PaaS Contracts in London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 203 178
Rank change year-on-year -7 -25 -49
Contract jobs citing PaaS 144 198 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 1.11% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.71% 2.94% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 132 271
10th Percentile £409 £383 £409
25th Percentile £498 £446 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £556 £554
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +0.41% -7.67%
75th Percentile £650 £715 £675
90th Percentile £765 £780 £775
England median daily rate £575 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -2.95% +3.04% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £80.75
25th Percentile - £25.50 £81.88
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year - -70.29% -
75th Percentile - £26.50 £96.88
90th Percentile - - £100.25
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in London

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Central London -4 15 £600 +14.29% 13
South London +12 6 £473 -16.74% 4
East London +15 1 £495 - 3
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.94%) Confluence
2 8 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 100 (69.44%) IaaS
2 84 (58.33%) Azure
3 78 (54.17%) SaaS
4 66 (45.83%) AWS
5 33 (22.92%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (22.22%) Serverless
7 26 (18.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (18.06%) GCP
8 22 (15.28%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (11.81%) Azure AKS
10 16 (11.11%) Snowflake
11 13 (9.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (8.33%) Entra ID
13 11 (7.64%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (6.25%) Amazon S3
14 9 (6.25%) OCI
15 7 (4.86%) GitHub
15 7 (4.86%) Power Platform
16 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
17 5 (3.47%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) Firewall
1 11 (7.64%) VPN
2 5 (3.47%) DNS
3 3 (2.08%) DHCP
3 3 (2.08%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.39%) NAS
4 2 (1.39%) SAN
4 2 (1.39%) SSL
4 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.69%) BGP
5 1 (0.69%) HTTP
5 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.69%) IPsec
5 1 (0.69%) Network Security
5 1 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.69%) OSPF
5 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.69%) SMTP
5 1 (0.69%) VLAN
5 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.97%) Amazon Redshift
2 14 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (4.86%) Big Data
4 7 (4.86%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.17%) Apache Hive
5 6 (4.17%) Power BI
6 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.39%) MySQL
8 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.39%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (11.11%) GitLab
2 14 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 10 (6.94%) JIRA
4 9 (6.25%) TeamCity
5 8 (5.56%) Git
6 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.69%) Maven
8 1 (0.69%) MSI
8 1 (0.69%) Serena SBM
8 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 31 (21.53%) Finance
2 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.25%) Marketing
5 8 (5.56%) Legal
6 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.47%) Banking
7 5 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Billing
10 1 (0.69%) Front Office
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 57 (39.58%) Architect
2 22 (15.28%) Cloud Architect
3 19 (13.19%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (12.50%) Senior
5 16 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.42%) Azure Architect
6 15 (10.42%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (7.64%) Lead
8 11 (7.64%) Technical Architect
9 10 (6.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.94%) Enterprise Architect
10 8 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.86%) AWS Architect
11 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 6 (4.17%) Oracle Architect
12 6 (4.17%) Oracle Technical Architect
12 6 (4.17%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 8 (5.56%) CSS
2 8 (5.56%) HTML
3 5 (3.47%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.78%) J2EE
4 4 (2.78%) REST
4 4 (2.78%) SPFx
5 3 (2.08%) .NET
5 3 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (2.08%) Node.js
6 2 (1.39%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.39%) CSS3
6 2 (1.39%) Entity Framework
6 2 (1.39%) HTML5
6 2 (1.39%) Kafka
6 2 (1.39%) LDAP
6 2 (1.39%) OAuth
6 2 (1.39%) React
6 2 (1.39%) RESTful
6 2 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.81%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 11 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (7.64%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.47%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.08%) Clustering
7 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.39%) Derivative
8 2 (1.39%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.39%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.64%) Windows
2 10 (6.94%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.25%) Linux
4 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Solaris
5 2 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.06%) DevOps
1 62 (43.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 45 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 34 (23.61%) Cloud Security
5 33 (22.92%) Agile
6 28 (19.44%) Containerisation
7 24 (16.67%) Migration
8 19 (13.19%) Problem Management
8 19 (13.19%) Roadmaps
9 18 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (12.50%) Microservices
10 16 (11.11%) Analytics
11 14 (9.72%) TOGAF
12 13 (9.03%) Zero Trust
13 12 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (7.64%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (6.94%) Computer Science
15 10 (6.94%) IT Strategy
15 10 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.61%) Python
2 26 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 23 (15.97%) SQL
4 22 (15.28%) JavaScript
5 20 (13.89%) Java
6 17 (11.81%) C#
7 12 (8.33%) Bicep
8 7 (4.86%) Bash
9 6 (4.17%) Ruby
10 5 (3.47%) PHP
11 2 (1.39%) Scala
11 2 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.69%) Perl
12 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (15.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 14 (9.72%) Degree
5 10 (6.94%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.47%) CCSAS
6 5 (3.47%) CEH
6 5 (3.47%) CREST Certified
6 5 (3.47%) GIAC
6 5 (3.47%) GPEN
6 5 (3.47%) GWAPT
6 5 (3.47%) OSCP
6 5 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.39%) OCP
8 2 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.39%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.86%) GDPR
2 4 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.08%) SLA
4 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.69%) GRC
5 1 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 19 (13.19%) Docker
2 16 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 14 (9.72%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.39%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.69%) RACF
8 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (42.36%) Terraform
2 26 (18.06%) Kubernetes
3 17 (11.81%) Ansible
4 9 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (4.86%) Data Guard
6 4 (2.78%) Grafana
6 4 (2.78%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.39%) Nessus
7 2 (1.39%) Puppet
7 2 (1.39%) Tivoli
7 2 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.39%) VxRail
8 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.69%) Control-M
8 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.69%) Nagios
8 1 (0.69%) Netcool
8 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (34.03%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.81%) Oracle
3 14 (9.72%) Databricks
4 12 (8.33%) Cloudera
5 8 (5.56%) Google
6 6 (4.17%) VMware
7 5 (3.47%) EMC
7 5 (3.47%) Qualys
7 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.47%) Splunk
8 4 (2.78%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.78%) SAP
9 3 (2.08%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.08%) Dell
9 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.39%) Cisco
10 2 (1.39%) IBM
10 2 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.39%) Serena
10 2 (1.39%) Sybase