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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 285 230
Rank change year-on-year -32 -55 -23
Contract jobs citing PaaS 320 222 386
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 0.87% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.31% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 137 276
10th Percentile £411 £413 £360
25th Percentile £453 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £673 £675
90th Percentile £738 £761 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
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 15,331 9,600 12,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.64% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,333 6,486 8,597
10th Percentile £325 £311 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 247 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.21 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.35 £69.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 30 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 30 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 -29 182 £525 -12.50% 36
North of England -54 46 £460 -8.00% 6
South East -62 43 £700 +21.74% 18
Yorkshire -33 28 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -46 25 £531 -11.50% 16
North West -36 18 £426 +17.48% 3
West Midlands -49 15 £539 -12.86% 8
East of England -17 13 £644 -4.70% 5
East Midlands -8 10 £488 -4.88% 8
South West -34 9 £525 -34.38% 7
North East -37 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 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.06%) Confluence
4 10 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.13%) SAS
5 5 (1.56%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.69%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.63%) 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
5 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 212 (66.25%) Azure
1 212 (66.25%) IaaS
2 122 (38.13%) SaaS
3 77 (24.06%) AWS
4 60 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 55 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (13.75%) OCI
7 39 (12.19%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (11.25%) GitHub
9 34 (10.63%) Serverless
10 28 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (8.13%) Azure Key Vault
12 23 (7.19%) Azure AKS
13 19 (5.94%) GCP
14 17 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (5.31%) Power Platform
15 15 (4.69%) Azure App Service
16 14 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
17 8 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (2.50%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.88%) DNS
1 38 (11.88%) Firewall
2 27 (8.44%) VPN
3 19 (5.94%) DHCP
4 13 (4.06%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.13%) SAN
5 10 (3.13%) WAN
6 8 (2.50%) LAN
6 8 (2.50%) SMTP
7 7 (2.19%) Network Security
7 7 (2.19%) PSTN
7 7 (2.19%) Unified Communications
7 7 (2.19%) VLAN
8 6 (1.88%) Internet
8 6 (1.88%) IPsec
8 6 (1.88%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.25%) SSL
10 3 (0.94%) BGP
10 3 (0.94%) FTP
10 3 (0.94%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (3.44%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 10 (3.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.81%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (1.56%) Metadata
8 4 (1.25%) Big Data
8 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (1.25%) Power BI
9 3 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.94%) Db2
9 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (8.44%) Git
2 19 (5.94%) JIRA
3 7 (2.19%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.88%) Postman
5 4 (1.25%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.94%) GitLab
7 2 (0.63%) ERwin
7 2 (0.63%) JetBrains Rider
7 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 75 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.44%) Finance
3 42 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.56%) Banking
6 19 (5.94%) Legal
7 11 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.88%) Military
11 5 (1.56%) Law
12 3 (0.94%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.63%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.31%) Aviation
14 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 111 (34.69%) Architect
2 60 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 42 (13.13%) Senior
4 41 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (8.44%) Lead
8 26 (8.13%) Azure Architect
9 25 (7.81%) Technical Architect
10 20 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 15 (4.69%) Developer
13 14 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.06%) Lead Architect
15 12 (3.75%) Technical Leader
16 11 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (3.44%) Oracle Architect
16 11 (3.44%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.44%) REST
2 25 (7.81%) .NET
2 25 (7.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (7.50%) Web Services
4 21 (6.56%) SOAP
5 16 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 14 (4.38%) ARM Templates
7 13 (4.06%) .NET Framework
7 13 (4.06%) OAuth
8 12 (3.75%) Middleware
9 9 (2.81%) JSON
10 7 (2.19%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.19%) YAML
11 6 (1.88%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.88%) OpenID
11 6 (1.88%) SAML
11 6 (1.88%) XML
12 5 (1.56%) JWT
12 5 (1.56%) Kafka
13 4 (1.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 49 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.94%) Public Cloud
4 18 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.06%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.44%) Virtual Team
8 10 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.13%) IoT
8 10 (3.13%) PKI
9 9 (2.81%) Clustering
9 9 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.19%) SCADA
12 6 (1.88%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.31%) Windows
2 36 (11.25%) Linux
3 17 (5.31%) Unix
4 13 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.50%) VMS
6 7 (2.19%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.88%) Android
7 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.31%) CentOS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (41.88%) DevOps
2 118 (36.88%) CI/CD
3 87 (27.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (25.00%) Migration
5 67 (20.94%) Agile
6 63 (19.69%) Roadmaps
7 50 (15.63%) Analytics
8 45 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 41 (12.81%) Technical Leadership
10 40 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
11 39 (12.19%) Containerisation
12 38 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (11.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 37 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (11.25%) ERP
14 36 (11.25%) Observability
14 36 (11.25%) RBAC
15 35 (10.94%) Microservices
16 34 (10.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.81%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.75%) Python
3 41 (12.81%) SQL
4 36 (11.25%) Bicep
5 15 (4.69%) C#
6 13 (4.06%) Java
7 12 (3.75%) Ruby
8 11 (3.44%) Bash
9 10 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.63%) Groovy
12 2 (0.63%) Perl
12 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) C
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.31%) R
13 1 (0.31%) RPG
Qualifications
1 129 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 45 (14.06%) Azure Certification
4 37 (11.56%) DV Cleared
5 29 (9.06%) Degree
6 13 (4.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.44%) CISSP
9 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (2.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.19%) SANS
13 6 (1.88%) CISM
13 6 (1.88%) GIAC
13 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.56%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (1.56%) CRISC
14 5 (1.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.06%) GDPR
1 13 (4.06%) SLA
2 10 (3.13%) NCSC
2 10 (3.13%) NIST
3 9 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.88%) ISO 31000
5 4 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.25%) QA
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) Basel III
7 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.31%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (11.56%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.75%) Docker
3 14 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.81%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.81%) vCloud
5 8 (2.50%) BitLocker
5 8 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.19%) NFS
7 6 (1.88%) Postfix
7 6 (1.88%) Varnish
7 6 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.25%) RACF
8 4 (1.25%) Sendmail
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.94%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (24.38%) Terraform
2 38 (11.88%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.25%) Ansible
3 20 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (4.69%) vCenter Server
5 13 (4.06%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (2.81%) SCCM
7 8 (2.50%) Puppet
7 8 (2.50%) vMotion
8 7 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.88%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.25%) Grafana
11 3 (0.94%) CA Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.94%) Nagios
12 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.31%) Control-M
13 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 123 (38.44%) Microsoft
2 64 (20.00%) Oracle
3 29 (9.06%) VMware
4 12 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.44%) Databricks
6 10 (3.13%) Citrix
6 10 (3.13%) SAP
7 9 (2.81%) Google
8 8 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.19%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.19%) Tenable
10 5 (1.56%) iManage
10 5 (1.56%) Intapp
10 5 (1.56%) Litera
10 5 (1.56%) NetApp
10 5 (1.56%) Sybase
11 4 (1.25%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.25%) HP
11 4 (1.25%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.25%) Salesforce