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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 125 131
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing PaaS 41 94 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.74% 1.63% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 5.51% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 78 111
10th Percentile £425 £480 £438
25th Percentile £458 £513 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.69%
75th Percentile £625 £746 £634
90th Percentile £745 £829 £750
England median daily rate £596 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +9.52%
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% +38.75%

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 1,349 1,707 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.32% 29.63% 31.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 1,249 1,802
10th Percentile £250 £252 £203
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 £636 £612
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 51 53 61
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.02 £12.75
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 £54.75 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.02
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.66% -2.23%

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 3 May 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 3 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
Thames Valley -12 32 £530 -11.67% 10
Berkshire -4 26 £515 -26.43% 5
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £600 +18.23% 4
West Sussex +9 3 £347 -57.99%
Hampshire -19 3 - - 7
Oxfordshire +5 2 £465 -24.08% 1
Surrey +12 1 - - 3
East Sussex +2 1 £625 -26.47% 2
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 (4.88%) Apache
1 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) SaaS
2 25 (60.98%) Azure
2 25 (60.98%) IaaS
3 11 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (17.07%) AWS
5 7 (17.07%) Azure API Management
6 5 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (12.20%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (12.20%) Entra ID
7 4 (9.76%) Azure Functions
7 4 (9.76%) Serverless
8 3 (7.32%) Azure AKS
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Stack
9 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.88%) Google Workspace
10 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) 5G
1 10 (24.39%) Broadband
2 8 (19.51%) VPN
3 3 (7.32%) DNS
3 3 (7.32%) Firewall
3 3 (7.32%) Network Security
4 2 (4.88%) LAN
4 2 (4.88%) SSL
4 2 (4.88%) WAN
4 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.88%) Big Data
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
3 4 (9.76%) Visual Studio
4 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.88%) JMeter
5 2 (4.88%) Postman
5 2 (4.88%) Selenium
6 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.44%) Maven
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (24.39%) Law
1 10 (24.39%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Automotive
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Security Specialist
2 10 (24.39%) Penetration Tester
2 10 (24.39%) Security Penetration Tester
2 10 (24.39%) Security Tester
2 10 (24.39%) Tester
2 10 (24.39%) Testing Specialist
3 8 (19.51%) Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Lead
5 6 (14.63%) Architect
5 6 (14.63%) C# Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Azure Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Product Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) SQL Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Web Services
2 8 (19.51%) .NET
3 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.88%) JSON
4 2 (4.88%) Kafka
4 2 (4.88%) OpenAPI
4 2 (4.88%) RESTful
4 2 (4.88%) Swagger
5 1 (2.44%) OAuth
5 1 (2.44%) OpenID
5 1 (2.44%) REST
5 1 (2.44%) SOAP
5 1 (2.44%) XML
5 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Mobile App
2 6 (14.63%) Public Cloud
3 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.88%) PKI
6 1 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) DevOps
2 16 (39.02%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (29.27%) Penetration Testing
3 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (26.83%) Agile
4 11 (26.83%) Application Security
4 11 (26.83%) Security Testing
5 10 (24.39%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 10 (24.39%) OWASP
6 9 (21.95%) Scrum
7 8 (19.51%) API Management
7 8 (19.51%) Cloud Security
7 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
8 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
8 7 (17.07%) Data Protection
8 7 (17.07%) DevSecOps
8 7 (17.07%) Microservices
8 7 (17.07%) Migration
9 6 (14.63%) High Availability
9 6 (14.63%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) C#
2 7 (17.07%) SQL
3 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.20%) Python
5 3 (7.32%) Java
5 3 (7.32%) PHP
5 3 (7.32%) Ruby
5 3 (7.32%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (24.39%) CREST Certified
2 10 (24.39%) GIAC
2 10 (24.39%) GPEN
2 10 (24.39%) OSCP
2 10 (24.39%) SANS
3 5 (12.20%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) CCNA
6 1 (2.44%) CCSP
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) GDPR
1 10 (24.39%) NCSC
1 10 (24.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.20%) Docker
4 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.32%) Terraform
4 2 (4.88%) SCCM
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Virgin Media
3 7 (17.07%) VMware
4 3 (7.32%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) Google
5 2 (4.88%) Meraki
5 2 (4.88%) SAP
6 1 (2.44%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk