PaaS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 56 61
Rank change year-on-year -20 +5 +23
Contract jobs citing PaaS 17 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.39% 1.52% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.59% 3.46% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £420 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £425 £590
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -27.97% -12.59%
75th Percentile £559 £438 £644
90th Percentile £648 - £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £507 £425 £558
% change year-on-year +19.18% -23.77% -17.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 473 260 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 38.58% 43.84% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 171 221
10th Percentile £322 £310 £288
25th Percentile £406 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £594
90th Percentile £645 £638 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 4
10th Percentile £17.75 £27.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -65.32%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.48 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.33 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
% change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in West Yorkshire

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Leeds -14 16 £454 +6.82%
Huddersfield - 1 £525 -
PaaS
Yorkshire

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) SaaS
3 9 (52.94%) AWS
4 8 (47.06%) IaaS
4 8 (47.06%) Serverless
5 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
5 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (17.65%) Azure App Service
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (17.65%) Azure WebJobs
7 3 (17.65%) GitHub
7 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
7 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
8 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) IPsec
1 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
1 5 (29.41%) SSL
2 3 (17.65%) LAN
2 3 (17.65%) PSTN
2 3 (17.65%) Unified Communications
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Architect
2 9 (52.94%) Senior
3 7 (41.18%) Technical Architect
4 6 (35.29%) Senior Architect
4 6 (35.29%) Senior Technical Architect
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Digital Architect
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Digital Technical Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Integration Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Digital Architect
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Digital Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Web Services
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (29.41%) OAuth
3 5 (29.41%) OAuth2
3 5 (29.41%) OpenID
3 5 (29.41%) SAML
3 5 (29.41%) XACML
4 4 (23.53%) .NET
5 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
5 3 (17.65%) REST
5 3 (17.65%) SOAP
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.88%) Play Framework
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (17.65%) IoT
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Grid Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) DevOps
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 10 (58.82%) Microservices
4 9 (52.94%) Architectural Patterns
5 8 (47.06%) ArchiMate
5 8 (47.06%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (47.06%) UML
6 7 (41.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
6 7 (41.18%) Security Architecture
6 7 (41.18%) Technical Architecture
7 6 (35.29%) BPEL
7 6 (35.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (35.29%) Design Patterns
7 6 (35.29%) SOA
8 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
8 5 (29.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (17.65%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft