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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 269 239
Rank change year-on-year -39 -30 -36
Contract jobs citing PaaS 385 277 423
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.96% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.20% 2.53% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 177 292
10th Percentile £413 £413 £375
25th Percentile £453 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £591
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.75% +0.21%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £726 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £568 £600
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.42% -
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 17,474 10,963 13,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.58% 37.89% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,712 7,435 9,865
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £619 £634
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 262 347
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.40 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.41 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.38 £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £20.24 £17.80
% change year-on-year +83.44% +13.68% -35.27%

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 5 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 5 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 -7 342 £550 -4.35% 134
London -2 192 £531 -11.46% 85
UK excluding London -60 156 £575 +1.32% 76
Work from Home -41 103 £539 -10.25% 73
South East -51 54 £700 +21.74% 33
North of England -49 46 £454 -9.20% 6
Yorkshire -29 29 £507 +19.18% 2
Midlands -36 23 £537 -10.50% 14
North West -22 17 £425 -15.00% 3
West Midlands -46 16 £539 -10.25% 9
East of England -20 12 £650 -3.77% 8
South West -33 12 £550 -5.46% 12
Scotland -19 11 £598 +13.27% 6
East Midlands -18 7 £418 -27.39% 5
North East -31 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 31 (8.05%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.64%) Confluence
4 12 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.86%) SAS
6 5 (1.30%) Apache
7 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.52%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.26%) IIS
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (5.19%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.26%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 245 (63.64%) Azure
2 241 (62.60%) IaaS
3 135 (35.06%) SaaS
4 86 (22.34%) AWS
5 69 (17.92%) Entra ID
6 64 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (15.58%) OCI
8 46 (11.95%) Serverless
9 44 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (10.39%) GitHub
11 32 (8.31%) Azure Key Vault
12 31 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 20 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (5.19%) Power Platform
15 18 (4.68%) GCP
16 15 (3.90%) Azure AKS
16 15 (3.90%) Azure App Service
17 14 (3.64%) Azure Logic Apps
18 12 (3.12%) Azure Service Fabric
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.17%) DNS
1 43 (11.17%) Firewall
2 27 (7.01%) VPN
3 22 (5.71%) DHCP
4 14 (3.64%) WAN
5 13 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.12%) LAN
7 10 (2.60%) SAN
8 9 (2.34%) SMTP
9 7 (1.82%) IPsec
9 7 (1.82%) Network Security
9 7 (1.82%) PSTN
9 7 (1.82%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.82%) VLAN
10 6 (1.56%) Internet
11 5 (1.30%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.30%) SSL
12 3 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
12 3 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (3.64%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.12%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (2.86%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 11 (2.86%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 10 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.56%) Big Data
8 6 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 5 (1.30%) Metadata
9 5 (1.30%) Power BI
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.04%) MySQL
10 4 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.35%) Git
2 23 (5.97%) JIRA
3 15 (3.90%) Postman
4 12 (3.12%) Jenkins
5 10 (2.60%) SoapUI
6 7 (1.82%) Chocolatey
6 7 (1.82%) GitLab
7 4 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.04%) Selenium
8 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.52%) ERwin
9 2 (0.52%) Gradle
9 2 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.26%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.26%) JMeter
10 1 (0.26%) JUnit
10 1 (0.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 88 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.32%) Finance
3 50 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 38 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.71%) Banking
6 19 (4.94%) Legal
7 13 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.82%) Military
11 5 (1.30%) Law
12 4 (1.04%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.78%) Marketing
14 2 (0.52%) Aviation
14 2 (0.52%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.52%) Local Government
14 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
14 2 (0.52%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 122 (31.69%) Architect
2 61 (15.84%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (11.69%) Senior
4 38 (9.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (8.83%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (8.57%) Technical Architect
7 32 (8.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (8.05%) Lead
9 27 (7.01%) Azure Architect
10 22 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (4.94%) Developer
12 17 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.90%) Technical Leader
15 14 (3.64%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
16 13 (3.38%) Lead Architect
16 13 (3.38%) Oracle Architect
17 12 (3.12%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.39%) REST
2 36 (9.35%) .NET
2 36 (9.35%) SOAP
2 36 (9.35%) Web Services
3 35 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 22 (5.71%) ARM Templates
4 22 (5.71%) OAuth
5 21 (5.45%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (4.94%) JSON
7 16 (4.16%) YAML
8 15 (3.90%) XML
9 14 (3.64%) .NET Framework
10 13 (3.38%) Entity Framework
11 11 (2.86%) JWT
11 11 (2.86%) XSLT
12 9 (2.34%) Middleware
12 9 (2.34%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.08%) OpenID
13 8 (2.08%) SAML
14 7 (1.82%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 24 (6.23%) Public Cloud
3 18 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.42%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.38%) Virtual Team
9 11 (2.86%) Clustering
10 9 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (2.34%) PKI
11 8 (2.08%) IoT
12 7 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.56%) Operational Technology
14 5 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.81%) Windows
2 44 (11.43%) Linux
3 18 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.90%) Unix
5 9 (2.34%) VMS
6 8 (2.08%) Mac OS
6 8 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (1.82%) Android
7 7 (1.82%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (44.42%) DevOps
2 142 (36.88%) CI/CD
3 109 (28.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (22.86%) Migration
5 81 (21.04%) Agile
6 80 (20.78%) Roadmaps
7 53 (13.77%) Analytics
8 51 (13.25%) Architectural Patterns
9 50 (12.99%) ERP
10 49 (12.73%) Microservices
10 49 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
10 49 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
11 46 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 43 (11.17%) Containerisation
13 40 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 39 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (9.87%) Observability
16 37 (9.61%) RBAC
16 37 (9.61%) TOGAF
17 35 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.62%) PowerShell
2 63 (16.36%) SQL
3 51 (13.25%) Python
4 43 (11.17%) Bicep
5 21 (5.45%) C#
6 18 (4.68%) Java
7 14 (3.64%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (3.38%) Ruby
9 10 (2.60%) Bash
9 10 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.30%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.78%) Groovy
13 2 (0.52%) C++
13 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.52%) Perl
13 2 (0.52%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) RPG
14 1 (0.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 165 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 107 (27.79%) SC Cleared
3 53 (13.77%) Azure Certification
4 47 (12.21%) DV Cleared
5 34 (8.83%) Degree
6 16 (4.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (3.38%) CISSP
7 13 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.82%) CISM
10 7 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.82%) SANS
11 6 (1.56%) GIAC
12 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.30%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (1.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.90%) SLA
2 14 (3.64%) GDPR
3 11 (2.86%) NCSC
4 10 (2.60%) NIST
5 9 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.56%) ISO 31000
8 4 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 4 (1.04%) QA
9 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.52%) Basel III
10 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.52%) GAAP
10 2 (0.52%) IFRS
10 2 (0.52%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.52%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 47 (12.21%) Active Directory
2 35 (9.09%) Docker
3 18 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.12%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.86%) vCloud
6 10 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.34%) BitLocker
7 9 (2.34%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (1.56%) NFS
9 6 (1.56%) Postfix
9 6 (1.56%) Varnish
10 5 (1.30%) RACF
11 4 (1.04%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.52%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.52%) HDFS
13 2 (0.52%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (24.16%) Terraform
2 41 (10.65%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.19%) Ansible
4 19 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (4.94%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (4.68%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (2.34%) Puppet
6 9 (2.34%) SCCM
6 9 (2.34%) vMotion
7 8 (2.08%) Grafana
8 7 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.56%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.04%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.78%) Control-M
11 3 (0.78%) Data Guard
11 3 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.52%) Nagios
12 2 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 147 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 87 (22.60%) Oracle
3 36 (9.35%) VMware
4 14 (3.64%) Dynatrace
4 14 (3.64%) SAP
5 12 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.86%) Citrix
6 11 (2.86%) Tenable
7 8 (2.08%) Databricks
8 7 (1.82%) AppDynamics
8 7 (1.82%) Google
8 7 (1.82%) NetApp
9 6 (1.56%) iManage
9 6 (1.56%) Intapp
10 5 (1.30%) Splunk
10 5 (1.30%) Workday
11 4 (1.04%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.04%) Informatica
11 4 (1.04%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.04%) Salesforce