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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 245 220
Rank change year-on-year -87 -25 -3
Contract jobs citing PaaS 142 114 174
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.77% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 2.45% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 81 121
10th Percentile £413 £368 £375
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £653 £605 £675
90th Percentile £825 £725 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.29% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £55.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.35 - £32.00
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 8,071 4,654 5,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 31.41% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,126 3,717
10th Percentile £300 £250 £234
25th Percentile £403 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 196 250
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -24.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.07 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £66.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +29.68% +26.18% -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 18 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 18 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 -58 38 £700 +21.74% 27
North of England -62 38 £460 -8.00% 8
Midlands -43 27 £525 -12.50% 11
Yorkshire -24 25 £494 +1.33% 4
West Midlands -55 17 £537 -15.30% 3
Scotland -15 16 £598 +11.89% 4
East of England -12 13 £644 -14.28% 7
North West -47 13 £426 +17.48% 2
South West -42 11 £525 -25.19% 11
East Midlands -5 10 £488 +8.33% 8
North East -34 4 £638 +27.50% 2
Wales -12 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 13 (9.15%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.04%) SAS
3 9 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (4.93%) Confluence
5 2 (1.41%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.70%) CMS
6 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.41%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (68.31%) Azure
2 85 (59.86%) IaaS
3 51 (35.92%) SaaS
4 33 (23.24%) AWS
5 32 (22.54%) Entra ID
6 21 (14.79%) OCI
7 19 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (11.97%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (9.15%) Serverless
10 12 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.34%) GitHub
12 8 (5.63%) Azure AKS
12 8 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (4.93%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (3.52%) GCP
16 4 (2.82%) Azure App Service
16 4 (2.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 4 (2.82%) Power Platform
16 4 (2.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.75%) DNS
1 11 (7.75%) Firewall
2 8 (5.63%) VPN
3 5 (3.52%) IPsec
4 4 (2.82%) Kerberos
4 4 (2.82%) SSL
4 4 (2.82%) WAN
5 3 (2.11%) LAN
5 3 (2.11%) PSTN
5 3 (2.11%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.41%) DHCP
6 2 (1.41%) Internet
6 2 (1.41%) Network Security
6 2 (1.41%) 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 (7.04%) Oracle Database
1 10 (7.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 10 (7.04%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 9 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.41%) MaxDB
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.41%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.41%) 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 (7.75%) JIRA
2 8 (5.63%) Git
3 2 (1.41%) 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 (23.24%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.08%) Finance
3 19 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Military
8 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.41%) Banking
8 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) 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 (38.73%) Architect
2 19 (13.38%) Solutions Architect
3 17 (11.97%) Azure Engineer
4 16 (11.27%) Senior
5 14 (9.86%) Technical Architect
6 13 (9.15%) Lead
7 12 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (7.04%) Lead Architect
8 10 (7.04%) Release Manager
9 9 (6.34%) Oracle Architect
10 8 (5.63%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.23%) Azure Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 6 (4.23%) Developer
11 6 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Security Specialist
11 6 (4.23%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.23%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (6.34%) .NET
3 8 (5.63%) Web Services
4 7 (4.93%) .NET Framework
4 7 (4.93%) ARM Templates
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Graph
5 5 (3.52%) OAuth
5 5 (3.52%) OpenID
5 5 (3.52%) REST
5 5 (3.52%) SAML
6 4 (2.82%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.82%) XACML
7 3 (2.11%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.11%) SOAP
8 2 (1.41%) SAP Basis
8 2 (1.41%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.41%) SAPUI5
9 1 (0.70%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.70%) Play Framework
9 1 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.52%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.52%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.82%) SCADA
6 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.11%) CCTV
7 3 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.11%) IoT
7 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.68%) Linux
1 18 (12.68%) Windows
2 8 (5.63%) Unix
3 6 (4.23%) VMS
4 3 (2.11%) Android
4 3 (2.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.11%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.25%) DevOps
2 52 (36.62%) CI/CD
3 46 (32.39%) Agile
4 35 (24.65%) Migration
4 35 (24.65%) Roadmaps
5 30 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (16.20%) Analytics
6 23 (16.20%) Architectural Patterns
6 23 (16.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (11.97%) RBAC
10 16 (11.27%) Architecture Governance
10 16 (11.27%) Cloud Security
10 16 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.86%) ITIL
12 14 (9.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.08%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.97%) Bicep
3 15 (10.56%) SQL
4 12 (8.45%) Python
5 8 (5.63%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.41%) 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 65 (45.77%) Security Cleared
2 38 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.08%) DV Cleared
4 13 (9.15%) Azure Certification
4 13 (9.15%) Degree
5 7 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (3.52%) CESG Certified Professional
6 5 (3.52%) CISM
6 5 (3.52%) CISSP
6 5 (3.52%) CRISC
6 5 (3.52%) GIAC
6 5 (3.52%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.52%) PMP
6 5 (3.52%) SANS
7 4 (2.82%) GSEC
7 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.23%) ISO 31000
2 6 (4.23%) NIST
3 5 (3.52%) NCSC
4 4 (2.82%) SLA
5 3 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.11%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.23%) vCloud
3 5 (3.52%) Docker
4 4 (2.82%) RACF
4 4 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (16.90%) Terraform
2 10 (7.04%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.93%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.23%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.82%) Ansible
7 3 (2.11%) Grafana
7 3 (2.11%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.41%) 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 59 (41.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (28.17%) Oracle
3 10 (7.04%) VMware
4 4 (2.82%) Databricks
5 3 (2.11%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.41%) Aruba
6 2 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.41%) Cisco
6 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.41%) Foundry
6 2 (1.41%) Remedy
6 2 (1.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.41%) SAP
6 2 (1.41%) Sybase
6 2 (1.41%) 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