PaaS Contracts in the North of England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 162 117
Rank change year-on-year +9 -45 -16
Contract jobs citing PaaS 35 51 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.75% 0.89% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 2.46% 5.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 38 96
10th Percentile £450 £463 £404
25th Percentile £473 £513 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £623 £655 £638
90th Percentile £738 £688 £731
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,363 2,077 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.25% 36.39% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 1,552 1,901
10th Percentile £263 £300 £195
25th Percentile £375 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £687 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 36 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.80 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.65% +112.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £21.69 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
North West +10 24 £595 +8.18% 14
Yorkshire +22 10 £525 -16.00% 9
North East +12 1 £650 +8.33% 6
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (91.43%) SaaS
2 31 (88.57%) IaaS
3 15 (42.86%) Azure
4 9 (25.71%) AWS
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.43%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) Miro
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) BGP
2 2 (5.71%) OSPF
2 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (25.71%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Marketing
5 2 (5.71%) Electronics
5 2 (5.71%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Architect
2 7 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) ITSM Developer
5 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Agile Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Agile Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (8.57%) Web Services
3 2 (5.71%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) Django
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (11.43%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Digital Signage
3 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 9 (25.71%) Service Delivery
4 8 (22.86%) Waterfall
5 6 (17.14%) ITIL
5 6 (17.14%) Scrum
5 6 (17.14%) Service Management
6 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 5 (14.29%) Information Security
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
7 4 (11.43%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (11.43%) DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
1 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) APMP
2 4 (11.43%) CISSP
2 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.43%) PMP
3 3 (8.57%) CISM
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) Oracle
3 7 (20.00%) Google
4 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.71%) SAP
7 1 (2.86%) Cisco
7 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.86%) Remedy
7 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (2.86%) Sophos
7 1 (2.86%) Splunk
7 1 (2.86%) VMware