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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 254 227
Rank change year-on-year -79 -27 -13
Contract jobs citing PaaS 143 114 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.77% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.45% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 82 122
10th Percentile £413 £371 £378
25th Percentile £466 £425 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £652 £615 £675
90th Percentile £825 £725 £684
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.56% -0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £55.13 - £29.94
90th Percentile £55.35 - £36.13
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +79.17% +15.38% -67.09%

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 8,051 4,657 5,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.83% 31.35% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,204 3,126 3,650
10th Percentile £292 £250 £240
25th Percentile £402 £381 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.13% -1.93%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 196 237
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.07 £46.18
90th Percentile £87.16 £66.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 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 21 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
North of England -55 38 £460 -8.00% 13
South East -72 38 £700 +21.74% 34
Midlands -36 27 £525 -12.50% 14
Yorkshire -35 25 £494 +1.33% 4
West Midlands -49 17 £537 -15.30% 5
Scotland -20 16 £598 +11.89% 6
East of England -15 13 £644 -14.28% 6
North West -42 13 £426 +17.48% 6
South West -41 12 £500 -31.03% 8
East Midlands -5 10 £488 +8.33% 9
North East -43 4 £638 +27.50% 3
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 14 (9.79%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.99%) SAS
3 9 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (4.90%) Confluence
5 2 (1.40%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 98 (68.53%) Azure
2 85 (59.44%) IaaS
3 51 (35.66%) SaaS
4 33 (23.08%) AWS
5 32 (22.38%) Entra ID
6 21 (14.69%) OCI
7 19 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (11.89%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (9.79%) Serverless
10 12 (8.39%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (6.99%) GitHub
12 9 (6.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (5.59%) Azure AKS
13 8 (5.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (3.50%) GCP
16 4 (2.80%) Azure App Service
16 4 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 4 (2.80%) Power Platform
16 4 (2.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.69%) DNS
1 11 (7.69%) Firewall
2 8 (5.59%) VPN
3 5 (3.50%) IPsec
4 4 (2.80%) Kerberos
4 4 (2.80%) SSL
4 4 (2.80%) WAN
5 3 (2.10%) LAN
5 3 (2.10%) PSTN
5 3 (2.10%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.40%) DHCP
6 2 (1.40%) Internet
6 2 (1.40%) Network Security
6 2 (1.40%) VoIP
7 1 (0.70%) IPv6
7 1 (0.70%) MPLS
7 1 (0.70%) OSPF
7 1 (0.70%) SNMP
7 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) Oracle Database
1 10 (6.99%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 10 (6.99%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 9 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.40%) MaxDB
5 2 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.40%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.40%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.70%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.70%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) Parquet
6 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) JIRA
2 9 (6.29%) Git
3 2 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) Selenium
4 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.70%) Subversion
4 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.70%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.99%) Finance
3 19 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.10%) Military
8 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.40%) Banking
8 2 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Aviation
9 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (38.46%) Architect
2 19 (13.29%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (11.89%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (11.19%) Senior
5 14 (9.79%) Technical Architect
6 13 (9.09%) Lead
7 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Lead Architect
8 10 (6.99%) Release Manager
9 9 (6.29%) Oracle Architect
10 8 (5.59%) Technical Leader
11 7 (4.90%) Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Azure Architect
12 6 (4.20%) Azure Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Security Specialist
12 6 (4.20%) Senior Architect
12 6 (4.20%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (6.99%) .NET
3 8 (5.59%) .NET Framework
3 8 (5.59%) Web Services
4 7 (4.90%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (4.20%) REST
6 5 (3.50%) OAuth
6 5 (3.50%) OpenID
6 5 (3.50%) SAML
7 4 (2.80%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.80%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.80%) XACML
8 3 (2.10%) SOAP
9 2 (1.40%) SAP Basis
9 2 (1.40%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.40%) SAPUI5
10 1 (0.70%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.70%) Play Framework
10 1 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.50%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.80%) SCADA
6 4 (2.80%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.80%) Wiki
7 3 (2.10%) CCTV
7 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.10%) IoT
7 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.59%) Linux
1 18 (12.59%) Windows
2 8 (5.59%) Unix
3 6 (4.20%) VMS
4 3 (2.10%) Android
4 3 (2.10%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.10%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (41.96%) DevOps
2 53 (37.06%) CI/CD
3 47 (32.87%) Agile
4 35 (24.48%) Migration
4 35 (24.48%) Roadmaps
5 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (16.08%) Analytics
6 23 (16.08%) Architectural Patterns
6 23 (16.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (11.89%) RBAC
10 16 (11.19%) Architecture Governance
10 16 (11.19%) Cloud Security
10 16 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (10.49%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.79%) ITIL
12 14 (9.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.99%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.89%) Bicep
3 15 (10.49%) SQL
4 12 (8.39%) Python
5 9 (6.29%) C#
6 3 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.40%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.70%) Bash
8 1 (0.70%) C++
8 1 (0.70%) Java
8 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.70%) VBA
8 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 39 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 20 (13.99%) DV Cleared
4 13 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 13 (9.09%) Degree
5 7 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.50%) CESG Certified Professional
6 5 (3.50%) CISM
6 5 (3.50%) CISSP
6 5 (3.50%) CRISC
6 5 (3.50%) GIAC
6 5 (3.50%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.50%) PMP
6 5 (3.50%) SANS
7 4 (2.80%) GSEC
7 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.20%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.20%) ISO 31000
2 6 (4.20%) NIST
3 5 (3.50%) NCSC
4 4 (2.80%) SLA
5 3 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.10%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.20%) vCloud
3 5 (3.50%) Docker
4 4 (2.80%) RACF
4 4 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (16.78%) Terraform
2 10 (6.99%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.20%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.80%) Ansible
7 3 (2.10%) Grafana
7 3 (2.10%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.70%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.70%) CASB
9 1 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 60 (41.96%) Microsoft
2 40 (27.97%) Oracle
3 10 (6.99%) VMware
4 4 (2.80%) Databricks
5 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.40%) Aruba
6 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.40%) Cisco
6 2 (1.40%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.40%) Foundry
6 2 (1.40%) Remedy
6 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.40%) SAP
6 2 (1.40%) Sybase
6 2 (1.40%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.70%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) HP
7 1 (0.70%) SolarWinds