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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 274 238
Rank change year-on-year -57 -36 -30
Contract jobs citing PaaS 368 284 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.93% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 2.46% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 183 306
10th Percentile £413 £405 £360
25th Percentile £450 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £692 £675
90th Percentile £725 £838 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £26.00
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 18,181 11,543 14,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 37.72% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,100 7,737 9,953
10th Percentile £331 £313 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £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 605 292 358
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.09
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.75 £72.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.87
% change year-on-year +102.70% -9.58% -19.73%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -32 320 £525 -8.70% 80
London -29 182 £525 -12.50% 37
UK excluding London -59 150 £550 -4.35% 54
Work from Home -59 96 £525 -12.50% 42
North of England -54 46 £460 -8.00% 5
South East -62 43 £700 +21.74% 18
Yorkshire -33 28 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -46 25 £531 -11.50% 17
North West -36 18 £426 +17.48% 2
Scotland -16 16 £595 +11.42% 4
West Midlands -49 15 £539 -12.86% 9
East of England -17 13 £644 -4.70% 6
East Midlands -8 10 £488 -4.88% 8
South West -34 9 £525 -34.38% 8
North East -37 4 £638 +19.38% 1
Wales -12 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 33 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 14 (3.80%) Confluence
4 12 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.99%) SAS
6 5 (1.36%) Apache
7 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.54%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.27%) IIS
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (2.72%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.27%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 243 (66.03%) Azure
2 234 (63.59%) IaaS
3 138 (37.50%) SaaS
4 89 (24.18%) AWS
5 70 (19.02%) Entra ID
6 63 (17.12%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (14.67%) OCI
8 46 (12.50%) GitHub
8 46 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (11.14%) Serverless
10 35 (9.51%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (8.42%) Azure Key Vault
12 23 (6.25%) Azure AKS
13 21 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (5.43%) GCP
15 19 (5.16%) Azure App Service
16 18 (4.89%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (4.89%) Power Platform
17 12 (3.26%) Azure WebJobs
18 9 (2.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.68%) Firewall
2 42 (11.41%) DNS
3 28 (7.61%) VPN
4 19 (5.16%) DHCP
5 14 (3.80%) WAN
6 13 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (3.26%) LAN
8 10 (2.72%) SAN
9 8 (2.17%) SMTP
10 7 (1.90%) Network Security
10 7 (1.90%) PSTN
10 7 (1.90%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.90%) VLAN
11 6 (1.63%) Internet
11 6 (1.63%) IPsec
11 6 (1.63%) Kerberos
12 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.09%) SSL
14 3 (0.82%) BGP
14 3 (0.82%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (3.26%) Oracle Database
4 11 (2.99%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (2.99%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 10 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.45%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.90%) Big Data
8 6 (1.63%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.36%) Metadata
10 4 (1.09%) MySQL
10 4 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (1.09%) Power BI
10 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 33 (8.97%) Git
2 21 (5.71%) JIRA
3 10 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.17%) Postman
5 7 (1.90%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.90%) GitLab
6 5 (1.36%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.54%) ERwin
8 2 (0.54%) JetBrains Rider
8 2 (0.54%) Selenium
8 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) Subversion
9 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 84 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.85%) Finance
3 49 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.71%) Banking
6 20 (5.43%) Legal
7 17 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.63%) Military
10 5 (1.36%) Law
11 3 (0.82%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.54%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Retail
12 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.27%) Aviation
13 1 (0.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 124 (33.70%) Architect
2 62 (16.85%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (12.23%) Senior
4 42 (11.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 35 (9.51%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 30 (8.15%) Technical Architect
8 28 (7.61%) Azure Architect
8 28 (7.61%) Lead
9 20 (5.43%) Developer
9 20 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.80%) Azure Developer
12 14 (3.80%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.80%) Lead Architect
13 13 (3.53%) Oracle Architect
13 13 (3.53%) Technical Leader
14 11 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.24%) REST
2 31 (8.42%) .NET
3 29 (7.88%) Web Services
4 28 (7.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 28 (7.61%) SOAP
5 21 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
6 16 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 15 (4.08%) OAuth
8 14 (3.80%) ARM Templates
9 12 (3.26%) JSON
9 12 (3.26%) Middleware
10 7 (1.90%) Entity Framework
10 7 (1.90%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.90%) OpenID
10 7 (1.90%) SAML
10 7 (1.90%) XML
10 7 (1.90%) YAML
11 6 (1.63%) JWT
11 6 (1.63%) XSLT
12 5 (1.36%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 18 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (3.53%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.99%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.72%) Clustering
9 10 (2.72%) IoT
9 10 (2.72%) PKI
10 9 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.90%) SCADA
12 7 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.63%) Operational Technology
14 5 (1.36%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.13%) Windows
2 43 (11.68%) Linux
3 17 (4.62%) Unix
4 14 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.26%) VMS
6 8 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.90%) Android
7 7 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (42.66%) DevOps
2 134 (36.41%) CI/CD
3 98 (26.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (23.91%) Migration
5 75 (20.38%) Agile
6 71 (19.29%) Roadmaps
7 57 (15.49%) Analytics
8 47 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 45 (12.23%) Architectural Patterns
10 45 (12.23%) ERP
11 43 (11.68%) Observability
12 42 (11.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 42 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (11.14%) Technical Leadership
14 40 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (10.87%) Microservices
14 40 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
15 38 (10.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.85%) PowerShell
2 56 (15.22%) Python
3 50 (13.59%) SQL
4 41 (11.14%) Bicep
5 21 (5.71%) C#
6 18 (4.89%) Java
7 15 (4.08%) Ruby
8 14 (3.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (2.99%) Bash
10 8 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.82%) Groovy
11 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) Perl
12 2 (0.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 154 (41.85%) Security Cleared
2 102 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.32%) Azure Certification
4 41 (11.14%) DV Cleared
5 32 (8.70%) Degree
6 13 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.99%) CISSP
9 10 (2.72%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.90%) SANS
13 6 (1.63%) CISM
13 6 (1.63%) GIAC
13 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.63%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.63%) PMP
14 5 (1.36%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.53%) GDPR
1 13 (3.53%) SLA
2 10 (2.72%) NCSC
2 10 (2.72%) NIST
3 9 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (1.63%) ISO 31000
5 6 (1.63%) QA
6 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.54%) PMO
7 2 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.27%) GAAP
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 42 (11.41%) Active Directory
2 30 (8.15%) Docker
3 14 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.45%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.45%) vCloud
4 9 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.17%) BitLocker
5 8 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.90%) NFS
7 6 (1.63%) Postfix
7 6 (1.63%) Varnish
8 5 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.09%) RACF
9 4 (1.09%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.82%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.54%) HDFS
11 2 (0.54%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 85 (23.10%) Terraform
2 42 (11.41%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (5.43%) Ansible
5 15 (4.08%) vCenter Server
6 14 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.45%) SCCM
8 8 (2.17%) Grafana
8 8 (2.17%) Puppet
8 8 (2.17%) vMotion
9 7 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.63%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.09%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.82%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.82%) Nagios
13 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 142 (38.59%) Microsoft
2 80 (21.74%) Oracle
3 29 (7.88%) VMware
4 13 (3.53%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.26%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.99%) Databricks
6 11 (2.99%) SAP
7 10 (2.72%) Citrix
7 10 (2.72%) Tenable
8 9 (2.45%) Google
9 7 (1.90%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.36%) iManage
10 5 (1.36%) Intapp
10 5 (1.36%) Litera
10 5 (1.36%) NetApp
10 5 (1.36%) Splunk
10 5 (1.36%) Sybase
11 4 (1.09%) HP
11 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.09%) Salesforce