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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 90 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +60
Contract jobs citing PaaS 18 21 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.99% 1.11% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.10% 3.90% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 21
10th Percentile £380 £468 £413
25th Percentile £515 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £612 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £685 £731
90th Percentile £848 £691 £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 581 539 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.05% 28.55% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 362 532
10th Percentile £263 £213 £207
25th Percentile £413 £351 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile £31.94 £15.83 £17.60
25th Percentile £34.16 £23.55 £17.75
Median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £52.69 £35.00 £19.75
90th Percentile £59.44 £55.50 £23.43
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -
Warwickshire -7 4 £650 -
Herefordshire -1 2 £900 +44.35%
Birmingham -7 2 £618 +17.71% 9
Worcestershire - 2 £900 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 1
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 5 (27.78%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (27.78%) SAS
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (5.56%) SAP GRC
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) AWS
3 8 (44.44%) IaaS
4 5 (27.78%) SaaS
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 4 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (16.67%) AWS KMS
6 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Stack
7 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DHCP
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle Database
1 5 (27.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 5 (27.78%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Release Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Chief Technology Officer
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Software Licensing Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Software Licensing Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) Django
2 1 (5.56%) MACH
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Basis
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Migration
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (33.33%) Validation
4 5 (27.78%) Analytics
4 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
4 5 (27.78%) Data Integration
4 5 (27.78%) Defect Management
4 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
4 5 (27.78%) Test Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) Visual Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (16.67%) Key Management
6 3 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Adobe
3 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 3 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 3 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Ariba
5 1 (5.56%) Concur
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) Qualys
5 1 (5.56%) SAP