PaaS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 86 91
Rank change year-on-year -25 +5 +57
Contract jobs citing PaaS 19 25 26
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.97% 1.34% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 4.47% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 23
10th Percentile £380 £387 £413
25th Percentile £515 £513 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.08% +1.58% -
75th Percentile £725 £685 £688
90th Percentile £848 £704 £750
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%

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 658 559 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.52% 29.91% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 366 523
10th Percentile £300 £219 £200
25th Percentile £421 £358 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £597
90th Percentile £700 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 7
10th Percentile £25.82 £15.83 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £23.55 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +82.35% +12.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.25
90th Percentile £40.45 £37.50 £19.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 October 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 21 October 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
Shropshire - 8 £515 - 1
Warwickshire +1 4 £650 +7.08%
Birmingham -7 3 £618 +17.71% 4
Herefordshire -11 2 £900 +44.35% 1
Worcestershire - 2 £900 - 1
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (26.32%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (26.32%) SAS
2 2 (10.53%) FileNet
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) IaaS
3 6 (31.58%) SaaS
4 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
5 4 (21.05%) Serverless
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (15.79%) AWS KMS
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Stack
7 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database
1 5 (26.32%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (26.32%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Release Manager
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Software Licensing Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Software Licensing Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Architect
5 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) SAP Basis
2 1 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Migration
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Analytics
3 7 (36.84%) Validation
4 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
5 5 (26.32%) Data Integration
5 5 (26.32%) Defect Management
5 5 (26.32%) DevSecOps
5 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) Visual Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Key Management
7 3 (15.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 3 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (15.79%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) Adobe
3 3 (15.79%) AppDynamics
3 3 (15.79%) Dynatrace
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) Ariba
5 1 (5.26%) Concur
5 1 (5.26%) Google
5 1 (5.26%) Qualys
5 1 (5.26%) SAP