PaaS Contract Job Trends in London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 240 215
Rank change year-on-year -20 -25 -18
Contract jobs citing PaaS 184 127 177
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.94% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 2.17% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 72 142
10th Percentile £413 £439 £329
25th Percentile £450 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £675
90th Percentile £725 £762 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -10.42% +55.84% -51.27%

All Cloud Computing 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 8,335 5,844 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.50% 43.09% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,680 4,001 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

PaaS job vacancy trend in London

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in London

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing PaaS

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 17 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
Central London -9 24 £525 -14.29% 7
South London -9 1 £525 +11.11%
West London - 1 £700 - 3
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 13 (7.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.72%) Apache
4 4 (2.17%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.54%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 138 (75.00%) Azure
2 116 (63.04%) IaaS
3 73 (39.67%) SaaS
4 44 (23.91%) AWS
5 43 (23.37%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (17.39%) Entra ID
7 31 (16.85%) GitHub
8 24 (13.04%) OCI
9 21 (11.41%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (10.33%) Azure Monitor
10 19 (10.33%) Serverless
11 17 (9.24%) Azure AKS
12 16 (8.70%) GCP
12 16 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (7.07%) Azure Key Vault
14 11 (5.98%) Azure App Service
15 10 (5.43%) Datadog
15 10 (5.43%) Power Platform
16 7 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
17 6 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.22%) DNS
2 24 (13.04%) Firewall
3 21 (11.41%) VPN
4 19 (10.33%) DHCP
5 15 (8.15%) SAN
6 8 (4.35%) VLAN
6 8 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (3.26%) NAS
7 6 (3.26%) SMTP
8 5 (2.72%) Network Security
9 4 (2.17%) Internet
9 4 (2.17%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.63%) FTP
10 3 (1.63%) IPv4
11 2 (1.09%) SSL
11 2 (1.09%) WAN
12 1 (0.54%) IPsec
12 1 (0.54%) NaaS
12 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (3.80%) Big Data
4 7 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.72%) Db2
6 5 (2.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 5 (2.72%) Power BI
6 5 (2.72%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.63%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.63%) Metadata
9 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.09%) Redis
10 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (9.78%) Git
2 8 (4.35%) Chocolatey
3 6 (3.26%) GitLab
4 5 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.17%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (2.17%) JIRA
5 4 (2.17%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.09%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.54%) Postman
7 1 (0.54%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (24.46%) Finance
2 44 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 23 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 22 (11.96%) Banking
5 18 (9.78%) Legal
6 13 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.72%) Law
8 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.09%) Local Government
9 2 (1.09%) Marketing
9 2 (1.09%) Military
9 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Billing
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) International Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (33.70%) Architect
2 37 (20.11%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (14.13%) Senior
4 20 (10.87%) Azure Architect
4 20 (10.87%) Cloud Architect
4 20 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (7.07%) Lead
8 12 (6.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) Developer
10 10 (5.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Technical Architect
11 9 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) IT Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.26%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.04%) REST
2 15 (8.15%) .NET
3 14 (7.61%) Middleware
3 14 (7.61%) SOAP
4 11 (5.98%) Web Services
5 10 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 7 (3.80%) JSON
8 6 (3.26%) XML
9 5 (2.72%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.17%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.17%) LDAP
10 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (2.17%) OAuth
10 4 (2.17%) React
11 3 (1.63%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.63%) XSLT
12 2 (1.09%) ARM Templates
12 2 (1.09%) JWT
12 2 (1.09%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 36 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.98%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.98%) PKI
5 10 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.80%) Clustering
8 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.72%) Mainframe
9 5 (2.72%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.63%) IoT
11 3 (1.63%) SCADA
11 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.85%) Windows
2 15 (8.15%) Linux
3 10 (5.43%) Unix
4 9 (4.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.17%) VMS
5 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.09%) Android
6 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.76%) DevOps
2 70 (38.04%) CI/CD
3 56 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (27.17%) Migration
5 31 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (16.30%) Containerisation
7 27 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 26 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.59%) ERP
9 25 (13.59%) Observability
9 25 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (11.96%) Agile
11 22 (11.96%) Data Modelling
11 22 (11.96%) ITIL
12 21 (11.41%) Analytics
13 20 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (10.87%) RBAC
13 20 (10.87%) Roadmaps
14 17 (9.24%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.57%) Python
2 33 (17.93%) PowerShell
3 22 (11.96%) SQL
4 21 (11.41%) Bicep
5 15 (8.15%) Bash
6 13 (7.07%) Ruby
7 12 (6.52%) C#
7 12 (6.52%) Java
8 5 (2.72%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.72%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.72%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.17%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.63%) Groovy
11 2 (1.09%) Delphi
11 2 (1.09%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) Korn
12 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 53 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.93%) Azure Certification
4 14 (7.61%) Degree
5 12 (6.52%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.63%) CISSP
10 2 (1.09%) GIAC
11 1 (0.54%) CEH
11 1 (0.54%) CISM
11 1 (0.54%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.54%) GCIA
11 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.54%) OSCP
11 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.43%) SLA
2 7 (3.80%) GDPR
3 6 (3.26%) QA
4 4 (2.17%) PMO
5 3 (1.63%) NCSC
6 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.07%) Docker
4 9 (4.89%) NFS
5 6 (3.26%) BitLocker
5 6 (3.26%) Hyper-V
5 6 (3.26%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.72%) Postfix
6 5 (2.72%) Varnish
6 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.17%) Sendmail
7 4 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.63%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 45 (24.46%) Terraform
2 21 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.07%) Ansible
4 12 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.89%) SCCM
6 6 (3.26%) Puppet
6 6 (3.26%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.26%) vMotion
7 5 (2.72%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.17%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.63%) Grafana
9 3 (1.63%) Nagios
9 3 (1.63%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.54%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.54%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.54%) QRadar
11 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 74 (40.22%) Microsoft
2 35 (19.02%) Oracle
3 20 (10.87%) VMware
4 9 (4.89%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.35%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.35%) Tenable
6 7 (3.80%) Citrix
6 7 (3.80%) Databricks
6 7 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.26%) SAP
8 5 (2.72%) Google
8 5 (2.72%) Greenplum
8 5 (2.72%) Okta
8 5 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.72%) Sybase
9 4 (2.17%) iManage
9 4 (2.17%) Intapp
9 4 (2.17%) Litera
9 4 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.17%) Splunk