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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 53 71
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 +26
Contract jobs citing PaaS 13 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.41% 1.28% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 2.93% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile £360 - £485
25th Percentile £447 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £706 £438 £538
90th Percentile £756 - £590
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -6.67%

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 376 239 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 40.74% 43.69% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 150 263
10th Percentile £313 £263 £268
25th Percentile £413 £401 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £555 £566 £600
90th Percentile £637 £639 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £480 £490
% change year-on-year +1.56% -2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile - £23.46 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -71.15%
75th Percentile £74.00 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 £43.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -70.00%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -21 13 £600 +41.18% 1
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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) SaaS
3 8 (61.54%) IaaS
4 7 (53.85%) AWS
5 5 (38.46%) Serverless
6 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (15.38%) GCP
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
7 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) IPsec
1 5 (38.46%) Kerberos
1 5 (38.46%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) PSTN
2 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
2 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Technical Architect
2 6 (46.15%) Technical Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Manager
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IT Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Digital Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Digital Technical Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior IT Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Web Services
2 5 (38.46%) OAuth
2 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
2 5 (38.46%) OpenID
2 5 (38.46%) SAML
2 5 (38.46%) XACML
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (15.38%) IoT
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
1 8 (61.54%) SOA
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
3 6 (46.15%) ArchiMate
3 6 (46.15%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (46.15%) BPEL
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (46.15%) Decision-Making
3 6 (46.15%) Microservices
3 6 (46.15%) UML
4 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 5 (38.46%) Security Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) 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 5 (38.46%) RACF
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 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Ariba
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Concur
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam