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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 227 208
Rank change year-on-year -77 -19 -14
Contract jobs citing PaaS 311 269 433
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.82% 1.11% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 2.92% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 167 232
10th Percentile £400 £425 £383
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £571
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.66% -0.65%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £740 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £580 £566
% change year-on-year -6.90% +2.43% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 14
10th Percentile £46.90 - -
25th Percentile £48.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £52.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.10 - £36.13
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £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 13,934 9,197 12,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.70% 37.92% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,588 6,487 8,717
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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 184 327
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%
75th Percentile £67.19 £43.10 £38.13
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.63 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -20.69%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -30 171 £538 -6.52% 34
South East -60 48 £700 +21.74% 23
North of England -46 43 £454 -6.87% 15
Yorkshire -34 28 £525 +23.53% 3
East of England -11 20 £550 -26.76% 4
Midlands -71 16 £488 -15.22% 13
North West -32 15 £426 -5.23% 10
West Midlands -57 11 £618 +7.48% 10
South West -39 10 £575 -8.00% 11
East Midlands -29 5 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -14 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 29 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 28 (9.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (3.86%) Confluence
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.96%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.96%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.64%) Apache
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.64%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.82%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.96%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.32%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.32%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 207 (66.56%) Azure
2 193 (62.06%) IaaS
3 111 (35.69%) SaaS
4 62 (19.94%) Entra ID
5 61 (19.61%) AWS
6 58 (18.65%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (15.11%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (14.79%) OCI
9 43 (13.83%) GitHub
10 37 (11.90%) Serverless
11 30 (9.65%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (9.32%) Azure AKS
13 28 (9.00%) Azure Key Vault
14 24 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (7.40%) Azure Service Bus
16 17 (5.47%) Azure Sentinel
17 16 (5.14%) Azure App Service
17 16 (5.14%) Azure Functions
18 15 (4.82%) Power Platform
19 14 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (14.47%) Firewall
2 29 (9.32%) DNS
3 26 (8.36%) VPN
4 23 (7.40%) DHCP
5 14 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (3.54%) WAN
7 10 (3.22%) SAN
8 9 (2.89%) VLAN
9 8 (2.57%) LAN
10 7 (2.25%) IPsec
11 6 (1.93%) Network Security
11 6 (1.93%) PSTN
11 6 (1.93%) SMTP
11 6 (1.93%) Unified Communications
12 5 (1.61%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.61%) SSL
13 4 (1.29%) BGP
13 4 (1.29%) Cisco Nexus
14 3 (0.96%) Internet
14 3 (0.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (3.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.93%) Metadata
5 5 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.29%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.96%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (0.96%) Power BI
7 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.64%) Flink
8 2 (0.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (0.64%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 29 (9.32%) Git
2 20 (6.43%) JIRA
3 18 (5.79%) Postman
4 8 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.57%) SoapUI
5 7 (2.25%) Chocolatey
6 4 (1.29%) GitLab
7 3 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.64%) ERwin
8 2 (0.64%) Gradle
8 2 (0.64%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.64%) Selenium
9 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 70 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.72%) Finance
3 40 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.97%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.79%) Banking
6 13 (4.18%) Legal
7 11 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.93%) Military
11 5 (1.61%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.29%) Aviation
12 4 (1.29%) Law
12 4 (1.29%) Marketing
13 3 (0.96%) Retail
14 2 (0.64%) Billing
14 2 (0.64%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.64%) Local Government
14 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.32%) French Language
Job Titles
1 91 (29.26%) Architect
2 50 (16.08%) Azure Engineer
2 50 (16.08%) Senior
3 32 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (8.68%) Lead
5 26 (8.36%) Developer
6 25 (8.04%) Technical Architect
7 24 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (5.79%) Azure Architect
