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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 204 195
Rank change year-on-year -85 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing PaaS 150 134 222
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 1.05% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 3.24% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 97 109
10th Percentile £413 £416 £413
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -6.67% +0.08%
75th Percentile £700 £623 £675
90th Percentile £758 £660 £700
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -6.52% -3.56% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £54.69 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.88 - £27.88
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £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 6,994 4,135 5,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.92% 32.37% 26.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,784 2,941 3,869
10th Percentile £280 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £666 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 156 254
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.46 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.59% +31.57% -37.31%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -63 52 £700 +21.74% 24
North of England -35 47 £460 -5.64% 11
Yorkshire -41 31 £525 +23.53% 4
Midlands -60 17 £519 -9.78% 16
North West -38 16 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -18 14 £638 -15.11% 3
South West -37 12 £550 -8.60% 7
West Midlands -59 12 £540 -6.09% 9
Scotland -10 11 £501 -6.13% 3
East Midlands -30 5 £418 -27.39% 7
North East -15 4 £638 +19.38%
Wales -13 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 11 (7.33%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.00%) Confluence
3 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.33%) SAS
5 3 (2.00%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.67%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 94 (62.67%) Azure
1 94 (62.67%) IaaS
2 48 (32.00%) SaaS
3 42 (28.00%) AWS
4 26 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (15.33%) Entra ID
6 20 (13.33%) Serverless
7 12 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (7.33%) OCI
9 10 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (6.00%) GitHub
11 8 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (5.33%) GCP
12 6 (4.00%) Azure AKS
12 6 (4.00%) Azure Functions
12 6 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.33%) Firewall
2 15 (10.00%) DNS
3 10 (6.67%) DHCP
3 10 (6.67%) VPN
4 6 (4.00%) IPsec
5 5 (3.33%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.33%) SSL
6 4 (2.67%) WAN
7 3 (2.00%) BGP
7 3 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (2.00%) Internet
7 3 (2.00%) LAN
7 3 (2.00%) Network Security
7 3 (2.00%) PSTN
7 3 (2.00%) Unified Communications
7 3 (2.00%) VXLAN
7 3 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.33%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.67%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 5 (3.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.00%) DocumentDB
6 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.00%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.67%) MaxDB
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
8 1 (0.67%) Parquet
8 1 (0.67%) Redis
8 1 (0.67%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Git
1 13 (8.67%) JIRA
2 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.67%) GitLab
4 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.67%) Selenium
4 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.67%) Subversion
4 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (18.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.33%) Finance
3 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Aviation
7 3 (2.00%) Retail
8 2 (1.33%) Banking
8 2 (1.33%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (35.33%) Architect
2 20 (13.33%) Senior
3 19 (12.67%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (8.67%) Lead
4 13 (8.67%) Technical Architect
5 12 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.00%) VMware Architect
6 10 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (6.67%) Technical Leader
7 8 (5.33%) Developer
7 8 (5.33%) Senior Architect
8 7 (4.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.00%) Lead Architect
9 6 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
10 5 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.33%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.33%) .NET
2 10 (6.67%) OpenID
2 10 (6.67%) SAML
3 9 (6.00%) Web Services
4 8 (5.33%) OAuth
5 7 (4.67%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (4.67%) OAuth2
6 6 (4.00%) REST
7 5 (3.33%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (3.33%) XACML
8 4 (2.67%) React
8 4 (2.67%) SOAP
9 3 (2.00%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.00%) Kafka
9 3 (2.00%) Middleware
9 3 (2.00%) Next.js
10 2 (1.33%) JSON
10 2 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.33%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.00%) IoT
6 3 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.33%) Clustering
7 2 (1.33%) CMDB
7 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.67%) Windows
2 11 (7.33%) Linux
3 5 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.67%) VMS
5 3 (2.00%) Android
5 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (47.33%) DevOps
2 57 (38.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (33.33%) Agile
4 44 (29.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (24.00%) Roadmaps
6 30 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (19.33%) Migration
8 18 (12.00%) Microservices
9 17 (11.33%) Analytics
9 17 (11.33%) Observability
9 17 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (11.33%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (10.67%) Enterprise Architecture
10 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (10.67%) ITIL
11 14 (9.33%) Configuration Management
11 14 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (9.33%) Decision-Making
12 13 (8.67%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.00%) SQL
3 18 (12.00%) Bicep
4 11 (7.33%) C#
5 10 (6.67%) Python
6 6 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.00%) Bash
7 3 (2.00%) Java
7 3 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.67%) C++
9 1 (0.67%) Go
9 1 (0.67%) PHP
9 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.67%) VBA
9 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 27 (18.00%) DV Cleared
4 19 (12.67%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.33%) Degree
6 7 (4.67%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (2.67%) CISSP
8 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.33%) OCP
9 2 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.00%) GDPR
1 6 (4.00%) NCSC
2 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.33%) SLA
3 3 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.00%) NIST
4 2 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.33%) QA
5 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.00%) vCloud
3 9 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.67%) Docker
5 5 (3.33%) RACF
6 4 (2.67%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.67%) VMware NSX
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.00%) vSphere
8 2 (1.33%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.33%) NFS
8 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 38 (25.33%) Terraform
2 13 (8.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.33%) vCenter Server
4 10 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.67%) Ansible
5 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.67%) SCCM
6 3 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.33%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.33%) Grafana
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.33%) systemd
7 2 (1.33%) vRealize
7 2 (1.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.67%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.67%) CASB
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 52 (34.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.33%) VMware
3 20 (13.33%) Oracle
4 6 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.00%) Cisco
5 3 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.00%) Foundry
5 3 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.00%) SAP
5 3 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.00%) Tenable
6 2 (1.33%) Aruba
6 2 (1.33%) BMC
6 2 (1.33%) Qualys
6 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.33%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.67%) Concur