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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 231 221
Rank change year-on-year -56 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing PaaS 152 110 160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.86% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 2.69% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 77 108
10th Percentile £413 £400 £421
25th Percentile £460 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £725 £600 £675
90th Percentile £825 £623 £677
UK median daily rate £541 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -5.93% -4.17% +0.84%
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 7,299 4,093 5,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.48% 32.05% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,838 2,868 3,762
10th Percentile £300 £237 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £673 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 151 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.70 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £20.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +82.93% +15.69% -29.12%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.50 £32.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -38.94%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -42 54 £700 +21.74% 34
North of England -48 46 £454 -9.20% 10
Yorkshire -36 29 £507 +19.18% 4
Midlands -63 18 £525 -8.70% 11
North West -26 17 £425 -15.00% 6
East of England -25 13 £644 -4.70% 9
South West -32 13 £550 -1.79% 14
West Midlands -61 11 £533 -7.39% 7
Scotland -16 10 £595 +12.80% 3
East Midlands -22 7 £418 -27.39% 4
North East -30 4 £638 +19.38%
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 11 (7.24%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.92%) Confluence
3 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.29%) SAS
5 2 (1.32%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.32%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.66%) IIS
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.32%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (63.16%) IaaS
2 91 (59.87%) Azure
3 48 (31.58%) SaaS
4 37 (24.34%) AWS
5 27 (17.76%) Entra ID
6 23 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (12.50%) Serverless
8 15 (9.87%) OCI
9 14 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (8.55%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (5.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (5.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (4.61%) GitHub
14 6 (3.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (3.29%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (3.29%) GCP
15 5 (3.29%) Power Platform
16 4 (2.63%) Azure Functions
16 4 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.87%) Firewall
2 14 (9.21%) DNS
3 9 (5.92%) VPN
4 7 (4.61%) DHCP
5 6 (3.95%) IPsec
6 5 (3.29%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.29%) SSL
7 4 (2.63%) WAN
8 3 (1.97%) BGP
8 3 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.97%) LAN
8 3 (1.97%) PSTN
8 3 (1.97%) Unified Communications
8 3 (1.97%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.32%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.32%) Internet
9 2 (1.32%) NX-OS
9 2 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.92%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.61%) Oracle Database
2 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (3.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 5 (3.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.97%) DocumentDB
4 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.97%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.32%) MaxDB
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.32%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.32%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.66%) Metadata
6 1 (0.66%) Parquet
6 1 (0.66%) Redis
6 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.55%) JIRA
2 10 (6.58%) Git
3 5 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.66%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.66%) Selenium
5 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.66%) Subversion
5 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 33 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.16%) Finance
3 16 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.97%) Military
7 2 (1.32%) Aviation
7 2 (1.32%) Banking
7 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.32%) Retail
8 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.66%) Legal
8 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (36.84%) Architect
2 18 (11.84%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (11.18%) Senior
4 15 (9.87%) Technical Architect
5 14 (9.21%) Lead
6 13 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (8.55%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) VMware Architect
8 11 (7.24%) Technical Leader
9 9 (5.92%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Oracle Architect
10 8 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Developer
11 7 (4.61%) Lead Architect
11 7 (4.61%) Senior Architect
12 6 (3.95%) Security Specialist
12 6 (3.95%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.89%) .NET
2 9 (5.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (5.92%) Web Services
3 8 (5.26%) OAuth
3 8 (5.26%) OpenID
3 8 (5.26%) SAML
4 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (4.61%) OAuth2
5 6 (3.95%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.95%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.29%) REST
6 5 (3.29%) XACML
7 4 (2.63%) SOAP
8 3 (1.97%) Kafka
8 3 (1.97%) Middleware
8 3 (1.97%) React
9 2 (1.32%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.32%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (1.32%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.92%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.61%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.29%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (3.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (3.29%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.63%) SCADA
8 4 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.97%) CCTV
9 3 (1.97%) CMDB
9 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.97%) IoT
9 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.13%) Windows
2 15 (9.87%) Linux
3 8 (5.26%) Unix
4 5 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.97%) Android
5 3 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.97%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.97%) VMS
6 2 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (43.42%) DevOps
2 62 (40.79%) CI/CD
3 53 (34.87%) Agile
4 43 (28.29%) Roadmaps
5 40 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (17.11%) Migration
8 20 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 19 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 18 (11.84%) Analytics
10 18 (11.84%) Microservices
11 16 (10.53%) ITIL
12 15 (9.87%) Decision-Making
12 15 (9.87%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (9.87%) RBAC
13 14 (9.21%) Architecture Governance
13 14 (9.21%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.82%) PowerShell
2 20 (13.16%) Bicep
2 20 (13.16%) SQL
3 10 (6.58%) C#
4 9 (5.92%) Python
5 4 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.32%) Bash
7 2 (1.32%) Java
7 2 (1.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.66%) C++
8 1 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.66%) Scala
8 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.66%) VBA
8 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (43.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 28 (18.42%) DV Cleared
4 17 (11.18%) Azure Certification
5 13 (8.55%) Degree
6 7 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.61%) CISSP
7 6 (3.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (3.95%) CISM
8 5 (3.29%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (3.29%) CRISC
8 5 (3.29%) GIAC
8 5 (3.29%) SANS
9 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.63%) GSEC
9 4 (2.63%) SSCP
10 3 (1.97%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) NCSC
2 7 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.95%) ISO 31000
3 6 (3.95%) NIST
3 6 (3.95%) SLA
4 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.29%) GDPR
5 3 (1.97%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 18 (11.84%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.89%) vCloud
3 8 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.95%) Docker
5 5 (3.29%) RACF
6 4 (2.63%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.63%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.32%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.32%) NFS
8 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.32%) vSphere
9 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (21.71%) Terraform
2 12 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.58%) vCenter Server
4 7 (4.61%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.63%) Ansible
7 3 (1.97%) Grafana
7 3 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.32%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.32%) SCCM
8 2 (1.32%) systemd
8 2 (1.32%) vRealize
8 2 (1.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.66%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.66%) CASB
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 55 (36.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.11%) Oracle
3 22 (14.47%) VMware
4 5 (3.29%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.97%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.97%) Cisco
6 3 (1.97%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.32%) Aruba
7 2 (1.32%) BMC
7 2 (1.32%) Foundry
7 2 (1.32%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.32%) Remedy
7 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.32%) SAP
7 2 (1.32%) Sybase
7 2 (1.32%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks
8 1 (0.66%) Logi
8 1 (0.66%) Palo Alto