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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 231 203
Rank change year-on-year -65 -28 -7
Contract jobs citing PaaS 312 276 446
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 1.11% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 2.94% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 172 245
10th Percentile £400 £425 £383
25th Percentile £448 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -8.12% +1.74% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £48.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £52.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.10 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.86%

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 13,669 9,403 12,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.06% 37.78% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,402 6,522 8,821
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 166 326
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.19 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.66 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.75 £75.88 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 March 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 March 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 -33 167 £538 -6.52% 41
South East -60 47 £700 +21.74% 29
North of England -44 44 £454 -6.87% 19
Yorkshire -36 28 £525 +23.53% 5
East of England -4 24 £475 -29.68% 8
North West -22 16 £425 -5.56% 12
Midlands -57 15 £488 -17.02% 14
West Midlands -67 10 £618 +3.00% 8
South West -45 9 £575 -8.00% 13
East Midlands -27 5 £418 -27.39% 5
North East -19 1 - - 2
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 (8.65%) SharePoint
2 25 (8.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.85%) Confluence
4 4 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.96%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.96%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) CMS
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (5.45%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.60%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.32%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (66.67%) Azure
2 185 (59.29%) IaaS
3 106 (33.97%) SaaS
4 63 (20.19%) Entra ID
5 60 (19.23%) AWS
5 60 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (15.06%) GitHub
7 45 (14.42%) OCI
8 43 (13.78%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (12.50%) Serverless
10 36 (11.54%) Azure AKS
11 31 (9.94%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (9.62%) Azure Key Vault
13 25 (8.01%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
15 19 (6.09%) Azure Functions
16 18 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
18 16 (5.13%) Azure App Service
19 14 (4.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.42%) Firewall
2 28 (8.97%) DNS
3 25 (8.01%) VPN
4 22 (7.05%) DHCP
5 12 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.21%) WAN
7 8 (2.56%) SAN
7 8 (2.56%) VLAN
8 7 (2.24%) IPsec
8 7 (2.24%) LAN
8 7 (2.24%) Network Security
9 6 (1.92%) SMTP
10 5 (1.60%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.60%) PSTN
10 5 (1.60%) SSL
10 5 (1.60%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.28%) BGP
11 4 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.96%) Internet
12 3 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.60%) Metadata
6 5 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.28%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.96%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.96%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.96%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.64%) Flink
9 2 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 2 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (7.69%) Git
2 20 (6.41%) JIRA
3 18 (5.77%) Postman
4 11 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.56%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.24%) GitLab
7 6 (1.92%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.64%) ERwin
9 2 (0.64%) Gradle
9 2 (0.64%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.64%) Selenium
10 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.67%) Finance
3 37 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.77%) Banking
6 11 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.88%) Legal
8 8 (2.56%) Aviation
8 8 (2.56%) Military
9 6 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.60%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.28%) Marketing
12 3 (0.96%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.96%) Local Government
12 3 (0.96%) Retail
13 2 (0.64%) Billing
13 2 (0.64%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.64%) Law
13 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (26.28%) Architect
2 55 (17.63%) Azure Engineer
3 49 (15.71%) Senior
4 35 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (9.62%) Developer
6 27 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (8.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.05%) Lead
9 21 (6.73%) Technical Architect
10 16 (5.13%) Azure Architect
11 14 (4.49%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.85%) Azure Developer
13 12 (3.85%) Cloud Specialist
13 12 (3.85%) Integration Specialist
13 12 (3.85%) IT Engineer
13 12 (3.85%) Oracle Specialist
14 11 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (3.21%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (15.06%) .NET
2 42 (13.46%) REST
3 37 (11.86%) Web Services
4 35 (11.22%) SOAP
5 33 (10.58%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (7.69%) OAuth
7 23 (7.37%) ARM Templates
8 22 (7.05%) JSON
9 19 (6.09%) Microsoft Graph
10 18 (5.77%) OpenID
10 18 (5.77%) SAML
10 18 (5.77%) YAML
11 15 (4.81%) RESTful
11 15 (4.81%) XML
12 14 (4.49%) .NET Framework
13 12 (3.85%) Entity Framework
14 11 (3.53%) JWT
14 11 (3.53%) PyTorch
14 11 (3.53%) TensorFlow
14 11 (3.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.78%) Cloud Native
2 14 (4.49%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.49%) Public Cloud
3 12 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.21%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.88%) PKI
7 8 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.56%) IoT
8 6 (1.92%) Clustering
8 6 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.60%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.18%) Windows
2 30 (9.62%) Linux
3 15 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.92%) VMS
4 6 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.32%) CentOS
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (44.23%) DevOps
2 98 (31.41%) CI/CD
3 91 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (24.04%) Agile
5 68 (21.79%) Migration
5 68 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (17.63%) Roadmaps
7 42 (13.46%) Observability
7 42 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
8 40 (12.82%) Analytics
8 40 (12.82%) ERP
9 39 (12.50%) Microservices
10 37 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (10.58%) AI
12 32 (10.26%) Architectural Patterns
12 32 (10.26%) TOGAF
13 31 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 29 (9.29%) Containerisation
14 29 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 57 (18.27%) PowerShell
1 57 (18.27%) SQL
2 49 (15.71%) Python
3 27 (8.65%) Bicep
4 21 (6.73%) C#
5 19 (6.09%) Kusto Query Language
6 11 (3.53%) Java
7 8 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.24%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.92%) Bash
9 6 (1.92%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.96%) Ruby
11 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.64%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 111 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.47%) SC Cleared
3 44 (14.10%) Azure Certification
4 31 (9.94%) Degree
4 31 (9.94%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 11 (3.53%) CISSP
8 9 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.24%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.28%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.77%) NIST
2 12 (3.85%) SLA
3 11 (3.53%) EU AI Act
3 11 (3.53%) GDPR
4 9 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.92%) NCSC
7 5 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.60%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.96%) PMO
9 2 (0.64%) Basel III
9 2 (0.64%) GAAP
9 2 (0.64%) GRC
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.64%) QA
9 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 32 (10.26%) Docker
3 18 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.53%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.21%) vCloud
6 8 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.92%) BitLocker
7 6 (1.92%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.60%) RACF
9 4 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.28%) VMware NSX
9 4 (1.28%) vSphere
10 3 (0.96%) NFS
11 2 (0.64%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.64%) Postfix
11 2 (0.64%) Varnish
11 2 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 83 (26.60%) Terraform
2 45 (14.42%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.73%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (4.81%) Ansible
5 15 (4.81%) vCenter Server
6 11 (3.53%) SCCM
7 9 (2.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (1.92%) Puppet
8 6 (1.92%) vMotion
9 5 (1.60%) Grafana
9 5 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.96%) Control-M
11 2 (0.64%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.64%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.64%) systemd
11 2 (0.64%) vRealize
11 2 (0.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 142 (45.51%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.31%) Oracle
3 36 (11.54%) VMware
4 13 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 13 (4.17%) Foundry
5 9 (2.88%) SAP
5 9 (2.88%) Tenable
6 8 (2.56%) Citrix
6 8 (2.56%) Databricks
7 7 (2.24%) AppDynamics
7 7 (2.24%) Google
8 6 (1.92%) NetApp
9 5 (1.60%) Cisco
9 5 (1.60%) Rapid7
9 5 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.28%) Informatica
10 4 (1.28%) Meraki
10 4 (1.28%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.28%) Splunk