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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 519 565
Rank change year-on-year -77 +46 +118
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 49 18 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.060% 0.039%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 13 7
10th Percentile £413 £410 £465
25th Percentile £424 £464 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £664 £625 £625
90th Percentile £778 £671 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £510 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% -15.00% +17.07%

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 17,978 11,314 14,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.78% 32.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,000 7,620 10,029
10th Percentile £328 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £620 £635
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 596 280 364
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.24 £14.14
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +30.00% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.68 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.14 £20.77
% change year-on-year +95.98% -7.87% -22.36%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -69 48 £600 +9.09% 10
London -46 30 £625 +2.04% 4
UK excluding London -98 14 £425 -16.67% 7
Work from Home -43 6 £475 -25.20% 2
Midlands - 6 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £425 - 1
East of England -22 3 £500 -25.93% 1
South West -34 2 £640 -
South East -63 2 £550 +10.55% 4
North West -38 1 £425 -22.73% 1
North of England -74 1 £425 -22.73% 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 7 (14.29%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.04%) Appian
2 1 (2.04%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Shopify
2 1 (2.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 16 (32.65%) SaaS
3 15 (30.61%) Boomi
4 12 (24.49%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.16%) Workato
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) OCI
8 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) DataStage
3 1 (2.04%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Hudson
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Law
5 3 (6.12%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (61.22%) Architect
2 13 (26.53%) Integration Architect
3 11 (22.45%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.29%) MuleSoft Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (10.20%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Lead
6 5 (10.20%) Senior
7 4 (8.16%) Integration Specialist
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Architect
8 3 (6.12%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Data Integration Architect
9 2 (4.08%) Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.04%) Analyst
10 1 (2.04%) Consultant
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Manager
10 1 (2.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (32.65%) Middleware
2 15 (30.61%) REST
3 9 (18.37%) SOAP
4 6 (12.24%) JSON
5 5 (10.20%) XML
6 3 (6.12%) FHIR
6 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
6 3 (6.12%) Kafka
6 3 (6.12%) OAuth
7 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
7 2 (4.08%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.08%) OpenID
7 2 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (4.08%) Swagger
8 1 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (2.04%) MUnit
8 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.04%) RAML
8 1 (2.04%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.04%) PACS
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Event-Driven
2 19 (38.78%) Integration Patterns
3 15 (30.61%) Roadmaps
4 14 (28.57%) Agile
5 13 (26.53%) Data Integration
5 13 (26.53%) Microservices
6 11 (22.45%) AI
6 11 (22.45%) API Management
7 10 (20.41%) API Design
7 10 (20.41%) DevOps
7 10 (20.41%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (18.37%) ERP
8 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
9 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
9 8 (16.33%) CRM
10 7 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
11 6 (12.24%) Architecture Governance
12 5 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) Python
2 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.08%) SQL
2 2 (4.08%) Tcl
3 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.04%) C++
3 1 (2.04%) Groovy
3 1 (2.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) HL7
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) DICOM
3 1 (2.04%) GRC
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) MuleSoft
2 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.24%) Salesforce
4 4 (8.16%) SAP
5 3 (6.12%) Dell
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 3 (6.12%) Sitecore
5 3 (6.12%) SnapLogic
5 3 (6.12%) Software AG
6 2 (4.08%) Databricks
6 2 (4.08%) Infor
6 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.08%) Workday
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) IBM
7 1 (2.04%) IFS
7 1 (2.04%) Informatica
7 1 (2.04%) Sparx