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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 249 215
Rank change year-on-year -12 -34 -70
Contract jobs citing PaaS 118 134 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.76% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.34% 2.72% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 98 170
10th Percentile £352 £369 £413
25th Percentile £413 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.74% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £649 £650
90th Percentile £720 £685 £732
UK median daily rate £540 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -8.09% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 11
10th Percentile - - £75.00
25th Percentile - £36.75 -
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.64% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £40.25 £88.75
90th Percentile - - £93.75
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £74.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year -19.19% -4.81% +21.88%

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 5,036 4,919 6,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.28% 27.72% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,390 3,182 4,923
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £379 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 132 235
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.38 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.33 £19.78 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.27 £33.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.61% +26.92% +31.91%
75th Percentile £36.75 £68.98 £59.19
90th Percentile £66.90 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.48 £33.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.42% -4.94% +59.09%

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
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 26 September 2025.

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 26 September 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 +5 35 £475 -17.39% 43
North of England -5 29 £397 -37.19% 26
Midlands -21 20 £570 -6.10% 26
West Midlands -19 18 £609 -0.08% 14
Scotland +5 17 £513 +0.49% 6
North West -3 17 £360 -40.00% 13
East of England +5 11 £525 +50.00% 14
Yorkshire -8 10 £550 -12.87% 5
South West +8 8 £725 +20.83% 26
North East -6 2 £500 -23.08% 8
East Midlands -10 2 £450 -7.69% 12
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 7 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.24%) SAS
4 3 (2.54%) Confluence
4 3 (2.54%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.69%) FileNet
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.85%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (64.41%) Azure
2 73 (61.86%) IaaS
3 49 (41.53%) SaaS
4 40 (33.90%) AWS
5 22 (18.64%) GCP
6 18 (15.25%) OpenShift
7 17 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (14.41%) Serverless
8 14 (11.86%) Azure Storage
9 13 (11.02%) Azure AKS
10 12 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (9.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (9.32%) Entra ID
12 9 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (7.63%) GitHub
13 7 (5.93%) Azure Functions
14 6 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (4.24%) AWS Fargate
15 5 (4.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.41%) DNS
2 15 (12.71%) Firewall
3 12 (10.17%) DHCP
4 8 (6.78%) VPN
5 7 (5.93%) SAN
6 5 (4.24%) SMTP
7 4 (3.39%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (3.39%) PBX
7 4 (3.39%) VoIP
8 3 (2.54%) Network Security
9 1 (0.85%) Internet
9 1 (0.85%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.85%) NAS
9 1 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.10%) Relational Database
2 13 (11.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.93%) RDBMS
6 6 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.24%) Big Data
7 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.24%) Oracle Database
7 5 (4.24%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 5 (4.24%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 4 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.39%) MySQL
8 4 (3.39%) Redis
9 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.69%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Git
1 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.08%) Gradle
2 6 (5.08%) Maven
2 6 (5.08%) SonarQube
3 5 (4.24%) JIRA
4 4 (3.39%) SonarLint
5 3 (2.54%) Postman
5 3 (2.54%) Selenium
6 2 (1.69%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.69%) GitLab
6 2 (1.69%) Subversion
6 2 (1.69%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.69%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.85%) JMeter
7 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (21.19%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Public Sector
3 12 (10.17%) Finance
4 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (4.24%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.39%) Aviation
6 3 (2.54%) Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (19.49%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (18.64%) Architect
3 17 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Lead
6 10 (8.47%) Site Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (5.93%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Senior
7 7 (5.93%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.17%) AngularJS
2 11 (9.32%) ADO
3 10 (8.47%) Node.js
4 8 (6.78%) .NET
5 7 (5.93%) RESTful
6 6 (5.08%) ARM Templates
7 5 (4.24%) Middleware
8 4 (3.39%) Dropwizard
8 4 (3.39%) J2EE
8 4 (3.39%) JWT
8 4 (3.39%) Micronaut
8 4 (3.39%) OpenID
8 4 (3.39%) SAML
8 4 (3.39%) SOAP
8 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.54%) Celery
9 3 (2.54%) REST
10 2 (1.69%) Jinja
10 2 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.24%) Clustering
3 5 (4.24%) PKI
3 5 (4.24%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.39%) Blackberry
4 4 (3.39%) N-Tier
4 4 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.12%) Windows
2 26 (22.03%) Linux
3 12 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Unix
5 3 (2.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (38.98%) DevOps
2 37 (31.36%) CI/CD
3 25 (21.19%) Agile
4 23 (19.49%) Migration
5 22 (18.64%) Containerisation
6 21 (17.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (16.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (16.10%) Observability
8 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.56%) Validation
9 15 (12.71%) Roadmaps
10 14 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (11.86%) ETL
11 12 (10.17%) Machine Learning
11 12 (10.17%) Microservices
11 12 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (9.32%) Analytics
12 11 (9.32%) Mentoring
13 10 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 9 (7.63%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.97%) SQL
2 21 (17.80%) Python
3 15 (12.71%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.17%) Java
5 10 (8.47%) PHP
6 8 (6.78%) Bicep
7 5 (4.24%) C#
8 4 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.54%) Bash
9 3 (2.54%) Go
10 2 (1.69%) C++
10 2 (1.69%) VBA
10 2 (1.69%) VBScript
11 1 (0.85%) Groovy
11 1 (0.85%) R
11 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.32%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.08%) Degree
5 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.39%) CCNP
6 4 (3.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.69%) ISEB
7 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.69%) MCP
8 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.85%) CCNA
8 1 (0.85%) CCSP
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) OCP
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.39%) NIST
1 4 (3.39%) SLA
2 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) EU AI Act
3 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (23.73%) Docker
2 23 (19.49%) Active Directory
3 16 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.78%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.78%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (5.08%) vSphere
6 5 (4.24%) BitLocker
6 5 (4.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (4.24%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.54%) DFS Replication
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (34.75%) Kubernetes
2 29 (24.58%) Terraform
3 13 (11.02%) Grafana
4 10 (8.47%) Ansible
5 6 (5.08%) Puppet
6 5 (4.24%) Nagios
6 5 (4.24%) vCenter Server
6 5 (4.24%) vMotion
7 4 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.69%) logstash
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.03%) Oracle
3 23 (19.49%) VMware
4 16 (13.56%) AppDynamics
5 11 (9.32%) Google
6 9 (7.63%) Citrix
6 9 (7.63%) HP
7 7 (5.93%) F5
8 5 (4.24%) Cisco
8 5 (4.24%) IBM
8 5 (4.24%) Palo Alto
8 5 (4.24%) Symantec
9 4 (3.39%) Avaya
9 4 (3.39%) Databricks
9 4 (3.39%) Dynatrace
9 4 (3.39%) Ericsson
9 4 (3.39%) Gigya
9 4 (3.39%) Juniper
9 4 (3.39%) Nokia
9 4 (3.39%) Ribbon