PaaS Contract Job Trends

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 272 243
Rank change year-on-year -45 -29 -38
Contract jobs citing PaaS 380 299 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.93% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 2.46% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 192 308
10th Percentile £413 £400 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.29% -2.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £725 £838 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% +15.38% -66.67%
75th Percentile £55.13 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.35 - £36.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -66.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

PaaS 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 18,565 12,152 14,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.62% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,331 8,124 10,096
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 357
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.88 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.14% -20.69%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PaaS job vacancy trend in the UK

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PaaS

PaaS
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 9 July 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 -43 332 £525 -8.70% 144
London -16 192 £525 -12.50% 68
UK excluding London -77 152 £550 -4.35% 117
Work from Home -62 100 £525 -12.50% 59
North of England -57 46 £460 -8.00% 8
South East -53 42 £700 +21.74% 33
Yorkshire -31 28 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -49 27 £531 -11.50% 23
North West -31 18 £426 +17.48% 3
West Midlands -60 17 £539 -11.58% 12
Scotland -11 16 £595 +11.42% 5
East of England -15 13 £644 -4.70% 7
East Midlands -6 10 £488 +8.33% 11
South West -39 10 £550 -21.62% 29
North East -35 4 £638 +19.38% 3
Wales -13 2 - - 1

PaaS
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 33 (8.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.68%) Confluence
4 12 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.89%) SAS
6 5 (1.32%) Apache
7 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.53%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.47%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (3.68%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.26%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 255 (67.11%) Azure
2 236 (62.11%) IaaS
3 141 (37.11%) SaaS
4 93 (24.47%) AWS
5 70 (18.42%) Entra ID
6 64 (16.84%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (14.74%) OCI
8 51 (13.42%) GitHub
9 46 (12.11%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (10.26%) Serverless
11 36 (9.47%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (7.89%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (6.32%) Azure AKS
13 24 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (5.53%) GCP
15 20 (5.26%) Azure App Service
16 18 (4.74%) Power Platform
17 17 (4.47%) Azure Service Bus
18 12 (3.16%) Azure WebJobs
19 9 (2.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.32%) DNS
1 43 (11.32%) Firewall
2 29 (7.63%) VPN
3 20 (5.26%) DHCP
4 14 (3.68%) WAN
5 13 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.16%) LAN
7 11 (2.89%) SAN
8 8 (2.11%) SMTP
9 7 (1.84%) Kerberos
9 7 (1.84%) Network Security
9 7 (1.84%) PSTN
9 7 (1.84%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.84%) VLAN
10 6 (1.58%) Internet
10 6 (1.58%) IPsec
11 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.05%) NAS
12 4 (1.05%) SSL
13 3 (0.79%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.16%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 11 (2.89%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 9 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.37%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.37%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.84%) Big Data
7 7 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.58%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (1.32%) Metadata
9 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.05%) Db2
10 4 (1.05%) MySQL
10 4 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (1.05%) Power BI
11 3 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (8.68%) Git
2 21 (5.53%) JIRA
3 10 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.11%) Postman
5 7 (1.84%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.84%) GitLab
6 5 (1.32%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.79%) JetBrains Rider
7 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.79%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.53%) ERwin
8 2 (0.53%) Selenium
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.26%) Protractor
9 1 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 87 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.11%) Finance
3 52 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.79%) Banking
6 21 (5.53%) Legal
7 19 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.84%) Military
11 5 (1.32%) Law
12 3 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.53%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.53%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.26%) International Banking
14 1 (0.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 131 (34.47%) Architect
2 61 (16.05%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (11.84%) Senior
4 41 (10.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (9.47%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 31 (8.16%) Azure Architect
