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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 240 203
Rank change year-on-year -50 -37 -2
Contract jobs citing PaaS 291 268 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.03% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.31% 2.75% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 170 240
10th Percentile £400 £425 £400
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +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 12,579 9,749 12,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.73% 37.33% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,715 6,469 9,166
10th Percentile £304 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 143 303
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.45 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £16.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -7.29%
75th Percentile £58.75 £45.59 £47.47
90th Percentile £78.38 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -26 159 £548 -6.41% 31
South East -42 41 £571 +3.86% 22
North of England -39 38 £488 +8.33% 12
East of England -7 21 £450 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -34 21 £563 +32.35% 4
North West -19 17 £395 -12.22% 8
Midlands -55 17 £515 -10.43% 12
West Midlands -43 14 £539 -8.88% 10
South West -33 6 £575 -6.12% 14
East Midlands -29 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 17 (5.84%) Confluence
1 17 (5.84%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.72%) SAS
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.03%) ArcGIS
6 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.34%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) CMS
8 1 (0.34%) Luigi
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (6.19%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.72%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.72%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (65.98%) Azure
2 143 (49.14%) IaaS
3 112 (38.49%) SaaS
4 56 (19.24%) AWS
5 51 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (16.84%) Entra ID
7 43 (14.78%) GitHub
8 42 (14.43%) OCI
9 39 (13.40%) Serverless
10 32 (11.00%) Azure AKS
11 29 (9.97%) Microsoft 365
12 23 (7.90%) Azure Service Bus
12 23 (7.90%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (7.90%) GCP
13 22 (7.56%) Azure Functions
14 21 (7.22%) Azure Key Vault
14 21 (7.22%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (7.22%) Power Platform
15 19 (6.53%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (4.81%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.34%) Firewall
2 16 (5.50%) VPN
3 15 (5.15%) DNS
4 14 (4.81%) DHCP
5 8 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.41%) WAN
7 6 (2.06%) LAN
7 6 (2.06%) Network Security
8 5 (1.72%) IPsec
8 5 (1.72%) PSTN
8 5 (1.72%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.37%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.37%) SSL
10 3 (1.03%) BGP
10 3 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.03%) NX-OS
10 3 (1.03%) SAN
10 3 (1.03%) SMTP
10 3 (1.03%) VLAN
11 2 (0.69%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (5.50%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.15%) SQL Server
4 13 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.78%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.09%) Power BI
7 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.41%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.41%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.06%) Redis
9 5 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.72%) MySQL
9 5 (1.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 5 (1.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.37%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.03%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 25 (8.59%) Git
2 24 (8.25%) JIRA
3 22 (7.56%) Postman
4 15 (5.15%) Jenkins
5 11 (3.78%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.75%) GitLab
7 6 (2.06%) Gradle
7 6 (2.06%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.37%) Maven
8 4 (1.37%) SonarLint
9 3 (1.03%) ERwin
9 3 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.69%) Selenium
10 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.34%) Chocolatey
11 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.46%) Finance
4 29 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.78%) Banking
6 10 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.09%) Military
8 8 (2.75%) Aviation
8 8 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.06%) Marketing
10 5 (1.72%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.37%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.37%) Retail
11 4 (1.37%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.03%) Front Office
12 3 (1.03%) Legal
12 3 (1.03%) Local Government
13 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (21.65%) Architect
2 37 (12.71%) Senior
3 34 (11.68%) Azure Engineer
4 27 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (8.59%) Developer
6 25 (8.59%) Lead
7 19 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.19%) Azure Architect
8 18 (6.19%) Technical Architect
9 15 (5.15%) Integration Specialist
9 15 (5.15%) Oracle Specialist
10 14 (4.81%) Cloud Specialist
11 13 (4.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Consultant
13 9 (3.09%) Environment Manager
13 9 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.09%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (2.75%) .NET Developer
14 8 (2.75%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.53%) .NET
2 44 (15.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 39 (13.40%) REST
4 35 (12.03%) SOAP
5 31 (10.65%) Web Services
6 24 (8.25%) JSON
6 24 (8.25%) OAuth
7 23 (7.90%) ARM Templates
7 23 (7.90%) RESTful
8 17 (5.84%) SAML
9 16 (5.50%) OpenID
9 16 (5.50%) YAML
10 14 (4.81%) JWT
10 14 (4.81%) XML
11 11 (3.78%) A2A Protocol
11 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (3.78%) Model Context Protocol
11 11 (3.78%) PyTorch
11 11 (3.78%) Semantic Kernel
11 11 (3.78%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.81%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.12%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.78%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.78%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.09%) IoT
6 9 (3.09%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.06%) PKI
9 5 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.37%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.65%) Windows
2 29 (9.97%) Linux
3 11 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.03%) VMS
4 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.34%) CentOS
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (46.39%) DevOps
2 102 (35.05%) CI/CD
3 84 (28.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (28.52%) Agile
5 72 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (19.24%) Roadmaps
7 46 (15.81%) Migration
8 44 (15.12%) ERP
9 39 (13.40%) AI
10 38 (13.06%) Microservices
11 35 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (11.68%) Containerisation
13 31 (10.65%) Mentoring
14 30 (10.31%) Analytics
14 30 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (10.31%) Observability
14 30 (10.31%) TOGAF
15 28 (9.62%) Architectural Patterns
16 27 (9.28%) Decision-Making
17 25 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.93%) SQL
2 57 (19.59%) Python
3 41 (14.09%) PowerShell
4 27 (9.28%) Bicep
5 21 (7.22%) C#
6 14 (4.81%) Java
7 12 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.12%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (3.78%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.06%) PHP
10 5 (1.72%) Bash
10 5 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (34.02%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 32 (11.00%) Degree
4 30 (10.31%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.78%) CISSP
6 11 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 9 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.37%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.53%) NIST
2 15 (5.15%) GDPR
3 11 (3.78%) EU AI Act
3 11 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.41%) SLA
6 6 (2.06%) NCSC
7 5 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
9 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.69%) Basel III
10 2 (0.69%) GRC
10 2 (0.69%) IFRS
10 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.69%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.69%) PMO
10 2 (0.69%) QA
10 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (13.75%) Docker
2 35 (12.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.41%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.06%) vCloud
6 5 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.37%) RACF
7 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.37%) vSphere
8 3 (1.03%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.03%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.69%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.69%) NFS
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
10 1 (0.34%) Postfix
10 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 81 (27.84%) Terraform
2 53 (18.21%) Kubernetes
3 26 (8.93%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (4.47%) Ansible
5 12 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (2.75%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.06%) Grafana
8 6 (2.06%) SCCM
9 5 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.37%) Puppet
11 3 (1.03%) Control-M
11 3 (1.03%) vMotion
12 2 (0.69%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.69%) logstash
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.69%) systemd
12 2 (0.69%) vRealize
12 2 (0.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 116 (39.86%) Microsoft
2 63 (21.65%) Oracle
3 24 (8.25%) VMware
4 15 (5.15%) Google
5 14 (4.81%) Foundry
6 11 (3.78%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.78%) SAP
7 7 (2.41%) Cisco
7 7 (2.41%) Databricks
7 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.41%) Workday
8 6 (2.06%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.06%) DocuSign
9 5 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.72%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.72%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.37%) Citrix
10 4 (1.37%) Hyperion
10 4 (1.37%) Informatica
10 4 (1.37%) Splunk