PaaS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 99 126
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 +16
Contract jobs citing PaaS 7 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.30% 1.28% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 4.35% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 19
10th Percentile £526 £465 £413
25th Percentile £566 £522 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £645
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -6.98% +12.17%
75th Percentile £584 £650 £694
90th Percentile £663 £719 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £46.00 - £82.75
% change year-on-year - - +18.21%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 671 620 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.76% 29.38% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 414 670
10th Percentile £253 £250 £231
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 33
10th Percentile - £12.80 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.75 £14.93
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%
75th Percentile £47.41 £69.06 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.09 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the South West

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South West

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Somerset 0 3 £575 - 3
Bristol -10 3 £533 -4.91% 4
Gloucestershire - 1 £725 - 1
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) IaaS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Stack
4 1 (14.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) PBX
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) XSD
1 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Cost Management
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Operational Stability
3 3 (42.86%) Runbook
3 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 3 (42.86%) SOAR
3 3 (42.86%) Zero Trust
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bicep
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SSCP
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Avaya
3 1 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Ericsson
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Nokia
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Ribbon