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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 233 229
Rank change year-on-year -65 -4 -39
Contract jobs citing PaaS 368 337 457
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 1.15% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 3.05% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 219 282
10th Percentile £402 £413 £397
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £561 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.05% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £47.05 - -
25th Percentile £48.63 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £54.38 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.75 - -
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 16,890 11,066 14,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.07% 37.68% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,494 7,700 10,003
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 251 347
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.51 £16.03
Median hourly rate £41.64 £27.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.42% +30.95% -40.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +111.11% +26.98% -27.11%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -48 324 £550 -4.35% 126
London -34 183 £525 -8.10% 60
UK excluding London -72 148 £561 +2.05% 89
Work from Home -35 103 £525 -12.50% 92
South East -71 52 £700 +21.74% 37
North of England -34 47 £460 -5.64% 12
Yorkshire -40 31 £525 +23.53% 5
Midlands -52 17 £519 -7.78% 25
North West -26 16 £425 -5.56% 7
East of England -21 13 £638 -15.11% 5
South West -34 12 £550 -8.33% 8
West Midlands -56 11 £540 -1.82% 15
Scotland -7 10 £460 -13.53% 2
East Midlands -32 6 £418 -27.39% 10
North East -19 4 £638 +19.38%
Wales -13 1 - - 2

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 35 (9.51%) SharePoint
2 33 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.80%) Confluence
4 7 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.63%) SAS
6 4 (1.09%) Apache
6 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.82%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (4.89%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (1.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.27%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 236 (64.13%) Azure
2 221 (60.05%) IaaS
3 129 (35.05%) SaaS
4 84 (22.83%) AWS
5 66 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
5 66 (17.93%) Entra ID
6 55 (14.95%) OCI
7 50 (13.59%) Microsoft 365
8 45 (12.23%) GitHub
9 44 (11.96%) Serverless
10 37 (10.05%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (9.51%) Azure Key Vault
12 28 (7.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 28 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (5.43%) Azure App Service
14 19 (5.16%) GCP
15 18 (4.89%) Power Platform
16 17 (4.62%) Azure WebJobs
17 16 (4.35%) Azure AKS
18 14 (3.80%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.13%) Firewall
2 41 (11.14%) DNS
3 28 (7.61%) VPN
4 26 (7.07%) DHCP
5 15 (4.08%) WAN
6 14 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (3.53%) LAN
8 10 (2.72%) SAN
9 7 (1.90%) Internet
9 7 (1.90%) IPsec
9 7 (1.90%) Network Security
9 7 (1.90%) PSTN
9 7 (1.90%) SMTP
9 7 (1.90%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.90%) VLAN
10 5 (1.36%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.36%) SSL
11 3 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.82%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 11 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (2.45%) Oracle Database
6 8 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.90%) Metadata
7 7 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.63%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 6 (1.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 5 (1.36%) MySQL
10 4 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.82%) Apache Hive
11 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.82%) Power BI
11 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.78%) Git
2 23 (6.25%) JIRA
3 19 (5.16%) Postman
4 12 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.72%) SoapUI
6 8 (2.17%) GitLab
7 7 (1.90%) Chocolatey
8 4 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.09%) Selenium
8 4 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.54%) ERwin
9 2 (0.54%) Gradle
9 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.27%) JMeter
10 1 (0.27%) NUnit
10 1 (0.27%) Protractor
10 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 78 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.85%) Finance
3 52 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 38 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.43%) Banking
6 18 (4.89%) Legal
7 12 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Military
10 5 (1.36%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.09%) Law
12 3 (0.82%) Aviation
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
12 3 (0.82%) Retail
13 2 (0.54%) Billing
13 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.54%) Local Government
13 2 (0.54%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (29.62%) Architect
2 53 (14.40%) Azure Engineer
3 47 (12.77%) Senior
4 37 (10.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 32 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (7.61%) Lead
6 28 (7.61%) Technical Architect
7 26 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
8 25 (6.79%) Developer
9 24 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
10 23 (6.25%) Azure Architect
