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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 524 573
Rank change year-on-year -20 +49 +140
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 35 10 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.095% 0.031% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.086% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 14
10th Percentile - £418 -
25th Percentile £413 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +19.44% -31.71%
75th Percentile £713 £550 £494
90th Percentile £898 £644 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -10.00%

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 13,984 11,601 14,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.11% 36.32% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,613 7,713 10,414
10th Percentile £306 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 172 252
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.44 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%
75th Percentile £56.13 £43.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.63 £68.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.96 £25.34 £20.77
% change year-on-year +2.44% +22.00% +6.51%

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 9 January 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 8 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 9 January 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 -22 33 £500 -4.76% 18
London +6 18 £688 +25.00% 7
UK excluding London -46 14 £450 +3.45% 12
West Midlands - 9 £425 - 3
Midlands - 9 £425 - 3
Work from Home -13 5 £576 +28.06% 5
South East - 3 £500 - 5
South West -11 2 - - 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 9 (25.71%) Anypoint
2 2 (5.71%) Mule
2 2 (5.71%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 7 (20.00%) Boomi
3 7 (20.00%) SaaS
4 6 (17.14%) IaaS
4 6 (17.14%) PaaS
5 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (11.43%) OCI
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.71%) Workato
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub
8 1 (2.86%) Oracle CX
8 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DKIM
1 1 (2.86%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (2.86%) Parquet
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.86%) PowerCenter
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Marketing
6 2 (5.71%) Legal
6 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
7 1 (2.86%) Military
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) MuleSoft Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Consultant
3 5 (14.29%) Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Integration Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft Developer
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Integration Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) REST
2 10 (28.57%) SOAP
3 8 (22.86%) JSON
3 8 (22.86%) Web Services
4 7 (20.00%) XML
5 6 (17.14%) OAuth
6 5 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (11.43%) JWT
7 4 (11.43%) Middleware
7 4 (11.43%) XSLT
8 3 (8.57%) RESTful
9 1 (2.86%) EDI
9 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
9 1 (2.86%) gRPC
9 1 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (2.86%) MACH
9 1 (2.86%) MUnit
9 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
9 1 (2.86%) RAML
9 1 (2.86%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Agile
2 12 (34.29%) Microservices
3 11 (31.43%) API Management
4 10 (28.57%) API Design
4 10 (28.57%) ERP
4 10 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) API Development
8 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
8 5 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
9 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
9 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven
9 4 (11.43%) Release Management
9 4 (11.43%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (11.43%) Unit Testing
10 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) SQL
2 3 (8.57%) Java
2 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.71%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) CloudHub
2 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) MuleSoft
2 8 (22.86%) Oracle
3 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 5 (14.29%) SAP
5 2 (5.71%) HubSpot
5 2 (5.71%) Informatica
5 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) Freshdesk
6 1 (2.86%) Google
6 1 (2.86%) Workday