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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 286 254
Rank change year-on-year -91 -32 -35
Contract jobs citing PaaS 263 236 296
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.86% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.28% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 145 219
10th Percentile £413 £365 £356
25th Percentile £456 £444 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £675
90th Percentile £725 £756 £765
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £35.50 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.75 £36.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +55.84% -50.64%
75th Percentile £54.63 £78.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £55.15 £88.50 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year -12.50% -19.19% -4.81%

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 15,846 10,363 11,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 37.60% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 7,003 7,768
10th Percentile £320 £307 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 252 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.81 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.94 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -55 160 £575 -2.13% 162
Midlands -35 32 £500 -12.28% 43
South East -65 26 £600 +14.29% 63
North of England -78 23 £519 +22.12% 33
West Midlands -46 18 £531 -12.81% 34
Yorkshire -27 15 £538 -2.27% 13
East Midlands -4 14 £500 +11.11% 9
East of England -26 9 £638 -11.30% 12
South West -46 9 £525 -27.59% 12
North West -62 6 £500 +37.93% 18
North East -36 5 £638 +27.50% 3
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 11 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.80%) SAS
3 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.28%) Confluence
5 5 (1.90%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.52%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Mendix
7 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.66%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (2.66%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 196 (74.52%) Azure
2 154 (58.56%) IaaS
3 108 (41.06%) SaaS
4 64 (24.33%) AWS
5 60 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (20.91%) Entra ID
7 34 (12.93%) GitHub
8 30 (11.41%) OCI
9 27 (10.27%) Serverless
10 25 (9.51%) Azure AKS
10 25 (9.51%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (7.98%) GCP
12 20 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (6.46%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (4.94%) Azure Functions
14 13 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.56%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.18%) Azure App Service
16 11 (4.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.07%) Firewall
2 31 (11.79%) DNS
3 23 (8.75%) VPN
4 15 (5.70%) DHCP
5 12 (4.56%) SAN
6 8 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (2.28%) NAS
7 6 (2.28%) VLAN
8 5 (1.90%) Network Security
8 5 (1.90%) SMTP
9 4 (1.52%) Internet
9 4 (1.52%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.14%) FTP
10 3 (1.14%) IPv4
11 2 (0.76%) LAN
11 2 (0.76%) PSTN
11 2 (0.76%) SSL
11 2 (0.76%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.76%) WAN
12 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.98%) Azure SQL Database
1 21 (7.98%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.18%) Data Lake
2 11 (4.18%) Oracle Database
2 11 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.80%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 10 (3.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 9 (3.42%) Big Data
5 8 (3.04%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.90%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.90%) Db2
6 5 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (1.90%) Power BI
6 5 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.76%) Metadata
8 2 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (7.60%) Git
2 8 (3.04%) GitLab
3 6 (2.28%) JIRA
4 5 (1.90%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.52%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.76%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.76%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 63 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 46 (17.49%) Finance
3 37 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.46%) Banking
6 16 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.70%) Legal
8 7 (2.66%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.90%) Military
10 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.52%) Law
11 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.76%) Aviation
12 2 (0.76%) Local Government
12 2 (0.76%) Marketing
12 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Retail
13 1 (0.38%) International Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (31.18%) Architect
2 47 (17.87%) Azure Engineer
3 36 (13.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (11.79%) Senior
5 29 (11.03%) Solutions Architect
6 27 (10.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (9.89%) Azure Architect
8 21 (7.98%) Cloud Architect
9 18 (6.84%) Lead
10 16 (6.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.70%) Technical Architect
12 13 (4.94%) Developer
12 13 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 10 (3.80%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.80%) Release Manager
15 8 (3.04%) Lead Architect
15 8 (3.04%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (23.57%) Terraform
2 25 (9.51%) REST
3 19 (7.22%) .NET
4 17 (6.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (4.94%) Middleware
6 12 (4.56%) .NET Core
6 12 (4.56%) .NET Framework
7 9 (3.42%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.42%) JSON
8 8 (3.04%) Entity Framework
8 8 (3.04%) SOAP
9 7 (2.66%) React
10 6 (2.28%) OAuth
10 6 (2.28%) Web Services
10 6 (2.28%) XML
11 5 (1.90%) SAML
12 4 (1.52%) LDAP
12 4 (1.52%) YAML
13 3 (1.14%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.84%) Data Centre
3 16 (6.08%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.42%) PKI
7 7 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.66%) SCADA
8 6 (2.28%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (2.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.28%) Wiki
9 5 (1.90%) Clustering
9 5 (1.90%) IoT
9 5 (1.90%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.90%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.90%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.11%) Windows
2 26 (9.89%) Linux
3 16 (6.08%) Unix
4 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.66%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.66%) VMS
6 6 (2.28%) Android
6 6 (2.28%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.11%) DevOps
2 113 (42.97%) CI/CD
3 81 (30.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (25.48%) Migration
5 43 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (15.97%) Agile
7 38 (14.45%) Analytics
8 36 (13.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 36 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (13.31%) RBAC
9 35 (13.31%) Roadmaps
10 33 (12.55%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (11.41%) Containerisation
11 30 (11.41%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (9.89%) Observability
14 25 (9.51%) ERP
15 24 (9.13%) Validation
16 23 (8.75%) Enterprise Architecture
16 23 (8.75%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.73%) PowerShell
2 38 (14.45%) Python
2 38 (14.45%) SQL
3 33 (12.55%) Bicep
4 18 (6.84%) C#
5 15 (5.70%) Bash
6 10 (3.80%) Java
6 10 (3.80%) Ruby
7 7 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.90%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.52%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.14%) Groovy
11 2 (0.76%) Delphi
11 2 (0.76%) Perl
12 1 (0.38%) Korn
12 1 (0.38%) R
12 1 (0.38%) RPG
12 1 (0.38%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (36.88%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.10%) SC Cleared
3 34 (12.93%) Azure Certification
4 22 (8.37%) Degree
5 20 (7.60%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.42%) CISSP
6 9 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.04%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.66%) CISM
8 7 (2.66%) GIAC
9 6 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.28%) SANS
10 5 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (1.90%) CRISC
10 5 (1.90%) SSCP
10 5 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.18%) GDPR
1 11 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (4.18%) QA
2 9 (3.42%) SLA
3 8 (3.04%) NIST
4 7 (2.66%) NCSC
5 6 (2.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.28%) ISO 31000
6 3 (1.14%) PMO
7 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.93%) Active Directory
2 19 (7.22%) Docker
3 13 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.04%) NFS
6 4 (1.52%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.52%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.52%) Postfix
6 4 (1.52%) Varnish
6 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.14%) Sendmail
7 3 (1.14%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.76%) Firmware
8 2 (0.76%) vCloud
9 1 (0.38%) etcd
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (12.17%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.56%) Ansible
3 10 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.28%) SCCM
4 6 (2.28%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.52%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.52%) HAProxy
5 4 (1.52%) Puppet
5 4 (1.52%) vMotion
6 3 (1.14%) Grafana
6 3 (1.14%) Nagios
6 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 100 (38.02%) Microsoft
2 56 (21.29%) Oracle
3 19 (7.22%) VMware
4 17 (6.46%) Databricks
5 9 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.04%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.66%) Google
7 7 (2.66%) Splunk
8 6 (2.28%) SAP
8 6 (2.28%) Sybase
8 6 (2.28%) Tenable
9 5 (1.90%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.90%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.90%) Greenplum
9 5 (1.90%) Okta
9 5 (1.90%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.52%) Citrix
11 3 (1.14%) HP
11 3 (1.14%) Red Hat