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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 281 246
Rank change year-on-year -28 -35 -42
Contract jobs citing PaaS 374 275 421
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.75% 0.93% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.45% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 176 298
10th Percentile £413 £413 £374
25th Percentile £453 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £726 £838 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £571 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.65% -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 17,766 11,224 14,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 37.90% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 7,582 9,970
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £632
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +4.21% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 581 274 359
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +31.93% -38.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.95
% change year-on-year +94.60% -3.41% -25.42%

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 15 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 15 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 -14 329 £545 -5.14% 132
London -4 186 £525 -12.50% 84
UK excluding London -75 153 £571 -0.65% 65
Work from Home -58 95 £537 -10.50% 65
South East -52 50 £700 +21.74% 27
North of England -50 46 £454 -9.20% 5
Yorkshire -32 29 £507 +19.18% 1
Midlands -43 22 £539 -11.58% 14
North West -28 17 £425 +21.43% 3
West Midlands -55 15 £540 -12.62% 10
Scotland -22 14 £595 +11.32% 2
East of England -22 12 £650 -3.77% 6
South West -31 11 £550 -31.25% 13
East Midlands -16 7 £418 -27.39% 4
North East -36 4 £638 +19.38% 1
Wales -14 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 32 (8.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 32 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.74%) Confluence
3 12 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.94%) SAS
5 5 (1.34%) Apache
6 4 (1.07%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.80%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.53%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.27%) IIS
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.07%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.27%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 243 (64.97%) Azure
2 234 (62.57%) IaaS
3 133 (35.56%) SaaS
4 84 (22.46%) AWS
5 69 (18.45%) Entra ID
6 64 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (14.97%) OCI
8 45 (12.03%) Microsoft 365
9 44 (11.76%) Serverless
10 41 (10.96%) GitHub
11 32 (8.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 30 (8.02%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (5.08%) GCP
14 19 (5.08%) Power Platform
15 17 (4.55%) Azure AKS
16 16 (4.28%) Azure App Service
17 12 (3.21%) Azure Service Fabric
17 12 (3.21%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.23%) DNS
1 42 (11.23%) Firewall
2 27 (7.22%) VPN
3 21 (5.61%) DHCP
4 14 (3.74%) WAN
5 13 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.21%) LAN
7 10 (2.67%) SAN
8 9 (2.41%) SMTP
9 7 (1.87%) IPsec
9 7 (1.87%) PSTN
9 7 (1.87%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.87%) VLAN
10 6 (1.60%) Internet
10 6 (1.60%) Network Security
11 5 (1.34%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.34%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.34%) SSL
12 3 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (0.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.21%) Oracle Database
3 11 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (2.94%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 11 (2.94%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 10 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.87%) Big Data
5 7 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.60%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 5 (1.34%) Metadata
7 5 (1.34%) Power BI
8 4 (1.07%) MySQL
8 4 (1.07%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.80%) Apache Hive
9 3 (0.80%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.63%) Git
2 23 (6.15%) JIRA
3 10 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.41%) Postman
5 7 (1.87%) Chocolatey
5 7 (1.87%) GitLab
6 6 (1.60%) SoapUI
7 3 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.53%) ERwin
8 2 (0.53%) Selenium
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.27%) JMeter
9 1 (0.27%) JUnit
9 1 (0.27%) Subversion
9 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 83 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.31%) Finance
3 49 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.35%) Banking
5 20 (5.35%) Legal
6 13 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Military
10 5 (1.34%) Law
11 4 (1.07%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.80%) Marketing
13 2 (0.53%) Aviation
13 2 (0.53%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.53%) Legal Technology
13 2 (0.53%) Local Government
13 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (31.28%) Architect
2 63 (16.84%) Azure Engineer
3 47 (12.57%) Senior
4 39 (10.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 33 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 30 (8.02%) Lead
8 29 (7.75%) Technical Architect
9 24 (6.42%) Azure Architect
10 23 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (5.08%) Developer
13 18 (4.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.74%) Azure Developer
