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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 65 63
Rank change year-on-year -8 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing PaaS 2 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.25% 0.64% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 2.39% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £456 £533
25th Percentile £425 £466 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -15.22% +6.98%
75th Percentile £475 £516 £644
90th Percentile - £529 £678
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%
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 £60.00 £38.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +55.84% -50.64% +3.31%

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 226 209 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.79% 26.66% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 120 235
10th Percentile £334 £188 £213
25th Percentile £375 £352 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £455
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £500 £598 £530
90th Percentile £568 £649 £625
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 24
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.76 £12.23
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.63 £13.12
Median hourly rate £21.39 £18.32 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% +11.03% -20.96%
75th Percentile - £39.68 £40.00
90th Percentile - £48.87 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
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 17 September 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 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform