PaaS Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	214	270	482
Rank change year-on-year	+56	+212
Contract jobs citing PaaS	528	468	165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.14%	0.87%	0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category	8.41%	8.88%	4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted	356	329	93
Median daily rate	£550	£518	£480
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.28%	+7.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£400	£334
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£700	£700	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£520	£500	£450
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	+11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	2
Median hourly rate	£65.00	£47.25	£50.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+37.56%	-5.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£65.00	-	£50.00

PaaS is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract Cloud Computing Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	6280	5268	3401
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.58%	9.80%	6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted	4273	3701	2214
Median daily rate	£475	£463	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.70%	+12.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£313	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£400
% change year-on-year	-	+12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	104	78	70
Median hourly rate	£26.08	£19.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+37.26%	-45.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.50	£13.87
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£16.14	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+79.64%	-41.30%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing PaaS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PaaS over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS.

Contractor hourly rate trend for PaaS in the UK

PaaS
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+62	502	£550	+5.26%	86
London	+62	267	£563	+2.27%	42
South East	+14	89	£500	+5.26%	19
North West	+33	41	£600	+37.93%	4
Buckinghamshire	-	33	£550	-	4
South West	+10	28	£400	-20.00%	4
East of England	+8	27	£550	+33.33%	4
West Midlands	+38	26	£550	+10.00%	9
Hampshire	+14	26	£460	-3.15%	5
Milton Keynes	-	24	£600	-	3
Scotland	+51	22	£488	-7.14%	2
Edinburgh	+23	19	£475	+5.55%	1
Cheshire	+30	18	£625	+56.25%	2
Essex	-	18	£544	-
City of London	-5	17	£600	+9.09%	8
Devon	-	15	£400	-
Surrey	-7	14	£475	+1.06%	2
Plymouth	-	14	£400	-
Manchester	+15	13	£600	+20.00%	2
Yorkshire	-11	13	£475	-8.21%	2
Birmingham	+20	12	£550	+3.52%	2
East Midlands	+3	11	£525	-32.25%	2
Warrington	+24	10	£650	+62.50%
Berkshire	+9	9	£450	-	5
Swindon	+1	8	£700	+1.81%	1
Wiltshire	+1	8	£700	+40.00%	2
West Yorkshire	-6	8	£475	-11.62%	1
Fareham	+4	7	£525	-
Leeds	-8	7	£475	-9.52%	1
Lancashire	+9	5	£473	+24.34%

PaaS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing PaaS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for PaaS.

1	475 (48.72%)	IaaS
2	406 (41.64%)	Agile Software Development
3	389 (39.90%)	DevOps
4	360 (36.92%)	Microsoft Azure
5	331 (33.95%)	Amazon AWS
6	228 (23.38%)	Java
7	224 (22.97%)	Microsoft
8	222 (22.77%)	SaaS
9	217 (22.26%)	Linux
10	198 (20.31%)	Finance
11	193 (19.79%)	Python
12	189 (19.38%)	Cloud Foundry
13	184 (18.87%)	Windows
14	177 (18.15%)	Opscode Chef
15	176 (18.05%)	Puppet

16	158 (16.21%)	Continuous Integration
17	155 (15.90%)	Ansible
18	152 (15.59%)	Jenkins
19	150 (15.38%)	Microservices
20	149 (15.28%)	Open Source
21	147 (15.08%)	Docker
22	141 (14.46%)	Scrum
23	119 (12.21%)	Git (software)
24	116 (11.90%)	Security Cleared
25	114 (11.69%)	Web Services
26	112 (11.49%)	SOA
26	112 (11.49%)	Configuration Management
26	112 (11.49%)	VMware
27	104 (10.67%)	.NET
28	101 (10.36%)	TDD

PaaS
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	189 (19.38%)	Cloud Foundry
2	64 (6.56%)	OpenStack
3	43 (4.41%)	nginx
4	42 (4.31%)	SharePoint
5	38 (3.90%)	IIS
6	29 (2.97%)	Oracle SOA Suite
7	25 (2.56%)	BizTalk Server
7	25 (2.56%)	Confluence
8	21 (2.15%)	Tomcat
9	18 (1.85%)	Skype for Business
10	17 (1.74%)	WebLogic
11	16 (1.64%)	WebSphere
12	14 (1.44%)	JBoss
13	13 (1.33%)	CMS
14	12 (1.23%)	Apache
15	11 (1.13%)	Hubot
16	9 (0.92%)	Anypoint
16	9 (0.92%)	Drupal
17	8 (0.82%)	Apache Spark
17	8 (0.82%)	Oracle Coherence

