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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 233 207
Rank change year-on-year -65 -26 -15
Contract jobs citing PaaS 318 269 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 1.11% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 2.93% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 166 243
10th Percentile £400 £425 £383
25th Percentile £450 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £688 £649 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £47.05 - -
25th Percentile £48.63 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £54.38 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 13,949 9,173 12,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.54% 37.84% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 6,471 8,724
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 328
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.64 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.13% +26.19% -18.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.14 £75.05 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -39 175 £525 -8.70% 34
South East -56 51 £700 +21.74% 23
North of England -49 42 £454 -6.87% 15
Yorkshire -35 27 £525 +23.53% 3
Midlands -64 19 £519 -9.78% 13
East of England -12 17 £525 -30.09% 4
North West -35 15 £426 -5.23% 10
West Midlands -55 14 £540 -6.09% 10
South West -39 11 £563 -10.00% 11
East Midlands -28 5 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -16 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 30 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.77%) Confluence
4 5 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.57%) SAS
5 4 (1.26%) Apache
5 4 (1.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.94%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.94%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.31%) IIS
7 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.72%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.57%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.31%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (66.35%) Azure
2 198 (62.26%) IaaS
3 114 (35.85%) SaaS
4 67 (21.07%) AWS
5 62 (19.50%) Entra ID
6 58 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (14.78%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (14.78%) OCI
8 40 (12.58%) GitHub
9 36 (11.32%) Serverless
10 30 (9.43%) Azure Key Vault
10 30 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (8.18%) Azure AKS
12 24 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (5.35%) Azure Sentinel
15 16 (5.03%) Azure App Service
16 15 (4.72%) Azure Functions
16 15 (4.72%) Power Platform
17 14 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 49 (15.41%) Firewall
2 34 (10.69%) DNS
3 27 (8.49%) VPN
4 24 (7.55%) DHCP
5 14 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (3.46%) WAN
7 10 (3.14%) SAN
8 9 (2.83%) VLAN
9 8 (2.52%) LAN
10 7 (2.20%) IPsec
10 7 (2.20%) Network Security
10 7 (2.20%) SMTP
11 6 (1.89%) PSTN
11 6 (1.89%) Unified Communications
12 5 (1.57%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.57%) SSL
13 4 (1.26%) BGP
13 4 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (0.94%) NX-OS
14 3 (0.94%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.20%) Metadata
4 7 (2.20%) Oracle Database
4 7 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 5 (1.57%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 3 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.94%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.94%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (0.94%) Power BI
7 3 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (9.75%) Git
2 20 (6.29%) JIRA
3 18 (5.66%) Postman
4 9 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.52%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.20%) Chocolatey
7 4 (1.26%) GitLab
8 3 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.63%) ERwin
9 2 (0.63%) Gradle
9 2 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.63%) Selenium
10 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (22.33%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.35%) Finance
3 45 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.29%) Banking
6 13 (4.09%) Legal
7 11 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Military
11 5 (1.57%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.26%) Aviation
12 4 (1.26%) Law
12 4 (1.26%) Marketing
13 3 (0.94%) Retail
14 2 (0.63%) Billing
14 2 (0.63%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.63%) Local Government
14 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.31%) French Language
Job Titles
1 94 (29.56%) Architect
2 50 (15.72%) Azure Engineer
3 46 (14.47%) Senior
4 34 (10.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (8.81%) Lead
6 26 (8.18%) Developer
6 26 (8.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.86%) Technical Architect
8 20 (6.29%) Azure Architect
8 20 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (3.77%) Azure Developer
10 12 (3.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (3.77%) Cloud Specialist
10 12 (3.77%) Integration Specialist
10 12 (3.77%) Oracle Specialist
10 12 (3.77%) Technical Leader
