PaaS Contracts

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 241 202
Rank change year-on-year -36 -39 -55
Contract jobs citing PaaS 287 430 719
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.00% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.47% 3.04% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 306 483
10th Percentile £408 £360 £431
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £689 £675 £697
90th Percentile £838 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 10
10th Percentile - - £71.33
25th Percentile - £25.50 -
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £81.49
90th Percentile - £36.13 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud 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 11,603 14,161 20,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 32.81% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,772 9,952 14,671
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 355 334
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £25.73
% change year-on-year -9.58% -18.87% +33.65%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Top 16 Contract 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 1 July 2025. 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 -52 224 £575 - 1,122
London -30 124 £600 +9.09% 536
Work from Home -6 111 £600 - 589
UK excluding London -15 111 £575 -4.17% 670
South East +61 39 £575 -2.13% 175
North of England -5 24 £500 -16.67% 146
Scotland +12 20 £534 +3.39% 42
South West -14 15 £702 +7.96% 88
Midlands +5 12 £600 +11.63% 116
Yorkshire -2 9 £425 -28.57% 46
West Midlands -2 9 £618 +12.36% 60
North West -9 8 £363 -38.21% 87
North East +8 7 £534 -17.85% 13
East of England +19 4 £676 +93.00% 73
East Midlands +4 3 £450 -14.29% 54
Wales - 1 - - 11

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (6.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (6.27%) Confluence
3 13 (4.53%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.74%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.70%) Camunda
6 2 (0.70%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) JBoss
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.05%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.35%) Actimize
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 198 (68.99%) Azure
2 197 (68.64%) IaaS
3 172 (59.93%) SaaS
4 101 (35.19%) AWS
5 69 (24.04%) GCP
6 57 (19.86%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (16.72%) Serverless
8 40 (13.94%) Entra ID
9 36 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (12.20%) Azure AKS
11 34 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
12 21 (7.32%) GitHub
13 19 (6.62%) Azure Data Factory
13 19 (6.62%) OpenShift
14 17 (5.92%) Power Platform
15 16 (5.57%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (5.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.23%) Azure Storage
17 14 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (4.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 54 (18.82%) Firewall
2 42 (14.63%) DNS
3 33 (11.50%) DHCP
4 22 (7.67%) VPN
5 21 (7.32%) HTTPS
6 18 (6.27%) TCP/IP
7 16 (5.57%) BGP
7 16 (5.57%) HTTP
7 16 (5.57%) OSPF
8 11 (3.83%) PBX
8 11 (3.83%) SAN
8 11 (3.83%) VoIP
9 9 (3.14%) SMTP
10 7 (2.44%) Network Security
10 7 (2.44%) SSL
11 5 (1.74%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.39%) WAN
13 2 (0.70%) 4G
13 2 (0.70%) 5G
13 2 (0.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 14 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.53%) Big Data
4 13 (4.53%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.83%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.44%) Power BI
9 6 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.09%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.09%) MySQL
9 6 (2.09%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.39%) Apache Hive
10 4 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.70%) PowerCenter
13 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (8.01%) JIRA
2 22 (7.67%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.97%) GitLab
4 12 (4.18%) Git
5 6 (2.09%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.39%) Selenium
8 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.05%) Postman
8 3 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.70%) Gradle
9 2 (0.70%) JMeter
9 2 (0.70%) Maven
9 2 (0.70%) Subversion
9 2 (0.70%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.70%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 59 (20.56%) Finance
2 48 (16.72%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.83%) Banking
5 11 (3.83%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.14%) Marketing
7 7 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.09%) Local Government
9 4 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.39%) Legal
10 3 (1.05%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Dutch Language
12 1 (0.35%) French Language
12 1 (0.35%) International Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 110 (38.33%) Architect
2 43 (14.98%) Cloud Architect
3 37 (12.89%) Solutions Architect
4 35 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
5 33 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (9.76%) Azure Architect
7 27 (9.41%) Technical Architect
8 22 (7.67%) Developer
9 19 (6.62%) Senior
10 18 (6.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.57%) Cloud Native Architect
13 15 (5.23%) AWS Architect
13 15 (5.23%) Consultant
14 13 (4.53%) Lead
14 13 (4.53%) Support Engineer
15 12 (4.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 12 (4.18%) 3rd Line Support
15 12 (4.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
16 11 (3.83%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.62%) .NET
1 19 (6.62%) ARM Templates
2 17 (5.92%) CSS
2 17 (5.92%) HTML
2 17 (5.92%) REST
3 16 (5.57%) AngularJS
4 11 (3.83%) ADO
5 9 (3.14%) Middleware
6 8 (2.79%) React
6 8 (2.79%) RESTful
7 7 (2.44%) Web Services
8 5 (1.74%) Django
8 5 (1.74%) Node.js
8 5 (1.74%) OAuth
8 5 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (1.74%) SAML
8 5 (1.74%) SOAP
8 5 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.39%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.38%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (7.67%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.23%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.23%) PKI
5 12 (4.18%) Clustering
5 12 (4.18%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.83%) Low-Code
7 10 (3.48%) Blackberry
7 10 (3.48%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.79%) Security Posture
9 6 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.74%) Replication
11 4 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 48 (16.72%) Windows
2 40 (13.94%) Linux
3 26 (9.06%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.74%) Unix
4 5 (1.74%) VMS
5 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.05%) Solaris
7 2 (0.70%) AIX
7 2 (0.70%) CentOS
7 2 (0.70%) Debian
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (40.77%) DevOps
2 96 (33.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (25.44%) CI/CD
4 65 (22.65%) Agile
5 59 (20.56%) Migration
6 44 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (13.94%) Roadmaps
8 39 (13.59%) Containerisation
9 38 (13.24%) Cloud Security
10 36 (12.54%) Microservices
11 28 (9.76%) Analytics
12 27 (9.41%) ETL
13 24 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (8.01%) Enterprise Architecture
15 22 (7.67%) Test Automation
16 21 (7.32%) Scrum
17 20 (6.97%) Observability
17 20 (6.97%) TOGAF
18 18 (6.27%) Identity Access Management
18 18 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.21%) SQL
2 51 (17.77%) PowerShell
3 45 (15.68%) Bicep
4 33 (11.50%) Python
5 29 (10.10%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.76%) Java
7 19 (6.62%) C#
8 16 (5.57%) Bash
9 9 (3.14%) PHP
10 7 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.39%) Go
11 4 (1.39%) Ruby
11 4 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.70%) C++
12 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.70%) R
12 2 (0.70%) VBA
12 2 (0.70%) VBScript
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.85%) Azure Certification
4 33 (11.50%) Degree
5 24 (8.36%) DV Cleared
6 23 (8.01%) AWS Certification
7 21 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.83%) CCNP
9 10 (3.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 9 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (2.09%) CISM
12 6 (2.09%) OCP
12 6 (2.09%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (2.09%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (1.74%) CRISC
13 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.92%) GDPR
2 8 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.79%) SLA
2 8 (2.79%) SOC 2
3 7 (2.44%) QA
4 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.39%) NCSC
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) COBIT
5 3 (1.05%) GAAP
6 2 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (17.42%) Active Directory
2 47 (16.38%) Docker
3 30 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.53%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (3.83%) vSphere
7 9 (3.14%) BitLocker
7 9 (3.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (3.14%) Terminal Services
8 8 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.74%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (34.15%) Terraform
2 70 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 36 (12.54%) Ansible
4 14 (4.88%) Puppet
5 13 (4.53%) Grafana
6 12 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (3.14%) Nagios
7 9 (3.14%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.14%) vMotion
8 8 (2.79%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.44%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.74%) SCCM
11 2 (0.70%) Control-M
11 2 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.70%) Nessus
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Flashback
11 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 109 (37.98%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.29%) VMware
3 37 (12.89%) Oracle
4 33 (11.50%) Cisco
5 31 (10.80%) Palo Alto
6 21 (7.32%) Google
7 17 (5.92%) Fortinet
8 16 (5.57%) CheckPoint
8 16 (5.57%) Databricks
9 15 (5.23%) F5
10 13 (4.53%) Citrix
10 13 (4.53%) HP
11 11 (3.83%) Ericsson
11 11 (3.83%) Juniper
11 11 (3.83%) Nokia
12 10 (3.48%) Avaya
12 10 (3.48%) Ribbon
12 10 (3.48%) ServiceNow
13 9 (3.14%) Symantec
14 8 (2.79%) IBM