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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 208 178
Rank change year-on-year -76 -30 +30
Contract jobs citing PaaS 150 132 241
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 1.05% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 3.18% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 96 120
10th Percentile £411 £421 £413
25th Percentile £455 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £625 £675
90th Percentile £758 £694 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £54.69 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.88 - £27.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -66.67%

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 6,873 4,152 5,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.56% 32.98% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 2,967 4,021
10th Percentile £263 £238 £213
25th Percentile £398 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £588
90th Percentile £663 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 147 257
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.41 £16.95 £15.13
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +29.80% -20.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.50 £60.57
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -56 51 £700 +21.74% 23
North of England -49 42 £454 -6.87% 15
Yorkshire -35 27 £525 +23.53% 3
Midlands -64 19 £519 -9.78% 13
East of England -12 17 £525 -30.09% 4
North West -35 15 £426 -5.23% 10
West Midlands -55 14 £540 -6.09% 10
Scotland +1 11 £501 -6.31% 4
South West -39 11 £563 -10.00% 11
East Midlands -28 5 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -16 1 - - 2
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 10 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.33%) Confluence
3 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.33%) SAS
4 3 (2.00%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (65.33%) Azure
2 91 (60.67%) IaaS
3 44 (29.33%) SaaS
4 41 (27.33%) AWS
5 25 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (15.33%) Entra ID
7 22 (14.67%) Serverless
8 13 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
9 12 (8.00%) Azure AKS
9 12 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (8.00%) GitHub
10 11 (7.33%) OCI
11 10 (6.67%) Azure Functions
11 10 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.00%) Firewall
2 14 (9.33%) DNS
3 10 (6.67%) DHCP
4 9 (6.00%) VPN
5 6 (4.00%) IPsec
6 5 (3.33%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.33%) SSL
7 3 (2.00%) BGP
7 3 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (2.00%) Network Security
7 3 (2.00%) VXLAN
7 3 (2.00%) WAN
8 2 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.33%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.33%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.33%) SAN
8 2 (1.33%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.33%) VLAN
8 2 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.67%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 5 (3.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.00%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.00%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.67%) MaxDB
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) Parquet
8 1 (0.67%) Redis
8 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Git
2 12 (8.00%) JIRA
3 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
5 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.00%) Finance
3 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.67%) Aviation
6 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Retail
8 2 (1.33%) Banking
8 2 (1.33%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (34.67%) Architect
2 22 (14.67%) Senior
3 20 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.33%) Lead
5 13 (8.67%) Developer
5 13 (8.67%) Technical Architect
6 12 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (8.00%) VMware Architect
7 10 (6.67%) Technical Leader
8 9 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.33%) Senior Architect
10 6 (4.00%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Lead Architect
10 6 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.67%) .NET
2 11 (7.33%) OpenID
2 11 (7.33%) SAML
3 10 (6.67%) OAuth
4 9 (6.00%) Web Services
5 8 (5.33%) RESTful
6 7 (4.67%) ARM Templates
6 7 (4.67%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (4.00%) REST
8 5 (3.33%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (3.33%) XACML
9 4 (2.67%) A2A Protocol
9 4 (2.67%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (2.67%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.67%) React
9 4 (2.67%) Semantic Kernel
9 4 (2.67%) SOAP
9 4 (2.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.67%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.00%) IoT
7 3 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.33%) Clustering
8 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.00%) Windows
2 11 (7.33%) Linux
3 5 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.67%) VMS
5 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.00%) DevOps
2 55 (36.67%) CI/CD
3 50 (33.33%) Agile
4 42 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (22.00%) Roadmaps
7 30 (20.00%) Migration
8 20 (13.33%) Analytics
9 18 (12.00%) Microservices
9 18 (12.00%) Observability
10 17 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (11.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 17 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (10.67%) Enterprise Architecture
11 16 (10.67%) ITIL
12 15 (10.00%) Architecture Governance
12 15 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (9.33%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (9.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.33%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.00%) SQL
3 16 (10.67%) Bicep
4 15 (10.00%) Python
5 11 (7.33%) C#
6 6 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.00%) Bash
8 3 (2.00%) Java
8 3 (2.00%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.67%) Go
10 1 (0.67%) PHP
10 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.67%) VBA
10 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 27 (18.00%) DV Cleared
4 18 (12.00%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.00%) Degree
6 6 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.33%) CISSP
7 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.33%) OCP
9 2 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) GDPR
1 6 (4.00%) NCSC
1 6 (4.00%) NIST
2 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.33%) SLA
3 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.67%) EU AI Act
4 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.33%) QA
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.00%) vCloud
3 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.67%) Docker
5 5 (3.33%) RACF
6 4 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.67%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.00%) vSphere
8 2 (1.33%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.33%) NFS
8 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (24.00%) Terraform
2 16 (10.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (7.33%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.67%) Ansible
5 4 (2.67%) SCCM
6 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.33%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.33%) Grafana
7 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.33%) systemd
7 2 (1.33%) vRealize
7 2 (1.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.67%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.67%) CASB
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 59 (39.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.67%) VMware
3 19 (12.67%) Oracle
4 6 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.33%) Foundry
6 3 (2.00%) Aruba
6 3 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco
6 3 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.00%) SAP
6 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.00%) Tenable
7 2 (1.33%) BMC
7 2 (1.33%) Databricks
7 2 (1.33%) Qualys
7 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.33%) Virgin Media