PaaS Contracts in South Wales

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing PaaS 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.67% - 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.21% - 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £174 - -
25th Percentile £184 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.61%
75th Percentile £206 - -
90th Percentile £210 - -
Wales median daily rate £200 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -26.94%

All Cloud Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 95 127 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 39.75% 38.14% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 108 107
10th Percentile £193 £143 £172
25th Percentile £253 £345 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £613
90th Percentile £600 £623 £668
Wales median daily rate £403 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -19.50% +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £16.00 - £12.53
25th Percentile £16.63 £12.25 £12.56
Median hourly rate £22.50 £12.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -12.28% +2.50%
75th Percentile £38.13 £12.75 £16.27
90th Percentile £41.25 - £16.51
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
% change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in South Wales

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in South Wales

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cardiff - 3 £200 - 3
Glamorgan - 1 - - 2
PaaS
Wales

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Linode
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Development
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy