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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 285 240
Rank change year-on-year -40 -45 -34
Contract jobs citing PaaS 320 225 373
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.71% 0.83% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.21% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 142 270
10th Percentile £413 £413 £368
25th Percentile £453 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £674 £675
90th Percentile £736 £759 £780
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.29% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% +15.38% -67.09%
75th Percentile £55.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.35 - £29.25
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +79.17% +15.38% -67.09%

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 15,743 10,190 11,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.43% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,552 6,893 8,511
10th Percentile £325 £313 £312
25th Percentile £421 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £717 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 268 303
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -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 18 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 18 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 -4 188 £525 -12.50% 54
South East -58 38 £700 +21.74% 27
North of England -62 38 £460 -8.00% 8
Midlands -43 27 £525 -12.50% 10
Yorkshire -24 25 £494 +1.33% 4
West Midlands -55 17 £537 -15.30% 3
East of England -12 13 £644 -14.28% 7
North West -47 13 £426 +17.48% 2
South West -42 11 £525 -25.19% 11
East Midlands -5 10 £488 +8.33% 7
North East -34 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 26 (8.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.44%) 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%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.06%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.81%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.31%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 226 (70.63%) Azure
2 200 (62.50%) IaaS
3 122 (38.13%) SaaS
4 77 (24.06%) AWS
5 62 (19.38%) Entra ID
6 55 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (12.81%) GitHub
7 41 (12.81%) OCI
8 40 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (9.06%) Azure Monitor
9 29 (9.06%) Serverless
10 25 (7.81%) Azure AKS
11 24 (7.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 21 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (5.94%) GCP
14 17 (5.31%) Azure App Service
14 17 (5.31%) Power Platform
15 14 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (3.13%) Datadog
17 9 (2.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 39 (12.19%) DNS
1 39 (12.19%) Firewall
2 28 (8.75%) VPN
3 21 (6.56%) DHCP
4 14 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (4.06%) SAN
6 10 (3.13%) WAN
7 8 (2.50%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.50%) LAN
7 8 (2.50%) VLAN
8 7 (2.19%) Network Security
8 7 (2.19%) PSTN
8 7 (2.19%) SMTP
8 7 (2.19%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.88%) Internet
9 6 (1.88%) IPsec
10 5 (1.56%) NAS
11 4 (1.25%) SSL
12 3 (0.94%) FTP
12 3 (0.94%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.44%) Oracle Database
5 10 (3.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 10 (3.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 8 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.56%) Db2
9 5 (1.56%) Metadata
9 5 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.25%) Big Data
10 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (1.25%) Power BI
10 4 (1.25%) Redis
11 3 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 25 (7.81%) Git
2 18 (5.63%) JIRA
3 8 (2.50%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.25%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.25%) Postman
5 4 (1.25%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.94%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.63%) ERwin
8 1 (0.31%) GitLab
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 76 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.13%) Finance
3 43 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.19%) Banking
6 21 (6.56%) Legal
7 13 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.56%) Law
10 5 (1.56%) Military
11 3 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) Aviation
13 1 (0.31%) Billing
13 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 112 (35.00%) Architect
2 58 (18.13%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (13.44%) Senior
4 35 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (9.69%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (8.44%) Azure Architect
8 25 (7.81%) Lead
8 25 (7.81%) Technical Architect
9 18 (5.63%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (5.31%) Developer
11 16 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 16 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Lead Architect
14 11 (3.44%) Azure Developer
14 11 (3.44%) Oracle Architect
14 11 (3.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (8.75%) REST
2 24 (7.50%) .NET
3 22 (6.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (6.56%) Web Services
5 19 (5.94%) SOAP
6 16 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 16 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (3.75%) ARM Templates
7 12 (3.75%) Middleware
8 11 (3.44%) OAuth
9 8 (2.50%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.19%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.19%) JSON
11 6 (1.88%) YAML
12 5 (1.56%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.56%) OpenID
12 5 (1.56%) React
12 5 (1.56%) SAML
13 4 (1.25%) LDAP
13 4 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.94%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (5.63%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.44%) PKI
8 10 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.13%) IoT
8 10 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.50%) Clustering
9 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.19%) SCADA
11 6 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 53 (16.56%) Windows
2 33 (10.31%) Linux
3 18 (5.63%) Unix
4 12 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.50%) VMS
6 7 (2.19%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.88%) Android
7 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (41.56%) DevOps
2 115 (35.94%) CI/CD
3 81 (25.31%) Migration
4 80 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (19.69%) Agile
6 57 (17.81%) Roadmaps
7 47 (14.69%) Analytics
8 45 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (13.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 41 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 39 (12.19%) Observability
11 39 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (11.88%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (11.25%) RBAC
15 35 (10.94%) Containerisation
16 33 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
16 33 (10.31%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 58 (18.13%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.75%) Python
3 39 (12.19%) SQL
4 36 (11.25%) Bicep
5 17 (5.31%) C#
6 13 (4.06%) Bash
6 13 (4.06%) Ruby
7 11 (3.44%) Java
8 10 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.63%) Delphi
11 2 (0.63%) Groovy
11 2 (0.63%) Perl
11 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) C++
12 1 (0.31%) RPG
12 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (38.44%) Security Cleared
2 79 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.75%) Azure Certification
4 33 (10.31%) DV Cleared
5 24 (7.50%) Degree
6 11 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.44%) TOGAF Certification
7 10 (3.13%) CISSP
8 9 (2.81%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.19%) CISM
11 6 (1.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.88%) GIAC
12 5 (1.56%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (1.56%) CRISC
12 5 (1.56%) SANS
12 5 (1.56%) SSCP
13 4 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.06%) SLA
2 11 (3.44%) GDPR
3 10 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.50%) NCSC
5 8 (2.50%) NIST
6 6 (1.88%) ISO 31000
7 5 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.25%) PMO
8 4 (1.25%) QA
9 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.88%) Docker
3 11 (3.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.81%) NFS
5 8 (2.50%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.19%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.88%) vCloud
8 5 (1.56%) Postfix
8 5 (1.56%) Varnish
9 4 (1.25%) RACF
9 4 (1.25%) Sendmail
9 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.94%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 73 (22.81%) Terraform
2 32 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (5.94%) Ansible
5 13 (4.06%) vCenter Server
6 12 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.50%) SCCM
8 7 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (2.19%) Puppet
8 7 (2.19%) vMotion
9 6 (1.88%) Grafana
10 5 (1.56%) CA Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.56%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.94%) Nagios
11 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 130 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 68 (21.25%) Oracle
3 26 (8.13%) VMware
4 12 (3.75%) Databricks
5 11 (3.44%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.81%) Citrix
6 9 (2.81%) SAP
7 8 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.50%) Tenable
8 7 (2.19%) Sybase
9 6 (1.88%) Google
9 6 (1.88%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.56%) Foundry
10 5 (1.56%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.56%) iManage
10 5 (1.56%) Intapp
10 5 (1.56%) Litera
11 4 (1.25%) NetApp
11 4 (1.25%) Salesforce