Applications
1	8 (0.82%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (0.21%)	Microsoft Excel
2	2 (0.21%)	MS Visio
2	2 (0.21%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	42 (4.31%)	Dynamics CRM
2	21 (2.15%)	Dynamics AX
3	10 (1.03%)	Oracle EBS
4	9 (0.92%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	8 (0.82%)	Oracle iRecruitment
6	7 (0.72%)	Oracle ERP
7	5 (0.51%)	Oracle Payables
7	5 (0.51%)	Oracle Retail
8	4 (0.41%)	Oracle EBS R12
9	3 (0.31%)	Oracle FAH
9	3 (0.31%)	Oracle Receivables
10	1 (0.10%)	Dynamics NAV
10	1 (0.10%)	Magento
10	1 (0.10%)	NetSuite
10	1 (0.10%)	Odoo
10	1 (0.10%)	Oracle Financials
10	1 (0.10%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	475 (48.72%)	IaaS
2	360 (36.92%)	Microsoft Azure
3	331 (33.95%)	Amazon AWS
4	222 (22.77%)	SaaS
5	97 (9.95%)	OpenShift
6	54 (5.54%)	Office 365
7	41 (4.21%)	GitHub
8	37 (3.79%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	32 (3.28%)	IBM Cloud
10	31 (3.18%)	Cloud Computing
11	30 (3.08%)	Azure Active Directory
12	28 (2.87%)	Bluemix
13	26 (2.67%)	Amazon EC2
14	22 (2.26%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
14	22 (2.26%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	21 (2.15%)	Amazon S3
15	21 (2.15%)	Heroku
16	18 (1.85%)	Google Cloud Platform
17	17 (1.74%)	Dynamics 365
18	15 (1.54%)	CloudFront

Communications & Networking
1	58 (5.95%)	Firewall
2	52 (5.33%)	DNS
3	48 (4.92%)	VPN
4	26 (2.67%)	Internet
4	26 (2.67%)	LAN
5	25 (2.56%)	Network Security
5	25 (2.56%)	SSL
5	25 (2.56%)	WAN
6	23 (2.36%)	HTTP
7	22 (2.26%)	TCP/IP
8	15 (1.54%)	LDAP
9	12 (1.23%)	IPsec
9	12 (1.23%)	Skype
10	9 (0.92%)	Intranet
10	9 (0.92%)	Kerberos
10	9 (0.92%)	Wi-Fi
11	7 (0.72%)	Cisco Nexus
11	7 (0.72%)	NetScaler
11	7 (0.72%)	SAN
12	6 (0.62%)	Software-Defined Networking

Database & Business Intelligence
1	96 (9.85%)	SQL Server
2	80 (8.21%)	MongoDB
3	39 (4.00%)	Big Data
4	37 (3.79%)	PostgreSQL
5	35 (3.59%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	30 (3.08%)	Azure SQL Database
6	30 (3.08%)	Redis
7	29 (2.97%)	SQL Server 2008
8	28 (2.87%)	NoSQL
9	24 (2.46%)	Hadoop
10	22 (2.26%)	Relational Database
11	20 (2.05%)	Amazon RDS
12	19 (1.95%)	SQL Server 2012
13	16 (1.64%)	Data Warehouse
14	15 (1.54%)	Power BI
15	14 (1.44%)	SQL Server 2016
16	12 (1.23%)	Data Lake
17	10 (1.03%)	Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18	9 (0.92%)	Amazon DynamoDB
18	9 (0.92%)	Apache Cassandra

Development Applications
1	152 (15.59%)	Jenkins
2	119 (12.21%)	Git (software)
3	54 (5.54%)	JIRA
4	46 (4.72%)	Team Foundation Server
5	44 (4.51%)	Maven
6	31 (3.18%)	Travis CI
7	30 (3.08%)	Selenium
8	29 (2.97%)	Visual Studio Team System
9	27 (2.77%)	Gradle
9	27 (2.77%)	IBM UrbanCode
10	22 (2.26%)	gulp
11	20 (2.05%)	CircleCI
11	20 (2.05%)	Visual Studio
12	16 (1.64%)	GitLab
12	16 (1.64%)	Sonatype Nexus
13	13 (1.33%)	Bitbucket
13	13 (1.33%)	Cucumber
13	13 (1.33%)	JMeter
14	12 (1.23%)	Subversion
14	12 (1.23%)	TeamCity

General
1	198 (20.31%)	Finance
2	88 (9.03%)	Banking
3	31 (3.18%)	Retail
4	17 (1.74%)	Billing
4	17 (1.74%)	Telecoms
5	13 (1.33%)	Financial Institution
5	13 (1.33%)	Marketing
6	12 (1.23%)	Law
7	11 (1.13%)	Legal
7	11 (1.13%)	Manufacturing
8	10 (1.03%)	Local Government
9	9 (0.92%)	Advertising
9	9 (0.92%)	Electronics
10	7 (0.72%)	Investment Banking
11	5 (0.51%)	Publishing
12	4 (0.41%)	Retail Banking
13	3 (0.31%)	Front Office
13	3 (0.31%)	General Ledger
13	3 (0.31%)	International Banking
13	3 (0.31%)	Military

Job Titles
1	277 (28.41%)	Architect
2	186 (19.08%)	Developer
3	145 (14.87%)	DevOps Engineer
4	112 (11.49%)	Cloud Architect
5	78 (8.00%)	Consultant
6	59 (6.05%)	AWS Engineer
7	58 (5.95%)	Technical Architect
8	54 (5.54%)	Cloud Engineer
9	49 (5.03%)	AWS DevOps
10	47 (4.82%)	Azure Architect
10	47 (4.82%)	Solutions Architect
11	44 (4.51%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
12	40 (4.10%)	Infrastructure Architect
13	35 (3.59%)	Azure Engineer
14	34 (3.49%)	.NET Developer
14	34 (3.49%)	Azure Consultant
15	32 (3.28%)	AWS Architect
15	32 (3.28%)	Platform Engineer
16	31 (3.18%)	Operations Engineer
17	30 (3.08%)	Security Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	114 (11.69%)	Web Services
2	104 (10.67%)	.NET
3	86 (8.82%)	Node.js
4	76 (7.79%)	Spring
5	69 (7.08%)	RESTful
6	68 (6.97%)	REST
7	67 (6.87%)	JSON
8	53 (5.44%)	SOAP
9	49 (5.03%)	Middleware
10	45 (4.62%)	HTML
11	44 (4.51%)	Spring Boot
12	38 (3.90%)	AngularJS
13	36 (3.69%)	XML
14	35 (3.59%)	J2EE
14	35 (3.59%)	WCF
15	27 (2.77%)	.NET Framework
15	27 (2.77%)	Django
15	27 (2.77%)	Flask
15	27 (2.77%)	OAuth
16	25 (2.56%)	CSS

Miscellaneous
1	77 (7.90%)	Data Centre
2	52 (5.33%)	Analytical Skills
3	40 (4.10%)	Cloud Native
4	38 (3.90%)	Private Cloud
5	34 (3.49%)	Greenfield Project
6	33 (3.38%)	Public Cloud
7	25 (2.56%)	Hybrid Cloud
7	25 (2.56%)	User Experience
8	20 (2.05%)	Management Information System
9	19 (1.95%)	Computer Science
10	15 (1.54%)	Mobile App
11	13 (1.33%)	Virtual Team
12	12 (1.23%)	Enterprise Software
13	11 (1.13%)	PKI
14	10 (1.03%)	Fintech
15	9 (0.92%)	Data Protection Act
16	7 (0.72%)	CMDB
16	7 (0.72%)	Mobile Banking
17	6 (0.62%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
18	5 (0.51%)	Linux Command Line

Operating Systems
1	217 (22.26%)	Linux
2	184 (18.87%)	Windows
3	74 (7.59%)	Unix
4	56 (5.74%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	39 (4.00%)	Windows Server
6	15 (1.54%)	Ubuntu
7	14 (1.44%)	Windows Server 2008
8	13 (1.33%)	Windows Server 2012
9	10 (1.03%)	CoreOS
10	9 (0.92%)	Windows 10
11	4 (0.41%)	AIX
11	4 (0.41%)	Android
11	4 (0.41%)	Apple iOS
11	4 (0.41%)	HPUX
11	4 (0.41%)	Solaris
11	4 (0.41%)	VMS
12	2 (0.21%)	CentOS
13	1 (0.10%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	406 (41.64%)	Agile Software Development
2	389 (39.90%)	DevOps
3	158 (16.21%)	Continuous Integration
4	150 (15.38%)	Microservices
5	149 (15.28%)	Open Source
6	141 (14.46%)	Scrum
7	112 (11.49%)	Configuration Management
7	112 (11.49%)	SOA
8	101 (10.36%)	TDD
9	95 (9.74%)	Continuous Delivery
10	91 (9.33%)	Migration
11	73 (7.49%)	ITIL
12	64 (6.56%)	Business Intelligence
13	63 (6.46%)	Kanban
14	55 (5.64%)	Enterprise Architecture
15	52 (5.33%)	Software Engineering
15	52 (5.33%)	TOGAF
16	50 (5.13%)	Test Automation
17	49 (5.03%)	Digital Transformation Programme
18	46 (4.72%)	ERP

Programming Languages
1	228 (23.38%)	Java
2	193 (19.79%)	Python
3	95 (9.74%)	SQL
4	81 (8.31%)	JavaScript
4	81 (8.31%)	Ruby
5	78 (8.00%)	PowerShell
6	70 (7.18%)	Go
7	61 (6.26%)	C#
8	49 (5.03%)	Groovy
9	38 (3.90%)	Perl
10	35 (3.59%)	Bash Shell
11	32 (3.28%)	Shell Script
12	23 (2.36%)	PHP
13	15 (1.54%)	TypeScript
14	14 (1.44%)	C++
14	14 (1.44%)	Scala
15	11 (1.13%)	CoffeeScript
15	11 (1.13%)	PL/SQL
16	10 (1.03%)	C
16	10 (1.03%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	116 (11.90%)	Security Cleared
2	92 (9.44%)	SC Cleared
3	44 (4.51%)	Degree
4	22 (2.26%)	Microsoft Certification
5	14 (1.44%)	MCSE
6	12 (1.23%)	BPSS Clearance
6	12 (1.23%)	Cisco Certification
6	12 (1.23%)	CISSP
7	10 (1.03%)	AWS Certification
8	8 (0.82%)	Computer Science Degree
8	8 (0.82%)	ITIL Certification
9	6 (0.62%)	CISM
10	5 (0.51%)	CISA
10	5 (0.51%)	DV Cleared
10	5 (0.51%)	VCAP
10	5 (0.51%)	VCP6
10	5 (0.51%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11	4 (0.41%)	BC Cleared
11	4 (0.41%)	CCNA
11	4 (0.41%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	23 (2.36%)	QA
2	12 (1.23%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	8 (0.82%)	COBIT
3	8 (0.82%)	GDPR
4	6 (0.62%)	PMO
5	5 (0.51%)	SLA
6	3 (0.31%)	JSP 440
7	2 (0.21%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	2 (0.21%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	2 (0.21%)	PCI DSS
7	2 (0.21%)	RMADS
8	1 (0.10%)	GCP
8	1 (0.10%)	GxP
8	1 (0.10%)	ISO/IEC 20000
8	1 (0.10%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	147 (15.08%)	Docker
2	74 (7.59%)	Active Directory
3	46 (4.72%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	44 (4.51%)	Virtual Machines
5	22 (2.26%)	Hyper-V
6	16 (1.64%)	vSphere
7	11 (1.13%)	vCloud
7	11 (1.13%)	VMware ESXi
8	7 (0.72%)	XenDesktop
8	7 (0.72%)	XenServer
9	5 (0.51%)	pfSense
10	4 (0.41%)	Microsoft App-V
11	3 (0.31%)	HDFS
11	3 (0.31%)	KVM
12	1 (0.10%)	Apache ZooKeeper
12	1 (0.10%)	GFS2
12	1 (0.10%)	OCFS2
12	1 (0.10%)	Virtual Desktop
12	1 (0.10%)	Virtual Servers
12	1 (0.10%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	177 (18.15%)	Opscode Chef
2	176 (18.05%)	Puppet
3	155 (15.90%)	Ansible
4	73 (7.49%)	Kubernetes
5	55 (5.64%)	Terraform
6	25 (2.56%)	Salt
7	17 (1.74%)	vRealize
8	14 (1.44%)	Consul
8	14 (1.44%)	SCCM
8	14 (1.44%)	SCOM
9	12 (1.23%)	Mesos
9	12 (1.23%)	Nagios
10	9 (0.92%)	logstash
11	6 (0.62%)	Marathon
12	4 (0.41%)	Cacti
12	4 (0.41%)	Failover Clustering
12	4 (0.41%)	Graphite
12	4 (0.41%)	Kibana
12	4 (0.41%)	Red Hat Satellite
12	4 (0.41%)	SELinux

Vendors
1	224 (22.97%)	Microsoft
2	112 (11.49%)	VMware
3	87 (8.92%)	Oracle
4	64 (6.56%)	Red Hat
5	40 (4.10%)	Splunk
6	31 (3.18%)	IBM
7	29 (2.97%)	Salesforce.com
8	27 (2.77%)	Cisco
8	27 (2.77%)	Google
8	27 (2.77%)	MuleSoft
8	27 (2.77%)	ServiceNow
9	26 (2.67%)	AppDynamics
9	26 (2.67%)	New Relic
10	23 (2.36%)	Citrix
11	20 (2.05%)	CA
12	19 (1.95%)	SAP
13	13 (1.33%)	CheckPoint
14	12 (1.23%)	Apigee
14	12 (1.23%)	Dell
15	11 (1.13%)	EMC