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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 272 246
Rank change year-on-year -42 -26 -40
Contract jobs citing PaaS 372 279 430
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.74% 0.95% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.10% 2.51% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 178 300
10th Percentile £413 £413 £375
25th Percentile £453 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% -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 17,731 11,129 14,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 37.81% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 7,522 9,999
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £635
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 270 355
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.86 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £28.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.02% +32.79% -39.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.63 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £19.27 £19.17
% change year-on-year +94.60% +0.52% -29.26%

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 12 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 12 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 -27 327 £541 -5.93% 95
London -3 184 £525 -12.50% 55
UK excluding London -47 153 £571 -0.65% 63
Work from Home -65 96 £537 -10.50% 39
South East -64 50 £700 +21.74% 29
North of England -46 46 £454 -6.87% 5
Yorkshire -32 29 £507 +19.18% 1
Midlands -51 22 £539 -11.58% 11
North West -19 17 £425 +20.06% 3
West Midlands -52 15 £540 -12.62% 7
Scotland -14 14 £595 +11.21%
East of England -14 12 £650 -3.77% 7
South West -27 11 £550 -31.25% 14
East Midlands -16 7 £418 -27.39% 4
North East -37 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 (8.60%) SharePoint
2 31 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (3.76%) Confluence
4 12 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.96%) SAS
6 5 (1.34%) Apache
7 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.81%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.54%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.27%) IIS
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (4.84%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.81%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.54%) 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
1 241 (64.78%) Azure
2 232 (62.37%) IaaS
3 132 (35.48%) SaaS
4 82 (22.04%) AWS
5 69 (18.55%) Entra ID
6 63 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (15.32%) OCI
8 45 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
9 44 (11.83%) Serverless
10 40 (10.75%) GitHub
11 32 (8.60%) Azure Key Vault
12 30 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
13 20 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (5.11%) Azure Service Bus
14 19 (5.11%) Power Platform
15 18 (4.84%) GCP
16 17 (4.57%) Azure AKS
17 15 (4.03%) Azure App Service
18 12 (3.23%) Azure Service Fabric
18 12 (3.23%) Azure WebJobs
Communications & Networking
1 41 (11.02%) DNS
1 41 (11.02%) Firewall
2 26 (6.99%) VPN
3 20 (5.38%) DHCP
4 14 (3.76%) WAN
5 13 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (3.23%) LAN
7 10 (2.69%) SAN
8 8 (2.15%) SMTP
9 7 (1.88%) IPsec
9 7 (1.88%) PSTN
9 7 (1.88%) Unified Communications
9 7 (1.88%) VLAN
10 6 (1.61%) Internet
10 6 (1.61%) Network Security
11 5 (1.34%) Kerberos
11 5 (1.34%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.34%) SSL
12 3 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (0.81%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.23%) Oracle Database
3 11 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (2.96%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 11 (2.96%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 10 (2.69%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.69%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.61%) Big Data
7 6 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 5 (1.34%) Metadata
8 5 (1.34%) Power BI
9 4 (1.08%) MySQL
9 4 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.81%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (9.68%) Git
2 23 (6.18%) JIRA
3 10 (2.69%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.69%) Postman
4 7 (1.88%) Chocolatey
4 7 (1.88%) GitLab
5 6 (1.61%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.54%) ERwin
7 2 (0.54%) Selenium
7 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.27%) JMeter
8 1 (0.27%) JUnit
8 1 (0.27%) Subversion
8 1 (0.27%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 82 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 61 (16.40%) Finance
3 50 (13.44%) Public Sector
4 37 (9.95%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.38%) Banking
6 19 (5.11%) Legal
7 13 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.61%) Military
11 5 (1.34%) Law
12 4 (1.08%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.81%) Marketing
14 2 (0.54%) Aviation
14 2 (0.54%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.54%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.54%) Local Government
14 2 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Retail
14 2 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (31.18%) Architect
2 62 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 47 (12.63%) Senior
4 38 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (9.14%) Solutions Architect
6 32 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 30 (8.06%) Lead
8 29 (7.80%) Technical Architect
9 23 (6.18%) Azure Architect
9 23 (6.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (5.11%) Developer
10 19 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (3.76%) Azure Developer
12 14 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
12 14 (3.76%) Technical Leader
13 13 (3.49%) Lead Architect
13 13 (3.49%) Oracle Architect
14 12 (3.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.41%) REST
2 32 (8.60%) Web Services
3 31 (8.33%) .NET
3 31 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 31 (8.33%) SOAP
4 21 (5.65%) Microsoft Graph
5 19 (5.11%) ARM Templates
6 18 (4.84%) OAuth
7 16 (4.30%) YAML
8 15 (4.03%) JSON
9 14 (3.76%) .NET Framework
10 13 (3.49%) Entity Framework
11 11 (2.96%) XML
12 9 (2.42%) Middleware
12 9 (2.42%) OAuth2
13 8 (2.15%) OpenID
13 8 (2.15%) SAML
13 8 (2.15%) XSLT
14 7 (1.88%) JWT
14 7 (1.88%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.25%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.65%) Public Cloud
3 17 (4.57%) Data Centre
3 17 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.69%) Clustering
9 9 (2.42%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.15%) IoT
10 8 (2.15%) PKI
11 6 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.61%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 53 (14.25%) Windows
2 40 (10.75%) Linux
3 16 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.03%) Unix
5 9 (2.42%) VMS
6 8 (2.15%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.88%) Android
7 7 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.88%) 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
1 161 (43.28%) DevOps
2 136 (36.56%) CI/CD
3 105 (28.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (23.12%) Migration
5 76 (20.43%) Agile
6 74 (19.89%) Roadmaps
7 52 (13.98%) Analytics
8 46 (12.37%) ERP
8 46 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 45 (12.10%) Architectural Patterns
9 45 (12.10%) Containerisation
9 45 (12.10%) Microservices
10 44 (11.83%) Technical Leadership
11 40 (10.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 39 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (10.22%) Observability
14 36 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (9.14%) RBAC
15 34 (9.14%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 63 (16.94%) PowerShell
2 57 (15.32%) SQL
3 52 (13.98%) Python
4 39 (10.48%) Bicep
5 20 (5.38%) C#
6 16 (4.30%) Java
7 14 (3.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (3.49%) Ruby
9 11 (2.96%) Bash
10 9 (2.42%) PL/SQL
11 8 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.08%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.81%) Groovy
14 2 (0.54%) C++
14 2 (0.54%) Perl
14 2 (0.54%) Scala
14 2 (0.54%) VBA
15 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 159 (42.74%) Security Cleared
2 105 (28.23%) SC Cleared
3 48 (12.90%) Azure Certification
4 44 (11.83%) DV Cleared
5 30 (8.06%) Degree
6 14 (3.76%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (3.23%) CISSP
8 11 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.42%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.88%) CISM
11 7 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.88%) SANS
12 6 (1.61%) GIAC
12 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (1.34%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.03%) SLA
2 12 (3.23%) GDPR
3 11 (2.96%) NCSC
4 10 (2.69%) NIST
5 9 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.88%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.61%) ISO 31000
8 5 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.08%) QA
10 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.54%) Basel III
11 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.54%) GAAP
11 2 (0.54%) IFRS
11 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.54%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 35 (9.41%) Docker
3 16 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.69%) vCloud
5 9 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.15%) BitLocker
6 8 (2.15%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.61%) NFS
7 6 (1.61%) Postfix
7 6 (1.61%) Varnish
7 6 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.34%) RACF
8 5 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.08%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.81%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.54%) HDFS
11 2 (0.54%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (23.92%) Terraform
2 39 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 22 (5.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (5.11%) Ansible
4 19 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (4.30%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (2.42%) SCCM
7 8 (2.15%) Grafana
7 8 (2.15%) Puppet
7 8 (2.15%) vMotion
8 7 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.08%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.81%) Control-M
12 2 (0.54%) Nagios
12 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.27%) Data Guard
13 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 144 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 80 (21.51%) Oracle
3 33 (8.87%) VMware
4 14 (3.76%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.49%) SAP
6 12 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.69%) Citrix
7 10 (2.69%) Tenable
8 8 (2.15%) Databricks
9 7 (1.88%) AppDynamics
9 7 (1.88%) Google
10 6 (1.61%) NetApp
11 5 (1.34%) iManage
11 5 (1.34%) Intapp
11 5 (1.34%) Litera
11 5 (1.34%) Splunk
11 5 (1.34%) Workday
12 4 (1.08%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.08%) Informatica
12 4 (1.08%) Rapid7