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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 55 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing PaaS 4 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.47% 0.61% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 2.31% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £403 - £605
25th Percentile £407 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -29.41% +21.43%
75th Percentile £475 - £675
90th Percentile - - £690
England median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.00 - £82.75
% change year-on-year - - +18.21%

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 253 173 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.45% 26.17% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 96 228
10th Percentile £206 £189 £221
25th Percentile £360 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.58% -9.16%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £531
90th Percentile £615 £629 £616
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 21
10th Percentile £15.44 £13.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.52 £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +4.69% +12.90%
75th Percentile £24.03 £39.68 £33.25
90th Percentile £38.94 £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 7 December 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 - 4 £434 - 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft