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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -27 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.74% 1.18% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.89% 2.77% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £387 £426 £460
25th Percentile £454 £447 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £488 £631
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% -22.77% -6.48%
75th Percentile £528 £522 £659
90th Percentile £569 £539 £744
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.05% -8.33% -11.11%

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 530 325 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 39.03% 42.65% 36.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 214 213
10th Percentile £363 £316 £290
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £639 £613 £654
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £21.43 £42.37 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £58.29 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.83% - -
75th Percentile - £149.28 -
90th Percentile - £179.71 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
% change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 -24 9 £454 -6.87% 3
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 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (40.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure App Service
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 3 (30.00%) Azure WebJobs
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) IaaS
5 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) PSTN
1 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (10.00%) Play Framework
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Observability
4 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) ArchiMate
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (20.00%) Data Management
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft