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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 498 558
Rank change year-on-year -86 +60 +141
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 45 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.038% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.099% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 7 7
10th Percentile - £402 £445
25th Percentile £413 £430 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +2.56%
75th Percentile £660 £588 £631
90th Percentile £768 £625 £658
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £498 £613
% change year-on-year -14.57% -18.78% +16.67%

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 16,839 11,087 14,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.71% 37.95% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,500 7,754 10,128
10th Percentile £314 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 235 346
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.66 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -26.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.95 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.83% -21.27%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -65 43 £600 +20.30% 20
London -42 25 £625 - 6
UK excluding London -101 17 £425 -14.57% 16
Midlands - 11 £425 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £425 - 1
Work from Home -33 3 £406 -3.27% 10
South West -28 2 £640 +52.38% 2
South East -51 2 £475 -4.52% 6
North West - 1 £425 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £425 - 5

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 11 (24.44%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.44%) Mule
3 1 (2.22%) Appian
3 1 (2.22%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Azure
2 14 (31.11%) SaaS
3 13 (28.89%) AWS
3 13 (28.89%) Boomi
4 9 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) OCI
5 5 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (8.89%) PaaS
7 3 (6.67%) IaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.44%) Workato
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.22%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
1 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.22%) DataStage
2 1 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (2.22%) Hudson
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Billing
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (62.22%) Architect
2 11 (24.44%) MuleSoft Architect
3 9 (20.00%) Integration Architect
4 8 (17.78%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (15.56%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Senior
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Consultant
9 1 (2.22%) Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Architect
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) Business Data Analyst
9 1 (2.22%) Data Architect
9 1 (2.22%) Lead Architect
9 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft Developer
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) REST
2 10 (22.22%) JSON
2 10 (22.22%) Middleware
3 8 (17.78%) SOAP
3 8 (17.78%) XML
4 6 (13.33%) OAuth
5 5 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (11.11%) Web Services
6 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.67%) JWT
6 3 (6.67%) XSLT
7 2 (4.44%) FHIR
7 2 (4.44%) Kafka
7 2 (4.44%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.44%) Swagger
8 1 (2.22%) EDI
8 1 (2.22%) gRPC
8 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.22%) RAML
8 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.22%) PACS
3 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Microservices
2 15 (33.33%) API Management
3 14 (31.11%) Event-Driven
3 14 (31.11%) Integration Patterns
3 14 (31.11%) Roadmaps
4 13 (28.89%) Agile
5 12 (26.67%) API Design
6 11 (24.44%) ERP
7 10 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (20.00%) DevOps
9 7 (15.56%) AI
9 7 (15.56%) CRM
9 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (13.33%) Machine Learning
10 6 (13.33%) Project Delivery
11 5 (11.11%) Architecture Governance
11 5 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 4 (8.89%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
2 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.22%) C#
3 1 (2.22%) Java
3 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.22%) Python
3 1 (2.22%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.44%) GDPR
1 2 (4.44%) HL7
2 1 (2.22%) DICOM
2 1 (2.22%) GRC
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 21 (46.67%) MuleSoft
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Oracle
3 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.89%) SAP
5 3 (6.67%) Sitecore
5 3 (6.67%) Software AG
6 2 (4.44%) Databricks
6 2 (4.44%) Dell
6 2 (4.44%) Informatica
6 2 (4.44%) SnapLogic
7 1 (2.22%) Freshdesk
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) HubSpot
7 1 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (2.22%) Infor
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) Workday