PaaS Contract Job Trends in Preston

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.80% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £519 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 30 34 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 27.03% 50.75% 59.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 18
10th Percentile £225 £362 £429
25th Percentile £353 £425 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -6.80% +83.05%
75th Percentile £703 £630 £642
90th Percentile £712 £655 £758
Lancashire median daily rate £575 £530 £600
% change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% +60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 21
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £41.09 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +42.93% +79.02% -64.34%
75th Percentile £45.84 £44.32 -
90th Percentile - £47.12 -
Lancashire median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
% change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -62.94%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Preston

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft