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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 85 90
Rank change year-on-year -41 +5 +35
Contract jobs citing PaaS 14 21 24
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.62% 1.34% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 4.03% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 22
10th Percentile £492 £398 £413
25th Percentile £508 £517 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £612 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% -2.08% -
75th Percentile £639 £692 £649
90th Percentile £708 £725 £750
England median daily rate £545 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -5.22% -2.13% +2.17%

All Cloud Computing 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 781 521 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.56% 33.25% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 349 418
10th Percentile £303 £210 £200
25th Percentile £413 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £592
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile £25.12 £15.95 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.21 £17.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £28.61 £20.24 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% +9.41% +12.12%
75th Percentile £41.56 £34.69 £19.25
90th Percentile £63.95 £35.00 £37.13
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -

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 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 2026. 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 - 5 £526 - 1
Warwickshire -11 2 £650 +7.08% 1
Birmingham -15 2 £618 +29.83% 5
Staffordshire - 1 £463 -
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 (35.71%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (35.71%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) IaaS
4 4 (28.57%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
1 5 (35.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (35.71%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Release Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Software Licensing Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Licensing Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) OAuth
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) Migration
3 7 (50.00%) Analytics
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Data Integration
4 6 (42.86%) Validation
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
5 5 (35.71%) DevSecOps
5 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
5 5 (35.71%) Visual Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
7 3 (21.43%) Regulatory Compliance
8 2 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
8 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Adobe
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys
3 1 (7.14%) VMware