PaaS Contracts in the South East

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 128 134
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 -29
Contract jobs citing PaaS 31 90 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.56% 1.58% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.36% 5.27% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 74 110
10th Percentile £425 £480 £438
25th Percentile £458 £513 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £625 £719 £638
90th Percentile £745 £799 £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

All Cloud Skills
South East

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,314 1,708 2,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.86% 30.02% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,242 1,763
10th Percentile £251 £253 £201
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.51 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.28
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +8.46% +1.07%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley -17 24 £530 -11.67% 10
Berkshire -14 18 £515 -26.43% 5
Buckinghamshire +6 4 £600 +18.23% 4
West Sussex +7 3 £347 -57.99%
Oxfordshire +5 2 £465 -24.08% 1
Surrey +16 1 - - 3
East Sussex +4 1 £625 -34.21% 1
Hampshire -24 1 - - 6
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) SaaS
3 15 (48.39%) IaaS
4 11 (35.48%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (25.81%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (22.58%) AWS
6 7 (22.58%) Azure API Management
7 5 (16.13%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (16.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
8 4 (12.90%) Azure Functions
8 4 (12.90%) Serverless
9 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
9 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (9.68%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (6.45%) Azure Stack
10 2 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (6.45%) Google Workspace
11 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) VPN
2 3 (9.68%) DNS
2 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) Network Security
3 2 (6.45%) LAN
3 2 (6.45%) SSL
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) Big Data
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 5 (16.13%) JIRA
3 4 (12.90%) Visual Studio
4 3 (9.68%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.45%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) Postman
5 2 (6.45%) Selenium
6 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.23%) Maven
6 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Automotive
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Lead
3 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 6 (19.35%) C# Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Product Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) ERP Specialist
7 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.68%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 2 (6.45%) Swagger
4 1 (3.23%) OAuth
4 1 (3.23%) OpenID
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Public Cloud
2 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Windows
3 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Scrum
4 8 (25.81%) API Management
4 8 (25.81%) Cloud Security
4 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
5 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Data Protection
5 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
5 7 (22.58%) Microservices
5 7 (22.58%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (19.35%) High Availability
6 6 (19.35%) Network Architecture
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) Security Architecture
7 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.90%) Affinity Analysis
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) C#
2 7 (22.58%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (16.13%) Python
5 3 (9.68%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) PHP
5 3 (9.68%) Ruby
5 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) CCNA
5 1 (3.23%) CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (16.13%) Docker
4 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.68%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) VMware
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) Meraki
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk