PaaS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 174 185
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -38
Contract jobs citing PaaS 110 175 347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.15% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 3.18% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 116 245
10th Percentile £400 £400 £435
25th Percentile £500 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £596 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -0.63% +4.35%
75th Percentile £791 £650 £676
90th Percentile £838 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 2
10th Percentile - - £54.65
25th Percentile - £25.50 £60.13
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.38% -
75th Percentile - £26.50 £89.63
90th Percentile - - £97.35
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

PaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,924 5,505 10,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.79% 36.16% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 3,965 7,414
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 88 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.60 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £45.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £65.31 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%

PaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PaaS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PaaS.

PaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing PaaS over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

PaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing PaaS.

PaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (5.45%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.73%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.82%) Camunda
3 2 (1.82%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 85 (77.27%) SaaS
2 81 (73.64%) IaaS
3 80 (72.73%) Azure
4 60 (54.55%) AWS
5 31 (28.18%) GCP
6 25 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (21.82%) Serverless
8 17 (15.45%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (10.00%) Entra ID
9 11 (10.00%) Power Platform
10 10 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 8 (7.27%) AWS Fargate
11 8 (7.27%) GitHub
12 7 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.36%) Azure AKS
12 7 (6.36%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.00%) DHCP
1 22 (20.00%) DNS
1 22 (20.00%) Firewall
2 21 (19.09%) TCP/IP
3 19 (17.27%) BGP
3 19 (17.27%) HTTP
3 19 (17.27%) HTTPS
3 19 (17.27%) OSPF
4 5 (4.55%) SSL
5 4 (3.64%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.73%) IPsec
6 3 (2.73%) Network Security
6 3 (2.73%) VSAN
6 3 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.82%) NGFW
7 2 (1.82%) VPN
8 1 (0.91%) FTP
8 1 (0.91%) NAS
8 1 (0.91%) SAN
8 1 (0.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
1 6 (5.45%) NoSQL
1 6 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.82%) Metadata
3 2 (1.82%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (1.82%) MySQL
4 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) Big Data
4 1 (0.91%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.91%) Power BI
4 1 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.91%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 13 (11.82%) GitLab
2 11 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.18%) Git
4 6 (5.45%) JIRA
5 4 (3.64%) Selenium
6 3 (2.73%) Maven
6 3 (2.73%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.82%) JMeter
7 2 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.82%) Postman
7 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.82%) Subversion
7 2 (1.82%) Terragrunt
7 2 (1.82%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.91%) Mockito
8 1 (0.91%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.55%) Finance
3 14 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.91%) Local Government
7 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (53.64%) Architect
2 27 (24.55%) Cloud Architect
2 27 (24.55%) Technical Architect
3 18 (16.36%) Cloud Native Architect
4 15 (13.64%) AWS Architect
4 15 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (10.91%) Senior
6 11 (10.00%) Developer
7 9 (8.18%) Network Security Architect
7 9 (8.18%) Security Architect
7 9 (8.18%) Security Technical Architect
8 8 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Azure Architect
9 6 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) AWS Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) CSS
1 9 (8.18%) HTML
2 8 (7.27%) REST
3 6 (5.45%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.55%) SAML
5 4 (3.64%) .NET
5 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.64%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.64%) Kafka
5 4 (3.64%) OAuth
5 4 (3.64%) OpenID
5 4 (3.64%) Spring
5 4 (3.64%) Web Services
6 3 (2.73%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (2.73%) Node.js
6 3 (2.73%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.73%) XACML
7 2 (1.82%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.82%) OpenJDK
7 2 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (12.73%) Public Cloud
4 10 (9.09%) Low-Code
5 5 (4.55%) PKI
6 4 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.64%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.73%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.82%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.82%) Clustering
8 2 (1.82%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.82%) Replication
9 1 (0.91%) EFT
9 1 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.09%) Windows
2 9 (8.18%) Linux
3 6 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.82%) Debian
4 2 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.82%) Solaris
5 1 (0.91%) AIX
5 1 (0.91%) CentOS
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 37 (33.64%) DevOps
3 26 (23.64%) CI/CD
4 25 (22.73%) Agile
5 21 (19.09%) Migration
5 21 (19.09%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.36%) Microservices
6 18 (16.36%) Roadmaps
6 18 (16.36%) Sprint Planning
7 13 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.91%) Cloud Security
8 12 (10.91%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 10 (9.09%) Analytics
11 9 (8.18%) TOGAF
12 8 (7.27%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (7.27%) Identity Access Management
12 8 (7.27%) Project Management
12 8 (7.27%) Technical Architecture
13 7 (6.36%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.09%) Bicep
2 19 (17.27%) SQL
3 15 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.91%) Python
5 9 (8.18%) Java
5 9 (8.18%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.36%) Bash
7 3 (2.73%) C#
7 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.82%) C++
8 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.82%) VBA
8 2 (1.82%) VBScript
9 1 (0.91%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.91%) Go
9 1 (0.91%) PHP
9 1 (0.91%) R
9 1 (0.91%) Ruby
9 1 (0.91%) Scala
9 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.55%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.00%) Degree
5 9 (8.18%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.64%) OCP
8 4 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.73%) MCSE
9 3 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.82%) ISEB
10 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) GDPR
2 5 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.64%) NCSC
3 4 (3.64%) SLA
4 3 (2.73%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.82%) NIST
5 2 (1.82%) QA
6 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.91%) PMO
6 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (10.91%) Docker
2 10 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.73%) RACF
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.73%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (36.36%) Terraform
2 15 (13.64%) Ansible
2 15 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.64%) Grafana
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.64%) Packer
3 4 (3.64%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.82%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.82%) Puppet
5 2 (1.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.91%) Consul
6 1 (0.91%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (0.91%) SCOM
6 1 (0.91%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.00%) Cisco
3 21 (19.09%) Palo Alto
4 19 (17.27%) CheckPoint
4 19 (17.27%) Fortinet
5 9 (8.18%) Oracle
6 7 (6.36%) OutSystems
7 6 (5.45%) VMware
8 4 (3.64%) Databricks
8 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.82%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.82%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.82%) Google
10 2 (1.82%) IBM
10 2 (1.82%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.82%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.82%) Okta
10 2 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.82%) Splunk