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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 211 182
Rank change year-on-year -50 -29 -1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 129 133 253
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.97% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 3.05% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 97 138
10th Percentile £401 £406 £413
25th Percentile £425 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -4.35% +0.98%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £539 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.95% +1.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £46.78
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £68.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -50.48%

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 5,868 4,356 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 31.65% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,111 2,886 4,205
10th Percentile £238 £239 £216
25th Percentile £375 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -0.35% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 108 193
10th Percentile £12.95 £16.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £20.28 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +26.19% +7.69%
75th Percentile £56.63 £41.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.41 £68.75 £73.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +11.11%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -33 40 £575 +4.55% 43
North of England -30 34 £525 +16.67% 21
East of England +5 20 £438 -20.45% 18
Yorkshire -30 19 £575 +35.29% 10
Midlands -45 18 £526 -13.34% 20
North West -19 15 £395 -12.22% 9
West Midlands -39 15 £540 -11.04% 8
Scotland +8 13 £543 +3.33% 9
South West -26 5 £575 -6.12% 16
East Midlands -25 3 £418 -7.22% 12
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 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.88%) SAS
3 4 (3.10%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.33%) ArcGIS
4 3 (2.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.78%) FileNet
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 (6.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (69.77%) Azure
2 70 (54.26%) IaaS
3 43 (33.33%) SaaS
4 41 (31.78%) AWS
5 23 (17.83%) Serverless
6 18 (13.95%) Azure AKS
7 17 (13.18%) GitHub
8 16 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.40%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (11.63%) Azure Functions
10 13 (10.08%) Entra ID
11 12 (9.30%) GCP
12 9 (6.98%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (6.20%) OpenShift
14 7 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.43%) Azure Storage
15 6 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.18%) Firewall
2 8 (6.20%) DHCP
2 8 (6.20%) DNS
3 7 (5.43%) VPN
4 5 (3.88%) Network Security
5 2 (1.55%) BGP
5 2 (1.55%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.55%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (1.55%) Internet
5 2 (1.55%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.55%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.55%) SAN
5 2 (1.55%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.78%) IPsec
6 1 (0.78%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.78%) PBX
6 1 (0.78%) SSL
6 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.75%) NoSQL
1 10 (7.75%) Relational Database
2 9 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.43%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 5 (3.88%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.10%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.10%) MySQL
6 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.10%) Redis
7 2 (1.55%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.78%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (10.85%) Git
2 8 (6.20%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.65%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.10%) Gradle
4 4 (3.10%) Maven
4 4 (3.10%) SonarLint
5 3 (2.33%) GitLab
5 3 (2.33%) JIRA
6 1 (0.78%) Postman
6 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.28%) Finance
3 20 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Aviation
6 4 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.33%) Retail
8 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (24.03%) Architect
2 20 (15.50%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (13.18%) Senior
4 14 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.75%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.98%) Developer
8 8 (6.20%) Lead
9 6 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.65%) VMware Architect
10 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.10%) Administrator
11 4 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.73%) .NET
2 18 (13.95%) RESTful
3 10 (7.75%) OpenID
3 10 (7.75%) SAML
4 9 (6.98%) PyTorch
4 9 (6.98%) Semantic Kernel
4 9 (6.98%) TensorFlow
5 6 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.65%) ARM Templates
5 6 (4.65%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.88%) Node.js
6 5 (3.88%) OAuth
7 4 (3.10%) ADO
7 4 (3.10%) Dropwizard
7 4 (3.10%) J2EE
7 4 (3.10%) JWT
7 4 (3.10%) Kafka
7 4 (3.10%) Micronaut
7 4 (3.10%) Middleware
7 4 (3.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.98%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.43%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.10%) N-Tier
7 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.33%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.55%) Clustering
8 2 (1.55%) CMDB
8 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.95%) Windows
2 13 (10.08%) Linux
3 5 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.31%) DevOps
2 45 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 34 (26.36%) Agile
3 34 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (24.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (17.83%) Migration
6 21 (16.28%) AI
6 21 (16.28%) Observability
7 20 (15.50%) Roadmaps
8 18 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (11.63%) Test Automation
11 14 (10.85%) Analytics
12 13 (10.08%) API Design
12 13 (10.08%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.08%) Machine Learning
12 13 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (10.08%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (9.30%) API Management
13 12 (9.30%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.38%) Python
2 19 (14.73%) SQL
3 11 (8.53%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.98%) Bicep
5 7 (5.43%) C#
5 7 (5.43%) Java
6 6 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.65%) PHP
7 4 (3.10%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.55%) Bash
8 2 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.78%) Go
9 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.85%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.53%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.98%) Degree
5 9 (6.98%) MCP
6 5 (3.88%) CISSP
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.55%) OCP
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.78%) CCNP
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) NIST
2 9 (6.98%) EU AI Act
3 4 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
3 4 (3.10%) NCSC
4 3 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.55%) SLA
6 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.78%) PMO
6 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.40%) Active Directory
1 16 (12.40%) Docker
2 11 (8.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.65%) vCloud
4 4 (3.10%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.10%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.10%) vSphere
5 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.55%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.55%) NFS
6 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.78%) RACF
Systems Management
1 33 (25.58%) Terraform
2 30 (23.26%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.20%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.65%) Grafana
5 5 (3.88%) SCCM
5 5 (3.88%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.10%) Ansible
7 2 (1.55%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.55%) logstash
7 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.55%) systemd
7 2 (1.55%) vRealize
7 2 (1.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 51 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.95%) VMware
3 16 (12.40%) Oracle
4 9 (6.98%) Foundry
5 6 (4.65%) AppDynamics
6 5 (3.88%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.10%) Cisco
7 4 (3.10%) Gigya
7 4 (3.10%) Google
8 3 (2.33%) Databricks
8 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.33%) Tenable
9 2 (1.55%) BMC
9 2 (1.55%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.55%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.55%) Qualys
9 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.55%) SAP
9 2 (1.55%) SolarWinds