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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 95 88
Rank change year-on-year -58 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing PaaS 17 14 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.86% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.76% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £468 £325 £375
25th Percentile £525 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +13.04% -16.36%
75th Percentile £540 £763 £638
90th Percentile £582 £900 £685
England median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.54% -1.67%
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 £30.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +79.17% -22.08% -51.27%

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 1,069 507 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.98% 31.28% 25.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 331 369
10th Percentile £313 £263 £207
25th Percentile £402 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.05% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 7 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £17.36 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.03 £14.22
Median hourly rate £33.99 £34.98 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +81.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £50.11 £26.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.20 £40.25
England median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +55.07% +14.32% -36.96%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -47 9 £539 +65.69% 1
Warwickshire -13 5 £650 -
Birmingham -22 2 £325 -46.63% 3
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 10 (58.82%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (58.82%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (70.59%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle Database
1 10 (58.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 10 (58.82%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (58.82%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Release Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Database Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) CMDB
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Digital Signage
1 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
1 11 (64.71%) Migration
2 10 (58.82%) Analytics
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Configuration Management
2 10 (58.82%) Data Integration
2 10 (58.82%) Defect Management
2 10 (58.82%) Software Testing
2 10 (58.82%) Test Strategy
2 10 (58.82%) Validation
2 10 (58.82%) Visual Analytics
3 8 (47.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (35.29%) Observability
5 5 (29.41%) Release Management
6 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Database Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (23.53%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Oracle
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Logi
3 1 (5.88%) Logitech
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow