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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 211 175
Rank change year-on-year -79 -36 +22
Contract jobs citing PaaS 144 127 251
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 1.01% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.12% 3.03% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 91 118
10th Percentile £409 £418 £413
25th Percentile £451 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £585 £563
% change year-on-year -8.12% +4.00% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - £30.61
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -66.67%

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 6,784 4,191 5,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.77% 33.28% 27.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,680 2,988 4,028
10th Percentile £263 £231 £213
25th Percentile £399 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £489
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -2.25% -2.93%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 145 263
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.95 £15.27
Median hourly rate £44.31 £24.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +84.60% +35.44% -19.45%
75th Percentile £66.25 £34.50 £27.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.00 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -51 48 £700 +21.74% 23
North of England -48 44 £454 -6.87% 15
Yorkshire -38 29 £525 +23.53% 3
East of England -14 20 £550 -26.76% 4
North West -30 15 £426 -5.23% 10
Midlands -65 15 £488 -15.22% 13
West Midlands -53 10 £618 +7.48% 10
Scotland +4 9 £559 +4.44% 4
South West -35 9 £575 -8.00% 11
East Midlands -29 5 £418 -27.39% 3
North East -17 1 - - 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 10 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.56%) Confluence
3 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.08%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.69%) SAS
Business Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (66.67%) Azure
2 89 (61.81%) IaaS
3 42 (29.17%) SaaS
4 35 (24.31%) AWS
5 25 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (16.67%) Entra ID
7 23 (15.97%) Serverless
8 16 (11.11%) Azure AKS
9 14 (9.72%) GitHub
10 13 (9.03%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (8.33%) Azure Functions
11 12 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (6.94%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (6.25%) OCI
14 8 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (4.86%) GitHub Copilot
16 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.89%) Firewall
2 12 (8.33%) DNS
3 10 (6.94%) DHCP
4 9 (6.25%) VPN
5 6 (4.17%) IPsec
6 5 (3.47%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.47%) SSL
7 4 (2.78%) Network Security
8 3 (2.08%) BGP
8 3 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.08%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.08%) VXLAN
8 3 (2.08%) WAN
9 2 (1.39%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.39%) LAN
9 2 (1.39%) NX-OS
9 2 (1.39%) PSTN
9 2 (1.39%) SAN
9 2 (1.39%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.78%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.08%) DocumentDB
5 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.69%) MaxDB
7 1 (0.69%) Metadata
7 1 (0.69%) Parquet
7 1 (0.69%) Redis
7 1 (0.69%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (8.33%) Git
1 12 (8.33%) JIRA
2 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
4 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.69%) Subversion
4 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.67%) Finance
3 15 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.78%) Aviation
6 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Retail
8 2 (1.39%) Banking
8 2 (1.39%) Military
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 49 (34.03%) Architect
2 26 (18.06%) Senior
3 21 (14.58%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Developer
5 13 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Lead
6 12 (8.33%) Technical Architect
7 11 (7.64%) VMware Architect
8 10 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.25%) Technical Leader
10 8 (5.56%) Senior Architect
10 8 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Technical Architect
12 5 (3.47%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.58%) .NET
2 11 (7.64%) OpenID
2 11 (7.64%) RESTful
2 11 (7.64%) SAML
3 10 (6.94%) OAuth
4 9 (6.25%) Web Services
5 7 (4.86%) A2A Protocol
5 7 (4.86%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.86%) Model Context Protocol
5 7 (4.86%) OAuth2
5 7 (4.86%) PyTorch
5 7 (4.86%) Semantic Kernel
5 7 (4.86%) TensorFlow
6 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (4.17%) REST
7 5 (3.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (3.47%) XACML
8 4 (2.78%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.78%) React
8 4 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.86%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.86%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.08%) IoT
6 3 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.39%) Clustering
7 2 (1.39%) CMDB
7 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.11%) Windows
2 11 (7.64%) Linux
3 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.78%) VMS
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.06%) DevOps
2 50 (34.72%) CI/CD
3 49 (34.03%) Agile
4 40 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (21.53%) Roadmaps
7 24 (16.67%) Migration
8 18 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (12.50%) Microservices
8 18 (12.50%) Observability
9 16 (11.11%) Analytics
9 16 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (11.11%) ITIL
9 16 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (10.42%) AI
10 15 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (9.72%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (9.72%) Architecture Governance
11 14 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.97%) PowerShell
2 20 (13.89%) SQL
3 19 (13.19%) Python
4 14 (9.72%) Bicep
5 10 (6.94%) C#
6 6 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.08%) Bash
8 3 (2.08%) Java
8 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Go
9 1 (0.69%) PHP
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.69%) VBA
9 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.97%) DV Cleared
3 21 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 18 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 10 (6.94%) Degree
6 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 6 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.47%) CISSP
9 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.39%) CCNA
11 2 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.39%) OCP
11 2 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) NIST
2 7 (4.86%) EU AI Act
3 6 (4.17%) GDPR
4 5 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.47%) SLA
5 4 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.78%) NCSC
6 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.39%) QA
8 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.64%) vCloud
3 10 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.86%) Docker
5 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.47%) RACF
6 4 (2.78%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.78%) vSphere
7 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.39%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.39%) NFS
8 2 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (24.31%) Terraform
2 18 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (6.94%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.47%) Ansible
5 5 (3.47%) SCCM
6 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.39%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.39%) Grafana
7 2 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.39%) systemd
7 2 (1.39%) vRealize
7 2 (1.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.69%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.69%) CASB
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 59 (40.97%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.97%) VMware
3 13 (9.03%) Oracle
4 8 (5.56%) Foundry
5 6 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.78%) Cisco
7 3 (2.08%) Aruba
7 3 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.08%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.08%) SAP
7 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.08%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.08%) Tenable
8 2 (1.39%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) Meraki
8 2 (1.39%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.39%) Qualys
8 2 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.39%) Virgin Media