PaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 223 216
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 -41
Contract jobs citing PaaS 122 176 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.85% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% 3.26% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 111 201
10th Percentile £413 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £580
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +10.48%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £700
90th Percentile £628 £700 £799
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £70.87
25th Percentile - £25.50 £71.42
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £26.50 -
90th Percentile - £27.88 £80.39
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud 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 4,080 5,392 7,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.94% 26.05% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,889 3,814 5,914
10th Percentile £237 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £373 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 257 227
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.54 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £20.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.78% -40.09% +62.79%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

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 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

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 3 May 2025. 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 +43 54 £575 +9.52% 73
Scotland +23 23 £532 -7.48% 15
North of England -7 18 £488 -16.31% 45
South West -15 16 £582 -10.50% 25
Midlands +8 10 £550 -8.33% 35
West Midlands +4 9 £544 -9.38% 24
Yorkshire +6 8 £425 -19.05% 16
North East 0 5 £534 -17.85% 5
North West -10 5 £450 -26.83% 25
Wales - 4 £200 - 6
East of England +37 1 £751 +82.06% 19
East Midlands +13 1 £575 - 8
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.74%) Confluence
2 7 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.64%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.64%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 70 (57.38%) Azure
1 70 (57.38%) IaaS
2 63 (51.64%) SaaS
3 33 (27.05%) AWS
4 17 (13.93%) GCP
4 17 (13.93%) Serverless
5 16 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (11.48%) OpenShift
7 12 (9.84%) Entra ID
8 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
8 10 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (6.56%) Azure AKS
10 7 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.74%) AWS Fargate
11 6 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
12 5 (4.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.21%) Firewall
2 17 (13.93%) DNS
3 12 (9.84%) DHCP
4 11 (9.02%) PBX
4 11 (9.02%) VoIP
5 9 (7.38%) VPN
6 8 (6.56%) SMTP
7 5 (4.10%) Network Security
8 4 (3.28%) iSCSI
8 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.46%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (2.46%) HTTP
9 3 (2.46%) SAN
9 3 (2.46%) SSL
9 3 (2.46%) VSAN
9 3 (2.46%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.64%) 4G
10 2 (1.64%) 5G
10 2 (1.64%) MQTT
11 1 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (8.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (8.20%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.38%) Big Data
3 9 (7.38%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.28%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.46%) Metadata
6 3 (2.46%) Metadata Repository
6 3 (2.46%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.64%) MySQL
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (1.64%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.82%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.82%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) JIRA
2 9 (7.38%) Git
3 8 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.10%) Selenium
5 4 (3.28%) GitLab
5 4 (3.28%) Postman
6 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.46%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.46%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.46%) Subversion
6 3 (2.46%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.46%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.64%) JMeter
7 2 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.64%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.82%) Maven
8 1 (0.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.82%) Mockito
8 1 (0.82%) Toad
General
1 27 (22.13%) Public Sector
2 21 (17.21%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.30%) Finance
4 13 (10.66%) Telecoms
5 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Local Government
8 2 (1.64%) Automotive
8 2 (1.64%) Electronics
8 2 (1.64%) Legal
8 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.82%) Aviation
9 1 (0.82%) Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.31%) Architect
2 19 (15.57%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (13.11%) Senior
4 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 11 (9.02%) 3rd Line Support
6 11 (9.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 11 (9.02%) Support Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Developer
10 7 (5.74%) Lead
11 6 (4.92%) Consultant
11 6 (4.92%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) AWS CDK
2 5 (4.10%) .NET
2 5 (4.10%) React
2 5 (4.10%) SAML
3 4 (3.28%) ADO
3 4 (3.28%) OAuth
3 4 (3.28%) OpenID
3 4 (3.28%) REST
3 4 (3.28%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.46%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.46%) MACH
4 3 (2.46%) YAML
5 2 (1.64%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.64%) Django
5 2 (1.64%) Kafka
5 2 (1.64%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.64%) OpenJDK
5 2 (1.64%) PostGIS
5 2 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) PKI
2 11 (9.02%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (8.20%) Blackberry
3 10 (8.20%) Clustering
3 10 (8.20%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (7.38%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.10%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.28%) Replication
6 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.46%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Infotainment
8 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.64%) PMI
8 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.03%) Windows
2 14 (11.48%) Linux
3 12 (9.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.46%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.64%) AIX
5 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.64%) Solaris
6 1 (0.82%) CentOS
6 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.61%) DevOps
2 33 (27.05%) CI/CD
3 27 (22.13%) Migration
4 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (18.03%) Agile
6 19 (15.57%) Roadmaps
7 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (12.30%) Validation
10 14 (11.48%) Machine Learning
10 14 (11.48%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (10.66%) Analytics
11 13 (10.66%) Containerisation
12 12 (9.84%) Customer Requirements
12 12 (9.84%) ITIL
13 11 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
13 11 (9.02%) Mentoring
13 11 (9.02%) Microservices
13 11 (9.02%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.31%) SQL
2 20 (16.39%) PowerShell
3 19 (15.57%) Python
4 13 (10.66%) Java
5 11 (9.02%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.20%) Bash
7 7 (5.74%) C#
8 4 (3.28%) Bicep
8 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.46%) C++
9 3 (2.46%) R
9 3 (2.46%) VBA
9 3 (2.46%) VBScript
10 2 (1.64%) Groovy
10 2 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.82%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.82%) Go
11 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.82%) Ruby
11 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.03%) DV Cleared
2 22 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.39%) Degree
4 19 (15.57%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (10.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (8.20%) CCNP
7 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (4.10%) Azure Certification
8 5 (4.10%) CCNA
9 4 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.28%) CISM
9 4 (3.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (3.28%) CRISC
10 3 (2.46%) ISEB
10 3 (2.46%) ISTQB
10 3 (2.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (2.46%) MCSE
11 2 (1.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.56%) NCSC
2 7 (5.74%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.28%) SLA
4 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.46%) GDPR
4 3 (2.46%) NIST
4 3 (2.46%) PMO
4 3 (2.46%) QA
5 2 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (23.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (22.95%) Active Directory
3 17 (13.93%) Docker
4 15 (12.30%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (7.38%) Hyper-V
6 8 (6.56%) BitLocker
6 8 (6.56%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (6.56%) Terminal Services
6 8 (6.56%) vSphere
7 7 (5.74%) VMware NSX
8 4 (3.28%) NFS
9 3 (2.46%) DFS Replication
9 3 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (20.49%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.30%) Terraform
3 13 (10.66%) Ansible
4 12 (9.84%) Puppet
5 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (6.56%) Nagios
5 8 (6.56%) vCenter Server
5 8 (6.56%) vMotion
6 5 (4.10%) SCCM
7 4 (3.28%) vRealize
7 4 (3.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (1.64%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (1.64%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.82%) Grafana
9 1 (0.82%) Kibana
Vendors
1 46 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 38 (31.15%) VMware
3 20 (16.39%) Cisco
4 17 (13.93%) Palo Alto
5 13 (10.66%) Google
6 11 (9.02%) Ericsson
6 11 (9.02%) F5
6 11 (9.02%) Juniper
6 11 (9.02%) Nokia
7 10 (8.20%) Avaya
7 10 (8.20%) Ribbon
8 8 (6.56%) Citrix
8 8 (6.56%) HP
8 8 (6.56%) Oracle
8 8 (6.56%) Symantec
9 6 (4.92%) Databricks
10 5 (4.10%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.46%) Meraki
11 3 (2.46%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.46%) Veeam