PaaS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 197 150
Rank change year-on-year +9 -47 -31
Contract jobs citing PaaS 162 314 795
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.11% 1.29% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 3.30% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 229 595
10th Percentile £350 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £669
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £590 £575
% change year-on-year +1.69% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile - £54.65 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £60.13 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £73.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.38% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 £89.63 -
90th Percentile - £97.35 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £81.86
% change year-on-year -66.67% -4.72% +36.43%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,354 9,512 18,202
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.57% 39.22% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,877 7,089 13,595
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 131 159
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £17.16 £21.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £51.63 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £37.25 £22.40
% change year-on-year -42.63% +66.29% +0.67%

PaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PaaS.

PaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PaaS over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

PaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PaaS.

PaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (3.70%) Confluence
2 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.47%) CMS
3 4 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.23%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.62%) Drupal
5 1 (0.62%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.62%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.62%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (8.02%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (8.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (4.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle AGIS
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (62.96%) Azure
2 96 (59.26%) IaaS
3 84 (51.85%) SaaS
4 46 (28.40%) AWS
5 36 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (11.73%) Serverless
7 18 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 15 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (8.64%) GCP
9 14 (8.64%) GitHub
10 13 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (8.02%) Google Workspace
11 10 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (4.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (4.94%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (4.94%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (4.94%) Miro
14 7 (4.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.35%) Firewall
2 12 (7.41%) VPN
3 10 (6.17%) DNS
4 7 (4.32%) FTP
4 7 (4.32%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.70%) DHCP
6 5 (3.09%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.09%) NAS
6 5 (3.09%) SAN
6 5 (3.09%) VLAN
7 3 (1.85%) LAN
7 3 (1.85%) Network Security
8 2 (1.23%) BGP
8 2 (1.23%) IPsec
8 2 (1.23%) OSPF
8 2 (1.23%) WAN
9 1 (0.62%) HTTP
9 1 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.62%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.32%) Hadoop
4 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.23%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.23%) Power BI
7 2 (1.23%) Redis
7 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.62%) Big Data
8 1 (0.62%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (17.28%) Git
2 18 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.02%) TeamCity
4 12 (7.41%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.94%) JIRA
6 6 (3.70%) Artifactory
6 6 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.09%) GitLab
8 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio
9 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.23%) Selenium
9 2 (1.23%) Snyk
9 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.62%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.62%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.62%) Moq
10 1 (0.62%) Postman
10 1 (0.62%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.62%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (17.90%) Finance
2 25 (15.43%) Social Skills
3 16 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.02%) Legal
5 11 (6.79%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.94%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.32%) Marketing
7 7 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Banking
9 4 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Retail
10 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Czech Language
11 2 (1.23%) Electronics
11 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.23%) Law
11 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Front Office
12 1 (0.62%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 37 (22.84%) Architect
2 26 (16.05%) Senior
3 20 (12.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.73%) Developer
5 18 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (8.02%) Senior DevOps
7 11 (6.79%) Lead
7 11 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (6.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Azure Architect
9 9 (5.56%) C# Developer
9 9 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.32%) Analyst
10 7 (4.32%) Implementation Specialist
10 7 (4.32%) Technical Architect
11 6 (3.70%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.70%) Administrator
11 6 (3.70%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.70%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (3.70%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.67%) .NET
2 15 (9.26%) ARM Templates
3 12 (7.41%) LDAP
3 12 (7.41%) REST
4 10 (6.17%) Azure Blueprints
5 9 (5.56%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 9 (5.56%) OAuth
5 9 (5.56%) SAML
6 8 (4.94%) Middleware
6 8 (4.94%) OpenID
7 7 (4.32%) ASP.NET
7 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (3.70%) RESTful
9 5 (3.09%) .NET Framework
9 5 (3.09%) JSON
9 5 (3.09%) YAML
10 4 (2.47%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (2.47%) SOAP
10 4 (2.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.64%) Replication
1 14 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (8.02%) Virtual Team
3 12 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 10 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 10 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.70%) Clustering
5 6 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.47%) IoT
7 4 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.85%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.62%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.84%) Windows
2 32 (19.75%) Linux
3 17 (10.49%) Unix
4 7 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (4.32%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.70%) Android
5 6 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 6 (3.70%) Solaris
6 5 (3.09%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (2.47%) VMS
8 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (41.36%) DevOps
2 57 (35.19%) Agile
3 30 (18.52%) Test Automation
4 28 (17.28%) CI/CD
5 26 (16.05%) Migration
6 22 (13.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (12.35%) Microservices
8 18 (11.11%) Project Management
8 18 (11.11%) Roadmaps
9 17 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (9.88%) Containerisation
10 16 (9.88%) Deployment Automation
10 16 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.88%) Software Engineering
11 15 (9.26%) DevSecOps
12 14 (8.64%) Mentoring
12 14 (8.64%) Scrum
13 13 (8.02%) Continuous Delivery
13 13 (8.02%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.20%) SQL
2 22 (13.58%) Python
3 21 (12.96%) PowerShell
4 20 (12.35%) C#
5 12 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 10 (6.17%) Bash
7 6 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.09%) Bicep
9 4 (2.47%) Java
10 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.62%) C++
11 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.62%) PHP
11 1 (0.62%) R
11 1 (0.62%) Ruby
11 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.62%) VBA
11 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.67%) Degree
4 14 (8.64%) PMI Certification
4 14 (8.64%) PMP
5 13 (8.02%) APMP
6 11 (6.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (5.56%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.23%) CISM
10 2 (1.23%) CISSP
10 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.62%) ISEB
11 1 (0.62%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.17%) NCSC
2 6 (3.70%) QA
3 5 (3.09%) GDPR
3 5 (3.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) WCAG
5 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) NIST
5 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.96%) Docker
3 10 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.32%) HDFS
4 7 (4.32%) NFS
5 5 (3.09%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (25.93%) Terraform
2 33 (20.37%) Kubernetes
3 27 (16.67%) Ansible
4 6 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.09%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (3.09%) Netcool
5 5 (3.09%) Tivoli
5 5 (3.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (2.47%) Argo
6 4 (2.47%) Grafana
6 4 (2.47%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.23%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.62%) Nessus
9 1 (0.62%) Puppet
Vendors
1 62 (38.27%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.43%) Oracle
3 16 (9.88%) Salesforce
4 14 (8.64%) Google
5 13 (8.02%) VMware
6 12 (7.41%) Isilon
6 12 (7.41%) Splunk
7 8 (4.94%) Dell
7 8 (4.94%) MuleSoft
8 7 (4.32%) Dynatrace
8 7 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.70%) Cisco
9 6 (3.70%) HP
9 6 (3.70%) IBM
10 5 (3.09%) CyberArk
10 5 (3.09%) EMC
10 5 (3.09%) Qualys
10 5 (3.09%) SAP
10 5 (3.09%) Serena
11 4 (2.47%) Citrix