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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing PaaS 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.15% - 1.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% - 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £609
25th Percentile £563 - £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £610
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.07%
75th Percentile £588 - £610
90th Percentile - - £610
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £638 £555
% change year-on-year -23.53% +14.86% -1.33%

All Cloud 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 228 130 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 33.53% 28.70% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 83 108
10th Percentile £304 £400 £400
25th Percentile £384 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £592
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -12.09% +7.55%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £621 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £489 £495 £515
% change year-on-year -1.26% -3.88% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

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 23 October 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
Sheffield - 1 £575 - 2
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform