PaaS Contract Job Trends in Derby

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 3.70% - 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.63% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £453 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £525
75th Percentile £509 - £538
90th Percentile £511 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £488 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 41 22 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 25.31% 26.19% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 25
10th Percentile £200 £264 £160
25th Percentile £459 £405 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% +23.33% -27.18%
75th Percentile £590 £719 £588
90th Percentile £645 £733 £620
Derbyshire median daily rate £494 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +6.76% +15.63% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £20.59 - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.28 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £22.81 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year -0.83% - -

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Derby

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) IaaS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) SaaS
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Batch
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Log Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft