PaaS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > UK excluding London
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 366 | 266 | 241 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -100 | -25 | -45 |
| Contract jobs citing PaaS | 112 | 115 | 131 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London | 0.40% | 0.72% | 0.76% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 1.36% | 2.16% | 2.64% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 68 | 82 | 93 |
| 10th Percentile | £421 | £351 | £375 |
| 25th Percentile | £479 | £413 | £475 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £519 | £500 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +3.82% | -13.04% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £630 | £588 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £684 | £725 | £687 |
| UK median daily rate | £540 | £541 | £575 |
| % change year-on-year | -0.23% | -5.87% | -4.17% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10th Percentile | £51.68 | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | £52.31 | - | - |
| Median hourly rate | £54.00 | - | - |
| 75th Percentile | £55.06 | - | - |
| 90th Percentile | £55.33 | - | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £54.00 | £60.00 | £110.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -10.00% | -45.45% | +32.93% |
All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.
| 6 months to 18 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 8,257 | 5,322 | 4,953 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London | 29.17% | 33.16% | 28.79% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5,226 | 3,582 | 3,169 |
| 10th Percentile | £263 | £250 | £250 |
| 25th Percentile | £402 | £379 | £388 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| 75th Percentile | £600 | £575 | £600 |
| 90th Percentile | £675 | £660 | £663 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 525 | 177 | 129 |
| 10th Percentile | £15.28 | £14.65 | £15.88 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.48 | £16.00 | £21.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £30.00 | £20.00 | £33.93 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +50.00% | -41.06% | +50.73% |
| 75th Percentile | £70.00 | £36.00 | £69.69 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.90 | £65.75 | £70.00 |
| UK median hourly rate | £30.00 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +19.28% | -28.14% | +8.29% |
PaaS Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.
PaaS Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PaaS.
PaaS Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 October 2026.
PaaS Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PaaS.
PaaS Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midlands | -28 | 36 | £508 | -10.96% | 25 |
| South East | -65 | 22 | £563 | +25.00% | 31 |
| North of England | -65 | 22 | £519 | +22.12% | 30 |
| Scotland | -18 | 19 | £595 | +22.05% | 11 |
| West Midlands | -50 | 19 | £565 | -7.22% | 18 |
| East Midlands | -1 | 17 | £500 | +11.11% | 7 |
| Yorkshire | -32 | 11 | £522 | -5.09% | 9 |
| South West | -38 | 7 | £485 | -33.10% | 9 |
| North East | -36 | 6 | £700 | +40.00% | 6 |
| East of England | -41 | 5 | £413 | -25.00% | 11 |
| North West | -57 | 5 | £510 | +41.53% | 15 |
| Wales | - | 1 | - | - | 6 |
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PaaS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 76.8% | 86 |
| 2 | IaaS | 67.9% | 76 |
| 3 | SaaS | 40.2% | 45 |
| 4 | Entra ID | 31.3% | 35 |
| 5 | Azure DevOps | 17.9% | 20 |
| 6 | Azure Monitor | 17.0% | 19 |
| 7 | Microsoft 365 | 14.3% | 16 |
| 8 | AWS | 12.5% | 14 |
| 8 | OCI | 12.5% | 14 |
| 10 | Azure AKS | 10.7% | 12 |
| 10 | Azure Data Factory | 10.7% | 12 |
| 12 | GitHub | 8.9% | 10 |
| 13 | Azure Key Vault | 8.0% | 9 |
| 13 | Azure Synapse Analytics | 8.0% | 9 |
| 15 | Azure Storage | 5.4% | 6 |
| 15 | Serverless | 5.4% | 6 |
| 17 | Azure API Management | 4.5% | 5 |
| 17 | Azure App Service | 4.5% | 5 |
| 17 | Azure Functions | 4.5% | 5 |
| 17 | GCP | 4.5% | 5 |