PaaS Contracts in the North West

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing PaaS 5 25 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.91% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 2.83% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 27
10th Percentile - £450 £463
25th Percentile £425 £475 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% +11.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £738 £653
90th Percentile £536 £805 £675
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the North West

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the North West

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the North West

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +1 5 £450 -26.83% 21
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Data Design
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft