PaaS Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 58 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.47% 0.72% 1.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 1.60% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 10
10th Percentile - £445 £459
25th Percentile £413 £588 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £638 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +27.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £494 £663 £597
90th Percentile £528 £760 £636
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +27.50% -11.11%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 315 313 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.39% 45.36% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 227 265
10th Percentile £344 £340 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - -55.65% +188.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Leeds

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Leeds

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (10.00%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Local Government
2 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) GCP Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (20.00%) Blazor
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Data Science
2 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Bicep
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNA
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (10.00%) Meraki
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam