PaaS Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 22 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing PaaS 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 2.63% - 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.00% - 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £453 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £509 - £538
90th Percentile £511 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £488 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 50 29 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 21.93% 27.10% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 26
10th Percentile £202 £176 £160
25th Percentile £400 £340 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.76% +15.63% -15.79%
75th Percentile £614 £725 £575
90th Percentile £650 - £619
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £438 £445
% change year-on-year +8.39% -1.52% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £17.71 - -
25th Percentile £20.59 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% - -
75th Percentile £25.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £20.95 £21.66
% change year-on-year -14.68% -3.30% +4.35%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Derby - 6 £488 - 2
PaaS
East Midlands

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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