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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 111 97
Rank change year-on-year -37 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing PaaS 14 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.68% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.79% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £419 - £445
25th Percentile £499 £413 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £638
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -23.53% +10.87%
75th Percentile £553 £559 £663
90th Percentile £605 £576 £760
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 1,014 613 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.26% 37.75% 35.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 406 357
10th Percentile £320 £235 £295
25th Percentile £413 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £614 £650
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - £15.58
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +852.38% -6.71%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £22.00
90th Percentile £35.00 - £26.05
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 6 £550 +29.41% 9
South Yorkshire -28 4 £550 -4.35% 5
North Yorkshire - 3 £638 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) IaaS
3 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) GCP
4 5 (35.71%) SaaS
5 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 2 (14.29%) GitHub
7 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
8 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Private Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) YAML
3 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.14%) Play Framework
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) CCTV
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) 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%) CI/CD
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) Budget Management
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Log Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) RBAC
4 2 (14.29%) Case Management
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bicep
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Dynatrace
3 3 (21.43%) Google
4 2 (14.29%) Fujitsu
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) Aruba
5 1 (7.14%) VMware