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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 529 542
Rank change year-on-year -82 +13 +48
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 78 29 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.088% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 19 10
10th Percentile £418 £454 £424
25th Percentile £455 £475 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% +10.26%
75th Percentile £588 £681 £606
90th Percentile £695 £749 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -1.23%

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 18,898 12,624 13,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.63% 38.34% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,528 8,440 8,671
10th Percentile £325 £308 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £715 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 290 184
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.23 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.38
Median hourly rate £31.25 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -28.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.04
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £33.74
% change year-on-year +57.89% -43.68% +49.73%

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 12 October 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 9 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 12 October 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 -85 67 £500 -1.96% 65
London -71 34 £500 -16.67% 37
UK excluding London -82 29 £480 -4.00% 28
South East -46 23 £460 -8.00% 9
Work from Home -47 20 £495 -24.43% 33
South West -32 3 £575 - 2
East of England -22 2 £500 -25.93% 3
Midlands -38 1 - - 5
West Midlands -45 1 - - 5

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 (1.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Remedy AR System
1 8 (10.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (2.56%) Shopify
3 2 (2.56%) Workday HCM
3 2 (2.56%) Workfront
4 1 (1.28%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.28%) Finacle
4 1 (1.28%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (1.28%) Temenos T24
4 1 (1.28%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.62%) Azure
2 24 (30.77%) Boomi
3 17 (21.79%) AWS
4 14 (17.95%) GCP
5 12 (15.38%) SaaS
6 11 (14.10%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.85%) AtomSphere
7 3 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.85%) Workato
8 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.56%) Serverless
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub
9 1 (1.28%) Intacct
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.54%) HTTP
2 2 (2.56%) Broadband
2 2 (2.56%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) Oracle Database
1 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) JIRA
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.49%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Banking
4 7 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.97%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.41%) Marketing
6 4 (5.13%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Billing
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Local Government
8 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (60.26%) Architect
2 29 (37.18%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (17.95%) Integration Architect
4 12 (15.38%) Developer
5 9 (11.54%) Consultant
6 8 (10.26%) Business Solution Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 8 (10.26%) Senior
7 7 (8.97%) Automation Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Applications Developer
9 4 (5.13%) Senior Architect
9 4 (5.13%) Technical Consultant
10 3 (3.85%) Integration Specialist
10 3 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
10 3 (3.85%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.85%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.85%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (55.13%) REST
2 29 (37.18%) Middleware
2 29 (37.18%) SOAP
3 14 (17.95%) XML
4 13 (16.67%) JSON
5 12 (15.38%) Kafka
5 12 (15.38%) OAuth
6 11 (14.10%) Web Services
7 10 (12.82%) EDI
7 10 (12.82%) GraphQL
7 10 (12.82%) OpenAPI
7 10 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (12.82%) SAML
7 10 (12.82%) Swagger
8 9 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (11.54%) JWT
9 7 (8.97%) .NET
10 3 (3.85%) OAuth2
11 2 (2.56%) RESTful
11 2 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 9 (11.54%) Onboarding
4 8 (10.26%) CMDB
5 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (5.13%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (5.13%) Taxonomies
7 3 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.56%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (2.56%) Social Media
9 1 (1.28%) CESG
9 1 (1.28%) Contactless
9 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.28%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.28%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Linux
1 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.46%) Integration Patterns
2 29 (37.18%) Event-Driven
3 25 (32.05%) Enterprise Architecture
4 22 (28.21%) Agile
5 21 (26.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 21 (26.92%) Migration
6 20 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (23.08%) API Management
8 17 (21.79%) API Design
8 17 (21.79%) Data Modelling
9 16 (20.51%) CI/CD
10 15 (19.23%) Roadmaps
11 14 (17.95%) API Integration
11 14 (17.95%) CRM
11 14 (17.95%) DevOps
12 13 (16.67%) ERP
13 11 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (14.10%) Data Migration
13 11 (14.10%) Webhook
13 11 (14.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.38%) Python
2 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.26%) Bash
3 8 (10.26%) C#
4 6 (7.69%) SQL
5 3 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.85%) Rust
6 2 (2.56%) XPath
7 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.28%) Bicep
7 1 (1.28%) C++
7 1 (1.28%) Groovy
7 1 (1.28%) Java
7 1 (1.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) PMO
3 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) GAAP
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) HL7
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS
4 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) MuleSoft
1 20 (25.64%) Oracle
2 10 (12.82%) Google
2 10 (12.82%) IBM
2 10 (12.82%) TIBCO
2 10 (12.82%) WSO2
3 9 (11.54%) Informatica
3 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.26%) BMC
4 8 (10.26%) Remedy
4 8 (10.26%) Workday
5 6 (7.69%) SAP
6 5 (6.41%) UiPath
7 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.56%) Adobe
8 2 (2.56%) Dell
8 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.28%) Civica
9 1 (1.28%) Infor
9 1 (1.28%) Temenos