PaaS Contracts in the East Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 68 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing PaaS 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.35% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.36% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile £425 £513 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £578
90th Percentile £565 - £584
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £87.25
25th Percentile - £25.50 £88.75
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.89% -
75th Percentile - £26.50 £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 212 220 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.44% 25.37% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 141 225
10th Percentile £308 £180 £202
25th Percentile £366 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £445 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +4.71% -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £538
90th Percentile £541 £638 £695
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 18
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.62 £13.11
25th Percentile £16.89 - £13.57
Median hourly rate £20.95 £14.00 £24.49
Median % change year-on-year +49.61% -42.83% +24.79%
75th Percentile £21.39 £26.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £21.55 £27.50 £90.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +54.48%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the East Midlands

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the East Midlands

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Leicestershire - 2 £450 - 9
Nottinghamshire -1 1 £575 - 15
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure App Service
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft