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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 112 98
Rank change year-on-year -31 -14 +1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 14 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.52% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.39% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £417 £440 £460
25th Percentile £487 £481 £574
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £631
Median % change year-on-year - -12.87% +9.78%
75th Percentile £552 £569 £659
90th Percentile £595 £580 £744
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 1,038 574 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.08% 36.96% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 385 363
10th Percentile £304 £232 £288
25th Percentile £413 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.97 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +809.09% +3.51%
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile £38.38 - £26.05
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 18 September 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 18 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
West Yorkshire -25 6 £444 -8.92% 5
South Yorkshire -28 5 £528 -8.13% 6
North Yorkshire - 3 £638 - 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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) SaaS
3 6 (42.86%) IaaS
4 5 (35.71%) AWS
4 5 (35.71%) GCP
5 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
6 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) PSTN
2 2 (14.29%) Unified Communications
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Private Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Product Owner
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) GCP Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.14%) Play Framework
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) CCTV
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) IoT
2 2 (14.29%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Android
2 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
2 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Budget Management
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (14.29%) Business Case
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) People Management
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Product Backlog
5 2 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Fujitsu
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) VMware