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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 214 173
Rank change year-on-year -69 -41 -5
Contract jobs citing PaaS 128 145 270
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.98% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.17% 3.15% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 108 152
10th Percentile £363 £400 £406
25th Percentile £425 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -3.41%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £72.77
25th Percentile - - £77.25
Median hourly rate - - £82.75
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - £93.75
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - £82.75
% change year-on-year - - +57.62%

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 5,898 4,596 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 31.11% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,093 3,027 4,374
10th Percentile £240 £241 £216
25th Percentile £375 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -0.79%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 112 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.31 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.28 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +15.14% +6.54%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £68.35 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.24
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.80% +16.62%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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 -36 35 £556 +1.14% 69
North of England -46 29 £525 +16.67% 37
East of England -2 22 £450 -18.18% 24
Midlands -55 22 £515 -15.85% 31
West Midlands -41 18 £537 -12.25% 18
Yorkshire -26 17 £525 - 18
Scotland +2 13 £534 +1.67% 11
North West -25 12 £365 -18.89% 18
South West -25 7 £575 -4.17% 32
East Midlands -19 4 £418 -7.22% 11
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 7 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.91%) SAS
3 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.56%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.56%) FileNet
4 2 (1.56%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.78%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 100 (78.13%) Azure
2 69 (53.91%) IaaS
3 45 (35.16%) SaaS
4 43 (33.59%) AWS
5 24 (18.75%) Serverless
6 18 (14.06%) Azure AKS
6 18 (14.06%) GCP
7 17 (13.28%) GitHub
8 16 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.50%) Azure Functions
8 16 (12.50%) Entra ID
9 15 (11.72%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.03%) GitHub Copilot
11 8 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.25%) Azure Storage
12 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.47%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (5.47%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.28%) Firewall
2 13 (10.16%) DNS
3 12 (9.38%) DHCP
4 8 (6.25%) VPN
5 6 (4.69%) Network Security
6 5 (3.91%) SAN
7 3 (2.34%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (2.34%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.56%) Internet
8 2 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.56%) VLAN
9 1 (0.78%) IPsec
9 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.78%) NAS
9 1 (0.78%) PBX
9 1 (0.78%) SSL
9 1 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.47%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.91%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 5 (3.91%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.13%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.13%) MySQL
5 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 4 (3.13%) Redis
6 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.78%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Git
2 7 (5.47%) SonarQube
3 6 (4.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.13%) Gradle
4 4 (3.13%) Maven
4 4 (3.13%) SonarLint
5 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.78%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) JMeter
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.06%) Public Sector
3 16 (12.50%) Finance
4 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.47%) Aviation
6 4 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Retail
8 2 (1.56%) Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.78%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Architect
2 20 (15.63%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (15.63%) Senior
3 14 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (6.25%) Developer
5 8 (6.25%) Lead
6 7 (5.47%) Administrator
7 6 (4.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.91%) Release Manager
8 5 (3.91%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.91%) VMware Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Java Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Java Technical Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Security Architect
9 4 (3.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.06%) .NET
1 18 (14.06%) RESTful
2 9 (7.03%) OpenID
2 9 (7.03%) PyTorch
2 9 (7.03%) SAML
2 9 (7.03%) Semantic Kernel
2 9 (7.03%) TensorFlow
3 7 (5.47%) AngularJS
3 7 (5.47%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.69%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.91%) Node.js
6 4 (3.13%) ADO
6 4 (3.13%) Dropwizard
6 4 (3.13%) J2EE
6 4 (3.13%) JWT
6 4 (3.13%) Micronaut
6 4 (3.13%) OAuth
6 4 (3.13%) React
7 3 (2.34%) .NET Core
7 3 (2.34%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.03%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.13%) N-Tier
5 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.56%) IoT
7 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.56%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.56%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.53%) Windows
2 19 (14.84%) Linux
3 8 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.34%) Unix
4 3 (2.34%) VMS
5 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.16%) DevOps
2 37 (28.91%) CI/CD
3 35 (27.34%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (26.56%) Agile
5 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (20.31%) Migration
6 23 (17.97%) AI
7 20 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (14.06%) Observability
8 18 (14.06%) Roadmaps
9 16 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (11.72%) Machine Learning
11 14 (10.94%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.16%) Analytics
12 13 (10.16%) API Design
12 13 (10.16%) Test Automation
13 12 (9.38%) CRM
13 12 (9.38%) Data Privacy
13 12 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (9.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.31%) Python
2 21 (16.41%) SQL
3 16 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 9 (7.03%) Bicep
5 8 (6.25%) Java
6 7 (5.47%) C#
7 6 (4.69%) PHP
8 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.56%) Bash
10 2 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.78%) Go
11 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.16%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.03%) DV Cleared
4 9 (7.03%) MCP
5 6 (4.69%) Degree
6 5 (3.91%) CISSP
7 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.56%) OCP
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.78%) CCNA
9 1 (0.78%) CCNP
9 1 (0.78%) CCSP
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) SSCP
9 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) NIST
2 9 (7.03%) EU AI Act
3 4 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.13%) GDPR
3 4 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.34%) SLA
5 2 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) PMO
6 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.72%) Docker
3 10 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.91%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.13%) vSphere
6 3 (2.34%) vCloud
7 2 (1.56%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.56%) NFS
7 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.56%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.78%) RACF
Systems Management
1 33 (25.78%) Terraform
2 27 (21.09%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.69%) Grafana
5 5 (3.91%) Ansible
6 4 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.34%) SCCM
8 2 (1.56%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.56%) logstash
8 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.56%) systemd
8 2 (1.56%) vRealize
8 2 (1.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (44.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.63%) Oracle
3 18 (14.06%) VMware
4 9 (7.03%) AppDynamics
4 9 (7.03%) Foundry
5 7 (5.47%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.91%) Google
7 4 (3.13%) Gigya
7 4 (3.13%) IBM
7 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.34%) Adobe
8 3 (2.34%) Citrix
8 3 (2.34%) Databricks
8 3 (2.34%) F5
8 3 (2.34%) HP
8 3 (2.34%) Qualys
8 3 (2.34%) SAP
8 3 (2.34%) Tenable
9 2 (1.56%) Aruba
9 2 (1.56%) Veeam