PaaS Contracts in London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 190 143
Rank change year-on-year -21 -47 -9
Contract jobs citing PaaS 205 374 791
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 1.45% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 3.75% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 257 532
10th Percentile £354 £411 £435
25th Percentile £433 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £694 £680 £700
90th Percentile £780 £775 £800
England median daily rate £575 £578 £575
% change year-on-year -0.43% +0.43% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - £82.25 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £85.63 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.11% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £93.13 -
90th Percentile - £98.75 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +37.58%

All Cloud Skills
London

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,771 9,971 15,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.83% 38.77% 41.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,006 7,324 12,026
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 77 69
10th Percentile £16.70 £19.57 £19.77
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +31.25% -0.62%
75th Percentile £38.13 £80.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £56.75 £90.00 £76.42
England median hourly rate £21.37 £34.90 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.76% +62.31% +2.14%

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 26 May 2024.

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 26 May 2024. 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 0 24 £550 -6.98% 10
West London +22 2 £500 -15.25% 4
East London -5 1 - - 5
North London - 1 £425 - 1
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 7 (3.41%) Confluence
1 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (3.41%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.95%) Apache
2 4 (1.95%) IIS
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) nginx
3 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.49%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 121 (59.02%) Azure
2 106 (51.71%) IaaS
3 96 (46.83%) SaaS
4 45 (21.95%) AWS
5 34 (16.59%) Entra ID
6 33 (16.10%) Serverless
7 29 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (9.76%) Cloud Computing
9 18 (8.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 17 (8.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (8.29%) GCP
11 16 (7.80%) Azure Storage
11 16 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (7.32%) Power Platform
13 14 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (6.83%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (6.34%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (5.85%) Azure API Management
15 12 (5.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.63%) Firewall
2 20 (9.76%) DNS
3 14 (6.83%) VPN
4 13 (6.34%) DHCP
5 12 (5.85%) FTP
6 11 (5.37%) TCP/IP
7 7 (3.41%) Kerberos
7 7 (3.41%) NAS
7 7 (3.41%) SAN
8 6 (2.93%) Internet
8 6 (2.93%) VLAN
9 5 (2.44%) HTTP
10 4 (1.95%) SSH
10 4 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (1.46%) LAN
11 3 (1.46%) WAN
12 1 (0.49%) IPsec
12 1 (0.49%) S/MIME
12 1 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (6.34%) Hadoop
4 12 (5.85%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.90%) Power BI
7 6 (2.93%) Big Data
7 6 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.95%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.46%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.46%) OLAP
9 3 (1.46%) OLTP
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.46%) Tableau
9 3 (1.46%) Tableau Server
10 2 (0.98%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (14.63%) Git
2 19 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.83%) TeamCity
4 10 (4.88%) Postman
5 9 (4.39%) JIRA
6 8 (3.90%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.41%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (2.44%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.95%) Selenium
10 3 (1.46%) GitLab
10 3 (1.46%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
11 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.49%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.49%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (28.29%) Finance
2 48 (23.41%) Social Skills
3 21 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.78%) Telecoms
5 17 (8.29%) Manufacturing
6 14 (6.83%) Banking
7 13 (6.34%) Marketing
8 10 (4.88%) Electronics
8 10 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.44%) Retail
12 4 (1.95%) Legal
13 3 (1.46%) Billing
13 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.46%) Law
14 2 (0.98%) Czech Language
14 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (27.80%) Architect
2 33 (16.10%) Senior
3 24 (11.71%) Developer
4 19 (9.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (8.78%) Cloud Architect
5 18 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (6.83%) Azure Architect
8 13 (6.34%) Security Architect
9 12 (5.85%) Implementation Specialist
9 12 (5.85%) Lead
10 10 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Senior Architect
10 10 (4.88%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.39%) Analyst
11 9 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Cloud Security Architect
11 9 (4.39%) Enterprise Architect
11 9 (4.39%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.66%) .NET
1 28 (13.66%) LDAP
2 17 (8.29%) REST
3 12 (5.85%) JSON
4 11 (5.37%) OAuth
4 11 (5.37%) Web Services
5 10 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 10 (4.88%) OpenID
5 10 (4.88%) Swagger
6 8 (3.90%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.90%) Middleware
6 8 (3.90%) SAML
7 7 (3.41%) .NET Core
8 6 (2.93%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (2.93%) RESTful
9 5 (2.44%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.44%) Node.js
9 5 (2.44%) SOAP
9 5 (2.44%) YAML
10 4 (1.95%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.24%) Replication
2 16 (7.80%) IoT
2 16 (7.80%) Mobile App
3 12 (5.85%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.37%) Clustering
5 10 (4.88%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.39%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.39%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.41%) Client/Server
7 7 (3.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.95%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (23.90%) Linux
2 42 (20.49%) Windows
3 25 (12.20%) Unix
4 12 (5.85%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.88%) VMS
6 8 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (3.41%) Android
7 7 (3.41%) Apple iOS
7 7 (3.41%) Solaris
8 6 (2.93%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.46%) CentOS
9 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (33.17%) Agile
1 68 (33.17%) DevOps
2 44 (21.46%) CI/CD
3 41 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (15.61%) Migration
5 28 (13.66%) Roadmaps
6 27 (13.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (12.68%) Cloud Security
8 24 (11.71%) Microservices
8 24 (11.71%) SDLC
9 23 (11.22%) Continuous Integration
10 22 (10.73%) Software Engineering
11 20 (9.76%) Scrum
12 19 (9.27%) Test Automation
13 18 (8.78%) Analytics
13 18 (8.78%) API Management
13 18 (8.78%) B2C
13 18 (8.78%) Deployment Automation
13 18 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (8.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 50 (24.39%) SQL
2 47 (22.93%) Python
3 28 (13.66%) PowerShell
4 24 (11.71%) C#
5 15 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.85%) Bash
7 8 (3.90%) Go
8 7 (3.41%) Java
9 5 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.95%) Bicep
10 4 (1.95%) C
10 4 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.46%) Scala
12 2 (0.98%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.49%) Groovy
13 1 (0.49%) R
13 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 24 (11.71%) Degree
2 24 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.85%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.95%) APMP
6 4 (1.95%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.95%) PMP
6 4 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) CISM
8 1 (0.49%) CISSP
8 1 (0.49%) GIAC
8 1 (0.49%) MCSA
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.80%) NIST
2 9 (4.39%) GDPR
2 9 (4.39%) QA
3 6 (2.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.44%) SLA
5 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (22.93%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.73%) Docker
3 16 (7.80%) NFS
4 14 (6.83%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (5.85%) HDFS
6 11 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.44%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.49%) XenApp
9 1 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (25.85%) Terraform
2 41 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.71%) Ansible
4 9 (4.39%) Netcool
5 7 (3.41%) Grafana
5 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.93%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (2.93%) Tivoli
6 6 (2.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 5 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.44%) Puppet
8 4 (1.95%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.46%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.98%) Nessus
10 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 82 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle
3 18 (8.78%) Isilon
4 14 (6.83%) SAP
5 12 (5.85%) VMware
6 11 (5.37%) Splunk
7 10 (4.88%) Dell
8 9 (4.39%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.90%) Databricks
9 8 (3.90%) HP
9 8 (3.90%) MuleSoft
10 7 (3.41%) Citrix
10 7 (3.41%) IBM
11 6 (2.93%) Cisco
11 6 (2.93%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.93%) EMC
11 6 (2.93%) Qualys
11 6 (2.93%) Salesforce
11 6 (2.93%) Serena
12 5 (2.44%) Google