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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 529 549
Rank change year-on-year -73 +20 +73
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 64 24 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.073% 0.036%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.34% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 16 9
10th Percentile - £406 £470
25th Percentile £455 £464 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £694 £625
90th Percentile £701 £749 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% +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 18,762 12,268 13,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 37.53% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,441 8,169 8,927
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 300 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.77 £52.81 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -35.77% +11.11%

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 14 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 14 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 -87 54 £538 -6.52% 56
UK excluding London -82 28 £500 -3.85% 20
South East -36 21 £460 +3.37% 11
London -75 21 £544 -11.94% 38
Work from Home -56 12 £500 -23.66% 87
South West -45 5 £613 - 3
East of England -29 2 £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 (1.56%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Remedy AR System
1 8 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.13%) Shopify
3 2 (3.13%) Workfront
4 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.56%) Finacle
4 1 (1.56%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.56%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.56%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (34.38%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) Boomi
3 15 (23.44%) AWS
4 13 (20.31%) GCP
5 12 (18.75%) SaaS
6 10 (15.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.69%) Workato
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.56%) AtomSphere
9 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub
9 1 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) Broadband
3 1 (1.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
1 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.13%) Metadata
1 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Banking
3 5 (7.81%) Marketing
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Retail
5 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
6 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (67.19%) Architect
2 28 (43.75%) Solutions Architect
3 12 (18.75%) Integration Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Business Solution Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Consultant
5 4 (6.25%) Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (4.69%) ERP Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Integration Specialist
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Migration Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.69%) Workday Architect
7 2 (3.13%) ITSM Architect
7 2 (3.13%) ITSM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (53.13%) REST
2 27 (42.19%) SOAP
3 26 (40.63%) Middleware
4 12 (18.75%) JSON
4 12 (18.75%) XML
5 10 (15.63%) Kafka
5 10 (15.63%) OAuth
6 9 (14.06%) EDI
6 9 (14.06%) GraphQL
6 9 (14.06%) SAML
7 8 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
7 8 (12.50%) JWT
7 8 (12.50%) OpenAPI
7 8 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (12.50%) Swagger
8 5 (7.81%) Web Services
9 3 (4.69%) .NET
9 3 (4.69%) FHIR
10 2 (3.13%) OAuth2
11 1 (1.56%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.06%) Onboarding
3 8 (12.50%) CMDB
4 4 (6.25%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Social Media
6 2 (3.13%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.56%) CESG
7 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) PACS
7 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Integration Patterns
2 26 (40.63%) Event-Driven
3 22 (34.38%) Migration
4 20 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
5 19 (29.69%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 15 (23.44%) CRM
6 15 (23.44%) Data Modelling
6 15 (23.44%) Roadmaps
7 14 (21.88%) Agile
7 14 (21.88%) API Design
7 14 (21.88%) API Management
8 13 (20.31%) Data Migration
8 13 (20.31%) ERP
9 12 (18.75%) Data Integration
9 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (15.63%) API Integration
10 10 (15.63%) Webhook
10 10 (15.63%) Workflow
11 9 (14.06%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.75%) Python
2 8 (12.50%) Bash
2 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.25%) SQL
4 2 (3.13%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.13%) Tcl
5 1 (1.56%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) Groovy
5 1 (1.56%) Rust
5 1 (1.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 14 (21.88%) SC Cleared
1 14 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) HL7
1 3 (4.69%) PMO
2 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) DICOM
3 1 (1.56%) GAAP
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) IFRS
3 1 (1.56%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) MuleSoft
2 15 (23.44%) Oracle
3 9 (14.06%) Google
4 8 (12.50%) BMC
4 8 (12.50%) IBM
4 8 (12.50%) Informatica
4 8 (12.50%) Remedy
4 8 (12.50%) TIBCO
4 8 (12.50%) WSO2
5 7 (10.94%) Workday
6 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
6 6 (9.38%) SAP
7 3 (4.69%) Dell
7 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
7 3 (4.69%) SnapLogic
8 2 (3.13%) Adobe
8 2 (3.13%) Infor
8 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.56%) Civica
9 1 (1.56%) Temenos