iPaaS Contract Job Trends

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS, Cloud-Based Integration)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring iPaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 533 556
Rank change year-on-year -76 +23 +85
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 52 22 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.067% 0.040%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 8
10th Percentile £450 £420 £468
25th Percentile £481 £475 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £660 £639 £641
90th Percentile £705 £683 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +12.50% -16.67% +18.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

iPaaS 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,656 12,322 13,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.39% 33.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,322 8,252 9,412
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 617 317 296
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.13 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £50.48
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.02 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +96.18% -10.14% -20.75%

iPaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing iPaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

iPaaS job vacancy trend in the UK

iPaaS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iPaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iPaaS

iPaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iPaaS over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for iPaaS in the UK

iPaaS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iPaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing iPaaS

iPaaS
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iPaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 July 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
England -83 50 £594 +7.95% 20
London -39 27 £625 - 8
UK excluding London -89 18 £563 +12.50% 16
South East -68 9 £460 -7.77% 8
Work from Home -43 8 £475 -25.20% 10
South West -40 4 £626 - 3
East of England -17 3 £500 -25.93%
North West -48 1 £425 -22.73%
North of England -74 1 £425 -22.73%
Midlands - 1 £650 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £650 - 4

iPaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (1.92%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.85%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.85%) Shopify
2 2 (3.85%) Workfront
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.92%) Finacle
3 1 (1.92%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.92%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.92%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) AWS
2 15 (28.85%) Boomi
3 13 (25.00%) SaaS
4 11 (21.15%) GCP
5 7 (13.46%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (7.69%) Workato
7 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.85%) OCI
8 2 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTP
2 2 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.77%) Metadata
3 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.92%) DataStage
4 1 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Hudson
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Marketing
5 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Law
5 3 (5.77%) Retail
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Architect
2 18 (34.62%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (28.85%) Integration Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Integration Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Migration Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.77%) Workday Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Business Solution Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Data Integration Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
7 2 (3.85%) ERP Architect
7 2 (3.85%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (48.08%) Middleware
2 24 (46.15%) REST
3 17 (32.69%) SOAP
4 9 (17.31%) JSON
5 8 (15.38%) XML
6 6 (11.54%) GraphQL
6 6 (11.54%) Kafka
6 6 (11.54%) OAuth
7 5 (9.62%) OpenAPI
7 5 (9.62%) Swagger
8 4 (7.69%) EDI
8 4 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (7.69%) SAML
9 3 (5.77%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.77%) FHIR
9 3 (5.77%) JWT
10 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
10 2 (3.85%) OpenID
10 2 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (1.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.85%) CMDB
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Social Media
5 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) CESG
5 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) PACS
5 1 (1.92%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Integration Patterns
2 21 (40.38%) Event-Driven
3 17 (32.69%) Roadmaps
4 14 (26.92%) ERP
5 13 (25.00%) Agile
5 13 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 12 (23.08%) CRM
6 12 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (19.23%) Migration
8 8 (15.38%) API Design
8 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 8 (15.38%) DevOps
8 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (13.46%) AI
9 7 (13.46%) Architectural Patterns
9 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
9 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
9 7 (13.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) Python
2 3 (5.77%) SQL
3 2 (3.85%) Bash
3 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.85%) Tcl
4 1 (1.92%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.92%) C++
4 1 (1.92%) Groovy
4 1 (1.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) GDPR
2 3 (5.77%) HL7
2 3 (5.77%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) DICOM
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) MuleSoft
2 10 (19.23%) Oracle
3 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.38%) SAP
4 6 (11.54%) Workday
5 4 (7.69%) Google
5 4 (7.69%) IBM
5 4 (7.69%) Informatica
5 4 (7.69%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.77%) Dell
6 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.77%) SnapLogic
6 3 (5.77%) Software AG
6 3 (5.77%) TIBCO
6 3 (5.77%) WSO2
7 2 (3.85%) Adobe
7 2 (3.85%) BMC
7 2 (3.85%) Databricks
7 2 (3.85%) Infor
7 2 (3.85%) Remedy