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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 68 90
Rank change year-on-year -32 +22 +1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 12 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.62% 1.13% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 5.58% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 3
10th Percentile - £555 -
25th Percentile £675 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £575 £356
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% +61.52% -36.71%
75th Percentile £828 £588 £472
90th Percentile £849 £600 £541
South East median daily rate £700 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -

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 383 197 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.68% 20.29% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 146 163
10th Percentile £263 £372 £357
25th Percentile £475 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -6.36% -2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £634
90th Percentile £735 £672 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 3
10th Percentile £15.50 £55.88 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £60.94 -
Median hourly rate £37.24 £70.00 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year -46.80% +295.70% -27.80%
75th Percentile £38.25 £74.06 -
90th Percentile - £74.63 -
South East median hourly rate £64.24 £18.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +241.34% -51.12% +19.20%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -11 10 £800 +39.13% 2
Southampton - 1 £575 -
Fareham - 1 £850 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) IaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Cloudflare
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) Algolia
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (8.33%) Commercetools
3 1 (8.33%) Contentful
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Architect
2 7 (58.33%) Lead
2 7 (58.33%) Lead Architect
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Architect
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Leader
5 3 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) MACH
1 1 (8.33%) Next.js
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (8.33%) React
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
1 9 (75.00%) Architecture Governance
1 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Design Thinking
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Adyen
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk