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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 277 244
Rank change year-on-year -40 -33 -40
Contract jobs citing PaaS 368 292 429
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.93% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 2.47% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 189 304
10th Percentile £413 £411 £356
25th Percentile £450 £500 £461
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 £771
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 18,222 11,826 14,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.37% 37.82% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,117 7,916 10,043
10th Percentile £331 £313 £301
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £726 £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 611 298 360
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.50 £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 £82.37 £71.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £18.87 £20.99
% change year-on-year +102.70% -10.08% -18.43%

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 3 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 3 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 -39 320 £525 -8.70% 149
London -20 182 £525 -12.50% 82
UK excluding London -65 150 £550 -4.35% 92
Work from Home -62 98 £525 -12.50% 73
North of England -49 46 £460 -8.00% 9
South East -58 41 £700 +21.74% 35
Yorkshire -33 28 £507 +19.18% 3
Midlands -47 26 £531 -11.50% 22
North West -32 18 £426 +17.48% 5
Scotland -10 16 £595 +11.42% 8
West Midlands -55 16 £539 -12.86% 10
East of England -13 13 £644 -4.70% 6
East Midlands -7 10 £488 +8.33% 12
South West -31 10 £550 -21.62% 15
North East -40 4 £638 +19.38% 1
Wales -17 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 31 (8.42%) 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%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.62%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (2.99%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
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 General Ledger
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 244 (66.30%) Azure
2 232 (63.04%) IaaS
3 138 (37.50%) SaaS
4 90 (24.46%) AWS
5 68 (18.48%) Entra ID
6 61 (16.58%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (14.67%) OCI
8 47 (12.77%) GitHub
9 46 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (10.87%) Serverless
11 34 (9.24%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (8.15%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (6.52%) Azure AKS
14 22 (5.98%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (5.43%) GCP
16 19 (5.16%) Azure App Service
17 18 (4.89%) Power Platform
18 17 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
19 12 (3.26%) Azure WebJobs
20 9 (2.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.41%) DNS
1 42 (11.41%) Firewall
2 28 (7.61%) VPN
3 19 (5.16%) DHCP
4 14 (3.80%) WAN
5 13 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.26%) LAN
7 10 (2.72%) SAN
8 8 (2.17%) SMTP
9 7 (1.90%) Network Security
9 7 (1.90%) PSTN
9 7 (1.90%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.90%) VLAN
10 6 (1.63%) Internet
10 6 (1.63%) IPsec
10 6 (1.63%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 4 (1.09%) SSL
13 3 (0.82%) FTP
13 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
3 12 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.99%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (2.99%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (1.90%) Big Data
7 6 (1.63%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.36%) Metadata
9 4 (1.09%) MySQL
9 4 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (1.09%) Power BI
9 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (8.70%) 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 85 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.85%) Finance
3 49 (13.32%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.71%) Banking
5 21 (5.71%) Legal
6 17 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.90%) Military
10 5 (1.36%) Law
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.54%) General Ledger
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%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (33.97%) Architect
2 61 (16.58%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (12.23%) Senior
4 41 (11.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 30 (8.15%) Technical Architect
8 28 (7.61%) Azure Architect
9 27 (7.34%) Lead
10 19 (5.16%) Developer
10 19 (5.16%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.62%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Azure Developer
13 14 (3.80%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.80%) Lead Architect
14 13 (3.53%) Oracle Architect
15 12 (3.26%) Technical Leader
16 11 (2.99%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.24%) REST
2 30 (8.15%) .NET
3 29 (7.88%) Web Services
4 28 (7.61%) SOAP
5 27 (7.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (4.35%) .NET Framework
8 15 (4.08%) OAuth
9 12 (3.26%) ARM Templates
9 12 (3.26%) JSON
10 11 (2.99%) Middleware
11 7 (1.90%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.90%) OpenID
11 7 (1.90%) SAML
12 6 (1.63%) Entity Framework
12 6 (1.63%) JWT
12 6 (1.63%) XML
12 6 (1.63%) XSLT
12 6 (1.63%) YAML
13 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%) SCADA
12 7 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.63%) Operational Technology
14 5 (1.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.13%) Windows
2 42 (11.41%) 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
1 156 (42.39%) DevOps
2 132 (35.87%) CI/CD
3 96 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (24.18%) Migration
5 74 (20.11%) Agile
6 71 (19.29%) Roadmaps
7 55 (14.95%) Analytics
8 48 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 46 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 45 (12.23%) Architectural Patterns
10 45 (12.23%) Observability
11 44 (11.96%) ERP
12 43 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 43 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 42 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
15 39 (10.60%) Microservices
15 39 (10.60%) Platform Engineering
16 37 (10.05%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 62 (16.85%) PowerShell
2 56 (15.22%) Python
3 48 (13.04%) SQL
4 40 (10.87%) Bicep
5 20 (5.43%) 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
12 2 (0.54%) C++
12 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.54%) Perl
12 2 (0.54%) Scala
12 2 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.54%) VBA
13 1 (0.27%) Cypher
13 1 (0.27%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 152 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 100 (27.17%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.04%) Azure Certification
4 41 (11.14%) DV Cleared
5 31 (8.42%) Degree
6 13 (3.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.99%) CISSP
7 11 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.72%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.90%) SANS
11 6 (1.63%) CISM
11 6 (1.63%) GIAC
12 5 (1.36%) CRISC
12 5 (1.36%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.36%) PMP
12 5 (1.36%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.53%) GDPR
1 13 (3.53%) SLA
2 10 (2.72%) NIST
3 9 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.45%) NCSC
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 3 (0.82%) PMO
8 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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 84 (22.83%) Terraform
2 43 (11.68%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (5.43%) Ansible
5 15 (4.08%) vCenter Server
6 13 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.45%) Grafana
7 9 (2.45%) SCCM
8 8 (2.17%) Puppet
8 8 (2.17%) vMotion
9 7 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.63%) HAProxy
11 5 (1.36%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
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
1 143 (38.86%) Microsoft
2 82 (22.28%) Oracle
3 29 (7.88%) VMware
4 13 (3.53%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.99%) Databricks
6 10 (2.72%) Citrix
6 10 (2.72%) SAP
6 10 (2.72%) Tenable
7 9 (2.45%) Google
8 7 (1.90%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.36%) iManage
9 5 (1.36%) Intapp
9 5 (1.36%) Litera
9 5 (1.36%) NetApp
9 5 (1.36%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.36%) Splunk
9 5 (1.36%) Sybase
10 4 (1.09%) Cisco
10 4 (1.09%) Salesforce