PaaS Contracts in the South East

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
England > South East

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 129 96
Rank change year-on-year -39 -33 +21
Contract jobs citing PaaS 33 83 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 1.46% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 4.95% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 69 158
10th Percentile £420 £470 £360
25th Percentile £454 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +10.34% +10.97%
75th Percentile £631 £725 £638
90th Percentile £730 £799 £658
England median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +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 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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,329 1,676 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.53% 29.56% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,218 1,803
10th Percentile £263 £250 £210
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £615
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 53 48 55
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.21 £13.63
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.13 £14.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.83 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% +32.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £24.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.23 £54.15
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +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 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in the South East

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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 2 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 -7 25 £530 -16.86% 15
Berkshire -18 17 £530 -24.29% 3
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £613 +2.08% 12
Surrey +13 3 £498 -5.24% 2
West Sussex +7 3 £347 -57.99%
Oxfordshire +5 2 £465 -24.08%
East Sussex +3 1 £625 -34.21%
Hampshire -14 1 - - 2
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 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) Azure
2 20 (60.61%) SaaS
3 18 (54.55%) IaaS
4 9 (27.27%) AWS
5 8 (24.24%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (15.15%) Azure API Management
7 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
9 3 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (6.06%) Azure Stack
10 2 (6.06%) Google Workspace
10 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
10 2 (6.06%) Power Platform
10 2 (6.06%) Slack
11 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) VPN
2 3 (9.09%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) LAN
3 2 (6.06%) SSL
3 2 (6.06%) WAN
3 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Big Data
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.06%) JMeter
4 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) Postman
5 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Automotive
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.03%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Architect
1 6 (18.18%) Developer
1 6 (18.18%) Lead
2 5 (15.15%) C# Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Integration Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Product Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) CloudOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead Full Stack Developer
6 1 (3.03%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.06%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) Loki
3 2 (6.06%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) J2EE
4 1 (3.03%) JSON
4 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Swagger
4 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) PKI
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 7 (21.21%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) DevOps
2 10 (30.30%) Agile
3 8 (24.24%) Cloud Security
3 8 (24.24%) Migration
3 8 (24.24%) Scrum
4 7 (21.21%) API Management
4 7 (21.21%) Microservices
4 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
5 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.18%) Network Architecture
5 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.18%) Security Architecture
6 5 (15.15%) High Availability
7 4 (12.12%) Cryptography
7 4 (12.12%) Information Security
7 4 (12.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) C#
2 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 6 (18.18%) Python
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) PHP
5 3 (9.09%) Ruby
5 3 (9.09%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.06%) Bash
7 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (3.03%) CCSP
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Argo
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kustomize
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.06%) SCCM
4 1 (3.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Meraki
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk