PaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 95 65
Rank change year-on-year -12 -30 +22
Contract jobs citing PaaS 25 55 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.95% 1.92% 3.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.40% 6.46% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 96
10th Percentile £425 £480 £360
25th Percentile £459 £519 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.86% +34.21% -2.26%
75th Percentile £625 £719 £638
90th Percentile £768 £789 £650
South East median daily rate £530 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -11.67% +11.63% +9.69%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 735 852 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.83% 29.75% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 617 869
10th Percentile £282 £313 £192
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 15
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.15 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £58.00 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.21% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.83 £58.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -2.44%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire -17 17 £530 -24.29% 3
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £613 +2.08% 12
Oxfordshire +5 2 £465 -24.08%
PaaS
South East

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) IaaS
2 15 (60.00%) SaaS
3 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) AWS
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (20.00%) Azure API Management
7 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (16.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (12.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (12.00%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Stack
9 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (8.00%) Google Workspace
9 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
9 2 (8.00%) Slack
10 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
10 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) VPN
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) LAN
3 2 (8.00%) WAN
3 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Integration Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Product Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) .NET
1 3 (12.00%) Web Services
2 2 (8.00%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (8.00%) Loki
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.00%) J2EE
3 1 (4.00%) JSON
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.00%) Swagger
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) API Management
2 7 (28.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (28.00%) Migration
2 7 (28.00%) Scrum
3 6 (24.00%) Agile
3 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (24.00%) DevSecOps
3 6 (24.00%) Microservices
3 6 (24.00%) Network Architecture
4 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.00%) High Availability
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (16.00%) Affinity Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Key Management
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) C#
2 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) Java
5 3 (12.00%) PHP
5 3 (12.00%) Ruby
5 3 (12.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (12.00%) Terraform
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Argo
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 2 (8.00%) Kustomize
4 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco
3 2 (8.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Meraki
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle