PaaS Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 22 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -
Contract jobs citing PaaS 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.27% 2.46% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.41% 5.00% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% - -
75th Percentile £738 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -8.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 68 60 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 28.69% 49.18% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 44 55
10th Percentile £250 £170 £196
25th Percentile £325 £284 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £518
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -10.71% +6.80%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £619
90th Percentile £725 £638 £680
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.00 -
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £26.62
% change year-on-year -12.94% +59.65% +26.76%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

PaaS job vacancy trend in West Sussex

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing PaaS

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Gatwick - 3 £725 -
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 3 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Next.js
1 3 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Development
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 3 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform