PaaS Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.15% 0.71% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% 1.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +2.21%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 112 53 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 42.75% 37.59% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 39
10th Percentile £225 £410 £203
25th Percentile £263 £450 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +29.41% -26.02%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £544
90th Percentile £593 £743 £666
South West median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +342.31% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £13.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £15.47
% change year-on-year +116.98% +71.30% -72.09%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Somerset

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bicep
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware