PaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 239 208 156
Rank change year-on-year -31 -52 -1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 167 243 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.07% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.06% 3.28% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 169 404
10th Percentile £400 £443 £405
25th Percentile £475 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £790 £730
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 2
10th Percentile - £71.05 £72.50
25th Percentile £25.50 £74.71 £75.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +86.05%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £86.23
90th Percentile £27.88 £79.60 £87.42
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +36.43%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in the UK excluding London

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the UK excluding London 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
South West +28 67 £650 +15.30% 17
North of England +4 38 £590 +2.61% 33
South East -32 31 £530 -15.20% 19
North West +5 25 £588 +2.17% 18
Midlands +3 20 £600 -11.93% 18
West Midlands +6 17 £625 -9.09% 15
Yorkshire +11 12 £558 -17.41% 12
Scotland +33 9 £517 -1.62% 14
East of England +1 7 £350 -24.32% 5
East Midlands +5 3 £525 - 3
North East +5 1 £650 +23.81% 3
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (5.39%) Confluence
2 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.60%) CMS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 111 (66.47%) SaaS
2 106 (63.47%) IaaS
3 86 (51.50%) Azure
4 36 (21.56%) Cloud Computing
5 35 (20.96%) AWS
6 20 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (7.78%) Entra ID
8 11 (6.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 11 (6.59%) Google Workspace
8 11 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.99%) Serverless
10 9 (5.39%) GCP
11 7 (4.19%) OpenShift
11 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.59%) Azure AKS
12 6 (3.59%) Azure API Management
12 6 (3.59%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (2.99%) GitHub
14 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.16%) LAN
1 32 (19.16%) WAN
2 17 (10.18%) VPN
3 13 (7.78%) PBX
3 13 (7.78%) VoIP
4 11 (6.59%) Firewall
5 10 (5.99%) DNS
6 6 (3.59%) Network Security
7 3 (1.80%) SSL
8 2 (1.20%) BGP
8 2 (1.20%) IPsec
8 2 (1.20%) OSPF
8 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.60%) DHCP
9 1 (0.60%) FTP
9 1 (0.60%) Internet
9 1 (0.60%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.60%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.40%) Power BI
4 3 (1.80%) Big Data
4 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.60%) Redis
6 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 16 (9.58%) Git
2 13 (7.78%) JIRA
3 9 (5.39%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (4.19%) Jenkins
5 6 (3.59%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.40%) Selenium
7 3 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.80%) GitLab
7 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.20%) JMeter
8 2 (1.20%) Moq
8 2 (1.20%) NUnit
8 2 (1.20%) Postman
8 2 (1.20%) Snyk
8 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.20%) Subversion
8 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 54 (32.34%) Public Sector
2 18 (10.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.98%) Telecoms
4 11 (6.59%) Finance
5 9 (5.39%) Legal
6 7 (4.19%) Digital Economy
7 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.80%) Automotive
8 3 (1.80%) Banking
9 2 (1.20%) Law
9 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
10 1 (0.60%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (45.51%) Architect
2 27 (16.17%) Network Architect
3 24 (14.37%) Solutions Architect
4 15 (8.98%) Lead
5 14 (8.38%) Senior
6 12 (7.19%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Developer
8 10 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (3.59%) Azure Architect
11 6 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Support Team Leader
11 6 (3.59%) Team Leader
12 5 (2.99%) Administrator
12 5 (2.99%) Application Support Team Leader
12 5 (2.99%) Applications Support
13 4 (2.40%) Analyst
13 4 (2.40%) Consultant
13 4 (2.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.17%) .NET
2 12 (7.19%) Web Services
3 9 (5.39%) .NET Framework
4 8 (4.79%) Middleware
5 6 (3.59%) JSON
6 4 (2.40%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.40%) J2EE
6 4 (2.40%) ModSecurity
6 4 (2.40%) RESTful
6 4 (2.40%) YAML
7 3 (1.80%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.80%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.80%) Kafka
7 3 (1.80%) SOAP
8 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.20%) Loki
8 2 (1.20%) Node.js
8 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.96%) Data Centre
2 13 (7.78%) Public Cloud
2 13 (7.78%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (5.99%) Blackberry
4 9 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (5.39%) Virtual Team
5 7 (4.19%) PKI
5 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.59%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.99%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.40%) Replication
9 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.80%) N-Tier
10 2 (1.20%) Clustering
10 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.38%) Linux
2 16 (9.58%) Windows
3 5 (2.99%) VMS
3 5 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.95%) DevOps
2 39 (23.35%) Agile
3 36 (21.56%) Zero Trust
4 32 (19.16%) Business Strategy
4 32 (19.16%) Open Source
5 30 (17.96%) CI/CD
6 27 (16.17%) Network Management
7 24 (14.37%) ITIL
8 22 (13.17%) Migration
8 22 (13.17%) Roadmaps
9 19 (11.38%) Enterprise Architecture
9 19 (11.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (11.38%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (11.38%) TOGAF
10 17 (10.18%) Waterfall
11 16 (9.58%) Scrum
12 15 (8.98%) Cloud Security
13 14 (8.38%) ArchiMate
13 14 (8.38%) Customer Requirements
13 14 (8.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.16%) PowerShell
2 16 (9.58%) SQL
3 15 (8.98%) Python
4 14 (8.38%) C#
5 7 (4.19%) Java
6 5 (2.99%) Bicep
7 4 (2.40%) Bash
7 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.80%) PHP
8 3 (1.80%) Ruby
9 2 (1.20%) C++
9 2 (1.20%) VBA
9 2 (1.20%) VBScript
10 1 (0.60%) Julia
10 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.60%) Perl
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (37.13%) Security Cleared
2 43 (25.75%) DV Cleared
3 27 (16.17%) Degree
4 23 (13.77%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.99%) PMI Certification
5 10 (5.99%) PMP
6 9 (5.39%) APMP
7 8 (4.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (4.19%) HND
9 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.99%) CISSP
10 4 (2.40%) CCNP
10 4 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.80%) CISM
12 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.20%) ISEB
12 2 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 21 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (8.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.19%) Docker
4 10 (5.99%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.39%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.60%) HDFS
8 1 (0.60%) KVM
8 1 (0.60%) NFS
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (11.38%) Kubernetes
1 19 (11.38%) Terraform
2 12 (7.19%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (5.99%) Ansible
4 4 (2.40%) Argo
4 4 (2.40%) OPNET
4 4 (2.40%) PowerCLI
5 3 (1.80%) Grafana
5 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.20%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.20%) Puppet
6 2 (1.20%) SCCM
7 1 (0.60%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.60%) Nagios
7 1 (0.60%) QRadar
7 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (37.72%) Microsoft
2 28 (16.77%) Google
3 25 (14.97%) VMware
4 21 (12.57%) Oracle
5 17 (10.18%) Cisco
6 10 (5.99%) Avaya
6 10 (5.99%) Ericsson
6 10 (5.99%) Juniper
6 10 (5.99%) Nokia
6 10 (5.99%) Ribbon
6 10 (5.99%) Salesforce
7 9 (5.39%) IBM
8 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.80%) SAP
9 3 (1.80%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.20%) CA
10 2 (1.20%) Meraki
10 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.20%) Splunk