14 14 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
14 14 (3.74%) Technical Leader
15 13 (3.48%) Lead Architect
15 13 (3.48%) Oracle Architect
16 12 (3.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.09%) REST
2 31 (8.29%) .NET
2 31 (8.29%) Web Services
3 30 (8.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 30 (8.02%) SOAP
4 21 (5.61%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.08%) ARM Templates
6 18 (4.81%) OAuth
7 16 (4.28%) YAML
8 14 (3.74%) .NET Framework
8 14 (3.74%) JSON
9 13 (3.48%) Entity Framework
10 11 (2.94%) XML
11 9 (2.41%) Middleware
11 9 (2.41%) OAuth2
12 8 (2.14%) OpenID
12 8 (2.14%) SAML
12 8 (2.14%) XSLT
13 7 (1.87%) JWT
13 7 (1.87%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.61%) Public Cloud
3 19 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 17 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.74%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.21%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.94%) Clustering
9 9 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.41%) IoT
9 9 (2.41%) PKI
10 6 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.60%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.60%) SCADA
10 6 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.44%) Windows
2 41 (10.96%) Linux
3 17 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.01%) Unix
5 9 (2.41%) VMS
6 8 (2.14%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.87%) Android
7 7 (1.87%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.87%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (43.58%) DevOps
2 138 (36.90%) CI/CD
3 106 (28.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (22.99%) Migration
5 76 (20.32%) Agile
6 74 (19.79%) Roadmaps
7 53 (14.17%) Analytics
8 46 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 45 (12.03%) Architectural Patterns
9 45 (12.03%) Containerisation
9 45 (12.03%) ERP
9 45 (12.03%) Microservices
10 44 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (10.16%) Observability
14 37 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (9.36%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.11%) PowerShell
2 57 (15.24%) SQL
3 52 (13.90%) Python
4 40 (10.70%) Bicep
5 20 (5.35%) C#
6 16 (4.28%) Java
7 14 (3.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (3.48%) Ruby
9 11 (2.94%) Bash
10 9 (2.41%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.14%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.07%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.80%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) Perl
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.53%) VBA
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (42.51%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.81%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.10%) Azure Certification
4 45 (12.03%) DV Cleared
5 31 (8.29%) Degree
6 14 (3.74%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.21%) CISSP
8 11 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (2.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.87%) CISM
12 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.87%) SANS
13 6 (1.60%) GIAC
14 5 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (1.34%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.01%) SLA
2 12 (3.21%) GDPR
3 11 (2.94%) NCSC
4 10 (2.67%) NIST
5 9 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.60%) ISO 31000
8 5 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (1.34%) QA
9 4 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.53%) Basel III
11 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.53%) GAAP
11 2 (0.53%) IFRS
11 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.53%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (12.30%) Active Directory
2 36 (9.63%) Docker
3 17 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.94%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.67%) vCloud
5 10 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.41%) BitLocker
6 9 (2.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.60%) NFS
7 6 (1.60%) Postfix
7 6 (1.60%) Varnish
7 6 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.34%) RACF
8 5 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.07%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.53%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.53%) HDFS
11 2 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (24.06%) Terraform
2 40 (10.70%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (5.61%) Ansible
5 19 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
6 17 (4.55%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (2.41%) Puppet
7 9 (2.41%) SCCM
7 9 (2.41%) vMotion
8 8 (2.14%) Grafana
9 7 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (1.60%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.07%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.80%) Control-M
12 3 (0.80%) Nagios
13 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 146 (39.04%) Microsoft
2 79 (21.12%) Oracle
3 34 (9.09%) VMware
4 14 (3.74%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.48%) SAP
6 12 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.94%) Citrix
8 10 (2.67%) Tenable
9 8 (2.14%) Databricks
9 8 (2.14%) Google
10 7 (1.87%) AppDynamics
11 6 (1.60%) NetApp
12 5 (1.34%) iManage
12 5 (1.34%) Intapp
12 5 (1.34%) Litera
12 5 (1.34%) Splunk
12 5 (1.34%) Workday
13 4 (1.07%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.07%) Informatica
13 4 (1.07%) Rapid7