10 14 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (3.86%) Cloud Specialist
11 12 (3.86%) Integration Specialist
11 12 (3.86%) Oracle Specialist
11 12 (3.86%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.54%) Azure Developer
12 11 (3.54%) IT Engineer
12 11 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (3.54%) VMware Architect
13 10 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.15%) .NET
2 39 (12.54%) REST
3 38 (12.22%) Web Services
4 35 (11.25%) SOAP
5 30 (9.65%) Oracle Fusion
6 24 (7.72%) OAuth
7 23 (7.40%) ARM Templates
8 20 (6.43%) JSON
8 20 (6.43%) Microsoft Graph
9 18 (5.79%) YAML
10 15 (4.82%) XML
11 14 (4.50%) .NET Framework
11 14 (4.50%) OpenID
11 14 (4.50%) SAML
12 12 (3.86%) Entity Framework
13 11 (3.54%) JWT
13 11 (3.54%) RESTful
13 11 (3.54%) XSLT
14 8 (2.57%) .NET Core
15 7 (2.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.82%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.82%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.54%) Virtual Team
5 10 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.89%) IoT
6 9 (2.89%) PKI
6 9 (2.89%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.57%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.93%) Clustering
9 6 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.93%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (12.54%) Windows
2 27 (8.68%) Linux
3 14 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.93%) VMS
4 6 (1.93%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.29%) Unix
6 3 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (42.44%) DevOps
2 99 (31.83%) CI/CD
3 91 (29.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (22.83%) Agile
5 68 (21.86%) Migration
6 59 (18.97%) Roadmaps
7 56 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (14.47%) Technical Leadership
9 42 (13.50%) Microservices
10 41 (13.18%) Analytics
11 40 (12.86%) Observability
12 38 (12.22%) ERP
13 37 (11.90%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (11.90%) TOGAF
14 36 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
15 33 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (9.97%) Containerisation
17 30 (9.65%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (9.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 58 (18.65%) PowerShell
2 56 (18.01%) SQL
3 49 (15.76%) Python
4 27 (8.68%) Bicep
5 20 (6.43%) C#
6 19 (6.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (4.50%) Java
8 7 (2.25%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.25%) Ruby
9 6 (1.93%) Bash
10 5 (1.61%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.32%) C
12 1 (0.32%) C++
12 1 (0.32%) PHP
12 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 118 (37.94%) Security Cleared
2 71 (22.83%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.43%) Azure Certification
4 35 (11.25%) DV Cleared
5 31 (9.97%) Degree
6 15 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.54%) CISSP
9 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (2.25%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.25%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.29%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.96%) PMP
14 3 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.50%) NIST
1 14 (4.50%) SLA
2 12 (3.86%) GDPR
3 9 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.25%) EU AI Act
6 6 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.93%) NCSC
7 5 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.96%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.64%) Basel III
9 2 (0.64%) GAAP
9 2 (0.64%) GRC
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.64%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.64%) PMO
9 2 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 41 (13.18%) Active Directory
2 31 (9.97%) Docker
3 18 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.54%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.54%) vCloud
5 8 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.93%) BitLocker
6 6 (1.93%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (1.61%) RACF
8 4 (1.29%) NFS
8 4 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.96%) vSphere
10 2 (0.64%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.64%) Postfix
10 2 (0.64%) Varnish
11 1 (0.32%) Firmware
11 1 (0.32%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 79 (25.40%) Terraform
2 41 (13.18%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.75%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (5.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (5.14%) vCenter Server
6 13 (4.18%) Ansible
7 11 (3.54%) SCCM
8 9 (2.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.93%) Puppet
9 6 (1.93%) vMotion
10 3 (0.96%) Control-M
10 3 (0.96%) Grafana
11 2 (0.64%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.64%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.64%) systemd
11 2 (0.64%) vRealize
11 2 (0.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 141 (45.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (18.01%) Oracle
3 36 (11.58%) VMware
4 14 (4.50%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.86%) SAP
6 10 (3.22%) Tenable
7 9 (2.89%) Foundry
8 8 (2.57%) Citrix
8 8 (2.57%) Databricks
9 7 (2.25%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.25%) Google
10 6 (1.93%) iManage
10 6 (1.93%) Intapp
10 6 (1.93%) NetApp
11 5 (1.61%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.61%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.29%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.29%) Cisco
12 4 (1.29%) Informatica
12 4 (1.29%) SolarWinds