11 16 (4.35%) Azure Developer
12 14 (3.80%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (3.80%) Technical Leader
13 13 (3.53%) Cloud Specialist
13 13 (3.53%) Integration Specialist
13 13 (3.53%) Oracle Specialist
14 12 (3.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.26%) VMware Architect
15 11 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.59%) REST
2 45 (12.23%) SOAP
3 44 (11.96%) Web Services
4 43 (11.68%) .NET
5 34 (9.24%) Oracle Fusion
6 26 (7.07%) Microsoft Graph
7 24 (6.52%) OAuth
8 22 (5.98%) JSON
9 21 (5.71%) ARM Templates
10 18 (4.89%) .NET Framework
11 16 (4.35%) XML
11 16 (4.35%) YAML
12 14 (3.80%) OpenID
12 14 (3.80%) SAML
13 13 (3.53%) JWT
13 13 (3.53%) XSLT
14 12 (3.26%) Entity Framework
15 9 (2.45%) .NET Core
15 9 (2.45%) Middleware
15 9 (2.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.79%) Public Cloud
3 16 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.26%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.99%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.72%) PKI
9 9 (2.45%) Clustering
10 8 (2.17%) IoT
11 7 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.90%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 51 (13.86%) Windows
2 34 (9.24%) Linux
3 18 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.45%) VMS
5 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 7 (1.90%) Android
6 7 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (1.63%) Unix
8 3 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (45.38%) DevOps
2 127 (34.51%) CI/CD
3 106 (28.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (22.55%) Migration
5 79 (21.47%) Agile
6 72 (19.57%) Roadmaps
7 54 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (14.40%) Analytics
9 51 (13.86%) ERP
10 49 (13.32%) Observability
11 48 (13.04%) Microservices
12 44 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 43 (11.68%) Technical Leadership
14 41 (11.14%) Containerisation
15 40 (10.87%) Architectural Patterns
16 38 (10.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 38 (10.33%) TOGAF
17 36 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
17 36 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
18 35 (9.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.48%) PowerShell
2 66 (17.93%) SQL
3 49 (13.32%) Python
4 36 (9.78%) Bicep
5 29 (7.88%) C#
6 19 (5.16%) Java
6 19 (5.16%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (2.99%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.72%) Ruby
9 9 (2.45%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.90%) Bash
10 7 (1.90%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.54%) C++
11 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.54%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) Cypher
12 1 (0.27%) R
12 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 155 (42.12%) Security Cleared
2 100 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 50 (13.59%) Azure Certification
4 43 (11.68%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.88%) Degree
6 16 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.45%) CISSP
9 8 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.09%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.82%) OSCP
14 3 (0.82%) PMP
14 3 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.08%) GDPR
1 15 (4.08%) SLA
2 8 (2.17%) NCSC
3 7 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.90%) NIST
4 5 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) PMO
6 3 (0.82%) QA
6 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.54%) Basel III
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.54%) GAAP
7 2 (0.54%) IFRS
7 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.54%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 45 (12.23%) Active Directory
2 35 (9.51%) Docker
3 20 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.53%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.26%) vCloud
6 9 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.90%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.90%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.63%) NFS
10 5 (1.36%) RACF
11 4 (1.09%) Postfix
11 4 (1.09%) Varnish
11 4 (1.09%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.82%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.82%) vSphere
13 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.54%) HDFS
14 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 91 (24.73%) Terraform
2 42 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (4.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (4.89%) vCenter Server
5 14 (3.80%) Ansible
6 11 (2.99%) SCCM
7 9 (2.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 8 (2.17%) Grafana
9 7 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (1.90%) Puppet
9 7 (1.90%) vMotion
10 4 (1.09%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.09%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.82%) Control-M
11 3 (0.82%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.54%) systemd
12 2 (0.54%) vRealize
Vendors
1 146 (39.67%) Microsoft
2 73 (19.84%) Oracle
3 40 (10.87%) VMware
4 15 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 14 (3.80%) SAP
6 13 (3.53%) Tenable
7 9 (2.45%) Citrix
7 9 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.17%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.90%) Databricks
9 7 (1.90%) NetApp
10 6 (1.63%) Google
10 6 (1.63%) iManage
10 6 (1.63%) Intapp
11 5 (1.36%) Rapid7
11 5 (1.36%) Splunk
11 5 (1.36%) Workday
12 4 (1.09%) Aderant
12 4 (1.09%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.09%) Informatica