10 12 (3.77%) VMware Architect
11 11 (3.46%) IT Engineer
11 11 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.21%) .NET
2 40 (12.58%) REST
2 40 (12.58%) Web Services
3 36 (11.32%) SOAP
4 31 (9.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (7.55%) OAuth
6 23 (7.23%) ARM Templates
7 20 (6.29%) JSON
7 20 (6.29%) Microsoft Graph
8 18 (5.66%) YAML
9 15 (4.72%) .NET Framework
9 15 (4.72%) XML
10 14 (4.40%) OpenID
10 14 (4.40%) SAML
11 12 (3.77%) Entity Framework
12 11 (3.46%) JWT
12 11 (3.46%) XSLT
13 8 (2.52%) .NET Core
13 8 (2.52%) Middleware
13 8 (2.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.97%) Public Cloud
3 15 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.46%) Virtual Team
6 10 (3.14%) PKI
6 10 (3.14%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.83%) IoT
8 7 (2.20%) Clustering
8 7 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.26%) Windows
2 30 (9.43%) Linux
3 15 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.20%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (1.89%) Unix
5 6 (1.89%) VMS
6 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.31%) CentOS
7 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (44.03%) DevOps
2 104 (32.70%) CI/CD
3 93 (29.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (23.90%) Migration
5 72 (22.64%) Agile
6 61 (19.18%) Roadmaps
7 57 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (14.47%) Technical Leadership
9 45 (14.15%) Analytics
10 42 (13.21%) Microservices
11 40 (12.58%) Observability
12 39 (12.26%) ERP
12 39 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (11.64%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 37 (11.64%) TOGAF
14 33 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
15 31 (9.75%) Containerisation
15 31 (9.75%) ITIL
16 30 (9.43%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (18.24%) PowerShell
2 57 (17.92%) SQL
3 45 (14.15%) Python
4 29 (9.12%) Bicep
5 21 (6.60%) C#
6 19 (5.97%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (4.40%) Java
8 8 (2.52%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.52%) Ruby
9 7 (2.20%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.89%) Bash
11 5 (1.57%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.31%) C++
13 1 (0.31%) PHP
13 1 (0.31%) Scala
13 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 128 (40.25%) Security Cleared
2 79 (24.84%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.09%) Azure Certification
4 39 (12.26%) DV Cleared
5 30 (9.43%) Degree
6 15 (4.72%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.46%) CISSP
9 9 (2.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (1.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.26%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.94%) OSCP
14 3 (0.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.40%) SLA
2 12 (3.77%) GDPR
2 12 (3.77%) NIST
3 9 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.83%) NCSC
4 8 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.89%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.26%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.63%) Basel III
9 2 (0.63%) GAAP
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.63%) IFRS
9 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.63%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.63%) PMO
9 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 42 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 32 (10.06%) Docker
3 18 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.77%) vCloud
5 11 (3.46%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.20%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.89%) NFS
9 5 (1.57%) RACF
10 4 (1.26%) Postfix
10 4 (1.26%) Varnish
10 4 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.26%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.94%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.94%) vSphere
12 2 (0.63%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (25.16%) Terraform
2 42 (13.21%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.60%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (5.66%) vCenter Server
5 17 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (4.40%) Ansible
7 11 (3.46%) SCCM
8 9 (2.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (2.20%) Puppet
9 7 (2.20%) vMotion
10 6 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (1.26%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.94%) Control-M
12 3 (0.94%) Grafana
13 2 (0.63%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.63%) systemd
13 2 (0.63%) vRealize
13 2 (0.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 142 (44.65%) Microsoft
2 60 (18.87%) Oracle
3 37 (11.64%) VMware
4 14 (4.40%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.77%) SAP
6 10 (3.14%) Tenable
7 9 (2.83%) Citrix
8 8 (2.52%) Databricks
9 7 (2.20%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.20%) Google
9 7 (2.20%) NetApp
10 6 (1.89%) Foundry
10 6 (1.89%) iManage
10 6 (1.89%) Intapp
11 5 (1.57%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.57%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.26%) Aderant
12 4 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.26%) Cisco
12 4 (1.26%) Informatica