PaaS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing PaaS 6 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.97% 1.61% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 4.29% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 5
10th Percentile £434 £410 -
25th Percentile £484 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -19.24%
75th Percentile £563 £535 £538
90th Percentile £608 £544 £605
Scotland median daily rate £450 £510 £425
% change year-on-year -11.76% +20.00% -16.67%

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 248 303 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.94% 37.50% 38.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 185 297
10th Percentile £406 £193 £239
25th Percentile £450 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +9.06% -4.15% -5.15%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £525
90th Percentile £600 £600 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £21.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +183.79% +19.31% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £20.29 £23.86
% change year-on-year +85.09% -14.98% +30.85%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 September 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 6 (100.00%) SaaS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (16.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) ATDD
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) V-Model
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) VBA
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) OCP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft