PaaS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 96 56
Rank change year-on-year -10 -40 0
Contract jobs citing PaaS 21 35 98
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.11% 1.63% 3.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.85% 4.74% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 26
10th Percentile £409 £504 £405
25th Percentile £413 £516 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +4.17% +27.66%
75th Percentile £500 £641 £638
90th Percentile £545 £800 £680
South East median daily rate £465 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -19.83% -3.33% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 738 738 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 39.15% 34.34% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 487 540
10th Percentile £250 £350 £212
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £476 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.07% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 18
10th Percentile - £19.14 £18.82
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +26.26% +60.29%
75th Percentile £40.65 £60.83 £70.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £32.31
% change year-on-year -60.38% +47.01% +53.86%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

PaaS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the Thames Valley

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PaaS

PaaS
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 16 November 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
Berkshire -3 18 £425 -30.89% 4
Buckinghamshire -2 2 £500 -20.00% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 3
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) IaaS
2 16 (76.19%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) Azure Storage
3 8 (38.10%) SaaS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure AKS
4 7 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) AWS
5 4 (19.05%) GCP
6 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.52%) dbt
7 2 (9.52%) Fivetran
7 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (9.52%) OCI
7 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (14.29%) Retail
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Architect
3 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Site Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle Security Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Security Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) ADO
2 2 (9.52%) Jinja
2 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) Swagger
3 1 (4.76%) WSDL
3 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (9.52%) Mainframe
1 2 (9.52%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (23.81%) Security Operations
6 3 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
7 2 (9.52%) Application Packaging
7 2 (9.52%) Business Transformation
7 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (9.52%) Cyber Resilience
7 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) DataOps
7 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
7 2 (9.52%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
7 2 (9.52%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
1 2 (9.52%) CISSP
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (9.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) logstash
3 2 (9.52%) SCCM
3 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) CheckPoint
2 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Qualys
2 2 (9.52%) Tenable
3 1 (4.76%) Workday