PaaS Contracts in the South West

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 95 116
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing PaaS 13 47 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.68% 1.72% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 6.44% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 32 24
10th Percentile £520 £523 -
25th Percentile £553 £572 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £644 £576
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% +11.71% +2.44%
75th Percentile £859 £675 £675
90th Percentile £900 - £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £71.24
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.80
England median hourly rate £60.00 £38.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +55.84% -50.64% -4.72%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 567 730 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.53% 26.70% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 509 767
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £350 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £674
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 46 59
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.63 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £30.75 £19.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +76.99% +97.75%
75th Percentile £34.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.40
England median hourly rate £26.15 £28.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -6.61% -15.15% +54.21%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +9 9 £550 -12.00% 1
Gloucestershire +23 3 £900 +46.94% 3
Wiltshire -11 1 - -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (76.92%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) IaaS
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Stack
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) PBX
1 9 (69.23%) VoIP
2 2 (15.38%) 4G
2 2 (15.38%) 5G
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
General
1 9 (69.23%) Telecoms
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Chief Technology Officer
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Blackberry
1 8 (61.54%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) IoT
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Commercial Awareness
1 9 (69.23%) Impact Assessments
1 9 (69.23%) Migration
1 9 (69.23%) Root Cause Analysis
1 9 (69.23%) Thought Leadership
2 8 (61.54%) Customer Requirements
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Roadmaps
2 8 (61.54%) Service Design
2 8 (61.54%) Validation
3 7 (53.85%) Cost Reduction
3 7 (53.85%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.69%) ArchiMate
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) DV Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (61.54%) CCNP
3 8 (61.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (7.69%) CCSP
5 1 (7.69%) CISM
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 9 (69.23%) Cisco
2 9 (69.23%) Ericsson
2 9 (69.23%) F5
2 9 (69.23%) Juniper
2 9 (69.23%) Nokia
2 9 (69.23%) Palo Alto
3 8 (61.54%) Avaya
3 8 (61.54%) Ribbon
4 1 (7.69%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle