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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 88 95
Rank change year-on-year -32 +7 +50
Contract jobs citing PaaS 20 25 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.99% 1.32% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.81% 4.29% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 24
10th Percentile £380 £389 £404
25th Percentile £515 £513 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.00% -2.04%
75th Percentile £725 £685 £650
90th Percentile £848 £720 £746
England median daily rate £540 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% +1.69%

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 713 583 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.16% 30.75% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 386 501
10th Percentile £300 £213 £200
25th Percentile £420 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £588
90th Percentile £700 £694 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 8
10th Percentile £25.82 £21.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £27.21 £30.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.93 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +83.41% +8.12%
75th Percentile £34.98 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £40.45 - £30.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

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 9 November 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 9 November 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 -6 4 £650 +7.08%
Birmingham -15 2 £618 +17.71% 6
Herefordshire -19 2 £900 +44.35%
Worcestershire - 2 £900 - 2
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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (10.00%) FileNet
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) IaaS
3 7 (35.00%) SaaS
4 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (15.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Stack
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DHCP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (25.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Release Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Software Licensing Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Software Licensing Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Architect
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) OAuth
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Migration
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Analytics
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Validation
5 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Architecture Governance
7 3 (15.00%) Key Management
7 3 (15.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 3 (15.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Adobe
3 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
4 2 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Ariba
5 1 (5.00%) Concur
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Qualys
5 1 (5.00%) SAP