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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 212 229
Rank change year-on-year -62 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing PaaS 157 122 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.96% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.99% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 89 110
10th Percentile £413 £413 £413
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £600 £675
90th Percentile £758 £628 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.30% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £54.38 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.75 - £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 7,142 4,085 5,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.56% 31.99% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,823 2,892 3,774
10th Percentile £289 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 160 259
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.46 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +121.34% +21.31% -28.15%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.10 £26.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.00 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -55 56 £700 +21.74% 40
North of England -29 48 £460 -5.64% 9
Yorkshire -24 31 £525 +23.53% 6
Midlands -61 19 £513 -6.82% 18
North West -23 17 £425 -5.56% 3
East of England -32 13 £638 -15.11% 6
South West -41 13 £550 -5.46% 8
West Midlands -56 11 £533 -2.07% 9
Scotland -23 10 £460 -13.53% 2
East Midlands -26 8 £418 -27.39% 9
North East -19 4 £638 +19.38%
Wales -14 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 12 (7.64%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.73%) Confluence
3 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.18%) SAS
5 3 (1.91%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.64%) IIS
6 1 (0.64%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.91%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 97 (61.78%) Azure
1 97 (61.78%) IaaS
2 51 (32.48%) SaaS
3 43 (27.39%) AWS
4 26 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (16.56%) Entra ID
5 21 (13.38%) Serverless
6 15 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (8.92%) OCI
8 12 (7.64%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (7.64%) Dynamics 365
9 10 (6.37%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (6.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (5.10%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (5.10%) GitHub
11 7 (4.46%) GCP
12 6 (3.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (3.82%) Azure Functions
13 5 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.83%) Firewall
2 14 (8.92%) DNS
3 9 (5.73%) VPN
4 8 (5.10%) DHCP
5 6 (3.82%) IPsec
6 5 (3.18%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.18%) SSL
7 4 (2.55%) WAN
8 3 (1.91%) BGP
8 3 (1.91%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.91%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.91%) Internet
8 3 (1.91%) LAN
8 3 (1.91%) PSTN
8 3 (1.91%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.91%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.27%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.27%) NX-OS
9 2 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.73%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.46%) Oracle Database
3 6 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.18%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (3.18%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 5 (3.18%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 4 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.91%) DocumentDB
6 3 (1.91%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.91%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.64%) MaxDB
8 1 (0.64%) Metadata
8 1 (0.64%) Parquet
8 1 (0.64%) Redis
8 1 (0.64%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.64%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) Git
2 13 (8.28%) JIRA
3 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
5 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.64%) Subversion
5 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.92%) Finance
3 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.91%) Aviation
6 3 (1.91%) Military
7 2 (1.27%) Banking
7 2 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Legal
8 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (35.67%) Architect
2 20 (12.74%) Senior
3 18 (11.46%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (8.92%) Lead
4 14 (8.92%) Technical Architect
5 13 (8.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (8.28%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) VMware Architect
7 10 (6.37%) Technical Leader
8 8 (5.10%) Developer
8 8 (5.10%) Oracle Architect
8 8 (5.10%) Senior Architect
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.82%) Lead Architect
10 6 (3.82%) Senior Technical Architect
11 5 (3.18%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.92%) .NET
2 10 (6.37%) OpenID
2 10 (6.37%) SAML
3 9 (5.73%) Web Services
4 8 (5.10%) OAuth
4 8 (5.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (4.46%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.82%) .NET Framework
6 6 (3.82%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.82%) REST
7 5 (3.18%) XACML
8 4 (2.55%) React
8 4 (2.55%) SOAP
9 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.91%) Kafka
9 3 (1.91%) Middleware
9 3 (1.91%) Next.js
10 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.37%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.37%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.46%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.82%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.18%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (3.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (3.18%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.91%) CCTV
8 3 (1.91%) CMDB
8 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.91%) IoT
8 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.91%) SCADA
8 3 (1.91%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.38%) Windows
2 14 (8.92%) Linux
3 6 (3.82%) Unix
4 4 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.91%) Android
5 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.91%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.91%) VMS
6 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (44.59%) DevOps
2 63 (40.13%) CI/CD
3 51 (32.48%) Agile
4 42 (26.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (25.48%) Roadmaps
6 30 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (17.83%) Migration
8 20 (12.74%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (12.10%) Architectural Patterns
9 19 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (11.46%) Microservices
11 17 (10.83%) Analytics
11 17 (10.83%) Enterprise Architecture
12 16 (10.19%) ITIL
12 16 (10.19%) Observability
13 15 (9.55%) Decision-Making
13 15 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (9.55%) Security Architecture
14 14 (8.92%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.01%) PowerShell
2 21 (13.38%) SQL
3 19 (12.10%) Bicep
4 12 (7.64%) C#
5 9 (5.73%) Python
6 6 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.91%) Bash
7 3 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.27%) Java
8 2 (1.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.64%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) Go
9 1 (0.64%) PHP
9 1 (0.64%) Scala
9 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.64%) VBA
9 1 (0.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 65 (41.40%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.20%) DV Cleared
4 19 (12.10%) Azure Certification
5 14 (8.92%) Degree
6 8 (5.10%) CISSP
7 7 (4.46%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (3.18%) CISM
9 5 (3.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (2.55%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.55%) CRISC
10 4 (2.55%) GIAC
10 4 (2.55%) GSEC
10 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.55%) SANS
10 4 (2.55%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.10%) NCSC
2 7 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.46%) NIST
3 6 (3.82%) GDPR
3 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.82%) SLA
4 5 (3.18%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.18%) ISO 31000
5 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.64%) PMO
7 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 17 (10.83%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.64%) vCloud
3 8 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.46%) Docker
5 5 (3.18%) RACF
6 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.55%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.27%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.27%) NFS
8 2 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (22.93%) Terraform
2 13 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.37%) vCenter Server
4 8 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.55%) Ansible
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.55%) SCCM
6 3 (1.91%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.27%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.27%) Grafana
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.27%) systemd
7 2 (1.27%) vRealize
7 2 (1.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.64%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.64%) CASB
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 57 (36.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.29%) Oracle
3 22 (14.01%) VMware
4 6 (3.82%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.91%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.91%) Cisco
6 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.91%) SAP
6 3 (1.91%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.91%) Tenable
7 2 (1.27%) Aruba
7 2 (1.27%) BMC
7 2 (1.27%) Foundry
7 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.27%) Remedy
7 2 (1.27%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.64%) Databricks