PaaS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -35 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing PaaS 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.61% 2.62% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 8.22% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £513 £527
25th Percentile £513 £531 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -4.17% +18.23%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £663
90th Percentile - - £730
South East median daily rate £700 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +21.74% +9.52% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 211 73 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 25.70% 31.88% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 60 96
10th Percentile £391 £306 £208
25th Percentile £454 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +12.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £640 £713 £631
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.25 £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £15.50 £19.53
Median % change year-on-year +132.26% -20.65% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £15.75 £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.13
South East median hourly rate £51.25 £28.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +79.82% +22.77% +0.61%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -33 5 £543 -5.65% 4
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (60.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) IPv6
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
3 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) CCDA
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
3 1 (20.00%) CCIP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NCSC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vCloud
2 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) CASB
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler