PaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 241 210 170
Rank change year-on-year -31 -40 -18
Contract jobs citing PaaS 157 267 462
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.14% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 3.42% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 188 346
10th Percentile £413 £463 £413
25th Percentile £500 £512 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +8.49% +6.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £693 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile - £70.87 £72.50
25th Percentile £25.50 £71.42 £75.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +104.65%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £86.23
90th Percentile £27.88 £80.39 £87.42
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +36.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK excluding London 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
South West +37 64 £650 +17.91% 17
North of England +12 35 £575 +4.55% 28
South East -33 31 £525 -12.50% 28
North West +1 24 £595 +8.18% 13
Midlands +9 19 £625 -7.41% 20
West Midlands +1 17 £625 -9.09% 13
Scotland +28 10 £600 +6.67% 11
Yorkshire +15 10 £525 -16.00% 9
East Midlands +19 2 - - 7
North East +10 1 £650 +8.33% 6
East of England -4 1 £350 -26.32% 8
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (4.46%) Confluence
2 4 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.64%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.64%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 106 (67.52%) SaaS
2 103 (65.61%) IaaS
3 74 (47.13%) Azure
4 35 (22.29%) Cloud Computing
5 32 (20.38%) AWS
6 21 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 11 (7.01%) Google Workspace
7 11 (7.01%) Serverless
8 10 (6.37%) Entra ID
9 8 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.46%) Azure API Management
10 7 (4.46%) Azure Functions
10 7 (4.46%) GCP
10 7 (4.46%) OCI
11 6 (3.82%) Azure AKS
11 6 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.18%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.38%) LAN
1 32 (20.38%) WAN
2 18 (11.46%) VPN
3 12 (7.64%) PBX
3 12 (7.64%) VoIP
4 10 (6.37%) DNS
5 9 (5.73%) Firewall
6 6 (3.82%) Network Security
7 5 (3.18%) IPsec
8 3 (1.91%) SSL
9 2 (1.27%) BGP
9 2 (1.27%) OSPF
9 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.64%) DHCP
10 1 (0.64%) FTP
10 1 (0.64%) Internet
10 1 (0.64%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.64%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.91%) Big Data
3 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.27%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (9.55%) Git
2 13 (8.28%) JIRA
3 9 (5.73%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (5.10%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.18%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.55%) Selenium
6 4 (2.55%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.91%) Postman
7 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.27%) GitLab
8 2 (1.27%) JMeter
8 2 (1.27%) Moq
8 2 (1.27%) NUnit
8 2 (1.27%) Snyk
8 2 (1.27%) Subversion
8 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.27%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.64%) Maven
General
1 53 (33.76%) Public Sector
2 16 (10.19%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.19%) Telecoms
3 13 (8.28%) Finance
4 9 (5.73%) Legal
5 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Digital Economy
7 6 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.55%) Marketing
9 3 (1.91%) Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Electronics
10 2 (1.27%) Automotive
10 2 (1.27%) Law
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.64%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (47.13%) Architect
2 27 (17.20%) Network Architect
3 24 (15.29%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (8.28%) Developer
4 13 (8.28%) Senior
5 12 (7.64%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (7.64%) Lead
6 9 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.10%) Administrator
8 6 (3.82%) C# Developer
9 5 (3.18%) Analyst
10 4 (2.55%) AWS Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Consultant
10 4 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.55%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Security Architect
10 4 (2.55%) SharePoint Administrator
10 4 (2.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.46%) .NET
2 10 (6.37%) Web Services
3 8 (5.10%) Middleware
4 7 (4.46%) JSON
5 4 (2.55%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.55%) YAML
6 3 (1.91%) .NET Core
6 3 (1.91%) J2EE
6 3 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.27%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.27%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.27%) Kafka
7 2 (1.27%) ModSecurity
7 2 (1.27%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.27%) REST
7 2 (1.27%) RESTful
7 2 (1.27%) SOAP
7 2 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.47%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.64%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (7.01%) Public Cloud
4 9 (5.73%) Blackberry
4 9 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.73%) Virtual Team
5 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.18%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.18%) PKI
7 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.55%) Replication
7 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.91%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.27%) Clustering
9 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.19%) Linux
2 13 (8.28%) Windows
3 5 (3.18%) VMS
3 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.20%) DevOps
2 37 (23.57%) Agile
3 36 (22.93%) Zero Trust
4 33 (21.02%) Open Source
5 30 (19.11%) Business Strategy
6 28 (17.83%) CI/CD
7 27 (17.20%) Network Management
8 24 (15.29%) Roadmaps
9 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (12.10%) TOGAF
10 18 (11.46%) Scrum
11 17 (10.83%) Enterprise Architecture
11 17 (10.83%) ITIL
11 17 (10.83%) Migration
12 16 (10.19%) Waterfall
13 15 (9.55%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (8.92%) Cloud Security
15 13 (8.28%) Customer Requirements
15 13 (8.28%) Decision-Making
15 13 (8.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.10%) PowerShell
2 16 (10.19%) C#
3 15 (9.55%) Python
3 15 (9.55%) SQL
4 6 (3.82%) Java
4 6 (3.82%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.55%) Bash
5 4 (2.55%) Bicep
5 4 (2.55%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.91%) Julia
6 3 (1.91%) Perl
6 3 (1.91%) PHP
6 3 (1.91%) Ruby
7 2 (1.27%) C++
7 2 (1.27%) VBA
7 2 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (38.85%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.75%) DV Cleared
3 26 (16.56%) Degree
4 23 (14.65%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.37%) PMI Certification
5 10 (6.37%) PMP
6 9 (5.73%) APMP
7 8 (5.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (4.46%) HND
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.18%) CISSP
11 4 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.91%) CCNP
12 3 (1.91%) CISM
12 3 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.91%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.91%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.64%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (11.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (7.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.37%) Hyper-V
4 9 (5.73%) Docker
4 9 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.64%) HDFS
8 1 (0.64%) KVM
8 1 (0.64%) NFS
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (10.83%) Terraform
2 14 (8.92%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.01%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.46%) Ansible
5 2 (1.27%) Argo
5 2 (1.27%) OPNET
5 2 (1.27%) PowerCLI
5 2 (1.27%) Puppet
5 2 (1.27%) SCCM
6 1 (0.64%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.64%) Grafana
6 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.64%) Nagios
6 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) QRadar
6 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (40.13%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.56%) Google
3 23 (14.65%) Oracle
4 21 (13.38%) VMware
5 14 (8.92%) Cisco
6 10 (6.37%) Salesforce
7 9 (5.73%) Avaya
7 9 (5.73%) Ericsson
7 9 (5.73%) IBM
7 9 (5.73%) Juniper
7 9 (5.73%) Nokia
7 9 (5.73%) Ribbon
8 5 (3.18%) SAP
9 3 (1.91%) Okta
9 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.91%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.27%) CA
10 2 (1.27%) Meraki
10 2 (1.27%) Splunk