PaaS Contracts in England

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 230 207 145
Rank change year-on-year -23 -62 -9
Contract jobs citing PaaS 383 609 1,333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.29% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.19% 3.57% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 418 936
10th Percentile £375 £431 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £598 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +3.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £776 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £575
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 2
10th Percentile - £71.33 £72.50
25th Percentile £25.50 - £75.12
Median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +36.43%
75th Percentile £26.50 £81.49 £86.23
90th Percentile - £90.00 £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
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,003 17,073 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.30% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 12,521 19,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 282 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in England

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in England

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in England

PaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PaaS in England

PaaS
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London -9 212 £550 -4.35% 76
South West +28 67 £650 +15.30% 17
North of England +4 38 £590 +2.61% 30
South East -32 31 £530 -15.20% 19
North West +5 25 £588 +2.17% 16
Midlands +3 20 £600 -11.93% 19
West Midlands +6 17 £625 -9.09% 15
Yorkshire +11 12 £558 -17.41% 12
East of England +1 7 £350 -24.32% 5
East Midlands +5 3 £525 - 4
North East +5 1 £650 +23.81% 2
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (3.92%) Confluence
2 9 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.04%) CMS
4 4 (1.04%) IIS
4 4 (1.04%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.26%) Drupal
6 1 (0.26%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.26%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 217 (56.66%) Azure
1 217 (56.66%) IaaS
2 210 (54.83%) SaaS
3 81 (21.15%) AWS
4 58 (15.14%) Cloud Computing
5 50 (13.05%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (12.27%) Entra ID
7 46 (12.01%) Serverless
8 30 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (6.79%) GCP
9 26 (6.79%) Power Platform
10 22 (5.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 21 (5.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 19 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
12 19 (4.96%) Azure Storage
13 18 (4.70%) Azure API Management
13 18 (4.70%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
14 17 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (3.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.97%) Firewall
2 34 (8.88%) LAN
3 33 (8.62%) WAN
4 32 (8.36%) VPN
5 30 (7.83%) DNS
6 13 (3.39%) FTP
6 13 (3.39%) PBX
6 13 (3.39%) VoIP
7 12 (3.13%) DHCP
8 11 (2.87%) TCP/IP
9 9 (2.35%) Kerberos
10 7 (1.83%) Internet
10 7 (1.83%) Network Security
11 6 (1.57%) NAS
11 6 (1.57%) SAN
11 6 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (1.31%) VLAN
13 4 (1.04%) HTTP
13 4 (1.04%) SSL
14 3 (0.78%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 31 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (3.92%) Power BI
4 13 (3.39%) Hadoop
5 12 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.87%) Big Data
6 11 (2.87%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.83%) Tableau
8 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.57%) Tableau Server
9 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.78%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.78%) OLAP
10 3 (0.78%) OLTP
10 3 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (10.18%) Git
2 22 (5.74%) Jenkins
3 19 (4.96%) JIRA
4 14 (3.66%) Bitbucket
5 13 (3.39%) TeamCity
6 12 (3.13%) Postman
7 9 (2.35%) Rational DOORS
8 8 (2.09%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.83%) Artifactory
10 6 (1.57%) GitLab
10 6 (1.57%) Selenium
11 5 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.31%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.78%) Robot Framework
14 2 (0.52%) JMeter
14 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.52%) Snyk
14 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (18.02%) Finance
2 67 (17.49%) Public Sector
3 65 (16.97%) Social Skills
4 29 (7.57%) Telecoms
5 19 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.70%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.44%) Banking
8 16 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.39%) Marketing
10 12 (3.13%) Legal
11 9 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.35%) Electronics
11 9 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.83%) Digital Economy
12 7 (1.83%) Retail
13 5 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.31%) Law
14 3 (0.78%) Automotive
14 3 (0.78%) Billing
14 3 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 131 (34.20%) Architect
2 51 (13.32%) Senior
3 43 (11.23%) Solutions Architect
4 37 (9.66%) Developer
5 29 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (7.05%) Network Architect
7 26 (6.79%) Cloud Architect
7 26 (6.79%) Lead
8 25 (6.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 21 (5.48%) Azure Architect
11 18 (4.70%) Security Architect
12 16 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (3.66%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.39%) Implementation Specialist
16 12 (3.13%) Analyst
16 12 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
17 11 (2.87%) Senior Architect
18 10 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.49%) .NET
2 28 (7.31%) LDAP
3 19 (4.96%) REST
4 18 (4.70%) JSON
4 18 (4.70%) Web Services
5 17 (4.44%) Middleware
6 14 (3.66%) OAuth
7 12 (3.13%) AngularJS
7 12 (3.13%) OpenID
8 11 (2.87%) SAML
8 11 (2.87%) Swagger
9 10 (2.61%) .NET Core
9 10 (2.61%) YAML
10 9 (2.35%) ASP.NET
10 9 (2.35%) Node.js
10 9 (2.35%) RESTful
11 8 (2.09%) .NET Framework
11 8 (2.09%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.57%) Kafka
12 6 (1.57%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.44%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.53%) Replication
3 23 (6.01%) Public Cloud
4 17 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 17 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 16 (4.18%) Cloud Native
5 16 (4.18%) IoT
6 15 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
8 12 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 12 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 11 (2.87%) Clustering
10 10 (2.61%) Blackberry
11 9 (2.35%) PKI
12 8 (2.09%) Client/Server
12 8 (2.09%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.83%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 65 (16.97%) Linux
2 63 (16.45%) Windows
3 33 (8.62%) Unix
4 18 (4.70%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.66%) VMS
6 9 (2.35%) Android
7 8 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (2.09%) Solaris
8 7 (1.83%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.31%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (1.31%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (28.46%) DevOps
2 108 (28.20%) Agile
3 73 (19.06%) CI/CD
4 64 (16.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (14.36%) Migration
6 45 (11.75%) Cloud Security
6 45 (11.75%) Roadmaps
7 41 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (10.44%) Microservices
9 39 (10.18%) Zero Trust
10 38 (9.92%) Open Source
11 37 (9.66%) Business Strategy
11 37 (9.66%) Scrum
12 32 (8.36%) ITIL
13 30 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
14 29 (7.57%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (7.57%) DevSecOps
15 28 (7.31%) Computer Science
15 28 (7.31%) SDLC
16 27 (7.05%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 70 (18.28%) SQL
2 65 (16.97%) Python
3 63 (16.45%) PowerShell
4 35 (9.14%) C#
5 19 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.18%) Java
7 14 (3.66%) Bash
8 10 (2.61%) Bicep
9 9 (2.35%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.57%) Ruby
12 4 (1.04%) C
12 4 (1.04%) Go
13 3 (0.78%) Perl
13 3 (0.78%) PHP
13 3 (0.78%) Scala
13 3 (0.78%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 99 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 54 (14.10%) Degree
3 53 (13.84%) SC Cleared
4 49 (12.79%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.22%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.39%) PMP
7 12 (3.13%) APMP
7 12 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (2.35%) CISSP
9 8 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.83%) HND
11 5 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.31%) CISM
12 4 (1.04%) CCNP
12 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.70%) NIST
2 10 (2.61%) QA
3 8 (2.09%) GDPR
4 6 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.57%) SLA
5 5 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.52%) WCAG
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 64 (16.71%) Active Directory
2 31 (8.09%) Docker
3 28 (7.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (6.53%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (4.18%) NFS
6 13 (3.39%) HDFS
7 11 (2.87%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.04%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.26%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.26%) XenApp
10 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (18.80%) Terraform
2 60 (15.67%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.31%) Ansible
4 18 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.09%) Netcool
7 6 (1.57%) Data Guard
7 6 (1.57%) Grafana
8 5 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.31%) Puppet
8 5 (1.31%) Tivoli
8 5 (1.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.04%) Argo
9 4 (1.04%) OPNET
9 4 (1.04%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.52%) Nessus
10 2 (0.52%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 145 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.27%) Oracle
3 34 (8.88%) VMware
4 32 (8.36%) Google
5 22 (5.74%) Cisco
6 18 (4.70%) Isilon
7 15 (3.92%) IBM
7 15 (3.92%) Salesforce
8 14 (3.66%) SAP
8 14 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.13%) Splunk
10 10 (2.61%) Avaya
10 10 (2.61%) Ericsson
10 10 (2.61%) Juniper
10 10 (2.61%) Nokia
10 10 (2.61%) Ribbon
11 9 (2.35%) Dell
11 9 (2.35%) MuleSoft
12 8 (2.09%) Citrix
12 8 (2.09%) Databricks