PaaS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 71 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 17 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.25% 0.24% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.56% 0.83% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £425 - £456
25th Percentile £447 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -17.02%
75th Percentile - £475 £516
90th Percentile £513 - £529
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

All Cloud Computing 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 373 242 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.37% 29.26% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 183 113
10th Percentile £229 £334 £192
25th Percentile £381 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £449 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -0.22% -3.74%
75th Percentile £549 £500 £550
90th Percentile £656 £600 £619
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 7 4
10th Percentile £13.51 £17.64 £14.91
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.39 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -26.24% +87.10%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £43.51
90th Percentile £26.05 - £50.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PaaS

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing PaaS

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 3 October 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
Derbyshire - 13 £500 - 2
Nottinghamshire - 4 - - 7
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 16 (94.12%) SaaS
2 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 13 (76.47%) IaaS
3 12 (70.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (58.82%) Entra ID
5 9 (52.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (23.53%) OCI
7 3 (17.65%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) Data Lake
2 9 (52.94%) NoSQL
3 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 8 (47.06%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (64.71%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (35.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (23.53%) Architect
5 4 (23.53%) Oracle Architect
5 4 (23.53%) Oracle Solutions Architect
5 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Security Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) ARM Templates
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (23.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
2 3 (17.65%) VMS
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
1 12 (70.59%) Infrastructure as Code
1 12 (70.59%) Migration
2 10 (58.82%) Architecture Governance
2 10 (58.82%) Cloud Security
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Cloud Operations
5 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (23.53%) Analytics
6 4 (23.53%) Business Case
6 4 (23.53%) Log Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (17.65%) High Availability
8 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.76%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
8 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft