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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 243 209
Rank change year-on-year -48 -34 -12
Contract jobs citing PaaS 271 270 423
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.01% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.73% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 172 237
10th Percentile £400 £418 £400
25th Percentile £441 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £663
90th Percentile £725 £737 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £49.90 - -
25th Percentile £55.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £82.75 - £47.03
90th Percentile £90.10 - £76.80
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 12,315 9,877 12,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.85% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,569 6,569 9,069
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £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 295 139 273
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +18.59% +1.99%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £49.08
90th Percentile £75.60 £68.75 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +9.70%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -29 146 £548 -6.41% 37
South East -36 41 £571 +3.86% 64
North of England -39 34 £525 +16.67% 36
East of England -3 20 £438 -20.45% 31
Yorkshire -35 19 £575 +35.29% 19
Midlands -54 17 £515 -15.16% 33
North West -22 15 £395 -12.22% 13
West Midlands -51 14 £539 -11.29% 9
South West -26 5 £575 -6.12% 31
East Midlands -28 3 £418 -7.22% 22
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 (4.06%) Confluence
2 10 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.85%) SAS
6 4 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.11%) ArcGIS
7 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.37%) Apache
8 1 (0.37%) CMS
8 1 (0.37%) Luigi
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (5.90%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (3.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.11%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 179 (66.05%) Azure
2 128 (47.23%) IaaS
3 97 (35.79%) SaaS
4 51 (18.82%) AWS
5 48 (17.71%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (15.50%) GitHub
7 40 (14.76%) OCI
8 38 (14.02%) Entra ID
9 34 (12.55%) Serverless
10 31 (11.44%) Azure AKS
11 24 (8.86%) GCP
12 23 (8.49%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (8.12%) Azure Functions
13 22 (8.12%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (7.38%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (6.64%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (5.54%) Power Platform
18 13 (4.80%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.44%) Firewall
2 14 (5.17%) VPN
3 12 (4.43%) DNS
4 11 (4.06%) DHCP
5 6 (2.21%) Network Security
6 3 (1.11%) BGP
6 3 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.11%) NX-OS
6 3 (1.11%) SMTP
7 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.74%) IPsec
7 2 (0.74%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.74%) SAN
7 2 (0.74%) VLAN
7 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.74%) WAN
7 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.37%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (5.54%) NoSQL
3 13 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (4.80%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.32%) Power BI
6 7 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.58%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.21%) Redis
8 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.85%) MySQL
8 5 (1.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 5 (1.85%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 4 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.48%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.48%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (8.49%) Git
2 20 (7.38%) Postman
3 16 (5.90%) JIRA
4 15 (5.54%) Jenkins
5 11 (4.06%) SonarQube
6 8 (2.95%) GitLab
7 6 (2.21%) Gradle
8 5 (1.85%) SoapUI
9 4 (1.48%) Maven
9 4 (1.48%) SonarLint
10 3 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (1.11%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.74%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.74%) Selenium
12 1 (0.37%) ERwin
12 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (25.46%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 40 (14.76%) Finance
4 28 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.69%) Banking
6 8 (2.95%) Aviation
6 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.58%) Military
8 6 (2.21%) Marketing
9 5 (1.85%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.48%) Retail
10 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.11%) Billing
11 3 (1.11%) Front Office
11 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Local Government
12 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (19.56%) Architect
2 30 (11.07%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (9.96%) Senior
4 26 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (9.23%) Developer
5 25 (9.23%) Lead
6 24 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.64%) Azure Architect
9 14 (5.17%) Technical Architect
10 13 (4.80%) Integration Specialist
10 13 (4.80%) Oracle Specialist
11 12 (4.43%) Cloud Specialist
12 10 (3.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.69%) Consultant
13 9 (3.32%) Environment Manager
13 9 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.95%) .NET Developer
14 8 (2.95%) Principal Engineer
15 7 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (18.45%) .NET
2 42 (15.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 36 (13.28%) REST
4 33 (12.18%) SOAP
5 26 (9.59%) Web Services
6 24 (8.86%) RESTful
7 22 (8.12%) JSON
8 20 (7.38%) ARM Templates
9 19 (7.01%) OAuth
10 14 (5.17%) SAML
10 14 (5.17%) YAML
11 13 (4.80%) JWT
11 13 (4.80%) OpenID
11 13 (4.80%) XML
12 11 (4.06%) PyTorch
12 11 (4.06%) Semantic Kernel
12 11 (4.06%) TensorFlow
13 10 (3.69%) XSLT
14 9 (3.32%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.32%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.43%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.69%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.95%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.21%) PKI
8 4 (1.48%) IoT
8 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.48%) N-Tier
8 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.33%) Linux
2 27 (9.96%) Windows
3 12 (4.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.11%) VMS
4 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.65%) DevOps
2 92 (33.95%) CI/CD
3 82 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (26.20%) Agile
5 69 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (17.71%) Roadmaps
7 41 (15.13%) ERP
8 40 (14.76%) Migration
9 39 (14.39%) AI
10 33 (12.18%) Technical Leadership
11 32 (11.81%) Microservices
12 31 (11.44%) Containerisation
13 30 (11.07%) Analytics
13 30 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 29 (10.70%) Mentoring
15 28 (10.33%) Observability
16 26 (9.59%) API Management
17 24 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 24 (8.86%) TOGAF
18 23 (8.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 56 (20.66%) SQL
2 52 (19.19%) Python
3 34 (12.55%) PowerShell
4 28 (10.33%) Bicep
5 20 (7.38%) C#
6 14 (5.17%) Java
7 12 (4.43%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.06%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (2.21%) PHP
11 5 (1.85%) Bash
11 5 (1.85%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (34.32%) Security Cleared
2 61 (22.51%) SC Cleared
3 28 (10.33%) Degree
4 27 (9.96%) Azure Certification
5 14 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.06%) MCP
7 10 (3.69%) CISSP
7 10 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.58%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.11%) CCSP
11 3 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.11%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.01%) NIST
2 15 (5.54%) GDPR
3 11 (4.06%) EU AI Act
3 11 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.21%) NCSC
6 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.85%) SLA
7 4 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.74%) Basel III
9 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 2 (0.74%) IFRS
9 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.74%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.74%) PMO
9 2 (0.74%) QA
9 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (13.65%) Docker
2 32 (11.81%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.58%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.21%) vCloud
6 5 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.48%) vSphere
8 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
8 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.74%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.74%) NFS
10 1 (0.37%) Firmware
10 1 (0.37%) Postfix
10 1 (0.37%) RACF
10 1 (0.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 80 (29.52%) Terraform
2 50 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.01%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (4.06%) Ansible
5 8 (2.95%) vCenter Server
6 6 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (2.21%) Grafana
6 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.85%) SCCM
8 4 (1.48%) Puppet
9 3 (1.11%) Control-M
9 3 (1.11%) vMotion
10 2 (0.74%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.74%) logstash
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.74%) SCOM
10 2 (0.74%) systemd
10 2 (0.74%) vRealize
10 2 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 103 (38.01%) Microsoft
2 62 (22.88%) Oracle
3 22 (8.12%) VMware
4 18 (6.64%) Google
5 14 (5.17%) Foundry
6 10 (3.69%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.69%) SAP
7 8 (2.95%) Databricks
8 7 (2.58%) Cisco
8 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.58%) Workday
9 6 (2.21%) DocuSign
10 5 (1.85%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.85%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.85%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.48%) Anaplan
11 4 (1.48%) Hyperion
11 4 (1.48%) Informatica
11 4 (1.48%) Splunk