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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 99 99
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -3
Contract jobs citing PaaS 8 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.52% 0.40% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.14% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile £440 £460 £474
25th Percentile £481 £574 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £631 £572
Median % change year-on-year -12.87% +10.36% +4.00%
75th Percentile £569 £659 £610
90th Percentile £580 £744 £667
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 578 526 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.46% 35.04% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 365 483
10th Percentile £235 £288 £276
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £617
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £16.88 £18.95
25th Percentile - £20.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £200.00 £21.50 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year +830.23% +1.15% -5.53%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £28.01
90th Percentile - £25.38 £37.90
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS 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 September 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 17 September 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 -4 7 £488 -22.77% 1
South Yorkshire - 1 £575 - 1
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) GCP Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Blazor
2 2 (25.00%) React
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Bicep
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (37.50%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (12.50%) LogicMonitor