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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 163 134
Rank change year-on-year +55 -29 -37
Contract jobs citing PaaS 42 33 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.41% 0.58% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.61% 2.49% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 69
10th Percentile £413 £420 £470
25th Percentile £500 £454 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% +10.34%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £725
90th Percentile £623 £730 £799
England median daily rate £575 £575 £589
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +2.39%
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 912 1,326 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.69% 23.32% 29.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 902 1,216
10th Percentile £250 £263 £251
25th Percentile £375 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £709
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 56 47
10th Percentile £15.38 £17.69 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.33 £18.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £27.22 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -3.36% +34.10%
75th Percentile £46.60 £59.95 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.38 £61.60 £75.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.46 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.83% -38.69% +62.79%

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 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South East

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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 7 June 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 +34 26 £538 +1.46% 46
Berkshire +30 23 £500 -5.66% 41
Hampshire +36 9 £575 - 16
Kent - 7 £615 - 2
Buckinghamshire +12 3 £575 -6.12% 1
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 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.52%) Confluence
3 2 (4.76%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (4.76%) Camunda
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) IaaS
2 30 (71.43%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) AWS
4 13 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (28.57%) SaaS
6 10 (23.81%) Azure AKS
6 10 (23.81%) GCP
7 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (19.05%) Azure Storage
7 8 (19.05%) OpenShift
8 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
9 4 (9.52%) Azure API Management
9 4 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (9.52%) GitHub
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (7.14%) Serverless
11 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (30.95%) DHCP
1 13 (30.95%) DNS
1 13 (30.95%) Firewall
2 8 (19.05%) SMTP
2 8 (19.05%) VPN
3 5 (11.90%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (11.90%) SAN
4 2 (4.76%) HTTP
4 2 (4.76%) MQTT
4 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (19.05%) Big Data
3 8 (19.05%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.76%) Automotive
4 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
2 12 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Support
3 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Architect
4 9 (21.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Site Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) VMware Support Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) ADO
2 4 (9.52%) SAML
3 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.14%) OAuth
3 3 (7.14%) OpenID
3 3 (7.14%) REST
3 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.76%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.76%) OpenJDK
4 2 (4.76%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 2 (4.76%) XML
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 9 (21.43%) PKI
3 8 (19.05%) Clustering
4 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.76%) Infotainment
5 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.76%) Replication
6 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Windows
2 9 (21.43%) Linux
3 8 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) DevOps
2 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (19.05%) Machine Learning
4 8 (19.05%) Migration
4 8 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 8 (19.05%) Software Deployment
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.90%) ITIL
6 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.90%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.52%) API Management
7 4 (9.52%) Data Migration
7 4 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (9.52%) Security Patching
8 3 (7.14%) Design Patterns
8 3 (7.14%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 14 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (11.90%) Java
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) Bicep
3 4 (9.52%) C#
4 2 (4.76%) Bash
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.19%) Degree
3 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (23.81%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (19.05%) BitLocker
4 8 (19.05%) Docker
4 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
4 8 (19.05%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (19.05%) Terminal Services
5 6 (14.29%) vSphere
6 5 (11.90%) DFS Replication
7 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (23.81%) Puppet
3 8 (19.05%) Ansible
3 8 (19.05%) Nagios
3 8 (19.05%) vCenter Server
3 8 (19.05%) vMotion
4 6 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (2.38%) Grafana
5 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 18 (42.86%) VMware
3 8 (19.05%) Citrix
3 8 (19.05%) Google
3 8 (19.05%) HP
3 8 (19.05%) Symantec
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco
4 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow