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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 237 193
Rank change year-on-year -43 -44 -41
Contract jobs citing PaaS 115 132 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.79% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 2.71% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 93 165
10th Percentile £350 £375 £405
25th Percentile £413 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £645
90th Percentile £725 £708 £700
UK median daily rate £543 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -5.65% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £74.26
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £93.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £110.00 £82.75
% change year-on-year -45.45% +32.93% +57.62%

All Cloud 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 5,434 4,871 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.28% 29.02% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,668 3,116 4,828
10th Percentile £235 £250 £225
25th Percentile £375 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 119 234
10th Percentile £13.25 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.75 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.71% +55.56% +16.79%
75th Percentile £40.35 £68.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +12.90% +37.78%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 -19 32 £425 -32.67% 32
South East -11 26 £450 -22.41% 44
East of England -1 22 £550 +57.14% 8
Midlands -27 22 £570 -6.48% 18
West Midlands -22 20 £609 -0.49% 14
North West -15 17 £360 -40.00% 15
Yorkshire -23 13 £488 -23.53% 13
Scotland -4 10 £513 +2.50% 5
South West -14 5 £725 +16.00% 14
North East -8 2 £500 - 5
East Midlands -12 2 £450 -7.69% 4
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 (6.09%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.35%) SAS
3 3 (2.61%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.74%) FileNet
5 1 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.87%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (73.91%) Azure
2 64 (55.65%) IaaS
3 42 (36.52%) SaaS
4 36 (31.30%) AWS
5 21 (18.26%) Azure AKS
5 21 (18.26%) Serverless
6 17 (14.78%) GCP
6 17 (14.78%) GitHub
7 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (11.30%) Azure Functions
7 13 (11.30%) Entra ID
8 11 (9.57%) Azure Storage
8 11 (9.57%) OpenShift
9 9 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (7.83%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (6.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (3.48%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.70%) DNS
2 9 (7.83%) Firewall
3 6 (5.22%) DHCP
3 6 (5.22%) SAN
4 3 (2.61%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (2.61%) Network Security
4 3 (2.61%) VPN
5 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.74%) VLAN
6 1 (0.87%) Internet
6 1 (0.87%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.87%) NAS
6 1 (0.87%) PBX
6 1 (0.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.65%) Relational Database
2 10 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (6.09%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.35%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (4.35%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.48%) MySQL
6 4 (3.48%) Redis
7 3 (2.61%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.74%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.35%) Gradle
3 5 (4.35%) Maven
4 4 (3.48%) SonarLint
5 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.87%) JMeter
5 1 (0.87%) Postman
5 1 (0.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.43%) Finance
3 11 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.35%) Aviation
6 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Retail
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Local Government
8 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (18.26%) Architect
3 15 (13.04%) Senior
4 12 (10.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.57%) Lead
6 9 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Site Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Consultant
9 6 (5.22%) Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.48%) Administrator
11 4 (3.48%) Java Technical Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.48%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.65%) RESTful
2 15 (13.04%) .NET
3 12 (10.43%) AngularJS
4 10 (8.70%) Node.js
5 9 (7.83%) PyTorch
5 9 (7.83%) Semantic Kernel
5 9 (7.83%) TensorFlow
6 8 (6.96%) ADO
7 7 (6.09%) ARM Templates
8 5 (4.35%) Middleware
8 5 (4.35%) OpenID
8 5 (4.35%) SAML
8 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.48%) Dropwizard
9 4 (3.48%) J2EE
9 4 (3.48%) JWT
9 4 (3.48%) Micronaut
9 4 (3.48%) SOAP
10 3 (2.61%) Celery
10 3 (2.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.83%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.74%) IoT
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Replication
8 1 (0.87%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.48%) Windows
2 21 (18.26%) Linux
3 7 (6.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.48%) Unix
5 3 (2.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.17%) DevOps
2 31 (26.96%) CI/CD
3 26 (22.61%) Agile
4 21 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (17.39%) AI
5 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (16.52%) Migration
6 19 (16.52%) Observability
7 17 (14.78%) Machine Learning
8 16 (13.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (12.17%) Analytics
10 13 (11.30%) API Design
10 13 (11.30%) ETL
10 13 (11.30%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.43%) API Management
11 12 (10.43%) Data Privacy
11 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
11 12 (10.43%) Validation
12 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.09%) Python
2 27 (23.48%) SQL
3 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.70%) PHP
5 9 (7.83%) Java
6 8 (6.96%) Bicep
7 3 (2.61%) C#
8 2 (1.74%) Bash
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (14.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.83%) MCP
4 5 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.74%) CISSP
6 2 (1.74%) Degree
7 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) CCNA
7 1 (0.87%) CCNP
7 1 (0.87%) CCSP
7 1 (0.87%) CISM
7 1 (0.87%) SSCP
7 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) NIST
2 9 (7.83%) EU AI Act
3 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) SLA
5 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 21 (18.26%) Docker
2 17 (14.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.35%) vSphere
5 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.74%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.09%) Terraform
3 12 (10.43%) Grafana
4 5 (4.35%) Ansible
5 4 (3.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.74%) logstash
6 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.87%) Puppet
7 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (37.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (21.74%) Oracle
3 15 (13.04%) AppDynamics
3 15 (13.04%) VMware
4 9 (7.83%) Foundry
5 6 (5.22%) Google
6 5 (4.35%) Databricks
6 5 (4.35%) IBM
7 4 (3.48%) Citrix
7 4 (3.48%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.48%) F5
7 4 (3.48%) Gigya
7 4 (3.48%) HP
8 3 (2.61%) Adobe
8 3 (2.61%) Informatica
8 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.74%) Aruba
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco
9 2 (1.74%) Qualys
9 2 (1.74%) Veeam