PaaS Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.61% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
North West median daily rate £426 £363 £531
% change year-on-year +17.48% -31.67% -3.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 97 61 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 29.48% 31.44% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 41 37
10th Percentile £309 £390 £348
25th Percentile £475 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £670 £570 £638
90th Percentile £688 £630 £715
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 22
10th Percentile £24.80 - -
25th Percentile £37.25 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.67 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +13.93% +115.88% -65.22%
75th Percentile £46.80 £46.36 -
90th Percentile £61.62 £49.55 -
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £40.59 £16.06
% change year-on-year +15.30% +152.74% -40.96%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Lancashire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Preston - 2 £519 - 1
PaaS
North West

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft