PaaS Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 151 124
Rank change year-on-year +4 -27 -38
Contract jobs citing PaaS 38 51 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.78% 0.94% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.63% 2.60% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 96
10th Percentile £450 £463 £404
25th Percentile £486 £507 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £641
90th Percentile £675 £719 £731
England median daily rate £575 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -3.77% +3.91% +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% +36.43%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,445 1,960 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.82% 36.02% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,454 1,935
10th Percentile £263 £286 £185
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 42 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% +12.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £42.44 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £62.34 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

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 12 June 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 12 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
North West +5 25 £588 +2.17% 17
Yorkshire +11 12 £558 -17.41% 12
North East +5 1 £650 +23.81% 2
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (89.47%) SaaS
2 33 (86.84%) IaaS
3 19 (50.00%) Azure
4 8 (21.05%) AWS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (10.53%) Google Workspace
6 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (2.63%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.63%) Miro
8 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
8 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Network Security
2 2 (5.26%) BGP
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) OSPF
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.63%) DHCP
3 1 (2.63%) DNS
3 1 (2.63%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.53%) Legal
4 3 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Law
5 2 (5.26%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Automotive
6 1 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) ITSM Developer
5 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Agile Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Agile Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Service Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Middleware
2 3 (7.89%) Web Services
3 2 (5.26%) .NET
3 2 (5.26%) Django
3 2 (5.26%) JSON
3 2 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.63%) Kafka
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (2.63%) REST
4 1 (2.63%) SOAP
4 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
1 4 (10.53%) Virtual Team
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Agile
2 9 (23.68%) Service Delivery
3 8 (21.05%) DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) Waterfall
4 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
5 6 (15.79%) Design Patterns
5 6 (15.79%) ITIL
5 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 6 (15.79%) Scrum
6 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (13.16%) Information Security
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.53%) Architectural Design
7 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
7 4 (10.53%) Microservices
7 4 (10.53%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
1 3 (7.89%) Python
1 3 (7.89%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (2.63%) Bicep
3 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) APMP
2 4 (10.53%) CISSP
2 4 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 4 (10.53%) PMP
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) CISM
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) Oracle
3 7 (18.42%) Google
4 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
5 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.89%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco
6 1 (2.63%) Confluent
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.63%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.63%) Remedy
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Skytap
6 1 (2.63%) Sophos
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk
6 1 (2.63%) VMware