PaaS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 63 102
Rank change year-on-year -21 +39 -18
Contract jobs citing PaaS 19 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.09% 1.11% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 4.86% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 1
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile £675 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £825 £588 £588
90th Percentile £828 £600 -
South East median daily rate £700 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +21.74% -2.13% -6.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 352 185 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.26% 22.81% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 127 173
10th Percentile £340 £301 £320
25th Percentile £477 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £648 £613 £638
90th Percentile £735 £690 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 7
10th Percentile £12.29 £16.88 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £61.25 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -51.02% +246.24% -58.13%
75th Percentile £38.25 £73.13 £26.35
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.38 £35.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £18.82 £30.00
% change year-on-year +218.81% -37.27% +11.11%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Hampshire

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Basingstoke 0 18 £800 +39.13% 2
Portsmouth -6 1 £469 -14.73%
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (94.74%) IaaS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Architect
2 11 (57.89%) Lead
3 10 (52.63%) Lead Architect
4 8 (42.11%) Technical Leader
5 7 (36.84%) Technical Architect
5 7 (36.84%) VMware Architect
6 3 (15.79%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.26%) Project Leader
7 1 (5.26%) Site Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 15 (78.95%) Roadmaps
3 14 (73.68%) Architecture Governance
4 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.79%) Design Thinking
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
9 1 (5.26%) Customer Requirements
9 1 (5.26%) DevOps
9 1 (5.26%) Incident Management
9 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (5.26%) Performance Testing
9 1 (5.26%) Runbook
9 1 (5.26%) SFIA
9 1 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Bash
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (94.74%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.26%) Grafana
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) VMware
2 1 (5.26%) Atlassian