PaaS Contracts in the South East

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 169 137 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 -45 +23
Contract jobs citing PaaS 31 79 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 1.40% 2.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.32% 4.78% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 65 162
10th Percentile £418 £473 £360
25th Percentile £458 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £625 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% +15.74% +10.20%
75th Percentile £625 £730 £638
90th Percentile £695 £799 £650
England median daily rate £575 £598 £575
% change year-on-year -3.77% +3.91% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 - -
Median hourly rate £38.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.25 - -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,338 1,652 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.26% 29.17% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,195 1,805
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £408 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £614
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 47 54
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.83 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £23.56
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.43
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 South East

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the South East

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the South East 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
Thames Valley -19 22 £530 -21.48% 12
Berkshire -23 14 £515 -26.43% 5
Buckinghamshire +10 6 £613 +2.08% 7
Surrey +13 3 £498 -5.24% 1
West Sussex +8 3 £347 -57.99%
Oxfordshire +2 2 £465 -24.08%
Hampshire -19 2 £575 +6.98% 2
East Sussex +3 1 £625 -34.21% 1
PaaS
England

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) Azure
2 20 (64.52%) SaaS
3 18 (58.06%) IaaS
4 9 (29.03%) AWS
5 6 (19.35%) Azure API Management
5 6 (19.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (19.35%) Entra ID
6 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (6.45%) Google Workspace
8 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.45%) Slack
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) VPN
2 3 (9.68%) DNS
2 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) Network Security
3 2 (6.45%) LAN
3 2 (6.45%) SSL
3 2 (6.45%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.45%) Big Data
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.45%) JMeter
3 2 (6.45%) Selenium
4 1 (3.23%) Postman
4 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Automotive
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Architect
1 6 (19.35%) Lead
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) C# Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Integration Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) CloudOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) ERP Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) Loki
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.23%) J2EE
4 1 (3.23%) JSON
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Swagger
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 6 (19.35%) Linux
3 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Cloud Security
2 9 (29.03%) Migration
3 8 (25.81%) Agile
3 8 (25.81%) API Management
4 7 (22.58%) DevSecOps
4 7 (22.58%) Microservices
4 7 (22.58%) Network Architecture
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Security Architecture
5 6 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (19.35%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Affinity Analysis
6 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
6 5 (16.13%) Data Protection
6 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (16.13%) Project Management
6 5 (16.13%) Scrum
6 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.90%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) C#
1 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) PHP
4 3 (9.68%) Ruby
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CCNA
5 1 (3.23%) CCSP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.13%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (12.90%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Argo
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Kustomize
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) VMware
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) Meraki
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.23%) New Relic
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Splunk