PaaS Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 56 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 +4 +35
Contract jobs citing PaaS 2 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.19% 0.90% 1.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 3.25% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £518 £491
25th Percentile - £545 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +0.83% +27.66%
75th Percentile - £703 £634
90th Percentile - £754 £642
South West median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.51%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 216 154 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.34% 27.60% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 106 209
10th Percentile £363 £206 £262
25th Percentile £408 £329 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £594 £606 £624
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile £16.62 - £22.50
25th Percentile £17.18 £25.26 £29.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £27.13 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.01% -32.61% -35.86%
75th Percentile £53.44 £28.99 £59.06
90th Percentile £93.75 - £77.63
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.81 £14.50
% change year-on-year +114.45% +84.91% -65.88%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Bristol

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSD
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy