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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 185 137
Rank change year-on-year -27 -48 -8
Contract jobs citing PaaS 195 375 811
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.11% 1.43% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 3.68% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 257 550
10th Percentile £383 £413 £438
25th Percentile £433 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £780 £775 £800
England median daily rate £593 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +3.04% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £81.50 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £83.75 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -71.11% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £96.25 -
90th Percentile - £100.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

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 6,733 10,186 16,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.47% 38.96% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,954 7,474 12,098
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £765
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 82 84
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £19.74
25th Percentile £22.00 £25.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +24.22% +13.38%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.28
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% -

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 14 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 14 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 +1 23 £525 -8.70% 7
West London +20 2 £500 -15.25% 3
South London +9 1 £568 +15.52%
East London -7 1 - - 2
North London - 1 £425 -
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 9 (4.62%) OpenStack
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.08%) Apache
3 6 (3.08%) Confluence
4 5 (2.56%) nginx
5 4 (2.05%) IIS
6 3 (1.54%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.03%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.51%) CMS
8 1 (0.51%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (58.46%) Azure
2 104 (53.33%) IaaS
3 88 (45.13%) SaaS
4 48 (24.62%) AWS
5 35 (17.95%) Entra ID
6 30 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (15.38%) Serverless
7 21 (10.77%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (8.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 17 (8.72%) GCP
8 17 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (8.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (7.18%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (6.67%) Power Platform
12 12 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (6.15%) Azure Storage
13 11 (5.64%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (15.38%) Firewall
2 20 (10.26%) DNS
3 13 (6.67%) DHCP
4 12 (6.15%) FTP
4 12 (6.15%) VPN
5 11 (5.64%) TCP/IP
6 7 (3.59%) Kerberos
6 7 (3.59%) NAS
6 7 (3.59%) SAN
7 6 (3.08%) Internet
7 6 (3.08%) VLAN
8 5 (2.56%) HTTP
9 4 (2.05%) SSH
9 4 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.54%) LAN
10 3 (1.54%) WAN
11 1 (0.51%) IPsec
11 1 (0.51%) S/MIME
11 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (7.18%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 10 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.56%) Couchbase
7 5 (2.56%) Power BI
8 4 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.54%) Big Data
9 3 (1.54%) OLAP
9 3 (1.54%) OLTP
9 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.03%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.03%) Redis
10 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 32 (16.41%) Git
2 19 (9.74%) Jenkins
3 13 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 9 (4.62%) Postman
5 8 (4.10%) JIRA
6 7 (3.59%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.08%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (2.56%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.05%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.05%) Selenium
10 3 (1.54%) GitLab
10 3 (1.54%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.51%) InstallShield
12 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (27.18%) Finance
2 45 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 21 (10.77%) Telecoms
5 18 (9.23%) Manufacturing
6 14 (7.18%) Marketing
7 13 (6.67%) Banking
8 11 (5.64%) Electronics
9 10 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.05%) Legal
13 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.54%) Law
14 2 (1.03%) Czech Language
14 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.03%) Retail
15 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 56 (28.72%) Architect
2 28 (14.36%) Senior
3 22 (11.28%) Developer
3 22 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.23%) Cloud Architect
5 17 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
6 16 (8.21%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.67%) Azure Architect
7 13 (6.67%) Lead
7 13 (6.67%) Security Architect
8 12 (6.15%) Implementation Specialist
9 10 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Senior Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Analyst
10 9 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Cloud Security Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Senior Security Architect
11 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.36%) LDAP
2 27 (13.85%) .NET
3 16 (8.21%) REST
4 12 (6.15%) JSON
5 11 (5.64%) OAuth
6 10 (5.13%) OpenID
6 10 (5.13%) Web Services
7 9 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.62%) ARM Templates
7 9 (4.62%) Swagger
8 8 (4.10%) Middleware
8 8 (4.10%) SAML
9 7 (3.59%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (3.08%) RESTful
10 6 (3.08%) YAML
11 5 (2.56%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.56%) Node.js
11 5 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.77%) Replication
2 16 (8.21%) IoT
3 14 (7.18%) Mobile App
4 12 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 11 (5.64%) Clustering
6 10 (5.13%) Data Centre
6 10 (5.13%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.62%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.59%) Client/Server
9 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.05%) Algorithms
10 4 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.05%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 50 (25.64%) Linux
2 41 (21.03%) Windows
3 25 (12.82%) Unix
4 12 (6.15%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (4.10%) Solaris
6 7 (3.59%) VMS
7 6 (3.08%) Android
7 6 (3.08%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.08%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (2.56%) CentOS
8 5 (2.56%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.36%) DevOps
2 61 (31.28%) Agile
3 47 (24.10%) CI/CD
4 41 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (14.87%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (14.36%) Migration
6 28 (14.36%) Roadmaps
7 26 (13.33%) Cloud Security
8 24 (12.31%) SDLC
9 23 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (11.79%) Microservices
10 22 (11.28%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.23%) API Management
11 18 (9.23%) B2C
11 18 (9.23%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (9.23%) Test Automation
12 17 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.72%) Scrum
12 17 (8.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (8.21%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 47 (24.10%) Python
2 46 (23.59%) SQL
3 28 (14.36%) PowerShell
4 23 (11.79%) C#
5 14 (7.18%) Bash
6 13 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.13%) Go
8 6 (3.08%) Java
9 5 (2.56%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.05%) Bicep
10 4 (2.05%) C
11 3 (1.54%) Scala
12 2 (1.03%) Ruby
13 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.51%) Groovy
13 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.51%) R
13 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.74%) Degree
4 10 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.08%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.05%) APMP
7 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.05%) PMP
8 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) GIAC
9 1 (0.51%) MCSA
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) NIST
2 9 (4.62%) GDPR
2 9 (4.62%) QA
3 6 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.56%) SLA
5 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (24.10%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.28%) Docker
3 16 (8.21%) NFS
4 12 (6.15%) HDFS
5 11 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.51%) XenApp
9 1 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (28.21%) Terraform
2 37 (18.97%) Kubernetes
3 25 (12.82%) Ansible
4 9 (4.62%) Grafana
4 9 (4.62%) Netcool
5 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 6 (3.08%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (3.08%) Tivoli
7 6 (3.08%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (2.56%) Puppet
8 5 (2.56%) ZABBIX
9 4 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.03%) Nessus
10 2 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 78 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.23%) Isilon
3 17 (8.72%) Oracle
4 15 (7.69%) SAP
5 11 (5.64%) Splunk
5 11 (5.64%) VMware
6 10 (5.13%) Dell
7 8 (4.10%) Citrix
7 8 (4.10%) Databricks
7 8 (4.10%) HP
8 7 (3.59%) IBM
8 7 (3.59%) MuleSoft
9 6 (3.08%) Cisco
9 6 (3.08%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.08%) EMC
9 6 (3.08%) Qualys
9 6 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.08%) Serena
9 6 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.56%) Google