IaaS Contracts in Edinburgh

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 59 94
Rank change year-on-year +3 +35 +17
Contract jobs citing IaaS 11 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.76% 1.60% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.93% 4.28% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 13
10th Percentile £400 £491 £428
25th Percentile £513 £581 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £651 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% +13.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £625
90th Percentile £658 - £645
Scotland median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

IaaS 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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) PaaS
2 9 (81.82%) SaaS
3 8 (72.73%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Subversion
2 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
2 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) QA Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Client/Server
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) AIX
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (27.27%) ATDD
3 3 (27.27%) BDD
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Feature Driven Development
3 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
3 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) TDD
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) V-Model
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) C++
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 3 (27.27%) VBA
2 3 (27.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) ISEB
1 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
1 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
1 1 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Dell
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) VMware