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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 254 232
Rank change year-on-year -60 -22 -28
Contract jobs citing PaaS 145 113 162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.39% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 79 121
10th Percentile £413 £366 £375
25th Percentile £468 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £612
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -6.05% +2.00%
75th Percentile £650 £612 £675
90th Percentile £825 £728 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £38.50
75th Percentile £55.13 - £40.25
90th Percentile £55.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year +79.17% -59.60% -6.01%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,078 4,723 5,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 31.31% 26.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,186 3,164 3,498
10th Percentile £282 £252 £240
25th Percentile £404 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £496
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.14% -0.90%
75th Percentile £590 £573 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 194 215
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.82 £13.96
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.91 £18.87 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.30% -10.14% -20.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.43 £66.85 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%

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 job vacancy trend 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 30 July 2026.

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 30 July 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
South East -62 41 £700 +21.74% 22
North of England -57 36 £460 -8.00% 13
Midlands -46 28 £525 -15.05% 13
Yorkshire -33 24 £494 -10.18% 2
West Midlands -60 18 £531 -18.31% 6
Scotland -17 16 £595 +11.42% 4
South West -39 13 £500 -31.03% 7
East of England -9 12 £650 -13.45% 4
North West -47 12 £426 +17.48% 10
East Midlands -3 10 £488 +8.33% 7
North East -46 4 £638 +27.50% 1
Wales - 2 - - 1
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.90%) Confluence
2 10 (6.90%) SAS
3 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.38%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.38%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (68.28%) Azure
2 83 (57.24%) IaaS
3 49 (33.79%) SaaS
4 33 (22.76%) AWS
4 33 (22.76%) Entra ID
5 23 (15.86%) OCI
6 19 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (11.72%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (10.34%) Serverless
9 13 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (7.59%) Azure AKS
10 11 (7.59%) GitHub
11 9 (6.21%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (4.83%) Azure App Service
13 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.45%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.45%) GCP
14 5 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.28%) Firewall
2 9 (6.21%) DNS
3 8 (5.52%) VPN
4 4 (2.76%) IPsec
4 4 (2.76%) WAN
5 3 (2.07%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.07%) LAN
5 3 (2.07%) PSTN
5 3 (2.07%) SSL
5 3 (2.07%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.38%) Internet
6 2 (1.38%) Network Security
6 2 (1.38%) VoIP
7 1 (0.69%) BGP
7 1 (0.69%) MPLS
7 1 (0.69%) OSPF
7 1 (0.69%) SNMP
7 1 (0.69%) Wireless
7 1 (0.69%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.59%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (7.59%) Oracle Database
2 10 (6.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 10 (6.90%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.07%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.38%) MaxDB
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.38%) Parquet
7 2 (1.38%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.38%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.69%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Metadata
8 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) JIRA
2 8 (5.52%) Git
3 1 (0.69%) GitLab
3 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.69%) JMeter
3 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.10%) Finance
3 18 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Military
6 3 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.38%) Aviation
7 2 (1.38%) Banking
7 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.69%) Legal
8 1 (0.69%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (37.93%) Architect
2 20 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.66%) Senior
5 13 (8.97%) Lead
5 13 (8.97%) Technical Architect
6 11 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Developer
6 11 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.90%) Lead Architect
7 10 (6.90%) Release Manager
8 9 (6.21%) Oracle Architect
9 8 (5.52%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.52%) Azure Developer
9 8 (5.52%) Technical Leader
10 6 (4.14%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 6 (4.14%) Security Specialist
10 6 (4.14%) VMware Architect
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.66%) .NET
2 12 (8.28%) .NET Framework
2 12 (8.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (6.90%) REST
4 9 (6.21%) .NET Core
5 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (4.83%) OAuth
5 7 (4.83%) OpenID
5 7 (4.83%) SAML
5 7 (4.83%) Web Services
6 6 (4.14%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.76%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.07%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.07%) SOAP
8 3 (2.07%) XACML
9 2 (1.38%) ADO
9 2 (1.38%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.38%) React
9 2 (1.38%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.38%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.14%) Wiki
5 5 (3.45%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.45%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) SCADA
7 3 (2.07%) CCTV
7 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.07%) IoT
7 3 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.41%) Windows
2 17 (11.72%) Linux
3 8 (5.52%) Unix
4 6 (4.14%) VMS
5 3 (2.07%) Android
5 3 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.07%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.69%) DevOps
2 53 (36.55%) CI/CD
3 44 (30.34%) Agile
4 34 (23.45%) Migration
4 34 (23.45%) Roadmaps
5 27 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (17.93%) Analytics
7 22 (15.17%) Architectural Patterns
7 22 (15.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (13.79%) RBAC
9 18 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (11.72%) Identity Access Management
10 17 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (11.03%) Architecture Governance
11 16 (11.03%) Cloud Security
11 16 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (10.34%) Log Analytics
13 14 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (9.66%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (13.10%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.41%) Bicep
3 17 (11.72%) SQL
4 15 (10.34%) Python
5 13 (8.97%) C#
6 3 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.69%) Bash
8 1 (0.69%) Scala
8 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (49.66%) Security Cleared
2 42 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.48%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.97%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.28%) Degree
6 8 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.45%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (3.45%) CISM
7 5 (3.45%) CISSP
7 5 (3.45%) CRISC
7 5 (3.45%) GIAC
7 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.45%) SANS
8 4 (2.76%) GSEC
8 4 (2.76%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.76%) PMP
8 4 (2.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.14%) ISO 31000
2 6 (4.14%) NIST
3 5 (3.45%) NCSC
4 3 (2.07%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.07%) GDPR
5 2 (1.38%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.14%) Docker
2 6 (4.14%) vCloud
3 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.07%) RACF
5 2 (1.38%) Firmware
5 2 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (16.55%) Terraform
2 11 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.14%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.07%) Grafana
6 3 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.38%) Ansible
8 1 (0.69%) CASB
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 62 (42.76%) Microsoft
2 43 (29.66%) Oracle
3 9 (6.21%) VMware
4 4 (2.76%) Databricks
5 3 (2.07%) Cisco
5 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.38%) Aruba
6 2 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.38%) Foundry
6 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.38%) Remedy
6 2 (1.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.38%) SAP
6 2 (1.38%) Sybase
6 2 (1.38%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.69%) Logi
7 1 (0.69%) Meraki
7 1 (0.69%) Palo Alto