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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 291 237
Rank change year-on-year -45 -54 -36
Contract jobs citing PaaS 314 224 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.81% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 2.17% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 139 263
10th Percentile £413 £402 £370
25th Percentile £453 £484 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £675
90th Percentile £725 £761 £779
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 15,886 10,346 11,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.02% 37.25% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,591 7,013 8,027
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 268 239
10th Percentile £16.56 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.02 £18.13 £16.15
Median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £84.38 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -9 182 £525 -10.64% 88
South East -63 41 £700 +21.74% 23
North of England -60 34 £457 -8.60% 19
Midlands -34 28 £525 -15.05% 16
Yorkshire -34 22 £477 -13.27% 4
West Midlands -55 18 £531 -18.31% 7
South West -41 13 £500 -31.03% 6
East of England -8 12 £650 -9.57% 5
North West -48 12 £426 +17.48% 13
East Midlands -7 10 £488 +8.33% 9
North East -39 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 23 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 20 (6.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.18%) Confluence
3 10 (3.18%) SAS
4 5 (1.59%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.64%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.50%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (2.87%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.64%) 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
1 224 (71.34%) Azure
2 193 (61.46%) IaaS
3 112 (35.67%) SaaS
4 75 (23.89%) AWS
5 60 (19.11%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (19.11%) Entra ID
6 44 (14.01%) GitHub
7 41 (13.06%) OCI
8 36 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
9 32 (10.19%) Azure Monitor
10 31 (9.87%) Serverless
11 28 (8.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 27 (8.60%) Azure AKS
13 23 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (6.37%) Azure App Service
14 20 (6.37%) GCP
15 18 (5.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 13 (4.14%) Power Platform
17 11 (3.50%) Datadog
18 9 (2.87%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.10%) DNS
2 37 (11.78%) Firewall
3 30 (9.55%) VPN
4 20 (6.37%) DHCP
5 14 (4.46%) SAN
6 11 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (2.87%) VLAN
8 7 (2.23%) SMTP
9 6 (1.91%) Internet
9 6 (1.91%) Network Security
9 6 (1.91%) WAN
10 5 (1.59%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.59%) NAS
11 4 (1.27%) LAN
12 3 (0.96%) FTP
12 3 (0.96%) IPsec
12 3 (0.96%) IPv4
12 3 (0.96%) PSTN
12 3 (0.96%) SSL
12 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 20 (6.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.82%) Oracle Database
5 10 (3.18%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 10 (3.18%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 9 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.91%) Big Data
9 6 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.59%) Db2
10 5 (1.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 5 (1.59%) Power BI
10 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.27%) Metadata
11 4 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (8.28%) Git
2 13 (4.14%) JIRA
3 9 (2.87%) Chocolatey
4 6 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.27%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.96%) GitLab
7 2 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.64%) Postman
7 2 (0.64%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.79%) Finance
3 40 (12.74%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.64%) Banking
6 19 (6.05%) Legal
7 12 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.59%) Law
9 5 (1.59%) Military
10 4 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.64%) Aviation
12 2 (0.64%) Marketing
12 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.32%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 107 (34.08%) Architect
2 55 (17.52%) Azure Engineer
3 38 (12.10%) Senior
4 33 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (9.87%) Solutions Architect
6 29 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (8.28%) Azure Architect
8 25 (7.96%) Lead
9 24 (7.64%) Developer
10 22 (7.01%) Technical Architect
11 21 (6.69%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (5.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.14%) Azure Developer
14 13 (4.14%) Lead Architect
15 11 (3.50%) Oracle Architect
15 11 (3.50%) Technical Leader
16 10 (3.18%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.46%) REST
2 30 (9.55%) .NET
3 22 (7.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (6.69%) .NET Framework
5 19 (6.05%) SOAP
6 18 (5.73%) Web Services
7 13 (4.14%) .NET Core
7 13 (4.14%) Middleware
8 12 (3.82%) Microsoft Graph
9 10 (3.18%) JSON
9 10 (3.18%) OAuth
10 9 (2.87%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.87%) Entity Framework
11 7 (2.23%) SAML
11 7 (2.23%) XML
12 6 (1.91%) React
13 5 (1.59%) OpenID
14 4 (1.27%) OAuth2
14 4 (1.27%) XSLT
14 4 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.50%) PKI
6 11 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.55%) Clustering
7 8 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (2.23%) SCADA
8 7 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.91%) IoT
9 6 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.91%) Wiki
10 5 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.59%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 51 (16.24%) Windows
2 32 (10.19%) Linux
3 18 (5.73%) Unix
4 12 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.55%) VMS
6 7 (2.23%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.91%) Android
7 6 (1.91%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (40.45%) DevOps
2 117 (37.26%) CI/CD
3 82 (26.11%) Migration
4 80 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (17.83%) Agile
6 50 (15.92%) Roadmaps
7 49 (15.61%) Analytics
8 44 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (13.06%) RBAC
10 41 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (12.10%) Observability
12 37 (11.78%) Disaster Recovery
13 36 (11.46%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (10.83%) Containerisation
15 33 (10.51%) ERP
15 33 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (9.55%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.52%) PowerShell
2 45 (14.33%) Python
3 40 (12.74%) Bicep
4 37 (11.78%) SQL
5 26 (8.28%) C#
6 15 (4.78%) Bash
7 13 (4.14%) Ruby
8 12 (3.82%) Java
9 8 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.27%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.96%) Groovy
13 2 (0.64%) Delphi
13 2 (0.64%) Perl
13 2 (0.64%) Scala
13 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 128 (40.76%) Security Cleared
2 81 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 45 (14.33%) Azure Certification
4 35 (11.15%) DV Cleared
5 23 (7.32%) Degree
6 13 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.50%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.55%) CISSP
11 7 (2.23%) CISM
12 6 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (1.91%) GIAC
13 5 (1.59%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (1.59%) CRISC
13 5 (1.59%) SANS
13 5 (1.59%) SSCP
14 4 (1.27%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.82%) SLA
2 11 (3.50%) GDPR
3 8 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.55%) NCSC
4 7 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (2.23%) NIST
5 6 (1.91%) 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 (13.06%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.37%) Docker
3 14 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.87%) NFS
5 8 (2.55%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.23%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.23%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.91%) vCloud
8 5 (1.59%) Postfix
8 5 (1.59%) Varnish
9 4 (1.27%) Sendmail
9 4 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.96%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.64%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.32%) RACF
Systems Management
1 72 (22.93%) Terraform
2 32 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 17 (5.41%) Ansible
3 17 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (4.14%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.87%) SCCM
6 7 (2.23%) Puppet
6 7 (2.23%) vMotion
7 6 (1.91%) Grafana
8 5 (1.59%) HAProxy
9 4 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.96%) Nagios
10 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.32%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 125 (39.81%) Microsoft
2 70 (22.29%) Oracle
3 28 (8.92%) VMware
4 12 (3.82%) Databricks
4 12 (3.82%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.18%) Tenable
6 9 (2.87%) AppDynamics
6 9 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.55%) Citrix
7 8 (2.55%) SAP
8 7 (2.23%) Sybase
9 6 (1.91%) Google
10 5 (1.59%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.27%) Foundry
11 4 (1.27%) iManage
11 4 (1.27%) Intapp
11 4 (1.27%) Litera
11 4 (1.27%) NetApp