PaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 97 139
Rank change year-on-year +3 +42 -49
Contract jobs citing PaaS 17 37 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.89% 1.60% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 4.26% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 33
10th Percentile £375 £454 £415
25th Percentile £525 £600 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +30.95% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £638
90th Percentile £680 £741 £750
England median daily rate £596 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 452 868 1,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.75% 37.43% 34.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 613 888
10th Percentile £213 £300 £219
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +1.01% +11.55%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.54 £13.75
25th Percentile £14.69 £15.98 £15.95
Median hourly rate £21.23 £20.24 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% +7.95% +20.97%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.95
90th Percentile £29.35 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 +8 10 £625 -9.09% 9
Coventry +4 3 £750 +7.14% 2
Warwickshire +6 2 £375 -40.00% 4
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 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (76.47%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) IaaS
3 6 (35.29%) SaaS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (23.53%) Serverless
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Functions
5 3 (17.65%) Google Workspace
6 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (11.76%) SonarCloud
7 1 (5.88%) AWS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) IPsec
2 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Moq
2 2 (11.76%) NUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Hudson
3 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (17.65%) Legal
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) SharePoint Administrator
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) ERP Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (11.76%) YAML
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Identity Management
2 4 (23.53%) Proactive Management
2 4 (23.53%) Web SSO
3 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Dependency Management
4 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
4 2 (11.76%) TDD
5 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
1 4 (23.53%) PMI Certification
1 4 (23.53%) PMP
2 3 (17.65%) APMP
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) Google
3 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor