PaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 230 218
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 -69
Contract jobs citing PaaS 111 170 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.81% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 3.11% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 117 169
10th Percentile £400 £400 £431
25th Percentile £425 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £700
90th Percentile £653 - £790
UK median daily rate £575 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 7
10th Percentile - - £71.05
25th Percentile - £25.50 £74.71
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £26.50 -
90th Percentile - £27.88 £79.60
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

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 4,428 5,471 7,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.86% 25.97% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,005 3,779 5,431
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 274 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.59 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £25.73
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% -18.87% +33.65%
75th Percentile £34.02 £43.75 £61.11
90th Percentile £62.75 £70.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

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 1 July 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
South East +61 39 £575 -2.13% 145
North of England -5 24 £500 -16.67% 131
Scotland +12 20 £534 +3.39% 38
South West -14 15 £702 +7.96% 76
Midlands +5 12 £600 +11.63% 100
Yorkshire -2 9 £425 -28.57% 40
West Midlands -2 9 £618 +12.36% 53
North West -9 8 £363 -38.21% 79
North East +8 7 £534 -17.85% 12
East of England +19 4 £676 +93.00% 59
East Midlands +4 3 £450 -14.29% 47
Wales - 1 - - 10
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.21%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.70%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.80%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.80%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 77 (69.37%) IaaS
2 63 (56.76%) Azure
3 55 (49.55%) SaaS
4 29 (26.13%) AWS
5 19 (17.12%) GCP
6 18 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.41%) OpenShift
8 12 (10.81%) Serverless
9 11 (9.91%) Azure AKS
9 11 (9.91%) Entra ID
10 10 (9.01%) Azure Storage
11 8 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.21%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (5.41%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (5.41%) GitHub
12 6 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (5.41%) OCI
13 5 (4.50%) Azure API Management
13 5 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.82%) DNS
2 21 (18.92%) Firewall
3 14 (12.61%) DHCP
4 11 (9.91%) PBX
4 11 (9.91%) VoIP
4 11 (9.91%) VPN
5 8 (7.21%) SAN
5 8 (7.21%) SMTP
6 5 (4.50%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (4.50%) Network Security
7 2 (1.80%) 4G
7 2 (1.80%) 5G
7 2 (1.80%) SSL
8 1 (0.90%) FTP
8 1 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (9.01%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (7.21%) Big Data
6 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.80%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (1.80%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.90%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (9.01%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.60%) Selenium
4 3 (2.70%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.70%) Git
4 3 (2.70%) Postman
5 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.80%) GitLab
5 2 (1.80%) Gradle
5 2 (1.80%) JMeter
5 2 (1.80%) Maven
5 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.80%) Subversion
5 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.80%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.80%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.90%) Mockito
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.90%) Toad
General
1 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.91%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.70%) Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (20.72%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (19.82%) Architect
3 15 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) 3rd Line Support
5 12 (10.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Support Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 10 (9.01%) Lead
7 10 (9.01%) Senior
7 10 (9.01%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Consultant
9 7 (6.31%) VMware Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) ADO
1 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
2 5 (4.50%) .NET
2 5 (4.50%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.50%) Node.js
2 5 (4.50%) REST
2 5 (4.50%) SAML
3 4 (3.60%) Middleware
3 4 (3.60%) OAuth
3 4 (3.60%) OpenID
3 4 (3.60%) SOAP
3 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.70%) MACH
5 2 (1.80%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.80%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.80%) OpenJDK
5 2 (1.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.80%) Web Services
5 2 (1.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (9.91%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.91%) PKI
3 10 (9.01%) Blackberry
3 10 (9.01%) Clustering
3 10 (9.01%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (7.21%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
5 5 (4.50%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.60%) Replication
7 3 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.80%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.93%) Windows
2 22 (19.82%) Linux
3 17 (15.32%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.70%) Unix
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.80%) AIX
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.80%) Solaris
5 2 (1.80%) VMS
6 1 (0.90%) CentOS
6 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.14%) DevOps
2 24 (21.62%) CI/CD
3 22 (19.82%) Migration
4 20 (18.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (17.12%) Agile
6 18 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (16.22%) Roadmaps
7 16 (14.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (12.61%) Containerisation
8 14 (12.61%) Validation
9 13 (11.71%) Machine Learning
9 13 (11.71%) Microservices
9 13 (11.71%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (9.91%) Analytics
10 11 (9.91%) Commercial Awareness
10 11 (9.91%) ETL
10 11 (9.91%) Impact Assessments
10 11 (9.91%) Mentoring
11 10 (9.01%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.01%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.73%) SQL
2 19 (17.12%) PowerShell
3 13 (11.71%) Java
3 13 (11.71%) Python
4 8 (7.21%) Bicep
5 6 (5.41%) C#
5 6 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.50%) Bash
6 5 (4.50%) PHP
7 3 (2.70%) Go
7 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.80%) C++
8 2 (1.80%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.80%) R
8 2 (1.80%) VBA
8 2 (1.80%) VBScript
9 1 (0.90%) Groovy
9 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.62%) DV Cleared
3 17 (15.32%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
5 11 (9.91%) Degree
6 10 (9.01%) CCNP
6 10 (9.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (3.60%) CISM
7 4 (3.60%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (3.60%) CRISC
8 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.70%) CCNA
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.80%) ISEB
9 2 (1.80%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.90%) OCP
10 1 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.41%) SLA
2 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.70%) GDPR
2 3 (2.70%) NCSC
3 2 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.80%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (23.42%) Active Directory
3 22 (19.82%) Docker
4 11 (9.91%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
5 10 (9.01%) vSphere
6 8 (7.21%) BitLocker
6 8 (7.21%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (7.21%) Terminal Services
7 5 (4.50%) DFS Replication
7 5 (4.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 27 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 23 (20.72%) Terraform
3 12 (10.81%) Puppet
4 11 (9.91%) Ansible
5 8 (7.21%) Nagios
5 8 (7.21%) vCenter Server
5 8 (7.21%) vMotion
6 7 (6.31%) Grafana
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (2.70%) SCCM
9 2 (1.80%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (1.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.80%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.90%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 36 (32.43%) VMware
3 17 (15.32%) Oracle
4 15 (13.51%) Cisco
5 14 (12.61%) F5
5 14 (12.61%) Palo Alto
6 11 (9.91%) Citrix
6 11 (9.91%) Ericsson
6 11 (9.91%) Google
6 11 (9.91%) HP
6 11 (9.91%) Juniper
6 11 (9.91%) Nokia
7 10 (9.01%) Avaya
7 10 (9.01%) Ribbon
8 8 (7.21%) AppDynamics
8 8 (7.21%) Symantec
9 5 (4.50%) Dynatrace
10 4 (3.60%) Databricks
10 4 (3.60%) IBM
10 4 (3.60%) SolarWinds