PaaS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.35% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 84 80 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 29.37% 39.02% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 48 31
10th Percentile - £143 £145
25th Percentile £133 £163 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £152 £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -28.57% -30.00%
75th Percentile £431 £481 £422
90th Percentile £508 £550 £600
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £483
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.66% -3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - £17.44 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.00% -8.57%
75th Percentile - - £18.88
90th Percentile - - £21.28
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.01% +15.14% -67.69%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform