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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 84 89
Rank change year-on-year -24 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing PaaS 32 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.32% 0.78% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.35% 2.10% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 6
10th Percentile £349 - £441
25th Percentile £457 £413 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £438 £584
90th Percentile £705 - £605
England median daily rate £550 £565 £596
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.24% +3.70%

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 955 381 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.27% 37.24% 27.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 270 327
10th Percentile £313 £242 £240
25th Percentile £413 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £640
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £46.40 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +81.96% +22.77% -35.70%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -20 18 £493 +15.88% 4
South Yorkshire - 10 £525 - 1
North Yorkshire - 3 £638 - 1
East Yorkshire - 1 £363 -
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 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Azure
1 21 (65.63%) SaaS
2 19 (59.38%) IaaS
3 12 (37.50%) AWS
4 8 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (25.00%) Serverless
5 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (15.63%) GCP
7 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (9.38%) Azure App Service
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.38%) Azure WebJobs
8 3 (9.38%) GitHub
8 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.38%) OneDrive
8 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
9 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) IPsec
1 5 (15.63%) Kerberos
1 5 (15.63%) SSL
2 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) LAN
2 3 (9.38%) PSTN
2 3 (9.38%) Unified Communications
2 3 (9.38%) WAN
2 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) Internet
3 2 (6.25%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Architect
1 10 (31.25%) Senior
2 7 (21.88%) Technical Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Architect
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Database Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Digital Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Product Owner
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Programme Manager
6 2 (6.25%) SAP Manager
6 2 (6.25%) SAP Programme Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Senior IT Programme Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Senior SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Web Services
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Graph
3 5 (15.63%) OAuth
3 5 (15.63%) OAuth2
3 5 (15.63%) OpenID
3 5 (15.63%) SAML
3 5 (15.63%) XACML
4 4 (12.50%) .NET
5 3 (9.38%) .NET Framework
5 3 (9.38%) REST
5 3 (9.38%) SOAP
6 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (3.13%) Middleware
6 1 (3.13%) Play Framework
6 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (9.38%) CCTV
3 3 (9.38%) IoT
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.25%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (3.13%) Grid Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Android
2 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
2 3 (9.38%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) DevOps
2 15 (46.88%) Agile
3 14 (43.75%) Microservices
4 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
5 12 (37.50%) Roadmaps
6 9 (28.13%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (25.00%) ArchiMate
7 8 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (25.00%) SOA
7 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (25.00%) UML
8 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
8 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (21.88%) Security Architecture
8 7 (21.88%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (18.75%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (18.75%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.38%) C#
3 3 (9.38%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) RACF
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (9.38%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Ariba
3 1 (3.13%) Aruba
3 1 (3.13%) Concur
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) VMware