PaaS Contracts in the South West

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 128 135
Rank change year-on-year +37 +7 -43
Contract jobs citing PaaS 64 41 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.03% 1.16% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.07% 3.37% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 24
10th Percentile £475 - £450
25th Percentile £563 £513 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £553 £538
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +2.79% +9.69%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £641
90th Percentile - £808 £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £70.87 £72.50
25th Percentile - £71.42 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -4.72% +104.65%
75th Percentile - - £86.23
90th Percentile - £80.39 £87.42
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 793 1,216 1,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.14% 34.27% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 979 859
10th Percentile £205 £298 £250
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £592
90th Percentile £688 £719 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 56 22
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.40 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.69 £18.13
Median hourly rate £15.20 £51.68 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.60% +106.70% -44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £53.78
England median hourly rate £20.97 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -35.08% +51.55% +0.95%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the South West

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South West

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the South West

PaaS
Contract 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 7 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
Wiltshire +31 34 £650 +13.04% 3
Bristol +27 20 £600 +14.29% 7
Gloucestershire -6 6 £500 -22.18% 4
Devon -2 4 £600 -20.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 46 (71.88%) SaaS
2 41 (64.06%) IaaS
3 28 (43.75%) Cloud Computing
4 18 (28.13%) Azure
5 14 (21.88%) AWS
6 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
6 5 (7.81%) GCP
7 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (4.69%) OCI
8 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (42.19%) LAN
1 27 (42.19%) WAN
2 12 (18.75%) PBX
2 12 (18.75%) VoIP
3 5 (7.81%) VPN
4 4 (6.25%) DNS
5 3 (4.69%) Firewall
6 1 (1.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Power BI
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) Snyk
3 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 36 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 13 (20.31%) Telecoms
3 7 (10.94%) Digital Economy
4 2 (3.13%) Banking
4 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Electronics
5 1 (1.56%) Finance
5 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (75.00%) Architect
2 27 (42.19%) Network Architect
3 15 (23.44%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.13%) Automation Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Office Automation Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.13%) .NET
1 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
1 2 (3.13%) Middleware
1 2 (3.13%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 27 (42.19%) Data Centre
2 12 (18.75%) Video Conferencing
3 9 (14.06%) Blackberry
4 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) PKI
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) VMS
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (54.69%) Zero Trust
2 29 (45.31%) Business Strategy
3 28 (43.75%) Open Source
4 27 (42.19%) Network Management
5 12 (18.75%) TOGAF
6 11 (17.19%) ArchiMate
6 11 (17.19%) Enterprise Architecture
7 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
7 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 9 (14.06%) BPMN
8 9 (14.06%) ITIL
9 7 (10.94%) Agile
9 7 (10.94%) Architecture Governance
9 7 (10.94%) Customer Engagement
9 7 (10.94%) Decision-Making
9 7 (10.94%) Digital Strategy
9 7 (10.94%) PQQ
9 7 (10.94%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
10 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.50%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.25%) Bash
4 3 (4.69%) Bicep
4 3 (4.69%) Julia
4 3 (4.69%) Perl
4 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (76.56%) Security Cleared
2 42 (65.63%) DV Cleared
3 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 10 (15.63%) Degree
5 8 (12.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (10.94%) HND
7 3 (4.69%) CCNP
7 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (4.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.13%) Docker
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Argo
4 2 (3.13%) OPNET
4 2 (3.13%) PowerCLI
4 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Google
3 11 (17.19%) Cisco
4 9 (14.06%) Avaya
4 9 (14.06%) Ericsson
4 9 (14.06%) IBM
4 9 (14.06%) Juniper
4 9 (14.06%) Nokia
4 9 (14.06%) Ribbon
4 9 (14.06%) VMware
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.13%) CA
7 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.56%) SAP