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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 85 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 +10 -3
Contract jobs citing PaaS 11 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.16% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 1.74% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 2
10th Percentile £555 - £581
25th Percentile £563 - £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £356 £638
Median % change year-on-year +61.52% -44.16% +6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £472 £691
90th Percentile £600 £541 £704
South East median daily rate £525 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +25.00%

All Cloud 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 190 230 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.98% 16.89% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 164 182
10th Percentile £348 £360 £314
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £605 £634 £640
90th Percentile £650 £684 £675
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 23
10th Percentile £20.40 - £15.27
25th Percentile £22.50 - £19.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £17.69 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.91% -19.59% +14.82%
75th Percentile £71.25 - £69.38
90th Percentile £72.75 - £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
% change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +32.52%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS 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
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 16 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
Basingstoke - 8 £575 -
Portsmouth - 1 £550 -
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) IaaS
2 8 (72.73%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) GCP
2 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DHCP
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) SMTP
1 8 (72.73%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (72.73%) Big Data
1 8 (72.73%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Data Hub
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (72.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Support Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Transition Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
1 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
1 8 (72.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Machine Learning
2 8 (72.73%) Software Deployment
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (9.09%) Business Process Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
5 1 (9.09%) ITIL
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
1 8 (72.73%) DV Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
1 8 (72.73%) BitLocker
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
1 8 (72.73%) Hyper-V
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (72.73%) Terminal Services
1 8 (72.73%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
1 8 (72.73%) Nagios
1 8 (72.73%) Puppet
1 8 (72.73%) vCenter Server
1 8 (72.73%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) Citrix
2 8 (72.73%) Google
2 8 (72.73%) HP
2 8 (72.73%) Symantec
2 8 (72.73%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle