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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 219 181
Rank change year-on-year -58 -38 -2
Contract jobs citing PaaS 131 132 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.96% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 3.03% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 95 129
10th Percentile £401 £404 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% -5.39% +0.98%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £67.56
90th Percentile - - £77.40
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

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 6,159 4,361 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.96% 31.86% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,317 2,907 4,307
10th Percentile £231 £237 £216
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -1.77%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £600
90th Percentile £664 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 103 223
10th Percentile £13.10 £15.30 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.68 £20.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +19.05% +5.79%
75th Percentile £58.75 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.50 £68.75 £70.51
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 January 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 January 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 -41 41 £571 +3.86% 27
North of England -47 33 £488 +8.33% 14
East of England +1 21 £450 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire -42 17 £563 +32.35% 5
Midlands -56 17 £515 -10.43% 10
North West -14 16 £395 -12.22% 9
Scotland +5 14 £543 +3.33% 3
West Midlands -40 14 £539 -8.88% 8
South West -36 6 £575 -6.12% 10
East Midlands -29 3 £418 -18.54% 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 7 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.82%) SAS
3 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.29%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.29%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (69.47%) Azure
2 75 (57.25%) IaaS
3 48 (36.64%) SaaS
4 40 (30.53%) AWS
5 24 (18.32%) Serverless
6 19 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (13.74%) Azure AKS
8 17 (12.98%) GitHub
9 16 (12.21%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (11.45%) Azure Functions
11 14 (10.69%) Entra ID
12 10 (7.63%) GCP
13 9 (6.87%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (6.87%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (6.11%) OpenShift
15 7 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (5.34%) Azure Storage
16 6 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
17 5 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 5 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.98%) Firewall
2 10 (7.63%) DHCP
2 10 (7.63%) DNS
3 7 (5.34%) VPN
4 5 (3.82%) Network Security
5 2 (1.53%) BGP
5 2 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.53%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (1.53%) Internet
5 2 (1.53%) IPsec
5 2 (1.53%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.53%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.53%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.53%) SAN
5 2 (1.53%) SSL
5 2 (1.53%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.76%) PBX
6 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.63%) NoSQL
1 10 (7.63%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.34%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.58%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (3.82%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.05%) MySQL
6 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.05%) Redis
7 2 (1.53%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.76%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (12.98%) Git
2 9 (6.87%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.58%) JIRA
3 6 (4.58%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.05%) Gradle
4 4 (3.05%) Maven
4 4 (3.05%) SonarLint
5 3 (2.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) Subversion
6 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 22 (16.79%) Public Sector
3 21 (16.03%) Finance
4 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.11%) Aviation
6 5 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Local Government
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (24.43%) Architect
2 21 (16.03%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (14.50%) Senior
4 15 (11.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (9.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.87%) Developer
9 8 (6.11%) Lead
10 7 (5.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) VMware Architect
12 5 (3.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Release Manager
13 4 (3.05%) Administrator
13 4 (3.05%) Java Architect
13 4 (3.05%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.05%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.27%) .NET
2 18 (13.74%) RESTful
3 11 (8.40%) OpenID
3 11 (8.40%) SAML
4 9 (6.87%) A2A Protocol
4 9 (6.87%) Model Context Protocol
4 9 (6.87%) PyTorch
4 9 (6.87%) Semantic Kernel
4 9 (6.87%) TensorFlow
5 7 (5.34%) ARM Templates
6 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.58%) OAuth
6 6 (4.58%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.82%) Node.js
8 4 (3.05%) Dropwizard
8 4 (3.05%) JWT
8 4 (3.05%) Kafka
8 4 (3.05%) Micronaut
8 4 (3.05%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.58%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.05%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.53%) Clustering
7 2 (1.53%) CMDB
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Windows
2 15 (11.45%) Linux
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (43.51%) DevOps
2 49 (37.40%) CI/CD
3 39 (29.77%) Agile
4 36 (27.48%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (17.56%) Migration
7 21 (16.03%) AI
7 21 (16.03%) Observability
7 21 (16.03%) Roadmaps
8 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (12.21%) Test Automation
11 14 (10.69%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (9.92%) Analytics
12 13 (9.92%) API Design
12 13 (9.92%) CRM
12 13 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (9.92%) ITIL
12 13 (9.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.08%) Python
2 18 (13.74%) SQL
3 12 (9.16%) PowerShell
4 8 (6.11%) Bicep
4 8 (6.11%) C#
5 7 (5.34%) Java
5 7 (5.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.58%) PHP
7 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.53%) Bash
8 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.76%) C++
9 1 (0.76%) Go
9 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.76%) VBA
9 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.69%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.63%) Degree
6 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (3.82%) CISSP
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.53%) OCP
9 2 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) NIST
2 9 (6.87%) EU AI Act
3 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
3 4 (3.05%) NCSC
3 4 (3.05%) SLA
4 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.53%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.53%) QA
6 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (12.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (12.21%) Docker
3 11 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.58%) vCloud
5 4 (3.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.05%) VMware NSX
5 4 (3.05%) vSphere
6 2 (1.53%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.53%) NFS
6 2 (1.53%) RACF
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (24.43%) Terraform
2 30 (22.90%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.40%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.58%) Ansible
4 6 (4.58%) Grafana
5 5 (3.82%) SCCM
5 5 (3.82%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.53%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.53%) logstash
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.53%) systemd
6 2 (1.53%) vRealize
6 2 (1.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.76%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (40.46%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.50%) VMware
3 15 (11.45%) Oracle
4 9 (6.87%) Foundry
5 6 (4.58%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.82%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.05%) Cisco
7 4 (3.05%) Gigya
8 3 (2.29%) Google
8 3 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.29%) Tenable
9 2 (1.53%) BMC
9 2 (1.53%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.53%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.53%) Qualys
9 2 (1.53%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.53%) SAP
9 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds