PaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +41
Contract jobs citing PaaS 8 18 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.92% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 3.84% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 19
10th Percentile £469 £375 £474
25th Percentile £488 £417 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £688
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% -12.73% +34.15%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £731
90th Percentile £713 £659 £735
England median daily rate £575 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -2.95% +3.04% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% -4.72%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the West Midlands

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the West Midlands

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the West Midlands

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +11 5 £507 -18.92% 21
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 13
Worcestershire - 1 £800 - 4
Herefordshire - 1 £800 -
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) IaaS
1 6 (75.00%) SaaS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Boomi
3 2 (25.00%) OCI
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) IT Manager
1 3 (37.50%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Resilience Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Django
1 2 (25.00%) MACH
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) Pandas
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PMI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Workshops
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (25.00%) Business Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) R
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) ANSI SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
1 3 (37.50%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks