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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 96 97
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing PaaS 13 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.77% 0.35% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 0.99% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 16
10th Percentile £384 £445 £481
25th Percentile £413 £588 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £638 £555
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +14.86% -1.33%
75th Percentile £578 £663 £610
90th Percentile £656 £760 £615
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%

All Cloud 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 655 503 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.87% 35.55% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 340 485
10th Percentile £229 £288 £228
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £490 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -4.85% +2.90%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £610
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £526 £538
% change year-on-year -4.99% -2.09% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.58 £19.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £182.88 - £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.20
% change year-on-year -30.14% +32.35% +20.89%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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 +1 11 £488 -23.53% 6
South Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 2
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 4 (30.77%) IaaS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) NuGet
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Local Government
2 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (7.69%) GCP Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) Blazor
2 2 (15.38%) React
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Analytics
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
2 4 (30.77%) Data Science
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
4 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Bicep
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CCNA
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
4 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 1 (7.69%) Aruba
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam