PaaS Contracts in Wales

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing PaaS 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 1.72% - 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% - 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £177 - -
25th Percentile £192 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.44%
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 115 143 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 39.52% 36.39% 26.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 118 139
10th Percentile £187 £159 £160
25th Percentile £263 £352 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £536 £540 £600
90th Percentile £600 £623 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 4
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.94 £12.54
25th Percentile £17.26 £13.98 £12.59
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.84 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +42.09% +8.27% +2.63%
75th Percentile £35.25 £17.57 £16.07
90th Percentile £41.25 £18.53 £16.43
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Wales

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Wales.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Wales

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Wales

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South Wales - 5 £206 - 5
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Linode
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Development
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) TOWER Software