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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 253 238
Rank change year-on-year -57 -15 -12
Contract jobs citing PaaS 147 106 167
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.79% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.44% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 73 115
10th Percentile £413 £400 £400
25th Percentile £468 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £605 £675
90th Percentile £825 £678 -
UK median daily rate £525 £589 £596
% change year-on-year -10.87% -1.22% -0.63%
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 7,709 4,352 5,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.61% 32.24% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,060 2,981 3,783
10th Percentile £303 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £380 £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 £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 177 276
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -21.56%
75th Percentile £68.92 £34.46 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.25 £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 24 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 24 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
South East -53 46 £700 +21.74% 32
North of England -57 44 £454 -9.20% 6
Yorkshire -33 28 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -42 22 £539 -10.25% 16
North West -38 16 £425 +18.72% 3
Scotland -18 15 £595 +11.32% 4
West Midlands -50 15 £540 -12.62% 9
East of England -18 13 £644 -4.70% 7
South West -35 9 £525 -34.38% 15
East Midlands -12 7 £500 -2.44% 7
North East -38 4 £638 +19.38% 1
Wales -11 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 (8.84%) SharePoint
2 10 (6.80%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.80%) Confluence
2 10 (6.80%) SAS
3 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.36%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.36%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.36%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (62.59%) IaaS
2 90 (61.22%) Azure
3 53 (36.05%) SaaS
4 35 (23.81%) AWS
5 30 (20.41%) Entra ID
6 23 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (14.29%) OCI
8 17 (11.56%) Serverless
9 16 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.12%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (4.76%) GitHub
14 6 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (3.40%) Azure AKS
16 4 (2.72%) Azure App Service
16 4 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
16 4 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.72%) Power Platform
16 4 (2.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.48%) Firewall
2 9 (6.12%) DNS
3 6 (4.08%) VPN
4 5 (3.40%) IPsec
5 4 (2.72%) Kerberos
5 4 (2.72%) SSL
5 4 (2.72%) WAN
6 3 (2.04%) BGP
6 3 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.04%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (2.04%) LAN
6 3 (2.04%) PSTN
6 3 (2.04%) Unified Communications
6 3 (2.04%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.36%) DHCP
7 2 (1.36%) Internet
7 2 (1.36%) Network Security
7 2 (1.36%) NX-OS
7 2 (1.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.80%) Oracle Database
1 10 (6.80%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 10 (6.80%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 9 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.04%) DocumentDB
5 3 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.36%) MaxDB
6 2 (1.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.36%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.36%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Metadata
7 1 (0.68%) Parquet
7 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (9.52%) JIRA
2 9 (6.12%) Git
3 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.04%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.68%) Subversion
5 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.97%) Finance
3 20 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.04%) Military
8 2 (1.36%) Aviation
8 2 (1.36%) Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (37.41%) Architect
2 18 (12.24%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (11.56%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (10.88%) Senior
5 14 (9.52%) Technical Architect
6 13 (8.84%) Lead
7 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Lead Architect
9 10 (6.80%) Release Manager
10 9 (6.12%) Oracle Architect
11 8 (5.44%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Technical Leader
12 7 (4.76%) Developer
12 7 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) VMware Architect
13 6 (4.08%) Security Specialist
13 6 (4.08%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.48%) .NET
1 11 (7.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.44%) Web Services
3 7 (4.76%) ARM Templates
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 6 (4.08%) OAuth
4 6 (4.08%) OpenID
4 6 (4.08%) SAML
5 5 (3.40%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.72%) REST
6 4 (2.72%) XACML
7 3 (2.04%) Kafka
7 3 (2.04%) Middleware
7 3 (2.04%) React
7 3 (2.04%) SOAP
8 2 (1.36%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.36%) Next.js
8 2 (1.36%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (1.36%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.93%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (3.40%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.40%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.72%) SCADA
9 3 (2.04%) CCTV
9 3 (2.04%) CMDB
9 3 (2.04%) IoT
9 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.24%) Windows
2 17 (11.56%) Linux
3 8 (5.44%) Unix
4 3 (2.04%) Android
4 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.04%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.04%) VMS
5 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (46.26%) DevOps
2 61 (41.50%) CI/CD
3 49 (33.33%) Agile
4 40 (27.21%) Roadmaps
5 38 (25.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (22.45%) Migration
7 27 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 23 (15.65%) Architectural Patterns
9 22 (14.97%) Analytics
10 20 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (12.24%) RBAC
13 17 (11.56%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (11.56%) Microservices
14 15 (10.20%) Configuration Management
14 15 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
15 14 (9.52%) Architecture Governance
15 14 (9.52%) Decision-Making
16 13 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.93%) Bicep
1 19 (12.93%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.56%) SQL
3 12 (8.16%) Python
4 9 (6.12%) C#
5 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.36%) Bash
6 2 (1.36%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.68%) C++
7 1 (0.68%) Java
7 1 (0.68%) Scala
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.68%) VBA
7 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.89%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.65%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.52%) Degree
5 12 (8.16%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 6 (4.08%) CISM
7 6 (4.08%) CISSP
8 5 (3.40%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (3.40%) CRISC
8 5 (3.40%) GIAC
8 5 (3.40%) SANS
9 4 (2.72%) GSEC
9 4 (2.72%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.72%) PMP
9 4 (2.72%) SSCP
10 3 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) NCSC
2 7 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (4.08%) ISO 31000
3 6 (4.08%) NIST
4 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.72%) SLA
6 3 (2.04%) GDPR
7 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.12%) vCloud
3 6 (4.08%) Docker
4 4 (2.72%) RACF
4 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.68%) Firmware
6 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (19.73%) Terraform
2 11 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 4 (2.72%) Ansible
5 3 (2.04%) Grafana
5 3 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.36%) SCCM
7 1 (0.68%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.68%) CASB
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 52 (35.37%) Microsoft
2 35 (23.81%) Oracle
3 13 (8.84%) VMware
4 4 (2.72%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.72%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.04%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.04%) Cisco
5 3 (2.04%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.36%) Aruba
6 2 (1.36%) BMC
6 2 (1.36%) Databricks
6 2 (1.36%) Foundry
6 2 (1.36%) Remedy
6 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.36%) SAP
6 2 (1.36%) Sybase
6 2 (1.36%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.68%) Arista
7 1 (0.68%) Logi
7 1 (0.68%) Zscaler