PaaS Contracts in Berkshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 86 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +20
Contract jobs citing PaaS 19 38 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.62% 1.92% 1.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 6.90% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 22
10th Percentile £413 £425 £519
25th Percentile £456 £431 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £700
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -26.43% +24.44%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £781
90th Percentile £609 £761 £799
South East median daily rate £575 £528 £600
% change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Berkshire

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Berkshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Berkshire

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in Berkshire

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wokingham -13 7 £425 -39.29%
Bracknell +20 6 £550 - 1
Windsor - 4 £575 -
Reading +21 2 £600 +33.33% 9
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (10.53%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) IaaS
3 9 (47.37%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (42.11%) SaaS
5 6 (31.58%) Azure AKS
6 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
7 4 (21.05%) AWS
7 4 (21.05%) Azure API Management
7 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (21.05%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (21.05%) Azure Storage
8 3 (15.79%) Azure Event Grid
8 3 (15.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (15.79%) Serverless
9 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (10.53%) GCP
9 2 (10.53%) GitHub
9 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) iSCSI
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 2 (10.53%) MQTT
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Automotive
2 2 (10.53%) Electronics
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Site Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) SAML
2 3 (15.79%) ADO
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
2 3 (15.79%) OpenID
2 3 (15.79%) REST
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.53%) PostGIS
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) MACH
4 1 (5.26%) React
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Infotainment
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) API Management
4 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.79%) RBAC
5 3 (15.79%) SIEM
6 2 (10.53%) Architectural Design
6 2 (10.53%) Business Case
6 2 (10.53%) IT Strategy
6 2 (10.53%) Log Analytics
6 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.53%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Bicep
4 3 (15.79%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) NFS
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) vRealize
1 3 (15.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 2 (10.53%) Puppet
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow