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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 287 233
Rank change year-on-year -14 -54 -30
Contract jobs citing PaaS 329 213 377
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.86% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.28% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 130 268
10th Percentile £413 £413 £374
25th Percentile £454 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £688 £640 £675
90th Percentile £738 £752 £777
UK median daily rate £541 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.93% -4.17% -
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 14,977 9,328 12,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.77% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,153 6,351 8,591
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £512 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 526 228 333
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.68 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £38.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.55 £21.64
% change year-on-year +29.60% +31.93% -38.17%

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 15 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 15 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 -4 186 £525 -12.50% 60
South East -52 50 £700 +21.74% 27
North of England -50 46 £454 -9.20% 5
Yorkshire -32 29 £507 +19.18% 1
Midlands -43 22 £539 -11.58% 11
North West -28 17 £425 +21.43% 3
West Midlands -55 15 £540 -12.62% 7
East of England -22 12 £650 -3.77% 7
South West -31 11 £550 -31.25% 14
East Midlands -16 7 £418 -27.39% 4
North East -36 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 26 (7.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 26 (7.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.95%) Confluence
3 10 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.04%) SAS
4 5 (1.52%) Apache
5 4 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.61%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.56%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.61%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.30%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 214 (65.05%) Azure
1 214 (65.05%) IaaS
2 118 (35.87%) SaaS
3 73 (22.19%) AWS
4 60 (18.24%) Entra ID
5 56 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (14.29%) OCI
7 39 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
8 37 (11.25%) Serverless
9 32 (9.73%) GitHub
10 27 (8.21%) Azure Key Vault
11 23 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (5.47%) GCP
12 18 (5.47%) Power Platform
13 17 (5.17%) Azure AKS
14 16 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (3.65%) Azure App Service
16 12 (3.65%) Azure Service Fabric
17 10 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.55%) DNS
2 37 (11.25%) Firewall
3 26 (7.90%) VPN
4 21 (6.38%) DHCP
5 13 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.04%) SAN
6 10 (3.04%) WAN
7 9 (2.74%) SMTP
8 8 (2.43%) LAN
9 7 (2.13%) IPsec
9 7 (2.13%) PSTN
9 7 (2.13%) Unified Communications
9 7 (2.13%) VLAN
10 6 (1.82%) Internet
10 6 (1.82%) Network Security
11 5 (1.52%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.52%) SSL
12 3 (0.91%) BGP
12 3 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.91%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.34%) Oracle Database
3 10 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.04%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 10 (3.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 8 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.43%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.52%) Metadata
6 5 (1.52%) Power BI
7 4 (1.22%) Big Data
7 4 (1.22%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (1.22%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.91%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.61%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 31 (9.42%) Git
2 21 (6.38%) JIRA
3 7 (2.13%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.13%) Postman
4 5 (1.52%) SoapUI
5 3 (0.91%) GitLab
6 2 (0.61%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 76 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.93%) Finance
3 42 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.08%) Banking
6 19 (5.78%) Legal
7 11 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.82%) Military
10 5 (1.52%) Law
11 4 (1.22%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing
13 2 (0.61%) Aviation
13 2 (0.61%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.61%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.61%) Local Government
13 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Retail
13 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (31.91%) Architect
2 61 (18.54%) Azure Engineer
3 44 (13.37%) Senior
4 38 (11.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 29 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 29 (8.81%) Lead
5 29 (8.81%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (7.60%) Technical Architect
7 22 (6.69%) Azure Architect
8 20 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 18 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.26%) Developer
10 14 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (3.95%) Technical Leader
12 12 (3.65%) Lead Architect
13 11 (3.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.34%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.21%) Oracle Fusion
1 27 (8.21%) REST
2 26 (7.90%) Web Services
3 25 (7.60%) .NET
4 23 (6.99%) SOAP
5 19 (5.78%) ARM Templates
6 16 (4.86%) Microsoft Graph
6 16 (4.86%) OAuth
6 16 (4.86%) YAML
7 13 (3.95%) Entity Framework
8 11 (3.34%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.34%) JSON
9 10 (3.04%) XML
10 9 (2.74%) Middleware
11 8 (2.43%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.13%) OpenID
12 7 (2.13%) SailPoint
12 7 (2.13%) SAML
13 6 (1.82%) JWT
13 6 (1.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.08%) Public Cloud
3 19 (5.78%) Data Centre
4 16 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.26%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.65%) Virtual Team
8 10 (3.04%) Clustering
9 9 (2.74%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.74%) IoT
9 9 (2.74%) PKI
10 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.82%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.82%) SCADA
11 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.50%) Windows
2 35 (10.64%) Linux
3 16 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.56%) Unix
5 7 (2.13%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.82%) Android
6 6 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.52%) VMS
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (42.86%) DevOps
2 123 (37.39%) CI/CD
3 97 (29.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (24.01%) Migration
5 68 (20.67%) Agile
6 66 (20.06%) Roadmaps
7 46 (13.98%) Analytics
8 44 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 44 (13.37%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (12.46%) Microservices
11 40 (12.16%) Architectural Patterns
12 39 (11.85%) Containerisation
13 37 (11.25%) ERP
13 37 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 36 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
15 34 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (10.33%) TOGAF
16 33 (10.03%) RBAC
17 32 (9.73%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.93%) PowerShell
2 48 (14.59%) SQL
3 42 (12.77%) Python
4 35 (10.64%) Bicep
5 14 (4.26%) C#
6 12 (3.65%) Java
7 11 (3.34%) Bash
7 11 (3.34%) Ruby
8 10 (3.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (1.82%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Groovy
11 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.61%) Perl
11 2 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) R
12 1 (0.30%) RPG
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 135 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 84 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 46 (13.98%) Azure Certification
4 41 (12.46%) DV Cleared
5 29 (8.81%) Degree
6 14 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.65%) CISSP
8 11 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.04%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.13%) CISM
12 7 (2.13%) Master's Degree
12 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.13%) SANS
13 6 (1.82%) GIAC
14 5 (1.52%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (1.52%) CRISC
14 5 (1.52%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.56%) SLA
2 12 (3.65%) GDPR
3 11 (3.34%) NCSC
4 10 (3.04%) NIST
5 9 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.82%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.82%) ISO 31000
7 4 (1.22%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.91%) QA
8 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.61%) Basel III
9 2 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.61%) GAAP
9 2 (0.61%) IFRS
9 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.61%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 42 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 34 (10.33%) Docker
3 17 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.34%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.04%) vCloud
5 10 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.74%) BitLocker
6 9 (2.74%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.82%) NFS
7 6 (1.82%) Postfix
7 6 (1.82%) Varnish
8 5 (1.52%) RACF
9 4 (1.22%) Sendmail
9 4 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.91%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.91%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.61%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.61%) vSphere
12 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (25.23%) Terraform
2 36 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.38%) Ansible
4 20 (6.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (5.17%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (2.74%) Puppet
7 9 (2.74%) SCCM
7 9 (2.74%) vMotion
8 7 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.82%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.22%) Grafana
11 3 (0.91%) Control-M
11 3 (0.91%) Nagios
12 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.30%) CA Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (39.21%) Microsoft
2 65 (19.76%) Oracle
3 34 (10.33%) VMware
4 13 (3.95%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.65%) SAP
6 11 (3.34%) Citrix
7 9 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.43%) Databricks
8 8 (2.43%) Google
9 7 (2.13%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.13%) Tenable
10 6 (1.82%) NetApp
11 5 (1.52%) iManage
11 5 (1.52%) Intapp
11 5 (1.52%) Litera
12 4 (1.22%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.22%) Informatica
12 4 (1.22%) Rapid7
12 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.22%) Workday