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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing PaaS 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.63% - 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% - 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £609
25th Percentile £513 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £610
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.07%
75th Percentile £550 - £610
90th Percentile £573 - £610
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £425 £530
% change year-on-year +26.47% -19.81% -3.64%

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 317 81 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.23% 27.65% 25.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 53 89
10th Percentile £310 £365 £345
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £510 £561
Median % change year-on-year -6.08% -9.09% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £609
90th Percentile £613 £695 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £45.00 £41.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% - +64.00%

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
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 4 January 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 - 5 £525 -
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 5 (100.00%) IaaS
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (60.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft