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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 533 545
Rank change year-on-year -69 +12 +60
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 70 26 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.079% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.37% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 8
10th Percentile £454 £448 £468
25th Percentile £455 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £605 £684 £653
90th Percentile £704 £749 £741
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 18,804 12,465 13,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 37.99% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,482 8,332 8,711
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.08%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 292 185
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.30 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -21.59% -3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.50 £64.73
90th Percentile £79.90 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +29.67%

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 28 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 9 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 28 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 -85 59 £530 - 60
UK excluding London -71 31 £500 - 27
London -71 24 £534 -11.04% 31
South East -39 23 £460 -8.00% 7
Work from Home -48 15 £500 -23.66% 27
South West -35 5 £613 - 4
East of England -20 2 £500 -25.93% 2
Midlands -43 1 - - 4
West Midlands -45 1 - - 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 (1.43%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (11.43%) Remedy AR System
1 8 (11.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (2.86%) Shopify
3 2 (2.86%) Workday HCM
3 2 (2.86%) Workfront
4 1 (1.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.43%) Finacle
4 1 (1.43%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.43%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.43%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.71%) Boomi
2 24 (34.29%) Azure
3 15 (21.43%) AWS
4 14 (20.00%) GCP
5 12 (17.14%) SaaS
6 11 (15.71%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.29%) Workato
8 2 (2.86%) AtomSphere
8 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.43%) Intacct
9 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.86%) HTTP
2 2 (2.86%) Broadband
2 2 (2.86%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.86%) Metadata
1 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 22 (31.43%) Finance
2 21 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Banking
4 5 (7.14%) Marketing
4 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Retail
7 2 (2.86%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Local Government
8 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (67.14%) Architect
2 30 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (21.43%) Integration Architect
4 8 (11.43%) Business Solution Architect
4 8 (11.43%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 8 (11.43%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 6 (8.57%) Consultant
5 6 (8.57%) Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior
7 4 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.29%) ERP Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Integration Specialist
8 3 (4.29%) Lead
8 3 (4.29%) Migration Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Technical Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.29%) Workday Architect
9 2 (2.86%) ITSM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (55.71%) REST
2 30 (42.86%) Middleware
2 30 (42.86%) SOAP
3 15 (21.43%) XML
4 14 (20.00%) JSON
5 12 (17.14%) OAuth
6 11 (15.71%) Kafka
7 10 (14.29%) EDI
7 10 (14.29%) GraphQL
7 10 (14.29%) OpenAPI
7 10 (14.29%) SAML
7 10 (14.29%) Swagger
8 9 (12.86%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (12.86%) JWT
8 9 (12.86%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (11.43%) Web Services
10 4 (5.71%) .NET
11 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
12 2 (2.86%) XSLT
13 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Onboarding
2 10 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (11.43%) CMDB
4 4 (5.71%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (5.71%) Taxonomies
5 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.86%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.86%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.86%) Social Media
7 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.43%) CESG
7 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) Integration Patterns
2 29 (41.43%) Event-Driven
3 24 (34.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 23 (32.86%) Migration
5 21 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 18 (25.71%) API Management
7 17 (24.29%) Agile
7 17 (24.29%) API Design
7 17 (24.29%) Data Modelling
7 17 (24.29%) Roadmaps
8 16 (22.86%) CRM
8 16 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (21.43%) ERP
10 13 (18.57%) Data Migration
11 12 (17.14%) Data Integration
12 11 (15.71%) API Integration
12 11 (15.71%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (15.71%) Webhook
13 10 (14.29%) Workflow
14 9 (12.86%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.14%) Python
2 8 (11.43%) Bash
2 8 (11.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.14%) SQL
4 3 (4.29%) C#
4 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.86%) XPath
6 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.43%) C++
6 1 (1.43%) Groovy
6 1 (1.43%) Rust
6 1 (1.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.43%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) PMO
2 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) GAAP
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) HL7
3 1 (1.43%) IFRS
3 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) MuleSoft
2 17 (24.29%) Oracle
3 10 (14.29%) Google
4 9 (12.86%) IBM
4 9 (12.86%) Informatica
4 9 (12.86%) TIBCO
4 9 (12.86%) WSO2
5 8 (11.43%) BMC
5 8 (11.43%) Remedy
5 8 (11.43%) Workday
6 7 (10.00%) SAP
7 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.29%) Dell
8 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.29%) SnapLogic
9 2 (2.86%) Adobe
9 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.86%) UiPath
10 1 (1.43%) FIS
10 1 (1.43%) Sparx