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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 143 143
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -22
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PaaS 29 22 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.73% 0.53% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.71% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 36
10th Percentile £313 £431 £488
25th Percentile £359 £467 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £566 £666 £642
90th Percentile £594 £675 £688
England median daily rate £550 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -5.58% -2.92% +3.45%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,361 1,287 1,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.03% 30.77% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 873 1,287
10th Percentile £300 £288 £263
25th Percentile £376 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £594
90th Percentile £625 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 60
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.25 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.10 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £17.44 £29.60
Median % change year-on-year +106.42% -41.08% +31.56%
75th Percentile £69.35 £36.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £88.75 £55.64 £53.33
England median hourly rate £25.58 £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +2.30% -24.24% +53.49%

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
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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -5 16 £363 -36.26% 18
Yorkshire -5 9 £550 -12.00% 7
North East +3 4 £500 -23.08% 6
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 3 (10.34%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) IaaS
3 17 (58.62%) SaaS
4 11 (37.93%) GCP
5 9 (31.03%) OpenShift
6 8 (27.59%) AWS
7 7 (24.14%) Serverless
8 6 (20.69%) GitHub
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (13.79%) Apigee
9 4 (13.79%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (13.79%) Datadog
9 4 (13.79%) Loggly
9 4 (13.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DNS
1 3 (10.34%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (13.79%) BigQuery
3 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
3 4 (13.79%) MySQL
3 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
3 4 (13.79%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) SonarQube
3 4 (13.79%) Gradle
3 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.79%) Maven
3 4 (13.79%) SonarLint
4 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.45%) JMeter
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Lead
3 6 (20.69%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Java Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Java Technical Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Technical Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (6.90%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.45%) GCP Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) AngularJS
2 9 (31.03%) Node.js
3 4 (13.79%) Dropwizard
3 4 (13.79%) J2EE
3 4 (13.79%) JWT
3 4 (13.79%) Micronaut
3 4 (13.79%) RESTful
3 4 (13.79%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.34%) ARM Templates
4 3 (10.34%) Celery
4 3 (10.34%) Middleware
5 2 (6.90%) .NET
5 2 (6.90%) Blazor
5 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.90%) React
6 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) N-Tier
2 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.34%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (10.34%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (51.72%) Windows
2 12 (41.38%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Containerisation
2 9 (31.03%) Agile
2 9 (31.03%) ETL
2 9 (31.03%) Observability
3 7 (24.14%) Microservices
3 7 (24.14%) Waterfall
4 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (13.79%) API Design
6 4 (13.79%) Architectural Design
6 4 (13.79%) Clean Code
6 4 (13.79%) Data Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Design Patterns
6 4 (13.79%) Event-Driven
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
6 4 (13.79%) SOLID
6 4 (13.79%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) PHP
3 8 (27.59%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) Java
5 3 (10.34%) Bicep
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CCNA
4 1 (3.45%) CISM
4 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.45%) CRISC
System Software
1 16 (55.17%) Docker
2 6 (20.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 13 (44.83%) Terraform
3 9 (31.03%) Grafana
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Oracle
2 9 (31.03%) AppDynamics
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (13.79%) Databricks
4 4 (13.79%) Gigya
4 4 (13.79%) VMware
5 3 (10.34%) Citrix
5 3 (10.34%) F5
5 3 (10.34%) Google
5 3 (10.34%) HP
5 3 (10.34%) IBM
6 2 (6.90%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco
7 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.45%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (3.45%) Meraki
7 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.45%) Veeam