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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +18
Contract jobs citing PaaS 13 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.44% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 1.15% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £413 £369 £455
25th Percentile £447 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £588
90th Percentile £688 £776 £604
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%

All Cloud 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 395 347 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.65% 46.02% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 229 273
10th Percentile £318 £346 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £665
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile - £20.67 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.88 £41.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% -33.87% +175.56%
75th Percentile £71.56 £99.32 -
90th Percentile £148.63 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +37.50% -11.11%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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
Leeds -3 13 £575 +9.52% 5
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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
4 3 (23.08%) SaaS
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
1 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
1 2 (15.38%) SAP Manager
1 2 (15.38%) SAP Programme Manager
1 2 (15.38%) Senior
1 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Data Science Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Data Science Leader
2 1 (7.69%) GCP Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Lead
2 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) Blazor
1 2 (15.38%) React
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Analytics
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Data Science
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) ERP
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
4 2 (15.38%) SOA
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CCNA
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Google
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Ariba
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco
5 1 (7.69%) Concur
5 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) Veeam