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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 98 83
Rank change year-on-year -51 -15 +15
Contract jobs citing PaaS 18 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.10% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 3.51% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 21
10th Percentile £308 £398 £375
25th Percentile £508 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £618 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +7.48% -13.21%
75th Percentile £539 £725 £635
90th Percentile £543 £860 £685
England median daily rate £525 £550 £583
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.58% -2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -10.42% +55.84% -50.64%

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 1,040 542 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.05% 31.24% 26.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 352 359
10th Percentile £307 £300 £213
25th Percentile £402 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +5.32% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 8 7
10th Percentile £20.31 £17.70 £15.30
25th Percentile £21.25 £27.19 £18.63
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +11.51% +66.89%
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.56 £34.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £58.96 £43.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year +34.62% -3.60% -18.27%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -45 10 £537 +4.27% 1
Warwickshire -12 4 - -
Birmingham -19 2 £325 -47.41% 7
Coventry - 1 £275 -
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 11 (61.11%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (61.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 11 (61.11%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 10 (55.56%) Oracle Database
3 5 (27.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (61.11%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Release Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Database Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) CMDB
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Digital Signage
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
2 11 (61.11%) Analytics
2 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Configuration Management
2 11 (61.11%) Data Integration
2 11 (61.11%) Defect Management
2 11 (61.11%) Migration
2 11 (61.11%) Software Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Visual Analytics
3 10 (55.56%) Test Strategy
3 10 (55.56%) Validation
4 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (33.33%) Release Management
6 5 (27.78%) Observability
7 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (22.22%) Change Advisory Board
7 4 (22.22%) Database Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Logi
3 1 (5.56%) Logitech
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow