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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 275 236
Rank change year-on-year -46 -39 -36
Contract jobs citing PaaS 320 221 381
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.87% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.32% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 136 271
10th Percentile £411 £413 £350
25th Percentile £453 £500 £450
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 £591
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.75% -1.46%
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 15,227 9,544 12,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.03% 37.77% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,279 6,457 8,619
10th Percentile £325 £311 £305
25th Percentile £415 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 242 334
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.04
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.08
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.84% -36.93%

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 27 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 27 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 -20 181 £525 -12.50% 46
North of England -46 46 £457 -8.60% 5
South East -55 44 £700 +21.74% 33
Yorkshire -19 29 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -47 25 £539 -10.25% 18
North West -40 17 £425 +17.08% 2
West Midlands -55 16 £540 -12.62% 10
East of England -18 13 £644 -4.70% 6
East Midlands -6 9 £500 -2.44% 8
South West -41 9 £525 -34.38% 10
North East -39 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 14 (4.38%) Confluence
4 10 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.13%) SAS
5 5 (1.56%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.63%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.69%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.31%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 212 (66.25%) IaaS
2 209 (65.31%) Azure
3 123 (38.44%) SaaS
4 76 (23.75%) AWS
5 59 (18.44%) Entra ID
6 55 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
7 45 (14.06%) OCI
8 39 (12.19%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (11.56%) GitHub
10 34 (10.63%) Serverless
11 27 (8.44%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (8.13%) Azure Key Vault
13 23 (7.19%) Azure AKS
14 19 (5.94%) GCP
15 17 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (5.31%) Power Platform
16 15 (4.69%) Azure App Service
17 14 (4.38%) Azure Service Bus
18 8 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (11.56%) Firewall
2 36 (11.25%) DNS
3 26 (8.13%) VPN
4 18 (5.63%) DHCP
5 13 (4.06%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.13%) WAN
7 9 (2.81%) SAN
8 8 (2.50%) LAN
8 8 (2.50%) SMTP
9 7 (2.19%) Network Security
9 7 (2.19%) PSTN
9 7 (2.19%) Unified Communications
9 7 (2.19%) VLAN
10 6 (1.88%) Internet
10 6 (1.88%) IPsec
11 5 (1.56%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.25%) SSL
13 3 (0.94%) BGP
13 3 (0.94%) FTP
13 3 (0.94%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (3.44%) Oracle Database
3 11 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 10 (3.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.50%) 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%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (8.44%) Git
2 21 (6.56%) 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 61 (19.06%) Finance
3 42 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.56%) Banking
6 19 (5.94%) Legal
7 10 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.88%) Military
10 5 (1.56%) Law
11 3 (0.94%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.31%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.31%) Billing
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 109 (34.06%) Architect
2 59 (18.44%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (13.44%) Senior
4 40 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
6 28 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (8.75%) Lead
7 25 (7.81%) Technical Architect
8 24 (7.50%) Azure Architect
9 20 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) Developer
12 14 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Lead Architect
14 12 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (3.75%) Technical Leader
15 11 (3.44%) IT Engineer
15 11 (3.44%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.44%) REST
2 26 (8.13%) .NET
2 26 (8.13%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (7.50%) Web Services
4 21 (6.56%) SOAP
5 16 (5.00%) Microsoft Graph
6 13 (4.06%) .NET Framework
6 13 (4.06%) ARM Templates
6 13 (4.06%) OAuth
7 11 (3.44%) Middleware
8 9 (2.81%) JSON
9 8 (2.50%) YAML
10 7 (2.19%) Entity Framework
10 7 (2.19%) XML
11 6 (1.88%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.88%) OpenID
11 6 (1.88%) SAML
12 5 (1.56%) JWT
12 5 (1.56%) Kafka
13 4 (1.25%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.94%) Public Cloud
4 17 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.38%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.44%) Virtual Team
8 10 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.13%) IoT
9 9 (2.81%) Clustering
9 9 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.81%) PKI
10 7 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.19%) SCADA
11 6 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 5 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.31%) Windows
2 37 (11.56%) Linux
3 16 (5.00%) Unix
4 13 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.19%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.19%) VMS
6 6 (1.88%) Android
6 6 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.88%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.31%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (42.50%) DevOps
2 119 (37.19%) CI/CD
3 88 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (25.31%) Migration
5 68 (21.25%) Agile
6 63 (19.69%) Roadmaps
7 49 (15.31%) Analytics
8 45 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 42 (13.13%) Technical Leadership
10 40 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
10 40 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 37 (11.56%) ERP
11 37 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 36 (11.25%) Microservices
12 36 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 35 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (10.94%) Observability
13 35 (10.94%) RBAC
14 34 (10.63%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 58 (18.13%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.75%) Python
2 44 (13.75%) SQL
3 36 (11.25%) Bicep
4 15 (4.69%) C#
5 13 (4.06%) Java
6 12 (3.75%) Bash
6 12 (3.75%) Ruby
7 10 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 6 (1.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.63%) Groovy
10 2 (0.63%) Perl
10 2 (0.63%) Scala
10 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.31%) R
11 1 (0.31%) RPG
11 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 129 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 43 (13.44%) Azure Certification
4 37 (11.56%) DV Cleared
5 30 (9.38%) Degree
6 13 (4.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.75%) CISSP
7 12 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.19%) CISM
11 7 (2.19%) SANS
12 6 (1.88%) GIAC
12 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.56%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (1.56%) CRISC
13 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 36 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 29 (9.06%) 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 6 (1.88%) NFS
6 6 (1.88%) Postfix
6 6 (1.88%) Varnish
6 6 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.25%) RACF
7 4 (1.25%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.94%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.31%) Firmware
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (24.38%) Terraform
2 39 (12.19%) 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%) Nagios
12 2 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.63%) Control-M
12 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
13 1 (0.31%) SCOM
Vendors
1 123 (38.44%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.31%) Oracle
3 29 (9.06%) VMware
4 12 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.44%) Databricks
5 11 (3.44%) SAP
6 10 (3.13%) Citrix
7 9 (2.81%) Google
7 9 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.19%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.19%) Tenable
9 5 (1.56%) iManage
9 5 (1.56%) Intapp
9 5 (1.56%) Litera
9 5 (1.56%) NetApp
10 4 (1.25%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.25%) HP
10 4 (1.25%) Rapid7
10 4 (1.25%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.25%) Sybase