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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 293 245
Rank change year-on-year -39 -48 -46
Contract jobs citing PaaS 315 227 339
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.83% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 2.21% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 142 263
10th Percentile £413 £403 £370
25th Percentile £453 £493 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £693 £675
90th Percentile £733 £762 £780
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% -22.08% -51.27%
75th Percentile £55.13 - £40.25
90th Percentile £55.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year +79.17% -59.60% -6.01%

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 July 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 July 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 -13 183 £525 -12.50% 88
South East -65 41 £700 +21.74% 36
North of England -59 36 £460 -8.00% 14
Midlands -39 28 £525 -15.05% 12
Yorkshire -26 24 £494 +1.33% 4
West Midlands -48 18 £531 -18.31% 5
East of England -14 12 £650 -13.45% 5
North West -43 12 £426 +17.48% 8
South West -40 11 £500 -31.03% 8
East Midlands -4 10 £488 +8.33% 7
North East -42 4 £638 +27.50% 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 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 25 (7.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (4.44%) Confluence
4 10 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.17%) SAS
5 5 (1.59%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.49%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 221 (70.16%) Azure
2 195 (61.90%) IaaS
3 118 (37.46%) SaaS
4 75 (23.81%) AWS
5 60 (19.05%) Entra ID
6 54 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (13.33%) GitHub
8 41 (13.02%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (13.02%) OCI
9 31 (9.84%) Azure Monitor
10 29 (9.21%) Serverless
11 25 (7.94%) Azure AKS
11 25 (7.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 22 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (6.35%) Azure App Service
13 20 (6.35%) GCP
14 17 (5.40%) Power Platform
15 15 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (3.49%) Datadog
17 9 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.06%) DNS
1 38 (12.06%) Firewall
2 30 (9.52%) VPN
3 20 (6.35%) DHCP
4 15 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (4.44%) SAN
6 10 (3.17%) WAN
7 9 (2.86%) VLAN
8 8 (2.54%) LAN
9 7 (2.22%) Kerberos
9 7 (2.22%) PSTN
9 7 (2.22%) SMTP
9 7 (2.22%) Unified Communications
10 6 (1.90%) Internet
10 6 (1.90%) Network Security
11 5 (1.59%) IPsec
11 5 (1.59%) NAS
11 5 (1.59%) SSL
12 3 (0.95%) FTP
12 3 (0.95%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 19 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.81%) Oracle Database
5 10 (3.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 10 (3.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 9 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.59%) Db2
10 5 (1.59%) Metadata
10 5 (1.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (1.59%) Power BI
10 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.27%) Big Data
11 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.95%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (7.94%) Git
2 17 (5.40%) JIRA
3 9 (2.86%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.27%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.63%) ERwin
6 2 (0.63%) Postman
6 2 (0.63%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
7 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.41%) Finance
3 43 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.62%) Banking
6 20 (6.35%) Legal
7 12 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.90%) Law
10 5 (1.59%) Military
10 5 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.63%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
13 1 (0.32%) International Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (35.24%) Architect
2 53 (16.83%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (12.70%) Senior
4 33 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (9.84%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (8.25%) Azure Architect
8 25 (7.94%) Lead
9 24 (7.62%) Technical Architect
10 23 (7.30%) Developer
11 21 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (4.13%) Azure Developer
15 13 (4.13%) Lead Architect
16 11 (3.49%) IT Engineer
16 11 (3.49%) Oracle Architect
16 11 (3.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (10.48%) REST
2 29 (9.21%) .NET
3 22 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 20 (6.35%) .NET Framework
4 20 (6.35%) Web Services
5 19 (6.03%) SOAP
6 16 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
7 13 (4.13%) Middleware
8 12 (3.81%) .NET Core
8 12 (3.81%) OAuth
9 9 (2.86%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.86%) Entity Framework
9 9 (2.86%) SAML
10 8 (2.54%) JSON
11 7 (2.22%) OpenID
12 6 (1.90%) OAuth2
12 6 (1.90%) React
13 5 (1.59%) XML
14 4 (1.27%) LDAP
14 4 (1.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (5.08%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.49%) PKI
6 11 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.17%) IoT
8 8 (2.54%) Clustering
8 8 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.54%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.22%) SCADA
10 6 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.90%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.59%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.59%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.83%) Windows
2 32 (10.16%) Linux
3 18 (5.71%) Unix
4 12 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.54%) VMS
6 7 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.90%) Android
7 6 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.95%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (39.37%) DevOps
2 114 (36.19%) CI/CD
3 80 (25.40%) Migration
4 75 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (19.05%) Agile
6 53 (16.83%) Roadmaps
7 49 (15.56%) Analytics
8 46 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 40 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 40 (12.70%) RBAC
11 38 (12.06%) Observability
12 36 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
12 36 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
14 34 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
15 33 (10.48%) ERP
15 33 (10.48%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (10.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 56 (17.78%) PowerShell
2 48 (15.24%) Python
3 38 (12.06%) SQL
4 37 (11.75%) Bicep
5 23 (7.30%) C#
6 14 (4.44%) Bash
7 13 (4.13%) Ruby
8 10 (3.17%) Java
9 8 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.95%) Groovy
12 2 (0.63%) Delphi
12 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.63%) Perl
12 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.32%) C++
13 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 127 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.97%) Azure Certification
4 36 (11.43%) DV Cleared
5 25 (7.94%) Degree
6 12 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.17%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.54%) CISSP
10 7 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.22%) CISM
11 6 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.90%) GIAC
12 5 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (1.59%) CRISC
12 5 (1.59%) SANS
12 5 (1.59%) SSCP
13 4 (1.27%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.81%) SLA
2 11 (3.49%) GDPR
3 8 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.54%) NCSC
4 7 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.22%) NIST
5 6 (1.90%) ISO 31000
6 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.27%) PMO
7 4 (1.27%) QA
8 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.32%) GRC
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (13.02%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.03%) Docker
3 13 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.86%) NFS
5 8 (2.54%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.22%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.90%) vCloud
7 6 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.59%) Postfix
8 5 (1.59%) Varnish
9 4 (1.27%) Sendmail
9 4 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.95%) RACF
10 3 (0.95%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.63%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 69 (21.90%) Terraform
2 28 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (5.40%) Ansible
5 13 (4.13%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.86%) SCCM
7 7 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (2.22%) Puppet
7 7 (2.22%) vMotion
8 6 (1.90%) Grafana
8 6 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.59%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.95%) Nagios
11 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 128 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 69 (21.90%) Oracle
3 28 (8.89%) VMware
4 12 (3.81%) Databricks
4 12 (3.81%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.17%) Tenable
6 9 (2.86%) AppDynamics
6 9 (2.86%) SAP
6 9 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.54%) Citrix
8 7 (2.22%) Sybase
9 6 (1.90%) Google
10 5 (1.59%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.59%) iManage
10 5 (1.59%) Intapp
10 5 (1.59%) Litera
10 5 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.27%) HP
11 4 (1.27%) NetApp