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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 506 554
Rank change year-on-year -89 +48 +112
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 50 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.055% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.15% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 7
10th Percentile £413 £399 £465
25th Percentile £414 £459 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -6.67% +6.19%
75th Percentile £660 £625 £625
90th Percentile £758 £656 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +14.29%

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 17,531 11,016 13,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.69% 37.84% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 7,505 9,896
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 257 346
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.48% -41.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.03 £71.75 £69.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £21.28 £17.80
% change year-on-year +74.44% +19.55% -34.92%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -80 49 £575 -4.17% 18
London -50 30 £625 - 10
UK excluding London -90 17 £425 -15.00% 6
West Midlands - 11 £425 - 1
Midlands - 11 £425 - 1
Work from Home -49 4 £500 -21.26% 4
East of England -30 2 - - 1
South West -32 2 £640 - 1
South East -59 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £425 - 2
North of England - 1 £425 - 2

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 12 (24.00%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.00%) Mule
3 1 (2.00%) Appian
3 1 (2.00%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.00%) Shopify
1 1 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 16 (32.00%) SaaS
3 15 (30.00%) AWS
4 13 (26.00%) Boomi
5 10 (20.00%) GCP
6 5 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.00%) OCI
7 3 (6.00%) Workato
8 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.00%) PaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.00%) IaaS
9 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) DataStage
3 1 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Hudson
1 1 (2.00%) Postman
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Banking
4 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Law
5 2 (4.00%) Marketing
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (64.00%) Architect
2 12 (24.00%) Integration Architect
2 12 (24.00%) MuleSoft Architect
3 9 (18.00%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 6 (12.00%) Integration Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Senior
6 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Leader
8 2 (4.00%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Data Integration Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Integration Specialist
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Architect
9 1 (2.00%) Agile Business Analyst
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Architect
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Build Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.00%) Middleware
2 12 (24.00%) REST
3 7 (14.00%) SOAP
4 6 (12.00%) JSON
5 5 (10.00%) XML
6 4 (8.00%) OAuth
7 3 (6.00%) FHIR
7 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.00%) Kafka
7 3 (6.00%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (4.00%) MUnit
8 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
8 2 (4.00%) OpenAPI
8 2 (4.00%) OpenID
8 2 (4.00%) RAML
8 2 (4.00%) Swagger
8 2 (4.00%) Web Services
9 1 (2.00%) RESTful
9 1 (2.00%) SAML
9 1 (2.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.00%) PACS
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Event-Driven
2 17 (34.00%) Microservices
3 16 (32.00%) Integration Patterns
4 15 (30.00%) Agile
4 15 (30.00%) API Management
5 14 (28.00%) API Design
5 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
6 12 (24.00%) Data Integration
7 10 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (18.00%) DevOps
9 8 (16.00%) AI
9 8 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (16.00%) ERP
10 7 (14.00%) CRM
10 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
11 6 (12.00%) Architecture Governance
11 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
11 6 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 5 (10.00%) Architectural Design
12 5 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) SQL
2 2 (4.00%) Tcl
3 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) HL7
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) DICOM
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) MuleSoft
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 3 (6.00%) Sitecore
4 3 (6.00%) SnapLogic
4 3 (6.00%) Software AG
5 2 (4.00%) Databricks
5 2 (4.00%) Dell
5 2 (4.00%) Infor
6 1 (2.00%) IBM
6 1 (2.00%) IFS
6 1 (2.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Sparx
6 1 (2.00%) Workday