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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 532 554
Rank change year-on-year -91 +22 +66
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 59 23 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.070% 0.046%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 11
10th Percentile £455 £425 £475
25th Percentile £488 £481 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £624 £678 £656
90th Percentile £683 £749 £738
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 18,745 12,285 13,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.95% 37.24% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,400 8,196 9,048
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 320 231
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £21.59
% change year-on-year +72.23% -12.60% -20.04%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -83 51 £550 -4.35% 11
UK excluding London -92 24 £500 - 7
London -63 22 £581 -7.74% 3
South East -56 16 £460 -7.77% 1
Work from Home -56 11 £500 -25.09% 4
South West -41 5 £613 - 3
East of England -22 3 £500 -25.93% 1

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 (1.69%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Remedy AR System
1 6 (10.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.39%) Shopify
3 2 (3.39%) Workfront
4 1 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.69%) Finacle
4 1 (1.69%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.69%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.69%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) Azure
2 19 (32.20%) Boomi
3 16 (27.12%) AWS
4 13 (22.03%) GCP
4 13 (22.03%) SaaS
5 8 (13.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (6.78%) Workato
7 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.69%) AtomSphere
8 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.69%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) HTTP
2 2 (3.39%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) Metadata
2 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Marketing
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
5 3 (5.08%) Law
5 3 (5.08%) Retail
6 2 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (67.80%) Architect
2 24 (40.68%) Solutions Architect
3 13 (22.03%) Integration Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Business Solution Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Integration Specialist
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Migration Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.08%) Workday Architect
8 2 (3.39%) ERP Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (49.15%) REST
2 24 (40.68%) Middleware
3 22 (37.29%) SOAP
4 10 (16.95%) JSON
5 9 (15.25%) XML
6 8 (13.56%) Kafka
6 8 (13.56%) OAuth
7 7 (11.86%) EDI
7 7 (11.86%) GraphQL
7 7 (11.86%) SAML
8 6 (10.17%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (10.17%) JWT
8 6 (10.17%) OpenAPI
8 6 (10.17%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (10.17%) Swagger
9 3 (5.08%) FHIR
10 2 (3.39%) Web Services
11 1 (1.69%) .NET
11 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
11 1 (1.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Onboarding
2 8 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (11.86%) Cloud Native
4 6 (10.17%) CMDB
5 4 (6.78%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
7 2 (3.39%) Over-the-Top Content
7 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.39%) Social Media
7 2 (3.39%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.69%) CESG
8 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) PACS
8 1 (1.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Linux
1 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Event-Driven
1 27 (45.76%) Integration Patterns
2 19 (32.20%) Enterprise Architecture
2 19 (32.20%) Migration
3 17 (28.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 16 (27.12%) Roadmaps
5 15 (25.42%) CRM
6 13 (22.03%) Agile
6 13 (22.03%) Data Integration
6 13 (22.03%) ERP
7 12 (20.34%) API Design
7 12 (20.34%) API Management
7 12 (20.34%) Data Migration
8 11 (18.64%) Data Modelling
8 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (15.25%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (15.25%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (15.25%) Webhook
10 8 (13.56%) Workflow
11 7 (11.86%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) Python
2 6 (10.17%) Bash
2 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.08%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.39%) Tcl
5 1 (1.69%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.69%) C++
5 1 (1.69%) Groovy
5 1 (1.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
1 12 (20.34%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) HL7
1 3 (5.08%) PMO
2 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) DICOM
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) MuleSoft
2 11 (18.64%) Oracle
3 7 (11.86%) Google
3 7 (11.86%) SAP
3 7 (11.86%) Workday
4 6 (10.17%) BMC
4 6 (10.17%) IBM
4 6 (10.17%) Informatica
4 6 (10.17%) Remedy
4 6 (10.17%) TIBCO
4 6 (10.17%) WSO2
5 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.08%) Dell
6 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.08%) SnapLogic
7 2 (3.39%) Adobe
7 2 (3.39%) Infor
8 1 (1.69%) Civica
8 1 (1.69%) Temenos