PaaS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing PaaS 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.80% - 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile £513 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.44%
75th Percentile £700 - £558
90th Percentile £716 - £583
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 431 92 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 43.32% 31.94% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 72 71
10th Percentile £326 £350 £188
25th Percentile £413 £452 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £546 £611 £587
90th Percentile £625 £650 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £494 £488
% change year-on-year -1.37% +1.28% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -65.32%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in South Yorkshire

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 March 2026. 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
Sheffield - 8 £525 - 1
PaaS
Yorkshire

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Database Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) API Development
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft