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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 211 188
Rank change year-on-year -67 -23 +12
Contract jobs citing PaaS 148 140 257
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.05% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 3.16% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 101 127
10th Percentile £409 £418 £413
25th Percentile £445 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -5.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -9.38% +3.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - £67.56
UK median hourly rate £50.50 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.86%

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 6,696 4,429 5,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.43% 33.17% 27.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,624 3,056 4,223
10th Percentile £255 £232 £213
25th Percentile £381 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +0.20% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £663 £666 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 123 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.53% +34.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £34.13
90th Percentile £80.12 £68.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%

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 7 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 7 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 -46 47 £675 +17.39% 46
North of England -49 41 £457 -6.26% 32
Yorkshire -40 28 £525 +23.53% 7
East of England 0 24 £475 -29.68% 16
Midlands -67 15 £488 -18.75% 15
Scotland +11 14 £543 +1.40% 6
North West -31 13 £436 -3.11% 21
West Midlands -59 10 £618 +2.40% 8
South West -40 8 £575 -8.00% 25
East Midlands -28 5 £418 -27.39% 7
North East -18 1 - - 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 9 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.73%) Confluence
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.03%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.03%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 103 (69.59%) Azure
2 90 (60.81%) IaaS
3 46 (31.08%) SaaS
4 43 (29.05%) AWS
5 24 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (16.22%) Serverless
6 22 (14.86%) Entra ID
7 18 (12.16%) Azure AKS
8 17 (11.49%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (10.14%) GitHub
10 13 (8.78%) Azure Functions
11 12 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (6.08%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (6.08%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (4.73%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (4.73%) OCI
15 6 (4.05%) GCP
16 5 (3.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.19%) Firewall
2 11 (7.43%) DNS
3 10 (6.76%) DHCP
3 10 (6.76%) VPN
4 6 (4.05%) IPsec
5 5 (3.38%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.38%) Network Security
5 5 (3.38%) SSL
6 3 (2.03%) BGP
6 3 (2.03%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.03%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.03%) VXLAN
7 2 (1.35%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.35%) Internet
7 2 (1.35%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.35%) NX-OS
7 2 (1.35%) SAN
7 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.35%) VLAN
7 2 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.08%) NoSQL
2 6 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.03%) DocumentDB
4 3 (2.03%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) MaxDB
6 1 (0.68%) Metadata
6 1 (0.68%) Parquet
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Git
2 11 (7.43%) JIRA
3 6 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.70%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.86%) Finance
3 17 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.41%) Aviation
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Retail
8 2 (1.35%) Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Military
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (31.76%) Architect
2 27 (18.24%) Senior
3 24 (16.22%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Developer
8 11 (7.43%) Lead
9 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Technical Architect
10 9 (6.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Senior Architect
10 9 (6.08%) VMware Architect
11 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Technical Leader
12 6 (4.05%) Senior Technical Architect
13 5 (3.38%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
14 4 (2.70%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.86%) .NET
2 15 (10.14%) OpenID
2 15 (10.14%) SAML
3 13 (8.78%) RESTful
4 10 (6.76%) OAuth
5 9 (6.08%) A2A Protocol
5 9 (6.08%) Model Context Protocol
5 9 (6.08%) PyTorch
5 9 (6.08%) Semantic Kernel
5 9 (6.08%) TensorFlow
5 9 (6.08%) Web Services
6 7 (4.73%) ARM Templates
6 7 (4.73%) OAuth2
7 6 (4.05%) REST
8 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (3.38%) XACML
9 4 (2.70%) .NET Framework
9 4 (2.70%) Kafka
9 4 (2.70%) React
9 4 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.35%) Clustering
7 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.35%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.35%) IoT
7 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.81%) Windows
2 12 (8.11%) Linux
3 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.35%) VMS
5 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.59%) DevOps
2 50 (33.78%) CI/CD
3 46 (31.08%) Agile
4 40 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (18.92%) Migration
7 27 (18.24%) Roadmaps
8 23 (15.54%) Observability
9 21 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (11.49%) AI
11 17 (11.49%) Enterprise Architecture
11 17 (11.49%) Microservices
12 16 (10.81%) Analytics
12 16 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (9.46%) Architectural Patterns
13 14 (9.46%) Decision-Making
13 14 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (9.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.54%) PowerShell
2 22 (14.86%) Python
3 21 (14.19%) SQL
4 12 (8.11%) Bicep
5 10 (6.76%) C#
6 6 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.03%) Bash
9 3 (2.03%) Java
10 2 (1.35%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) Go
11 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.68%) VBA
11 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.84%) DV Cleared
4 17 (11.49%) Azure Certification
5 11 (7.43%) Degree
6 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 6 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.38%) CISSP
9 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.35%) CCNA
11 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.35%) OCP
11 2 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.43%) NIST
2 9 (6.08%) EU AI Act
3 5 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.38%) GDPR
4 4 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.70%) NCSC
4 4 (2.70%) SLA
5 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.35%) QA
7 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (11.49%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.08%) vCloud
4 8 (5.41%) Docker
5 5 (3.38%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.38%) RACF
6 4 (2.70%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.70%) vSphere
7 2 (1.35%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.35%) NFS
7 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (22.97%) Terraform
2 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.78%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (5.41%) vCenter Server
5 5 (3.38%) Ansible
5 5 (3.38%) SCCM
6 4 (2.70%) Grafana
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.35%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.35%) systemd
7 2 (1.35%) vRealize
7 2 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.68%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.68%) CASB
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.68%) logstash
Vendors
1 64 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.86%) VMware
3 12 (8.11%) Oracle
4 10 (6.76%) Foundry
5 6 (4.05%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.70%) Cisco
6 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.03%) Aruba
7 3 (2.03%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.03%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.03%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.03%) SAP
7 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.03%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.03%) Tenable
8 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.35%) Meraki
8 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.35%) Qualys
8 2 (1.35%) Virgin Media