PaaS Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.72% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £438 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% -20.69%

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 64 24 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 29.77% 14.55% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 15 38
10th Percentile £301 £252 £210
25th Percentile £421 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £454
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -6.34% -11.46%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £500
90th Percentile £639 £576 £565
East of England median daily rate £481 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.94% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £37.50 £52.23
25th Percentile £100.50 £48.75 £53.69
Median hourly rate £103.00 £55.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.27% -3.93% +172.62%
75th Percentile £105.50 £61.25 £60.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £62.08
East of England median hourly rate £37.00 £21.46 £18.00
% change year-on-year +72.41% +19.22% +5.88%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

PaaS job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
Luton - 8 £425 -
PaaS
East of England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 5 (62.50%) Aviation
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) OpenID
1 8 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Observability
3 5 (62.50%) CRM
4 4 (50.00%) Network Design
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 1 (12.50%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys