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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 537 545
Rank change year-on-year -76 +8 +86
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 55 23 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.069% 0.044%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.19% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 9
10th Percentile £450 £425 £470
25th Percentile £494 £481 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £660 £658 £688
90th Percentile £700 £718 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +18.52%

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 18,734 12,335 13,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.25% 37.25% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,359 8,262 9,249
10th Percentile £326 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £616 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 623 313 274
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.87 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -20.11%

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 3 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 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 3 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 -87 51 £575 - 29
London -47 25 £623 -0.40% 9
UK excluding London -87 21 £550 +10.00% 26
South East -64 11 £460 -7.77% 10
Work from Home -47 8 £475 -25.20% 11
South West -37 5 £613 - 4
East of England -13 3 £500 -25.93% 2
North West -52 1 £425 -22.73% 2
North of England -71 1 £425 -22.73% 3
West Midlands - 1 £650 - 3
Midlands - 1 £650 - 3

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 (1.82%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (7.27%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (7.27%) Remedy AR System
1 4 (7.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.64%) Shopify
2 2 (3.64%) Workfront
3 1 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.82%) Finacle
3 1 (1.82%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (1.82%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.82%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.82%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) Azure
2 15 (27.27%) Boomi
2 15 (27.27%) SaaS
3 14 (25.45%) AWS
4 11 (20.00%) GCP
5 7 (12.73%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (7.27%) Workato
7 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.64%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.82%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (1.82%) GitHub
9 1 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.82%) OCI
9 1 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (3.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.45%) Metadata
3 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Hudson
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (10.91%) Banking
4 5 (9.09%) Marketing
5 3 (5.45%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Architect
2 18 (32.73%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (27.27%) Integration Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Business Solution Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Integration Specialist
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Migration Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Leader
7 3 (5.45%) Workday Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Consultant
8 2 (3.64%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (47.27%) REST
2 25 (45.45%) Middleware
3 19 (34.55%) SOAP
4 9 (16.36%) JSON
5 8 (14.55%) XML
6 6 (10.91%) GraphQL
6 6 (10.91%) Kafka
6 6 (10.91%) OAuth
7 5 (9.09%) OpenAPI
7 5 (9.09%) Swagger
8 4 (7.27%) EDI
8 4 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (7.27%) SAML
9 3 (5.45%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (5.45%) FHIR
9 3 (5.45%) JWT
10 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
10 2 (3.64%) OpenID
11 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
11 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Onboarding
2 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.27%) CMDB
3 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.27%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.64%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.64%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Social Media
5 1 (1.82%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) CESG
5 1 (1.82%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) PACS
5 1 (1.82%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Linux
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Event-Driven
1 23 (41.82%) Integration Patterns
2 17 (30.91%) Roadmaps
3 14 (25.45%) CRM
3 14 (25.45%) Data Integration
3 14 (25.45%) Enterprise Architecture
3 14 (25.45%) ERP
3 14 (25.45%) Migration
4 12 (21.82%) Agile
4 12 (21.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 9 (16.36%) Data Migration
8 8 (14.55%) API Design
8 8 (14.55%) API Management
8 8 (14.55%) Architectural Patterns
8 8 (14.55%) Workflow
9 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.73%) DevOps
9 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) Python
2 4 (7.27%) Bash
2 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.45%) SQL
4 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) Tcl
5 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.82%) C++
5 1 (1.82%) Groovy
5 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (5.45%) HL7
2 3 (5.45%) PMO
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) DICOM
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) MuleSoft
2 9 (16.36%) Oracle
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.55%) SAP
4 7 (12.73%) Workday
5 4 (7.27%) BMC
5 4 (7.27%) Google
5 4 (7.27%) Informatica
5 4 (7.27%) Remedy
5 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.45%) Dell
6 3 (5.45%) IBM
6 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.45%) SnapLogic
6 3 (5.45%) TIBCO
6 3 (5.45%) WSO2
7 2 (3.64%) Adobe
7 2 (3.64%) Databricks
7 2 (3.64%) Infor
7 2 (3.64%) Software AG