PaaS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 146 139
Rank change year-on-year -22 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing PaaS 34 21 62
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.75% 0.53% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 1.61% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 54
10th Percentile £316 £415 £500
25th Percentile £357 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +12.15% -2.73%
75th Percentile £566 £663 £610
90th Percentile £615 £675 £649
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £46.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.35%

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 1,680 1,305 1,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 36.96% 32.87% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,227 841 1,272
10th Percentile £251 £291 £257
25th Percentile £363 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 64
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -10.08% +43.33%
75th Percentile £67.25 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.40 £59.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the North of England

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing PaaS

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 16 November 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
North West -17 17 £360 -36.00% 13
Yorkshire -29 16 £525 -16.83% 9
North East -12 1 £500 -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) IaaS
1 21 (61.76%) SaaS
2 19 (55.88%) Azure
3 11 (32.35%) GCP
4 10 (29.41%) OpenShift
5 9 (26.47%) AWS
6 7 (20.59%) Serverless
7 6 (17.65%) GitHub
8 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
9 4 (11.76%) Apigee
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (11.76%) Datadog
9 4 (11.76%) Loggly
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) DNS
3 3 (8.82%) DHCP
3 3 (8.82%) SAN
3 3 (8.82%) VPN
4 1 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (44.12%) Relational Database
2 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.76%) BigQuery
3 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
3 4 (11.76%) MySQL
3 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.76%) Redis
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) SonarQube
3 4 (11.76%) Gradle
3 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.76%) Maven
3 4 (11.76%) SonarLint
4 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.94%) JMeter
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Local Government
5 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Architect
1 8 (23.53%) Lead
2 4 (11.76%) Administrator
2 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Java Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Java Technical Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Technical Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (8.82%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Data Science Consultant
5 1 (2.94%) Data Science Leader
5 1 (2.94%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) AngularJS
2 10 (29.41%) Node.js
3 4 (11.76%) Dropwizard
3 4 (11.76%) J2EE
3 4 (11.76%) JWT
3 4 (11.76%) Micronaut
3 4 (11.76%) RESTful
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.82%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.82%) Celery
4 3 (8.82%) Middleware
5 2 (5.88%) .NET
5 2 (5.88%) Blazor
5 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.88%) React
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) N-Tier
2 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (8.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Windows
2 16 (47.06%) Linux
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (29.41%) ETL
2 10 (29.41%) Observability
3 9 (26.47%) Agile
4 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (20.59%) Microservices
5 7 (20.59%) Waterfall
6 6 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 5 (14.71%) AI
7 5 (14.71%) Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (11.76%) DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (11.76%) MVC
8 4 (11.76%) OOP
8 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
8 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (11.76%) TDD
8 4 (11.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) PHP
3 8 (23.53%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.76%) Java
6 3 (8.82%) Bicep
7 2 (5.88%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CCNA
3 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Terraform
2 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (32.35%) Grafana
4 3 (8.82%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (5.88%) Ansible
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
6 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Oracle
2 10 (29.41%) AppDynamics
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) Databricks
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
5 4 (11.76%) Gigya
6 3 (8.82%) Citrix
6 3 (8.82%) F5
6 3 (8.82%) Google
6 3 (8.82%) HP
6 3 (8.82%) IBM
7 1 (2.94%) Aruba
7 1 (2.94%) Cisco
7 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.94%) Meraki
7 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.94%) Veeam