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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 249 233
Rank change year-on-year -59 -16 -13
Contract jobs citing PaaS 150 109 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.79% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 2.48% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 76 117
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £462 £425 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £608 £675
90th Percentile £825 £663 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
75th Percentile £55.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.35 - £27.88
UK median hourly rate £53.75 - £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 7,790 4,404 5,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.65% 31.96% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,070 2,989 3,781
10th Percentile £300 £250 £225
25th Percentile £401 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 180 274
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.59
Median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -19.73%
75th Percentile £69.44 £34.47 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.25 £61.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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
North of England -54 46 £460 -8.00% 5
South East -62 43 £700 +21.74% 18
Yorkshire -33 28 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -46 25 £531 -11.50% 17
North West -36 18 £426 +17.48% 2
Scotland -16 16 £595 +11.42% 4
West Midlands -49 15 £539 -12.86% 9
East of England -17 13 £644 -4.70% 6
East Midlands -8 10 £488 -4.88% 8
South West -34 9 £525 -34.38% 8
North East -37 4 £638 +19.38% 1
Wales -12 2 - -
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 13 (8.67%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.67%) SAS
3 9 (6.00%) Confluence
3 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.33%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.33%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 95 (63.33%) IaaS
2 94 (62.67%) Azure
3 54 (36.00%) SaaS
4 35 (23.33%) AWS
5 34 (22.67%) Entra ID
6 21 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (14.00%) OCI
7 17 (11.33%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (10.67%) Serverless
9 14 (9.33%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (5.33%) Azure AKS
10 8 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (4.67%) GitHub
12 6 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (3.33%) GCP
13 5 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (2.67%) Azure App Service
14 4 (2.67%) Power Platform
14 4 (2.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.67%) Firewall
2 11 (7.33%) DNS
3 8 (5.33%) VPN
4 5 (3.33%) IPsec
5 4 (2.67%) Kerberos
5 4 (2.67%) SSL
5 4 (2.67%) WAN
6 3 (2.00%) BGP
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.00%) LAN
6 3 (2.00%) PSTN
6 3 (2.00%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.00%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.33%) DHCP
7 2 (1.33%) Internet
7 2 (1.33%) Network Security
7 2 (1.33%) NX-OS
7 2 (1.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.67%) Oracle Database
1 10 (6.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 10 (6.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 8 (5.33%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.00%) DocumentDB
5 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.33%) MaxDB
6 2 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.33%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.33%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.67%) Metadata
7 1 (0.67%) Parquet
7 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) JIRA
2 8 (5.33%) Git
3 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.00%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.67%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) Subversion
5 1 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.33%) Finance
3 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.00%) Banking
6 3 (2.00%) Military
7 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (0.67%) Aviation
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (38.67%) Architect
2 19 (12.67%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (11.33%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (10.67%) Senior
5 15 (10.00%) Technical Architect
6 13 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.67%) Lead
7 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Lead Architect
8 10 (6.67%) Release Manager
9 9 (6.00%) Oracle Architect
10 8 (5.33%) Technical Leader
11 7 (4.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) VMware Architect
12 6 (4.00%) Azure Architect
12 6 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
12 6 (4.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (6.00%) .NET
2 9 (6.00%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.33%) Web Services
4 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 6 (4.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.00%) OAuth
5 6 (4.00%) OpenID
5 6 (4.00%) SAML
6 5 (3.33%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.67%) REST
7 4 (2.67%) XACML
8 3 (2.00%) Kafka
8 3 (2.00%) Middleware
8 3 (2.00%) SOAP
9 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.33%) React
9 2 (1.33%) SAP Basis
9 2 (1.33%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.67%) SCADA
7 3 (2.00%) CCTV
7 3 (2.00%) CMDB
7 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.00%) IoT
7 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.00%) Linux
1 18 (12.00%) Windows
2 8 (5.33%) Unix
3 6 (4.00%) VMS
4 3 (2.00%) Android
4 3 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.00%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (44.67%) DevOps
2 59 (39.33%) CI/CD
3 49 (32.67%) Agile
4 40 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 37 (24.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (23.33%) Migration
7 27 (18.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 25 (16.67%) Analytics
9 24 (16.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (12.67%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (12.67%) RBAC
12 18 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
12 18 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (11.33%) Architecture Governance
14 16 (10.67%) Cloud Security
14 16 (10.67%) Identity Access Management
14 16 (10.67%) Microservices
15 15 (10.00%) Configuration Management
15 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.67%) Bicep
3 16 (10.67%) SQL
4 12 (8.00%) Python
5 8 (5.33%) C#
6 3 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Bash
8 1 (0.67%) C++
8 1 (0.67%) Java
8 1 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.67%) VBA
8 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.33%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 15 (10.00%) Degree
5 7 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (3.33%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (3.33%) CISM
7 5 (3.33%) CISSP
7 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.33%) CRISC
7 5 (3.33%) GIAC
7 5 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.33%) PMP
7 5 (3.33%) SANS
8 4 (2.67%) GSEC
8 4 (2.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (4.67%) NCSC
2 6 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.00%) ISO 31000
2 6 (4.00%) NIST
3 5 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.67%) SLA
5 3 (2.00%) GDPR
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 18 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.00%) vCloud
3 6 (4.00%) Docker
4 4 (2.67%) RACF
4 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.67%) Firmware
6 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (18.67%) Terraform
2 12 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.67%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.67%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.67%) Ansible
6 3 (2.00%) Grafana
6 3 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.67%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.67%) CASB
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 55 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 36 (24.00%) Oracle
3 13 (8.67%) VMware
4 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.67%) Databricks
5 4 (2.67%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.00%) Cisco
6 3 (2.00%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.33%) Aruba
7 2 (1.33%) BMC
7 2 (1.33%) Foundry
7 2 (1.33%) Remedy
7 2 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.33%) SAP
7 2 (1.33%) Sybase
7 2 (1.33%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.67%) Arista
8 1 (0.67%) Logi
8 1 (0.67%) Zscaler