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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 236 209
Rank change year-on-year -53 -27 -12
Contract jobs citing PaaS 322 264 413
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.08% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 2.88% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 162 233
10th Percentile £401 £425 £388
25th Percentile £453 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £688 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £541 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -5.93% -1.29% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £47.05 - -
25th Percentile £48.63 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £54.38 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 14,074 9,178 11,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.01% 37.64% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 6,447 8,518
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 187 318
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -24.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £32.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.20 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -30.91%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -40 178 £525 -8.70% 41
South East -58 52 £700 +21.74% 30
North of England -46 48 £468 -4.00% 8
Yorkshire -35 33 £525 +23.53% 2
Midlands -61 17 £519 -11.70% 11
North West -25 15 £426 -5.23% 6
East of England -16 14 £638 -15.11% 3
South West -39 12 £550 -8.60% 6
West Midlands -60 12 £540 -10.00% 8
East Midlands -29 5 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -19 4 £638 +19.38%
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 31 (9.63%) SharePoint
2 29 (9.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.04%) Confluence
4 5 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.55%) SAS
5 4 (1.24%) Apache
5 4 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.93%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.93%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.66%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.31%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (65.53%) Azure
2 204 (63.35%) IaaS
3 118 (36.65%) SaaS
4 67 (20.81%) AWS
5 59 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
5 59 (18.32%) Entra ID
6 49 (15.22%) OCI
7 47 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
8 38 (11.80%) GitHub
9 33 (10.25%) Serverless
10 30 (9.32%) Azure Key Vault
10 30 (9.32%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (7.45%) Azure Service Bus
12 23 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (5.59%) Azure AKS
13 18 (5.59%) GCP
14 16 (4.97%) Azure App Service
14 16 (4.97%) Power Platform
15 13 (4.04%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (4.04%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.91%) Firewall
2 34 (10.56%) DNS
3 26 (8.07%) VPN
4 24 (7.45%) DHCP
5 15 (4.66%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.73%) WAN
7 10 (3.11%) SAN
8 9 (2.80%) LAN
8 9 (2.80%) VLAN
9 7 (2.17%) IPsec
9 7 (2.17%) Network Security
9 7 (2.17%) PSTN
9 7 (2.17%) SMTP
9 7 (2.17%) Unified Communications
10 6 (1.86%) Internet
11 5 (1.55%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.55%) SSL
12 4 (1.24%) BGP
12 4 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.28%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (3.73%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.17%) Metadata
4 7 (2.17%) Oracle Database
4 7 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 5 (1.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 4 (1.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.93%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.93%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.93%) Power BI
8 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (9.63%) Git
2 21 (6.52%) JIRA
3 18 (5.59%) Postman
4 9 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.48%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.17%) Chocolatey
7 4 (1.24%) GitLab
8 3 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.62%) ERwin
9 2 (0.62%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.62%) Selenium
10 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.39%) Finance
3 47 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.21%) Banking
6 15 (4.66%) Legal
7 11 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.17%) Military
10 5 (1.55%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.24%) Law
12 3 (0.93%) Aviation
12 3 (0.93%) Marketing
12 3 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Billing
13 2 (0.62%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.62%) Local Government
13 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (29.81%) Architect
2 52 (16.15%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (13.98%) Senior
4 33 (10.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (8.39%) Lead
7 25 (7.76%) Technical Architect
8 21 (6.52%) Azure Architect
9 20 (6.21%) Developer
9 20 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.73%) Azure Developer
11 12 (3.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.73%) Cloud Specialist
11 12 (3.73%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (3.73%) Oracle Specialist
11 12 (3.73%) Technical Leader
11 12 (3.73%) VMware Architect
12 11 (3.42%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.04%) REST
2 40 (12.42%) Web Services
3 38 (11.80%) SOAP
4 37 (11.49%) .NET
5 31 (9.63%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (6.83%) ARM Templates
7 21 (6.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 21 (6.52%) OAuth
8 20 (6.21%) JSON
9 18 (5.59%) YAML
10 15 (4.66%) .NET Framework
10 15 (4.66%) XML
11 13 (4.04%) OpenID
11 13 (4.04%) SAML
12 12 (3.73%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.42%) JWT
13 11 (3.42%) XSLT
14 8 (2.48%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.48%) Middleware
15 7 (2.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.21%) Public Cloud
3 15 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.73%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.42%) Virtual Team
7 10 (3.11%) PKI
8 9 (2.80%) IoT
9 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.17%) Clustering
10 7 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.86%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.29%) Windows
2 30 (9.32%) Linux
3 15 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.17%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (1.86%) Android
5 6 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.86%) Unix
6 5 (1.55%) VMS
7 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (44.72%) DevOps
2 107 (33.23%) CI/CD
3 94 (29.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (23.60%) Migration
5 73 (22.67%) Agile
6 63 (19.57%) Roadmaps
7 50 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (13.98%) Technical Leadership
9 44 (13.66%) Analytics
10 42 (13.04%) Microservices
11 41 (12.73%) ERP
11 41 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 41 (12.73%) Observability
12 39 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (11.80%) TOGAF
14 36 (11.18%) Architectural Patterns
15 33 (10.25%) Disaster Recovery
16 31 (9.63%) Containerisation
16 31 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
16 31 (9.63%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 60 (18.63%) PowerShell
2 57 (17.70%) SQL
3 41 (12.73%) Python
4 30 (9.32%) Bicep
5 21 (6.52%) C#
6 15 (4.66%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (4.35%) Java
8 8 (2.48%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.48%) Ruby
9 7 (2.17%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.86%) Bash
11 5 (1.55%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 133 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 82 (25.47%) SC Cleared
3 48 (14.91%) Azure Certification
4 39 (12.11%) DV Cleared
5 31 (9.63%) Degree
6 16 (4.97%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.80%) CISSP
9 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.17%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.17%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.24%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.93%) PMP
13 3 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.35%) SLA
2 13 (4.04%) GDPR
3 9 (2.80%) NIST
4 8 (2.48%) NCSC
5 6 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.62%) Basel III
9 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.62%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.62%) GAAP
9 2 (0.62%) IFRS
9 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.62%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.62%) PMO
9 2 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 41 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 31 (9.63%) Docker
3 18 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.73%) vCloud
5 11 (3.42%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.17%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.86%) NFS
9 5 (1.55%) RACF
10 4 (1.24%) Postfix
10 4 (1.24%) Varnish
10 4 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.24%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.93%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.93%) vSphere
12 2 (0.62%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 82 (25.47%) Terraform
2 36 (11.18%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.21%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (5.59%) vCenter Server
5 14 (4.35%) Ansible
6 11 (3.42%) SCCM
7 9 (2.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 7 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (2.17%) Puppet
8 7 (2.17%) vMotion
9 4 (1.24%) HAProxy
10 3 (0.93%) Control-M
10 3 (0.93%) Grafana
11 2 (0.62%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.62%) systemd
11 2 (0.62%) vRealize
11 2 (0.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 134 (41.61%) Microsoft
2 62 (19.25%) Oracle
3 38 (11.80%) VMware
4 14 (4.35%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.73%) SAP
6 10 (3.11%) Tenable
7 9 (2.80%) Citrix
8 8 (2.48%) Databricks
9 7 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.17%) NetApp
10 6 (1.86%) Google
10 6 (1.86%) iManage
10 6 (1.86%) Intapp
11 5 (1.55%) Foundry
11 5 (1.55%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.55%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.24%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.24%) Cisco
12 4 (1.24%) Informatica
12 4 (1.24%) SolarWinds