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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 268 234
Rank change year-on-year -34 -34 -30
Contract jobs citing PaaS 325 220 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.92% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 2.46% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 129 255
10th Percentile £409 £413 £383
25th Percentile £453 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.43%
75th Percentile £692 £625 £675
90th Percentile £728 £751 £780
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.69%
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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -17 182 £525 -12.50% 71
South East -43 52 £700 +21.74% 30
North of England -44 46 £454 -9.20% 8
Yorkshire -36 29 £507 +19.18% 3
Midlands -52 18 £525 -10.64% 10
North West -24 17 £425 -15.00% 5
South West -26 13 £550 -1.79% 14
East of England -21 12 £650 -3.77% 9
West Midlands -57 11 £533 -11.25% 7
East Midlands -20 7 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -31 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 27 (8.31%) SharePoint
2 24 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.00%) Confluence
4 5 (1.54%) Apache
4 5 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.54%) SAS
5 4 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.92%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.62%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.62%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.31%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 213 (65.54%) IaaS
2 208 (64.00%) Azure
3 115 (35.38%) SaaS
4 64 (19.69%) AWS
5 60 (18.46%) Entra ID
6 53 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (15.38%) OCI
8 40 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (11.69%) Serverless
10 28 (8.62%) GitHub
11 26 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 25 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (5.85%) Azure Service Bus
13 19 (5.85%) Power Platform
14 16 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (4.62%) GCP
16 14 (4.31%) Azure AKS
17 13 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (3.69%) Azure Logic Apps
18 12 (3.69%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.38%) DNS
2 36 (11.08%) Firewall
3 24 (7.38%) VPN
4 21 (6.46%) DHCP
5 13 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.08%) SAN
6 10 (3.08%) WAN
7 8 (2.46%) LAN
8 7 (2.15%) IPsec
8 7 (2.15%) Network Security
8 7 (2.15%) PSTN
8 7 (2.15%) SMTP
8 7 (2.15%) Unified Communications
8 7 (2.15%) VLAN
9 6 (1.85%) Internet
10 5 (1.54%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.54%) SSL
11 3 (0.92%) BGP
11 3 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (0.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (3.08%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (2.46%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.46%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.54%) Metadata
5 5 (1.54%) Power BI
5 5 (1.54%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (1.54%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (1.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.92%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.92%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.62%) MaxDB
8 2 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 30 (9.23%) Git
2 21 (6.46%) JIRA
3 14 (4.31%) Postman
4 9 (2.77%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.46%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.15%) Chocolatey
7 3 (0.92%) GitLab
8 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.62%) ERwin
8 2 (0.62%) Gradle
8 2 (0.62%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.62%) Selenium
9 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 77 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.54%) Finance
3 37 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.77%) Banking
6 17 (5.23%) Legal
7 11 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.15%) Military
10 5 (1.54%) Law
11 4 (1.23%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.92%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Aviation
13 2 (0.62%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.62%) Local Government
13 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 103 (31.69%) Architect
2 54 (16.62%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (12.31%) Senior
4 35 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) Technical Architect
6 27 (8.31%) Lead
7 24 (7.38%) Azure Architect
8 23 (7.08%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.31%) Developer
10 14 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.31%) Technical Leader
11 13 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) IT Engineer
13 11 (3.38%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.15%) REST
2 32 (9.85%) Web Services
3 31 (9.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 30 (9.23%) .NET
5 29 (8.92%) SOAP
6 22 (6.77%) ARM Templates
7 20 (6.15%) OAuth
8 17 (5.23%) JSON
9 16 (4.92%) Microsoft Graph
9 16 (4.92%) YAML
10 14 (4.31%) XML
11 13 (4.00%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.38%) .NET Framework
13 10 (3.08%) JWT
14 9 (2.77%) Middleware
14 9 (2.77%) XSLT
15 8 (2.46%) OAuth2
16 7 (2.15%) OpenID
16 7 (2.15%) SailPoint
16 7 (2.15%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.15%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.08%) Public Cloud
3 16 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 13 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.77%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.46%) Clustering
8 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (2.15%) IoT
8 7 (2.15%) PKI
9 6 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (1.85%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.69%) Windows
2 36 (11.08%) Linux
3 15 (4.62%) Unix
3 15 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.15%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (1.85%) Android
5 6 (1.85%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.23%) VMS
7 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (43.08%) DevOps
2 117 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 98 (30.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (23.69%) Migration
5 69 (21.23%) Agile
5 69 (21.23%) Roadmaps
6 47 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
7 44 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (13.23%) Microservices
9 41 (12.62%) Architectural Patterns
10 39 (12.00%) Analytics
10 39 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (11.69%) ERP
12 36 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
12 36 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (11.08%) TOGAF
13 35 (10.77%) Containerisation
14 32 (9.85%) Decision-Making
15 31 (9.54%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (9.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.54%) PowerShell
2 52 (16.00%) SQL
3 41 (12.62%) Python
4 36 (11.08%) Bicep
5 15 (4.62%) C#
6 13 (4.00%) Java
7 10 (3.08%) Bash
7 10 (3.08%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (3.08%) Ruby
8 8 (2.46%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.54%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.92%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.62%) Perl
11 2 (0.62%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) R
12 1 (0.31%) RPG
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 130 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (24.92%) SC Cleared
3 50 (15.38%) Azure Certification
4 38 (11.69%) DV Cleared
5 31 (9.54%) Degree
6 15 (4.62%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (4.00%) CISSP
7 13 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.15%) CISM
10 7 (2.15%) Master's Degree
10 7 (2.15%) SANS
11 6 (1.85%) GIAC
12 5 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (1.54%) CRISC
12 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.62%) SLA
2 14 (4.31%) GDPR
3 10 (3.08%) NIST
4 9 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.77%) NCSC
5 6 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.85%) ISO 31000
6 4 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.62%) Basel III
8 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.62%) GAAP
8 2 (0.62%) IFRS
8 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.62%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 44 (13.54%) Active Directory
2 31 (9.54%) Docker
3 17 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.69%) vCloud
5 11 (3.38%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.15%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.15%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.85%) NFS
8 6 (1.85%) Postfix
8 6 (1.85%) Varnish
9 5 (1.54%) RACF
9 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.23%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.92%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.62%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.62%) vSphere
13 1 (0.31%) Firmware
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (24.92%) Terraform
2 35 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 19 (5.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (5.54%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (5.23%) vCenter Server
6 16 (4.92%) Ansible
7 9 (2.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (2.77%) SCCM
8 7 (2.15%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (2.15%) Puppet
8 7 (2.15%) vMotion
9 6 (1.85%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.23%) Grafana
11 3 (0.92%) Control-M
11 3 (0.92%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.62%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.62%) systemd
13 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 129 (39.69%) Microsoft
2 66 (20.31%) Oracle
3 36 (11.08%) VMware
4 13 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.69%) SAP
6 9 (2.77%) Citrix
7 8 (2.46%) Databricks
7 8 (2.46%) Tenable
8 7 (2.15%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.15%) NetApp
8 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.85%) iManage
9 6 (1.85%) Intapp
10 5 (1.54%) Google
11 4 (1.23%) Aderant
11 4 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.23%) Informatica
11 4 (1.23%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.23%) Workday
12 3 (0.92%) OpenAI