7 31 (8.16%) Technical Architect
8 27 (7.11%) Lead
9 20 (5.26%) Developer
10 19 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (3.68%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.68%) Lead Architect
15 13 (3.42%) Oracle Architect
16 12 (3.16%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.21%) REST
2 31 (8.16%) .NET
3 29 (7.63%) Web Services
4 28 (7.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 28 (7.37%) SOAP
5 21 (5.53%) Microsoft Graph
6 17 (4.47%) .NET Framework
7 15 (3.95%) OAuth
8 13 (3.42%) Middleware
9 12 (3.16%) ARM Templates
9 12 (3.16%) JSON
10 7 (1.84%) Entity Framework
10 7 (1.84%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.84%) OpenID
10 7 (1.84%) SAML
11 6 (1.58%) JWT
11 6 (1.58%) XML
11 6 (1.58%) XSLT
11 6 (1.58%) YAML
12 5 (1.32%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 60 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.79%) Data Centre
2 22 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.74%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.68%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.89%) PKI
7 11 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.63%) Clustering
8 10 (2.63%) IoT
9 9 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (1.84%) SCADA
11 7 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.58%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.47%) Windows
2 42 (11.05%) Linux
3 18 (4.74%) Unix
4 14 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.16%) VMS
6 8 (2.11%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.84%) Android
7 7 (1.84%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.58%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (42.63%) DevOps
2 136 (35.79%) CI/CD
3 98 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (23.68%) Migration
5 74 (19.47%) Agile
6 71 (18.68%) Roadmaps
7 55 (14.47%) Analytics
8 48 (12.63%) Observability
8 48 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (12.11%) Architectural Patterns
9 46 (12.11%) Containerisation
9 46 (12.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 45 (11.84%) ERP
10 45 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 43 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (10.79%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
13 40 (10.53%) Microservices
14 38 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.84%) PowerShell
2 59 (15.53%) Python
3 50 (13.16%) SQL
4 41 (10.79%) Bicep
5 21 (5.53%) C#
6 19 (5.00%) Java
7 16 (4.21%) Ruby
8 14 (3.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 13 (3.42%) Bash
10 8 (2.11%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.79%) Groovy
11 3 (0.79%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.53%) C++
12 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.53%) Perl
12 2 (0.53%) Scala
12 2 (0.53%) VBA
13 1 (0.26%) C
13 1 (0.26%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 156 (41.05%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.63%) Azure Certification
4 41 (10.79%) DV Cleared
5 31 (8.16%) Degree
6 12 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.89%) CISSP
7 11 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.84%) SANS
11 6 (1.58%) CISM
11 6 (1.58%) GIAC
12 5 (1.32%) CRISC
12 5 (1.32%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.32%) PMP
12 5 (1.32%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.42%) GDPR
1 13 (3.42%) SLA
2 10 (2.63%) NIST
3 9 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.37%) NCSC
4 7 (1.84%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.58%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (1.58%) ISO 31000
5 6 (1.58%) QA
6 5 (1.32%) PMO
7 4 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (11.32%) Active Directory
2 30 (7.89%) Docker
3 14 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.37%) vCloud
4 9 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.11%) BitLocker
5 8 (2.11%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (2.11%) NFS
5 8 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.58%) Postfix
6 6 (1.58%) Varnish
7 5 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.05%) RACF
8 4 (1.05%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.79%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.53%) HDFS
10 2 (0.53%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.26%) Firmware
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 85 (22.37%) Terraform
2 42 (11.05%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (5.26%) Ansible
5 15 (3.95%) vCenter Server
6 13 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.37%) Grafana
7 9 (2.37%) SCCM
8 8 (2.11%) Puppet
8 8 (2.11%) vMotion
9 7 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.58%) HAProxy
11 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.79%) Nagios
14 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.26%) Amdocs OSS
15 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
15 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 145 (38.16%) Microsoft
2 86 (22.63%) Oracle
3 29 (7.63%) VMware
4 13 (3.42%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.89%) Databricks
6 10 (2.63%) Citrix
6 10 (2.63%) SAP
6 10 (2.63%) Tenable
7 9 (2.37%) Google
8 7 (1.84%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.58%) Sybase
10 5 (1.32%) iManage
10 5 (1.32%) Intapp
10 5 (1.32%) Litera
10 5 (1.32%) NetApp
10 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.32%) Splunk
11 4 (1.05%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.05%) Rapid7