PaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 99 112
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -25
Contract jobs citing PaaS 54 53 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.01% 1.80% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.98% 6.29% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 46 46
10th Percentile £425 £480 £395
25th Percentile £452 £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £528
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +13.74% +11.64%
75th Percentile £644 £719 £625
90th Percentile £779 £793 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +21.69%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 774 843 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.76% 28.69% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 615 835
10th Percentile £274 £305 £180
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £596
90th Percentile £688 £698 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.92% +34.10% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.73 £57.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
% change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -4.32%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Berkshire +13 49 £515 -26.43% 4
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £600 +17.65% 4
Oxfordshire +9 2 £465 -24.08% 1
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle AGIS
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 44 (81.48%) SaaS
2 43 (79.63%) IaaS
3 17 (31.48%) Azure
4 10 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (9.26%) Azure API Management
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.41%) AWS
8 3 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.56%) Serverless
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Stack
9 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.70%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (61.11%) 5G
1 33 (61.11%) Broadband
2 6 (11.11%) VPN
3 3 (5.56%) DNS
3 3 (5.56%) Firewall
4 2 (3.70%) LAN
4 2 (3.70%) Network Security
4 2 (3.70%) WAN
4 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.70%) Big Data
2 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.70%) Postman
4 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (61.11%) Law
1 33 (61.11%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.85%) Retail
4 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (61.11%) Penetration Tester
1 33 (61.11%) Security Penetration Tester
1 33 (61.11%) Security Specialist
1 33 (61.11%) Security Tester
1 33 (61.11%) Tester
1 33 (61.11%) Testing Specialist
2 6 (11.11%) C# Developer
2 6 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (9.26%) Architect
4 4 (7.41%) Lead
5 3 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Developer
6 2 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (3.70%) Product Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Consultant
7 1 (1.85%) IT Consultant
7 1 (1.85%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (64.81%) Web Services
2 3 (5.56%) .NET
3 2 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.70%) JSON
3 2 (3.70%) OpenAPI
3 2 (3.70%) Swagger
4 1 (1.85%) OAuth
4 1 (1.85%) OpenID
4 1 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) SOAP
4 1 (1.85%) XML
4 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (61.11%) Mobile App
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) Cybersecurity
2 35 (64.81%) Penetration Testing
2 35 (64.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (62.96%) Application Security
3 34 (62.96%) Security Testing
4 33 (61.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 33 (61.11%) OWASP
5 15 (27.78%) DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) Scrum
7 8 (14.81%) Agile
8 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 6 (11.11%) API Management
9 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
9 6 (11.11%) Data Protection
9 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 5 (9.26%) DevSecOps
10 5 (9.26%) Microservices
10 5 (9.26%) Migration
11 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) C#
2 6 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.56%) Python
4 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (3.70%) PHP
5 2 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 34 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 33 (61.11%) CREST Certified
2 33 (61.11%) GIAC
2 33 (61.11%) GPEN
2 33 (61.11%) OSCP
2 33 (61.11%) SANS
3 4 (7.41%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (61.11%) GDPR
1 33 (61.11%) NCSC
1 33 (61.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.56%) Docker
4 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) SCCM
2 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (61.11%) Virgin Media
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) VMware
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Meraki
5 1 (1.85%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Red Hat