PaaS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 79 93
Rank change year-on-year -37 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing PaaS 21 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.05% 0.53% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.46% 1.40% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 15
10th Percentile £362 - -
25th Percentile £488 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 £535
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -20.56% -2.73%
75th Percentile £706 £438 £605
90th Percentile £727 - £610
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.34%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 854 358 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.89% 38.21% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 243 420
10th Percentile £250 £264 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £698 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -63.64%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Yorkshire

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Yorkshire -16 13 £600 +41.18% 3
South Yorkshire - 7 £525 - 2
East Yorkshire - 1 £363 - 1
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) IaaS
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 13 (61.90%) SaaS
3 7 (33.33%) AWS
4 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 5 (23.81%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
1 5 (23.81%) IPsec
1 5 (23.81%) Kerberos
1 5 (23.81%) SSL
2 3 (14.29%) DHCP
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) PSTN
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Local Government
3 1 (4.76%) Military
3 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Technical Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) Database Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Programme Manager
5 2 (9.52%) SAP Manager
5 2 (9.52%) SAP Programme Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Data Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Digital Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Digital Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Web Services
2 5 (23.81%) OAuth
2 5 (23.81%) OAuth2
2 5 (23.81%) OpenID
2 5 (23.81%) SAML
2 5 (23.81%) XACML
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.52%) IoT
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 9 (42.86%) Microservices
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
4 8 (38.10%) SOA
5 7 (33.33%) Agile
5 7 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (28.57%) ArchiMate
6 6 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (28.57%) BPEL
6 6 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 6 (28.57%) UML
7 5 (23.81%) Design Patterns
7 5 (23.81%) Project Management
7 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) CCNA
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
1 5 (23.81%) RACF
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Aruba
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Concur
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) Meraki
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam