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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -26 0 +15
Contract jobs citing PaaS 7 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.51% 0.95% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 2.15% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £348 £426 £460
25th Percentile £391 £447 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £631
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -22.77% +26.25%
75th Percentile £569 £522 £659
90th Percentile £580 £539 £744
Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £550 £631
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.87% +3.59%

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 513 326 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 37.01% 44.17% 40.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 212 244
10th Percentile £363 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £469
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -9.86%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £564
90th Percentile £646 £600 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £21.43 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £200.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -82.50% +627.27% -
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 6 £444 -8.92% 7
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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) OneDrive
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) PowerApps
3 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) PSTN
2 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (14.29%) Play Framework
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Grid Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Control
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Management
4 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) Fujitsu
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow