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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 530 567
Rank change year-on-year -76 +37 +58
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 61 24 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.073% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 16 10
10th Percentile £455 £425 £473
25th Percentile £475 £481 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.00%
75th Percentile £619 £678 £625
90th Percentile £675 £749 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +20.00%

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 18,749 12,200 13,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.94% 37.26% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,413 8,127 9,000
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 313 224
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.50 £57.63
90th Percentile £81.55 £70.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
% change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%

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 1 September 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 7 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 1 September 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 -88 52 £550 -4.35% 45
UK excluding London -83 25 £500 - 17
London -65 22 £550 -12.70% 30
South East -49 17 £460 -7.77% 7
Work from Home -44 11 £500 -25.09% 28
South West -37 5 £613 - 2
East of England -20 3 £500 -25.93%

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 (1.64%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Remedy AR System
1 6 (9.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.28%) Shopify
3 2 (3.28%) Workfront
4 1 (1.64%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.64%) Finacle
4 1 (1.64%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.64%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.64%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) Azure
2 20 (32.79%) Boomi
3 16 (26.23%) AWS
4 13 (21.31%) GCP
4 13 (21.31%) SaaS
5 9 (14.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (6.56%) Workato
7 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.92%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.64%) AtomSphere
8 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.11%) HTTP
2 2 (3.28%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.28%) Metadata
1 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 17 (27.87%) Finance
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.20%) Marketing
3 4 (6.56%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Law
4 3 (4.92%) Retail
5 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (67.21%) Architect
2 26 (42.62%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (21.31%) Integration Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Business Solution Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Senior
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Developer
7 3 (4.92%) Integration Specialist
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Migration Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.92%) Workday Architect
8 2 (3.28%) ERP Architect
8 2 (3.28%) ITSM Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (49.18%) REST
2 24 (39.34%) Middleware
3 23 (37.70%) SOAP
4 11 (18.03%) JSON
5 10 (16.39%) XML
6 9 (14.75%) Kafka
6 9 (14.75%) OAuth
7 8 (13.11%) EDI
7 8 (13.11%) GraphQL
7 8 (13.11%) SAML
8 7 (11.48%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (11.48%) JWT
8 7 (11.48%) OpenAPI
8 7 (11.48%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (11.48%) Swagger
9 3 (4.92%) FHIR
9 3 (4.92%) Web Services
10 2 (3.28%) .NET
11 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
11 1 (1.64%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Onboarding
2 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
3 6 (9.84%) CMDB
4 4 (6.56%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.28%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.28%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.28%) Social Media
6 2 (3.28%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.64%) CESG
7 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.64%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) PACS
7 1 (1.64%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Linux
1 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) Integration Patterns
2 27 (44.26%) Event-Driven
3 20 (32.79%) Enterprise Architecture
3 20 (32.79%) Migration
4 18 (29.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 16 (26.23%) CRM
5 16 (26.23%) Roadmaps
6 13 (21.31%) Agile
6 13 (21.31%) API Design
6 13 (21.31%) API Management
6 13 (21.31%) Data Integration
6 13 (21.31%) Data Migration
6 13 (21.31%) ERP
7 11 (18.03%) Data Modelling
7 11 (18.03%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (16.39%) Webhook
9 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (13.11%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (13.11%) Workflow
11 7 (11.48%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) Python
2 6 (9.84%) Bash
2 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.92%) SQL
4 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.28%) Tcl
5 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.64%) C#
5 1 (1.64%) C++
5 1 (1.64%) Groovy
5 1 (1.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) HL7
1 3 (4.92%) PMO
2 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) DICOM
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) MuleSoft
2 12 (19.67%) Oracle
3 8 (13.11%) Google
4 7 (11.48%) IBM
4 7 (11.48%) Informatica
4 7 (11.48%) SAP
4 7 (11.48%) TIBCO
4 7 (11.48%) Workday
4 7 (11.48%) WSO2
5 6 (9.84%) BMC
5 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
5 6 (9.84%) Remedy
6 3 (4.92%) Dell
6 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.92%) SnapLogic
7 2 (3.28%) Adobe
7 2 (3.28%) Infor
8 1 (1.64%) Civica
8 1 (1.64%) Solace