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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 240 213
Rank change year-on-year -19 -27 -61
Contract jobs citing PaaS 109 129 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.72% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 2.62% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 94 162
10th Percentile £350 £362 £413
25th Percentile £413 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £687 £731
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £594
% change year-on-year -5.98% -1.47% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £72.14
25th Percentile - £36.75 -
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.64% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £88.75
90th Percentile - - £92.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £74.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year -19.19% -4.81% +21.88%

All Cloud 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,891 4,915 6,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.62% 27.60% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,283 3,239 4,896
10th Percentile £250 £246 £225
25th Percentile £380 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £572 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £666 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 139 241
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.17 £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.77% +11.11% +40.30%
75th Percentile £36.00 £66.74 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% -11.43% +62.79%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS 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.

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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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 17 September 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
South East +14 37 £525 -10.26% 47
North of England -1 27 £397 -37.19% 25
Midlands -18 20 £570 -6.86% 21
West Midlands -14 18 £609 -0.49% 13
North West -7 17 £360 -40.00% 14
Scotland -6 13 £463 -11.06% 21
South West +4 9 £725 +20.83% 10
Yorkshire -8 8 £550 -12.87% 4
East of England +1 5 £719 +105.36% 14
North East -2 2 £500 -23.08% 7
East Midlands -8 2 £450 -7.69% 8
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.42%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.59%) SAS
4 3 (2.75%) Confluence
4 3 (2.75%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.83%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.92%) SAP GRC
1 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 70 (64.22%) IaaS
2 64 (58.72%) Azure
3 47 (43.12%) SaaS
4 35 (32.11%) AWS
5 25 (22.94%) GCP
6 21 (19.27%) OpenShift
7 16 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (13.76%) Serverless
9 12 (11.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (11.01%) Azure Storage
10 10 (9.17%) Entra ID
11 9 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (8.26%) Azure AKS
11 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (6.42%) GitHub
13 6 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (4.59%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (4.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.35%) DNS
2 16 (14.68%) Firewall
3 15 (13.76%) DHCP
4 10 (9.17%) VPN
5 8 (7.34%) SMTP
6 7 (6.42%) SAN
7 5 (4.59%) PBX
7 5 (4.59%) VoIP
8 4 (3.67%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.92%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.92%) NAS
9 1 (0.92%) Network Security
9 1 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.43%) Relational Database
2 13 (11.93%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (10.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (10.09%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.34%) Big Data
5 7 (6.42%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.59%) Oracle Database
7 5 (4.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 5 (4.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.67%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.67%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.67%) MySQL
8 4 (3.67%) Redis
9 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.83%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Git
1 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) Gradle
2 6 (5.50%) Maven
2 6 (5.50%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.59%) JIRA
4 4 (3.67%) SonarLint
5 3 (2.75%) Postman
5 3 (2.75%) Selenium
6 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.83%) GitLab
6 2 (1.83%) Subversion
6 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.83%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.92%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.17%) Finance
4 6 (5.50%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.75%) Banking
7 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (18.35%) Architect
2 17 (15.60%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (9.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) 3rd Line Support
5 10 (9.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Lead
5 10 (9.17%) Support Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Support
6 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Site Engineer
7 8 (7.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior
9 5 (4.59%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.01%) AngularJS
2 10 (9.17%) Node.js
3 9 (8.26%) ADO
4 7 (6.42%) ARM Templates
5 6 (5.50%) .NET
6 5 (4.59%) Middleware
6 5 (4.59%) RESTful
7 4 (3.67%) Dropwizard
7 4 (3.67%) J2EE
7 4 (3.67%) JWT
7 4 (3.67%) Micronaut
7 4 (3.67%) SOAP
7 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.75%) Celery
8 3 (2.75%) REST
9 2 (1.83%) Jinja
9 2 (1.83%) Kafka
9 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.83%) React
9 2 (1.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.09%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.34%) Clustering
4 8 (7.34%) PKI
5 5 (4.59%) Blackberry
5 5 (4.59%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.59%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.67%) N-Tier
7 3 (2.75%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.92%) Replication
9 1 (0.92%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.19%) Windows
2 29 (26.61%) Linux
3 14 (12.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.67%) Unix
5 3 (2.75%) VMS
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (39.45%) DevOps
2 36 (33.03%) CI/CD
3 23 (21.10%) Agile
4 22 (20.18%) Containerisation
5 21 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (17.43%) Migration
7 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.68%) Roadmaps
8 15 (13.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 15 (13.76%) Observability
8 15 (13.76%) Validation
9 14 (12.84%) ETL
10 13 (11.93%) Machine Learning
10 13 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (11.01%) Microservices
12 11 (10.09%) Analytics
13 10 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
14 9 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (8.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 31 (28.44%) SQL
2 19 (17.43%) Python
3 18 (16.51%) PowerShell
4 12 (11.01%) Java
5 10 (9.17%) PHP
6 8 (7.34%) Bicep
7 5 (4.59%) C#
8 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.75%) Bash
9 3 (2.75%) Go
10 2 (1.83%) C++
10 2 (1.83%) VBA
10 2 (1.83%) VBScript
11 1 (0.92%) Groovy
11 1 (0.92%) R
11 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.76%) DV Cleared
3 14 (12.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.34%) Degree
5 6 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.59%) CCNP
6 5 (4.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.83%) ISEB
7 2 (1.83%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.92%) CCSP
8 1 (0.92%) CISM
8 1 (0.92%) CISSP
8 1 (0.92%) OCP
8 1 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) SLA
2 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.83%) NIST
3 2 (1.83%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (28.44%) Docker
2 24 (22.02%) Active Directory
3 19 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (10.09%) Hyper-V
4 11 (10.09%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (7.34%) BitLocker
5 8 (7.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (7.34%) Terminal Services
6 5 (4.59%) vSphere
7 3 (2.75%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (37.61%) Kubernetes
2 29 (26.61%) Terraform
3 13 (11.93%) Ansible
4 12 (11.01%) Grafana
5 9 (8.26%) Puppet
6 8 (7.34%) Nagios
6 8 (7.34%) vCenter Server
6 8 (7.34%) vMotion
7 4 (3.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.83%) logstash
8 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.92%) Kibana
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 33 (30.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (23.85%) Oracle
3 25 (22.94%) VMware
4 16 (14.68%) AppDynamics
5 14 (12.84%) Google
6 12 (11.01%) Citrix
6 12 (11.01%) HP
7 8 (7.34%) F5
7 8 (7.34%) Symantec
8 5 (4.59%) Avaya
8 5 (4.59%) Cisco
8 5 (4.59%) Ericsson
8 5 (4.59%) IBM
8 5 (4.59%) Juniper
8 5 (4.59%) Nokia
8 5 (4.59%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.59%) Ribbon
9 4 (3.67%) Databricks
9 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.67%) Gigya