PaaS Contract Job Trends in the North East

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing PaaS 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.66% 1.03% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 3.37% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.81%
England median daily rate £548 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.78% -4.17% +2.56%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 143 89 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 46.89% 30.58% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 36 54
10th Percentile £300 £293 £313
25th Percentile £410 £377 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £403
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +11.80% -26.82%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £540
90th Percentile £700 £614 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £36.85 £11.44 £15.95
25th Percentile £38.13 £20.13 £23.75
Median hourly rate £42.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +42.09% +62.50%
75th Percentile £47.63 - £46.18
90th Percentile £49.95 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the North East

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the North East region over the 6 months to 13 October 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear -7 2 £500 - 3
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds