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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 248 220
Rank change year-on-year -99 -28 -8
Contract jobs citing PaaS 132 117 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.76% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 2.46% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 80 126
10th Percentile £420 £357 £375
25th Percentile £468 £413 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £539 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% -10.25% -
75th Percentile £650 £600 £675
90th Percentile £825 £725 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £36.75
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £38.50
75th Percentile £55.13 - £40.25
90th Percentile £55.35 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £74.25
% change year-on-year -10.42% -19.19% -6.01%

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 8,135 4,748 4,871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.54% 30.98% 26.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,226 3,188 3,335
10th Percentile £275 £250 £246
25th Percentile £403 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £639 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 187 182
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.89 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.97 £16.65 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +80.13% -11.88% -17.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £42.42 £53.56
90th Percentile £84.50 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -55 37 £700 +21.74% 24
Midlands -45 30 £514 -9.87% 13
North of England -60 27 £460 -5.64% 17
Scotland -10 18 £595 +13.33% 3
West Midlands -54 18 £525 -13.79% 12
Yorkshire -33 17 £500 -9.05% 3
East Midlands -7 12 £488 +8.33% 1
South West -42 11 £500 -31.03% 3
East of England -14 10 £638 -11.30% 3
North West -42 10 £428 +18.04% 10
North East -40 3 £638 +27.50% 4
Wales - 2 - - 1
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 (9.85%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (8.33%) SAS
3 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (5.30%) Confluence
5 2 (1.52%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 91 (68.94%) Azure
2 78 (59.09%) IaaS
3 47 (35.61%) SaaS
4 30 (22.73%) Entra ID
5 25 (18.94%) AWS
6 21 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (14.39%) OCI
8 14 (10.61%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 11 (8.33%) GitHub
10 11 (8.33%) Serverless
11 9 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (5.30%) Azure App Service
13 6 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.79%) Azure Functions
14 5 (3.79%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (3.03%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) Firewall
2 9 (6.82%) DNS
3 6 (4.55%) VPN
4 2 (1.52%) Internet
4 2 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.52%) LAN
4 2 (1.52%) Network Security
4 2 (1.52%) PSTN
4 2 (1.52%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
4 2 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) NaaS
5 1 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.76%) SSH
5 1 (0.76%) VoIP
5 1 (0.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 11 (8.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 11 (8.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 8 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.79%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.52%) MaxDB
7 2 (1.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.52%) Parquet
7 2 (1.52%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.52%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (6.06%) Git
2 5 (3.79%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) JMeter
3 1 (0.76%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (21.97%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 16 (12.12%) Finance
4 6 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.27%) Military
6 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.52%) Aviation
6 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.76%) Legal
7 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (35.61%) Architect
2 22 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Lead
6 11 (8.33%) Developer
6 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (8.33%) Release Manager
7 10 (7.58%) Lead Architect
8 9 (6.82%) Technical Architect
9 8 (6.06%) .NET Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Azure Developer
9 8 (6.06%) Technical Leader
10 7 (5.30%) Senior
11 6 (4.55%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Specialist
11 6 (4.55%) Oracle Architect
11 6 (4.55%) Security Specialist
12 5 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.79%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) Terraform
2 14 (10.61%) .NET
3 12 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 10 (7.58%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (7.58%) REST
5 9 (6.82%) .NET Core
6 6 (4.55%) ARM Templates
7 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (3.03%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.03%) OAuth
8 4 (3.03%) OpenID
8 4 (3.03%) SAML
9 3 (2.27%) JSON
9 3 (2.27%) SOAP
9 3 (2.27%) Web Services
9 3 (2.27%) YAML
10 2 (1.52%) ADO
10 2 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web API
10 2 (1.52%) RESTful
10 2 (1.52%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.55%) Wiki
4 5 (3.79%) CCTV
4 5 (3.79%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.79%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.03%) SCADA
6 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.52%) IoT
7 2 (1.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.52%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.88%) Linux
1 17 (12.88%) Windows
2 8 (6.06%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) VMS
4 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.27%) Android
5 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.27%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.67%) DevOps
2 49 (37.12%) CI/CD
3 37 (28.03%) Agile
4 33 (25.00%) Migration
5 28 (21.21%) Roadmaps
6 25 (18.94%) Analytics
7 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (13.64%) Cloud Security
8 18 (13.64%) RBAC
8 18 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (12.88%) Architectural Patterns
9 17 (12.88%) Architecture Governance
9 17 (12.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (10.61%) Log Analytics
12 13 (9.85%) Configuration Management
12 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.39%) PowerShell
2 16 (12.12%) Bicep
3 15 (11.36%) SQL
4 13 (9.85%) C#
5 12 (9.09%) Python
6 3 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Scala
8 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (52.27%) Security Cleared
2 41 (31.06%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.39%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 11 (8.33%) Degree
6 7 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (3.79%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (3.79%) CISM
7 5 (3.79%) CISSP
7 5 (3.79%) CRISC
7 5 (3.79%) GIAC
7 5 (3.79%) SANS
8 4 (3.03%) GSEC
8 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.03%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.03%) PMP
8 4 (3.03%) SSCP
9 2 (1.52%) CCNA
9 2 (1.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
1 6 (4.55%) ISO 31000
1 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (4.55%) NIST
2 4 (3.03%) NCSC
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.55%) Docker
3 5 (3.79%) vCloud
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.52%) Firmware
5 2 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (3.79%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.52%) Grafana
4 2 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.76%) Ansible
5 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (40.15%) Microsoft
2 40 (30.30%) Oracle
3 8 (6.06%) VMware
4 6 (4.55%) Databricks
5 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.52%) Cisco
6 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) SAP
6 2 (1.52%) Sybase
6 2 (1.52%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.76%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.76%) Informatica
7 1 (0.76%) Logi
7 1 (0.76%) Logitech
7 1 (0.76%) Okta
7 1 (0.76%) Remedy
7 1 (0.76%) Tenable