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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -37 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing PaaS 19 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.98% 0.59% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 1.57% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 16
10th Percentile £413 £363 £481
25th Percentile £513 £381 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -19.81% -3.64%
75th Percentile £675 £444 £602
90th Percentile £725 £448 £610
England median daily rate £541 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -5.93% -2.13% +1.08%

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 802 381 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.28% 37.39% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 257 415
10th Percentile £242 £275 £253
25th Percentile £386 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 3
10th Percentile £14.25 £20.67 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £26.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £41.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.93% +105.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £99.32 £41.00
90th Percentile £72.13 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £23.22
% change year-on-year +6.36% +21.49% +1.75%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -13 10 £600 +41.18% 5
South Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 3
East Yorkshire - 1 £363 - 3
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 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) IaaS
2 11 (57.89%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) SaaS
4 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
5 4 (21.05%) AWS
5 4 (21.05%) GCP
6 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) DHCP
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) IPsec
3 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) SSL
3 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Principal Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Database Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Programme Manager
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Manager
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) Blazor
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) Playwright
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
2 1 (5.26%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (21.05%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Agile
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) SOA
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) Bicep
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) RACF
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Ariba
4 1 (5.26%) Aruba
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Concur
4 1 (5.26%) Meraki
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam