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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 240 203
Rank change year-on-year -66 -37 -5
Contract jobs citing PaaS 271 271 437
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.81% 1.03% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 2.76% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 170 240
10th Percentile £400 £424 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.34%
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 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £36.77
90th Percentile - - £76.50
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £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 12,556 9,803 12,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.43% 33.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,684 6,519 9,245
10th Percentile £305 £313 £270
25th Percentile £406 £420 £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 332 140 303
10th Percentile £14.43 £15.44 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.20 £16.28
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £47.63 £47.47
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.25 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.18% +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 7 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
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 7 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 -26 149 £545 -6.84% 38
South East -45 38 £575 +4.55% 31
North of England -46 34 £449 -0.33% 17
East of England -4 21 £450 -25.00% 7
Yorkshire -37 21 £563 +32.35% 7
Midlands -54 14 £515 -10.43% 10
North West -25 13 £363 -19.44% 9
West Midlands -46 11 £578 -2.28% 9
South West -30 6 £575 -8.00% 14
East Midlands -29 3 £418 -18.54% 1
North East -18 1 - - 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 18 (6.64%) Confluence
2 17 (6.27%) SharePoint
3 15 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.11%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.11%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
7 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 17 (6.27%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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 EBS
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (65.31%) Azure
2 144 (53.14%) IaaS
3 101 (37.27%) SaaS
4 50 (18.45%) AWS
4 50 (18.45%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (17.34%) Entra ID
6 37 (13.65%) GitHub
7 36 (13.28%) OCI
8 35 (12.92%) Serverless
9 33 (12.18%) Azure AKS
10 29 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (8.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 22 (8.12%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (7.75%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (7.38%) Azure Functions
13 20 (7.38%) Azure Key Vault
14 19 (7.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 19 (7.01%) GCP
14 19 (7.01%) Power Platform
15 14 (5.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.55%) Firewall
2 17 (6.27%) VPN
3 16 (5.90%) DNS
4 15 (5.54%) DHCP
5 9 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (2.58%) WAN
7 6 (2.21%) IPsec
7 6 (2.21%) LAN
7 6 (2.21%) Network Security
8 5 (1.85%) Kerberos
8 5 (1.85%) PSTN
8 5 (1.85%) SSL
8 5 (1.85%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.48%) SAN
9 4 (1.48%) VLAN
10 3 (1.11%) BGP
10 3 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (1.11%) NX-OS
10 3 (1.11%) SMTP
11 2 (0.74%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (4.80%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.95%) Power BI
5 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.11%) DocumentDB
7 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.11%) Metadata
7 3 (1.11%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.11%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.74%) Redis
8 2 (0.74%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 25 (9.23%) JIRA
2 22 (8.12%) Postman
3 20 (7.38%) Git
4 11 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.95%) GitLab
6 7 (2.58%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.21%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.74%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.74%) ERwin
9 2 (0.74%) Gradle
9 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.74%) Selenium
9 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (22.88%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.87%) Public Sector
3 38 (14.02%) Finance
4 28 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.06%) Banking
6 10 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.32%) Military
8 8 (2.95%) Aviation
8 8 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.21%) Marketing
10 5 (1.85%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Retail
11 4 (1.48%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.11%) Legal
12 3 (1.11%) Local Government
13 2 (0.74%) Front Office
13 2 (0.74%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 60 (22.14%) Architect
2 39 (14.39%) Senior
3 36 (13.28%) Azure Engineer
4 27 (9.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (9.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (9.23%) Lead
6 24 (8.86%) Developer
7 19 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (6.64%) Azure Architect
9 15 (5.54%) Oracle Specialist
9 15 (5.54%) Technical Architect
10 14 (5.17%) Cloud Specialist
10 14 (5.17%) Integration Specialist
11 13 (4.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.69%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (3.32%) Consultant
13 9 (3.32%) Senior Architect
14 8 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (2.58%) .NET Developer
15 7 (2.58%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.34%) .NET
2 39 (14.39%) REST
3 35 (12.92%) SOAP
4 34 (12.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 32 (11.81%) Web Services
6 25 (9.23%) OAuth
7 24 (8.86%) JSON
8 22 (8.12%) ARM Templates
9 18 (6.64%) RESTful
9 18 (6.64%) SAML
10 17 (6.27%) OpenID
11 16 (5.90%) YAML
12 14 (5.17%) XML
13 11 (4.06%) A2A Protocol
13 11 (4.06%) Entity Framework
13 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (4.06%) Model Context Protocol
13 11 (4.06%) Semantic Kernel
13 11 (4.06%) TensorFlow
13 11 (4.06%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.50%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.43%) Algorithms
3 11 (4.06%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.32%) IoT
5 9 (3.32%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.95%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.21%) PKI
8 5 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.11%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.81%) Windows
2 28 (10.33%) Linux
3 11 (4.06%) 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
1 129 (47.60%) DevOps
2 94 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 84 (31.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (28.04%) Agile
5 63 (23.25%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (17.34%) Roadmaps
7 43 (15.87%) Migration
8 38 (14.02%) ERP
9 34 (12.55%) Microservices
10 33 (12.18%) AI
11 32 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (11.07%) Containerisation
12 30 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (11.07%) Observability
13 28 (10.33%) Decision-Making
13 28 (10.33%) Mentoring
14 27 (9.96%) Analytics
14 27 (9.96%) Architectural Patterns
14 27 (9.96%) TOGAF
15 25 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 57 (21.03%) SQL
2 46 (16.97%) Python
3 41 (15.13%) PowerShell
4 25 (9.23%) Bicep
5 17 (6.27%) C#
6 12 (4.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (4.06%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.32%) Java
9 8 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.21%) PHP
11 5 (1.85%) Bash
11 5 (1.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 59 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 31 (11.44%) Azure Certification
3 31 (11.44%) Degree
4 15 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.06%) CISSP
5 11 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 10 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.58%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.85%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.11%) CCSP
11 3 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.11%) PMP
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 8 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.95%) SLA
5 6 (2.21%) NCSC
6 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.74%) Basel III
8 2 (0.74%) GRC
8 2 (0.74%) IFRS
8 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.74%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.74%) PMO
8 2 (0.74%) QA
8 2 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.55%) Active Directory
1 34 (12.55%) Docker
2 15 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.58%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.21%) vCloud
5 5 (1.85%) RACF
5 5 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.48%) vSphere
7 3 (1.11%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.74%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.74%) NFS
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) Postfix
9 1 (0.37%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 77 (28.41%) Terraform
2 50 (18.45%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.96%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (4.80%) Ansible
4 13 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 8 (2.95%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.58%) Grafana
7 7 (2.58%) SCCM
8 5 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.11%) Control-M
9 3 (1.11%) Puppet
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%) systemd
10 2 (0.74%) vRealize
10 2 (0.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 114 (42.07%) Microsoft
2 50 (18.45%) Oracle
3 25 (9.23%) VMware
4 14 (5.17%) Google
5 13 (4.80%) Foundry
6 7 (2.58%) AppDynamics
6 7 (2.58%) Cisco
6 7 (2.58%) Databricks
6 7 (2.58%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.58%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.58%) SAP
7 6 (2.21%) DocuSign
8 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
8 5 (1.85%) Rapid7
8 5 (1.85%) Tenable
9 4 (1.48%) Citrix
9 4 (1.48%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.11%) Informatica
10 3 (1.11%) NetApp