PaaS Contracts in the Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 115 147
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 -51
Contract jobs citing PaaS 20 50 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 1.45% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.92% 4.07% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 41
10th Percentile £375 £447 £413
25th Percentile £417 £488 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £540
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +25.00% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £638
90th Percentile £659 - £813
England median daily rate £590 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +2.61% -0.04% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +53.01%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 686 1,229 1,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.00% 35.62% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 878 1,227
10th Percentile £200 £213 £203
25th Percentile £325 £370 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the Midlands

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the Midlands

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the Midlands

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +5 18 £600 -12.73% 10
East Midlands +18 2 - - 5
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) IaaS
3 9 (45.00%) SaaS
4 5 (25.00%) Google Workspace
4 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (10.00%) SonarCloud
8 1 (5.00%) AWS
8 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub
8 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) IPsec
2 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Moq
2 2 (10.00%) NUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Hudson
3 1 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (25.00%) Legal
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Administrator
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) SharePoint Administrator
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Citrix Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) DBA
6 1 (5.00%) ERP Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (10.00%) YAML
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 4 (20.00%) Proactive Management
3 4 (20.00%) Web SSO
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Business Transformation
5 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.00%) Dependency Management
5 2 (10.00%) MVC
5 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 2 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
1 6 (30.00%) PMI Certification
1 6 (30.00%) PMP
2 5 (25.00%) APMP
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Oracle
3 5 (25.00%) Google
3 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor