PaaS Contracts in Manchester

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 75 90
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing PaaS 5 21 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 1.38% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 3.76% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 20
10th Percentile - £500 £459
25th Percentile £425 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +9.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £500 £738 £621
90th Percentile £536 £839 £664
North West median daily rate £450 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -26.83% +11.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £26.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Manchester

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Manchester

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Data Design
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft