAN
9 7 (2.06%) IPsec
9 7 (2.06%) Network Security
9 7 (2.06%) PSTN
9 7 (2.06%) Unified Communications
9 7 (2.06%) VLAN
10 6 (1.76%) Internet
11 5 (1.47%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.47%) SSL
12 3 (0.88%) BGP
12 3 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.88%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (3.53%) Oracle Database
3 10 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.94%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 10 (2.94%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 9 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.47%) Metadata
6 5 (1.47%) Power BI
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.88%) Big Data
8 3 (0.88%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.59%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 31 (9.12%) Git
2 21 (6.18%) JIRA
3 12 (3.53%) Postman
4 9 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.35%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.06%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.88%) GitLab
8 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.59%) ERwin
8 2 (0.59%) Gradle
8 2 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.59%) Selenium
9 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.35%) Finance
3 42 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.47%) Banking
6 18 (5.29%) Legal
7 11 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.06%) Military
11 5 (1.47%) Law
12 4 (1.18%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.88%) Marketing
14 2 (0.59%) Aviation
14 2 (0.59%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.59%) Local Government
14 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Retail
14 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 110 (32.35%) Architect
2 59 (17.35%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (12.65%) Senior
4 37 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (8.82%) Lead
6 29 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
6 29 (8.53%) Technical Architect
7 28 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 25 (7.35%) Azure Architect
9 18 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 16 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.12%) Developer
12 14 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (4.12%) Technical Leader
13 12 (3.53%) Lead Architect
14 11 (3.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) IT Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.41%) REST
2 31 (9.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (8.82%) Web Services
4 29 (8.53%) .NET
5 28 (8.24%) SOAP
6 22 (6.47%) ARM Templates
7 19 (5.59%) OAuth
8 16 (4.71%) Microsoft Graph
8 16 (4.71%) YAML
9 15 (4.41%) JSON
10 13 (3.82%) Entity Framework
10 13 (3.82%) XML
11 11 (3.24%) .NET Framework
12 9 (2.65%) JWT
12 9 (2.65%) Middleware
13 8 (2.35%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.35%) XSLT
14 7 (2.06%) OpenID
14 7 (2.06%) SailPoint
14 7 (2.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.47%) Public Cloud
3 17 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 14 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.82%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.94%) Clustering
8 9 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
8 9 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.65%) PKI
9 8 (2.35%) IoT
10 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.76%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (15.59%) Windows
2 38 (11.18%) Linux
3 16 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.41%) Unix
5 8 (2.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.06%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.76%) Android
7 6 (1.76%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.47%) VMS
9 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.29%) CentOS
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.53%) DevOps
2 127 (37.35%) CI/CD
3 101 (29.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 82 (24.12%) Migration
5 72 (21.18%) Agile
5 72 (21.18%) Roadmaps
6 49 (14.41%) Technical Leadership
7 46 (13.53%) Analytics
8 45 (13.24%) Architectural Patterns
8 45 (13.24%) Microservices
8 45 (13.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 44 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (12.06%) ERP
11 38 (11.18%) Containerisation
12 37 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (10.59%) TOGAF
14 35 (10.29%) RBAC
15 33 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (9.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.35%) PowerShell
2 52 (15.29%) SQL
3 42 (12.35%) Python
4 37 (10.88%) Bicep
5 14 (4.12%) C#
5 14 (4.12%) Java
6 11 (3.24%) Bash
6 11 (3.24%) Ruby
7 10 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (2.06%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.59%) Groovy
10 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.59%) Perl
10 2 (0.59%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) R
11 1 (0.29%) RPG
11 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.59%) SC Cleared
3 50 (14.71%) Azure Certification
4 43 (12.65%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.41%) Degree
6 16 (4.71%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (3.82%) CISSP
8 12 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.06%) CISM
11 7 (2.06%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.06%) SANS
12 6 (1.76%) GIAC
13 5 (1.47%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (1.47%) CRISC
13 5 (1.47%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.41%) SLA
2 13 (3.82%) GDPR
3 11 (3.24%) NCSC
4 10 (2.94%) NIST
5 9 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.76%) ISO 31000
7 4 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.59%) Basel III
9 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.59%) GAAP
9 2 (0.59%) IFRS
9 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.59%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.59%) QA
10 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (12.94%) Active Directory
2 34 (10.00%) Docker
3 17 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.24%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.24%) vCloud
5 10 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.65%) BitLocker
6 9 (2.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.76%) NFS
7 6 (1.76%) Postfix
7 6 (1.76%) Varnish
8 5 (1.47%) RACF
9 4 (1.18%) Sendmail
9 4 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.59%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.59%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.59%) vSphere
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (25.29%) Terraform
2 38 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.88%) Ansible
4 19 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (5.29%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (5.29%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (2.65%) Puppet
6 9 (2.65%) SCCM
6 9 (2.65%) vMotion
7 7 (2.06%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.76%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.18%) Grafana
10 3 (0.88%) Control-M
11 2 (0.59%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.59%) Nagios
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 131 (38.53%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.18%) Oracle
3 35 (10.29%) VMware
4 13 (3.82%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.82%) SAP
5 11 (3.24%) Citrix
6 9 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.35%) Databricks
7 8 (2.35%) Tenable
8 7 (2.06%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.06%) Google
8 7 (2.06%) NetApp
9 6 (1.76%) iManage
9 6 (1.76%) Intapp
10 4 (1.18%) Aderant
10 4 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.18%) Informatica
10 4 (1.18%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.18%) Workday