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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 219 184
Rank change year-on-year -48 -35 -6
Contract jobs citing PaaS 136 134 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.99% 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 3.07% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 96 127
10th Percentile £374 £411 £413
25th Percentile £425 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £706 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -10.26% +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 6,235 4,367 5,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.93% 32.31% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,357 2,920 4,306
10th Percentile £238 £237 £216
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.33%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 108 232
10th Percentile £13.68 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.84 £19.94 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £24.83 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +47.00% +18.32% +5.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -42 41 £571 +3.86% 25
North of England -39 38 £488 +8.33% 11
East of England -7 21 £450 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire -34 21 £563 +32.35% 3
North West -19 17 £395 -12.22% 8
Midlands -55 17 £515 -10.43% 12
Scotland +10 14 £543 +3.33% 3
West Midlands -43 14 £539 -8.88% 10
South West -33 6 £575 -6.12% 12
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 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.68%) Confluence
2 5 (3.68%) SAS
2 5 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (69.85%) Azure
2 79 (58.09%) IaaS
3 52 (38.24%) SaaS
4 44 (32.35%) AWS
5 27 (19.85%) Serverless
6 19 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (13.24%) Azure AKS
8 17 (12.50%) GitHub
9 16 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (11.03%) Azure Functions
10 15 (11.03%) Entra ID
11 10 (7.35%) GCP
12 9 (6.62%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (6.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (5.88%) OpenShift
14 7 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.15%) Azure Storage
15 6 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (12.50%) Firewall
2 10 (7.35%) DHCP
2 10 (7.35%) DNS
3 7 (5.15%) VPN
4 5 (3.68%) Network Security
5 4 (2.94%) IPsec
5 4 (2.94%) Kerberos
5 4 (2.94%) SSL
6 2 (1.47%) BGP
6 2 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.47%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (1.47%) Internet
6 2 (1.47%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.47%) NX-OS
6 2 (1.47%) SAN
6 2 (1.47%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.74%) LAN
7 1 (0.74%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.74%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.09%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.15%) DynamoDB
3 7 (5.15%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.68%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (3.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 4 (2.94%) MySQL
6 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.94%) Redis
7 3 (2.21%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.74%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (12.50%) Git
2 10 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.88%) JIRA
4 6 (4.41%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.94%) GitLab
5 4 (2.94%) Gradle
5 4 (2.94%) Maven
5 4 (2.94%) SonarLint
6 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) Subversion
6 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Public Sector
3 22 (16.18%) Finance
4 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Aviation
6 5 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.21%) Retail
9 2 (1.47%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Local Government
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (26.47%) Architect
2 23 (16.91%) Senior
3 21 (15.44%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (7.35%) Technical Architect
8 9 (6.62%) Developer
9 8 (5.88%) Lead
10 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Architect
11 6 (4.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) VMware Architect
12 5 (3.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.68%) Release Manager
12 5 (3.68%) Senior Technical Architect
13 4 (2.94%) Administrator
13 4 (2.94%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.71%) .NET
2 18 (13.24%) RESTful
3 13 (9.56%) OpenID
3 13 (9.56%) SAML
4 9 (6.62%) A2A Protocol
4 9 (6.62%) Model Context Protocol
4 9 (6.62%) PyTorch
4 9 (6.62%) Semantic Kernel
4 9 (6.62%) TensorFlow
5 8 (5.88%) OAuth
6 7 (5.15%) ARM Templates
7 6 (4.41%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.41%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.41%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.68%) Kafka
8 5 (3.68%) Node.js
8 5 (3.68%) Web Services
9 4 (2.94%) ADO
9 4 (2.94%) J2EE
9 4 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.41%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.94%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.47%) Clustering
7 2 (1.47%) CMDB
7 2 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.47%) IoT
7 2 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Windows
2 15 (11.03%) Linux
3 5 (3.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.85%) DevOps
2 53 (38.97%) CI/CD
3 43 (31.62%) Agile
4 36 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 23 (16.91%) Migration
8 22 (16.18%) Observability
9 21 (15.44%) AI
10 18 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (13.24%) Enterprise Architecture
11 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (12.50%) Microservices
12 16 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 14 (10.29%) Containerisation
13 14 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (9.56%) Analytics
14 13 (9.56%) API Design
14 13 (9.56%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.12%) Python
2 20 (14.71%) SQL
3 13 (9.56%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.88%) Bicep
4 8 (5.88%) C#
5 7 (5.15%) Java
5 7 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.41%) PHP
7 5 (3.68%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.47%) Bash
8 2 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.74%) C++
9 1 (0.74%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
9 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.09%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.35%) Degree
6 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 5 (3.68%) CISSP
8 4 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.47%) OCP
10 2 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.74%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) NIST
2 9 (6.62%) EU AI Act
3 4 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) NCSC
3 4 (2.94%) SLA
4 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.47%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 17 (12.50%) Docker
2 11 (8.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.41%) vCloud
4 4 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.94%) RACF
4 4 (2.94%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.94%) vSphere
5 2 (1.47%) DFS Replication
5 2 (1.47%) NFS
5 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (24.26%) Terraform
2 31 (22.79%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.56%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.41%) Ansible
4 6 (4.41%) Grafana
5 5 (3.68%) SCCM
5 5 (3.68%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.47%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.47%) logstash
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.47%) systemd
7 2 (1.47%) vRealize
7 2 (1.47%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.74%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 56 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.97%) VMware
3 15 (11.03%) Oracle
4 9 (6.62%) Foundry
5 6 (4.41%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.68%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.94%) Cisco
7 4 (2.94%) Gigya
8 3 (2.21%) Google
8 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.21%) Tenable
9 2 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.47%) BMC
9 2 (1.47%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.47%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.47%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.47%) Qualys
9 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.47%) SAP
9 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds