PaaS Contracts in the City of London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 121 136
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -33
Contract jobs citing PaaS 15 29 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.71% 1.04% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 2.57% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 40
10th Percentile £404 £511 £493
25th Percentile £505 £630 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £680 £589
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +15.50% +2.39%
75th Percentile £736 £775 £694
90th Percentile £779 £875 £803
Central London median daily rate £575 £680 £590
% change year-on-year -15.44% +15.25% +2.61%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 832 1,129 1,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.19% 40.66% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 787 1,168
10th Percentile £400 £350 £388
25th Percentile £475 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 16
10th Percentile £32.05 £16.53 £15.75
25th Percentile £39.63 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £56.00 £20.75 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +169.88% +1.22% +7.89%
75th Percentile £76.13 £46.06 £55.75
90th Percentile £85.95 £54.63 £57.50
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +84.21% -7.32% +2.50%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the City of London

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (86.67%) Azure
2 12 (80.00%) IaaS
3 8 (53.33%) SaaS
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) AWS
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Storage
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Gerrit
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Gradle
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (20.00%) Banking
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SQL BI Developer
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (6.67%) SSIS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth
2 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.67%) OpenID
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) RBAC
5 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
6 1 (6.67%) B2C
6 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.67%) ETL
6 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
6 1 (6.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) Ruby
5 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Zscaler
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) NetApp
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) VMware