PaaS Contracts in the North of England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 160 120
Rank change year-on-year +9 -40 -26
Contract jobs citing PaaS 35 52 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.75% 0.93% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 2.56% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 38 99
10th Percentile £446 £463 £404
25th Percentile £467 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +1.69%
75th Percentile £623 £655 £644
90th Percentile £749 £688 £728
England median daily rate £591 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +2.83% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +38.75%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 2,034 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.77% 36.41% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1,520 1,907
10th Percentile £268 £300 £195
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £588
90th Percentile £645 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 38 74
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.05 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +81.95% +7.89%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £61.94
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the North of England

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North West +5 24 £575 +4.55% 20
Yorkshire +10 10 £525 -16.00% 7
North East +8 1 £650 +8.33% 10
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (94.29%) SaaS
2 31 (88.57%) IaaS
3 15 (42.86%) Azure
4 9 (25.71%) AWS
5 4 (11.43%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.43%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.86%) Miro
7 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
2 2 (5.71%) BGP
2 2 (5.71%) OSPF
2 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Legal
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Law
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
5 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Electronics
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Architect
2 8 (22.86%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) ITSM Developer
5 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Agile Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Agile Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (8.57%) Web Services
3 2 (5.71%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) Django
4 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.86%) Node.js
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (11.43%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Digital Signage
3 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Agile
2 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
2 9 (25.71%) Service Delivery
3 8 (22.86%) Waterfall
4 6 (17.14%) ITIL
4 6 (17.14%) Scrum
5 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 5 (14.29%) Information Security
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 5 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 5 (14.29%) Service Management
5 5 (14.29%) TOGAF
6 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
6 4 (11.43%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) Java
2 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Degree
1 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) APMP
2 4 (11.43%) CISSP
2 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
2 4 (11.43%) PMP
3 3 (8.57%) CISM
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) Docker
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Ansible
1 1 (2.86%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) Oracle
3 7 (20.00%) Google
4 5 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco
6 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.86%) Remedy
6 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Sophos
6 1 (2.86%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) VMware