PaaS Contracts in the North of England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 148 149 167
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -55
Contract jobs citing PaaS 18 36 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.55% 0.76% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 2.56% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 40
10th Percentile £414 £450 £463
25th Percentile £425 £479 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.31% +5.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £541 £662 £652
90th Percentile £619 £738 £688
England median daily rate £575 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -2.95% +3.04% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire +6 8 £425 -19.05% 43
North East +4 5 £534 -17.85% 10
North West -3 5 £450 -26.83% 53
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) IaaS
3 7 (38.89%) SaaS
4 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (16.67%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (11.11%) NuGet
6 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
1 3 (16.67%) Network Security
1 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Artifactory
1 2 (11.11%) JMeter
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Project Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Project Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
2 4 (22.22%) Analytics
3 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Data Science
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Data Design
4 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Information Security
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (5.56%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (11.11%) CISM
3 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (11.11%) CRISC
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) SCCM
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) Meraki
2 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 3 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 3 (16.67%) Veeam
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) LogicMonitor