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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 533 568
Rank change year-on-year -71 +35 +85
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 51 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.057% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 8
10th Percentile £413 £410 £468
25th Percentile £463 £464 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.84%
75th Percentile £660 £625 £641
90th Percentile £688 £671 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +15.66%

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 18,281 12,009 14,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.29% 37.77% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,137 8,035 10,039
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £730 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 302 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.19 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.92 £47.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £82.35 £70.88 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.88 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +100.72% -10.08% -22.28%

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 6 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 6 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 -87 50 £588 +6.82% 19
London -50 30 £625 +2.04% 9
UK excluding London -105 16 £525 +2.94% 12
Work from Home -46 7 £475 -25.20% 11
South East -49 6 £563 +13.07% 7
Midlands - 4 £425 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £425 - 3
East of England -27 3 £500 -25.93%
South West -28 2 £640 - 1
North West -43 1 £425 -22.73%
North of England -75 1 £425 -22.73%

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 5 (9.80%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.96%) Appian
2 1 (1.96%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (3.92%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (3.92%) Remedy AR System
1 2 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (3.92%) Shopify
2 1 (1.96%) Finacle
2 1 (1.96%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.96%) Temenos T24
2 1 (1.96%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 15 (29.41%) Boomi
3 15 (29.41%) SaaS
4 12 (23.53%) GCP
5 5 (9.80%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.84%) Workato
7 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) OCI
8 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.96%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) HTTP
2 1 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.92%) Metadata
2 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) DataStage
3 1 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Hudson
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 6 (11.76%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Marketing
5 3 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Law
6 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Architect
2 13 (25.49%) Integration Architect
2 13 (25.49%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) MuleSoft Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Integration Specialist
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Technical Leader
8 2 (3.92%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Data Integration Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Migration Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.92%) Workday Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Integration Architect
9 1 (1.96%) Transformation Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (35.29%) Middleware
1 18 (35.29%) REST
2 12 (23.53%) SOAP
3 6 (11.76%) JSON
4 5 (9.80%) XML
5 3 (5.88%) FHIR
5 3 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 3 (5.88%) Kafka
5 3 (5.88%) OAuth
6 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.92%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.92%) OpenID
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.92%) Swagger
7 1 (1.96%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
7 1 (1.96%) MUnit
7 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.96%) RAML
7 1 (1.96%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.88%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (3.92%) CMDB
3 2 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.96%) PACS
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Social Media
4 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (37.25%) Event-Driven
1 19 (37.25%) Integration Patterns
2 18 (35.29%) Roadmaps
3 15 (29.41%) Agile
4 13 (25.49%) Data Integration
5 11 (21.57%) AI
5 11 (21.57%) ERP
5 11 (21.57%) Microservices
6 10 (19.61%) Enterprise Architecture
7 9 (17.65%) API Management
7 9 (17.65%) CRM
7 9 (17.65%) Machine Learning
7 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (15.69%) API Design
8 8 (15.69%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
8 8 (15.69%) DevOps
9 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (13.73%) Migration
9 7 (13.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.80%) Python
2 2 (3.92%) Bash
2 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.92%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Tcl
3 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.96%) C++
3 1 (1.96%) Groovy
3 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) HL7
2 2 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
2 2 (3.92%) PMO
3 1 (1.96%) DICOM
3 1 (1.96%) GRC
3 1 (1.96%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) MuleSoft
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 6 (11.76%) SAP
4 5 (9.80%) Oracle
5 3 (5.88%) Dell
5 3 (5.88%) Sitecore
5 3 (5.88%) SnapLogic
5 3 (5.88%) Software AG
5 3 (5.88%) Workday
6 2 (3.92%) BMC
6 2 (3.92%) Databricks
6 2 (3.92%) Infor
6 2 (3.92%) Remedy
6 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) Adobe
7 1 (1.96%) Google
7 1 (1.96%) IBM
7 1 (1.96%) Informatica
7 1 (1.96%) Temenos