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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 521 582
Rank change year-on-year -39 +61 +129
Contract jobs citing iPaaS 48 7 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.023% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.060% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 3 5
10th Percentile - £413 £418
25th Percentile £413 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -7.56%
75th Percentile £638 £550 £588
90th Percentile £758 £595 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £435 £575
% change year-on-year -2.30% -24.35% +1.77%

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 15,673 11,572 14,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.82% 37.71% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,752 7,834 10,364
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 179 339
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.65 £14.10
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.43 £27.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +43.38% +28.15% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.84 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.73
% change year-on-year +86.10% +29.13% -10.06%

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 26 February 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 10 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 26 February 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 -50 45 £500 +11.11% 12
London +1 27 £625 - 6
UK excluding London -63 18 £425 -2.30% 10
Midlands - 13 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 13 £425 - 1
Work from Home -9 5 £464 +6.61% 5
South East - 3 £488 - 3
South West -26 1 - - 4
North West - 1 £425 - 1
North of England - 1 £425 - 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 11 (22.92%) Anypoint
2 2 (4.17%) Mule
3 1 (2.08%) Appian
3 1 (2.08%) Mule ESB
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (39.58%) Azure
2 14 (29.17%) SaaS
3 12 (25.00%) Boomi
4 11 (22.92%) AWS
5 8 (16.67%) GCP
6 7 (14.58%) PaaS
7 6 (12.50%) OCI
8 5 (10.42%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (10.42%) IaaS
9 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 4 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
11 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
11 2 (4.17%) Workato
12 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (2.08%) Oracle CX
12 1 (2.08%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DKIM
1 1 (2.08%) DMARC
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) DataStage
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (2.08%) Parquet
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (2.08%) Hudson
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Billing
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (56.25%) Architect
2 11 (22.92%) MuleSoft Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Integration Architect
4 7 (14.58%) Integration Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Consultant
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Integration Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.08%) REST
2 10 (20.83%) SOAP
3 9 (18.75%) JSON
3 9 (18.75%) Middleware
4 8 (16.67%) XML
5 7 (14.58%) OAuth
5 7 (14.58%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (12.50%) Web Services
7 4 (8.33%) JWT
7 4 (8.33%) XSLT
8 3 (6.25%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.17%) Kafka
9 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
9 2 (4.17%) OpenAPI
9 2 (4.17%) RESTful
9 2 (4.17%) Swagger
10 1 (2.08%) HTML5 Canvas
10 1 (2.08%) OpenID
10 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (2.08%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) Microservices
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
3 16 (33.33%) API Management
4 14 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 13 (27.08%) API Design
6 12 (25.00%) ERP
6 12 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
7 10 (20.83%) DevOps
8 9 (18.75%) Data Integration
8 9 (18.75%) Event-Driven
9 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (10.42%) AI
12 5 (10.42%) API Development
12 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
13 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 4 (8.33%) Release Management
13 4 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.17%) C#
3 2 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) Bicep
4 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) GRC
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) CloudHub
1 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) MuleSoft
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.83%) Oracle
4 8 (16.67%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.25%) Informatica
5 3 (6.25%) SAP
5 3 (6.25%) Sitecore
5 3 (6.25%) Software AG
6 2 (4.17%) Databricks
6 2 (4.17%) Dell
6 2 (4.17%) HubSpot
6 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.08%) Freshdesk
7 1 (2.08%) Google
7 1 (2.08%) IBM
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Workday