PaaS Contracts in Edinburgh

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 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 53 60 98
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 -5
Contract jobs citing PaaS 14 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% 1.47% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 3.95% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 10
10th Percentile £411 £463 £512
25th Percentile £513 £516 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £592 £640 £619
90th Percentile £606 £671 £628
Scotland median daily rate £532 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 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%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Edinburgh

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Edinburgh

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Edinburgh

PaaS
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 13 (92.86%) SaaS
2 10 (71.43%) IaaS
3 8 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (28.57%) Serverless
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
5 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) OpenShift
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (21.43%) PowerApps
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
2 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
2 3 (21.43%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 7 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Database Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Database Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Client/Server
2 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) CMDB
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) AIX
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Solaris
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Kanban
4 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) ATDD
6 3 (21.43%) BDD
6 3 (21.43%) Feature Driven Development
6 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) TDD
6 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 3 (21.43%) V-Model
6 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
2 4 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
3 3 (21.43%) VBA
3 3 (21.43%) VBScript
4 2 (14.29%) Groovy
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) ISEB
1 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
1 3 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) OCP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Data Guard
3 1 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) VMware