PaaS Contracts in the South East

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 102 150 129
Rank change year-on-year +48 -21 +5
Contract jobs citing PaaS 58 55 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.93% 0.99% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.37% 4.01% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 22 79
10th Percentile £458 £425 £480
25th Percentile £500 £452 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £617 £634 £739
90th Percentile £630 £768 £828
England median daily rate £575 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -2.95% +3.04% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the South East 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
Thames Valley +30 30 £575 +8.49% 34
Berkshire +12 19 £550 +6.80% 20
Hampshire +31 11 £575 - 23
Buckinghamshire +24 11 £602 +0.26% 8
East Sussex +4 7 £525 -16.00% 5
Kent - 5 £615 - 13
West Sussex +12 3 £500 +44.26% 4
Sussex - 1 £500 -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (24.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.90%) Confluence
3 2 (3.45%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (3.45%) Camunda
4 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 39 (67.24%) IaaS
2 35 (60.34%) Azure
3 20 (34.48%) SaaS
4 16 (27.59%) AWS
5 10 (17.24%) GCP
6 9 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (15.52%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
7 8 (13.79%) OpenShift
8 6 (10.34%) Azure AKS
9 5 (8.62%) Serverless
10 4 (6.90%) Azure API Management
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Storage
10 4 (6.90%) GitHub
11 3 (5.17%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (24.14%) Firewall
2 11 (18.97%) DHCP
2 11 (18.97%) DNS
3 8 (13.79%) SMTP
3 8 (13.79%) VPN
3 8 (13.79%) VSAN
4 4 (6.90%) iSCSI
5 3 (5.17%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (5.17%) SAN
6 2 (3.45%) HTTP
6 2 (3.45%) MQTT
6 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (13.79%) Big Data
2 8 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.72%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.72%) Postman
General
1 15 (25.86%) Public Sector
2 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Legal
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Automotive
5 2 (3.45%) Electronics
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.45%) Marketing
5 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Architect
2 13 (22.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (18.97%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 11 (18.97%) Support Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Technical Architect
5 9 (15.52%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) Senior
6 8 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Senior Architect
6 8 (13.79%) Senior Technical Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) DBA
8 5 (8.62%) Lead
9 4 (6.90%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) SAML
2 3 (5.17%) ADO
2 3 (5.17%) OAuth
2 3 (5.17%) OpenID
2 3 (5.17%) REST
2 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) Keycloak
3 2 (3.45%) OpenJDK
3 2 (3.45%) PostGIS
3 2 (3.45%) RESTful
3 2 (3.45%) XML
3 2 (3.45%) YAML
4 1 (1.72%) CSS
4 1 (1.72%) HTML
4 1 (1.72%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) PKI
2 12 (20.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
4 8 (13.79%) Clustering
5 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.45%) Infotainment
5 2 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (25.86%) Windows
2 9 (15.52%) Linux
3 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) DevOps
2 22 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (18.97%) ITIL
5 11 (18.97%) TOGAF
6 10 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (17.24%) DevSecOps
6 10 (17.24%) Machine Learning
6 10 (17.24%) Microservices
7 9 (15.52%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.52%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (15.52%) Use Case
8 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 8 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.79%) Software Deployment
8 8 (13.79%) Zachman Framework
9 7 (12.07%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.59%) PowerShell
2 14 (24.14%) SQL
3 9 (15.52%) Python
4 5 (8.62%) Java
5 4 (6.90%) C#
6 3 (5.17%) Bicep
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.03%) Degree
3 13 (22.41%) DV Cleared
3 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
4 12 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (13.79%) MCSE
5 8 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.45%) CCNA
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.72%) APMP
7 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) NCSC
2 8 (13.79%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (13.79%) NIST
3 3 (5.17%) SLA
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (39.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (32.76%) Active Directory
3 12 (20.69%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (20.69%) VMware NSX
4 10 (17.24%) Docker
5 8 (13.79%) BitLocker
5 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
5 8 (13.79%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (13.79%) Terminal Services
6 4 (6.90%) NFS
7 3 (5.17%) DFS Replication
7 3 (5.17%) vSphere
8 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.24%) Puppet
3 8 (13.79%) Ansible
3 8 (13.79%) Nagios
3 8 (13.79%) vCenter Server
3 8 (13.79%) vMotion
4 6 (10.34%) Terraform
5 4 (6.90%) vRealize
5 4 (6.90%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (44.83%) VMware
2 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.97%) Cisco
4 8 (13.79%) Citrix
4 8 (13.79%) Google
4 8 (13.79%) HP
4 8 (13.79%) Palo Alto
4 8 (13.79%) Symantec
5 2 (3.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow