PaaS Contracts in the South East

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 132 131
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing PaaS 65 96 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.18% 1.65% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 5.63% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 80 113
10th Percentile £425 £480 £438
25th Percentile £450 £514 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.69%
75th Percentile £625 £732 £630
90th Percentile £775 £826 £750
England median daily rate £590 £575 £580
% change year-on-year +2.61% -0.86% +11.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +53.01%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.01% 29.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,250 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley +7 52 £530 -11.67% 8
Berkshire +13 47 £515 -26.43% 4
Hampshire -15 8 - - 7
Buckinghamshire +6 3 £600 +17.65% 3
West Sussex +5 3 £347 -57.99%
Oxfordshire +4 2 £465 -24.08% 1
Surrey +9 1 - - 1
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.08%) Apache
1 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 51 (78.46%) SaaS
2 50 (76.92%) IaaS
3 21 (32.31%) Azure
4 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (10.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (9.23%) AWS
7 5 (7.69%) Azure API Management
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
8 4 (6.15%) Serverless
9 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Stack
10 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.08%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (60.00%) 5G
1 39 (60.00%) Broadband
2 7 (10.77%) VPN
3 3 (4.62%) DNS
3 3 (4.62%) Firewall
4 2 (3.08%) LAN
4 2 (3.08%) Network Security
4 2 (3.08%) SSL
4 2 (3.08%) WAN
4 2 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.08%) Big Data
3 2 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.08%) JMeter
4 2 (3.08%) Postman
4 2 (3.08%) Selenium
5 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.54%) Maven
5 1 (1.54%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (60.00%) Law
1 39 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Automotive
3 2 (3.08%) Finance
3 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.54%) Retail
4 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (61.54%) Security Specialist
2 39 (60.00%) Penetration Tester
2 39 (60.00%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (60.00%) Security Tester
2 39 (60.00%) Tester
2 39 (60.00%) Testing Specialist
3 7 (10.77%) Developer
4 6 (9.23%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Architect
6 3 (4.62%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (3.08%) Product Analyst
7 2 (3.08%) SQL Developer
8 1 (1.54%) Consultant
8 1 (1.54%) IT Consultant
8 1 (1.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (63.08%) Web Services
2 6 (9.23%) .NET
3 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.08%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.08%) JSON
4 2 (3.08%) Kafka
4 2 (3.08%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.08%) RESTful
4 2 (3.08%) Swagger
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth
5 1 (1.54%) OpenID
5 1 (1.54%) REST
5 1 (1.54%) SOAP
5 1 (1.54%) XML
5 1 (1.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (63.08%) Penetration Testing
2 41 (63.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (61.54%) Application Security
3 40 (61.54%) Security Testing
4 39 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 39 (60.00%) OWASP
5 18 (27.69%) DevOps
6 11 (16.92%) Agile
7 9 (13.85%) Scrum
8 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
9 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.77%) Cloud Security
10 6 (9.23%) API Management
10 6 (9.23%) Data Protection
11 5 (7.69%) DevSecOps
11 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (7.69%) Microservices
11 5 (7.69%) Migration
12 4 (6.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) C#
2 7 (10.77%) SQL
3 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.15%) Python
5 3 (4.62%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.08%) Java
6 2 (3.08%) PHP
6 2 (3.08%) Ruby
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 41 (63.08%) Security Cleared
2 39 (60.00%) CREST Certified
2 39 (60.00%) GIAC
2 39 (60.00%) GPEN
2 39 (60.00%) OSCP
2 39 (60.00%) SANS
3 5 (7.69%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (60.00%) GDPR
1 39 (60.00%) NCSC
1 39 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) NIST
2 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) Docker
4 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 2 (3.08%) SCCM
3 2 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (60.00%) Virgin Media
2 17 (26.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.69%) VMware
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco
5 2 (3.08%) Google
5 2 (3.08%) Meraki
5 2 (3.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat