IaaS Contracts in Glasgow

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 61 70 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing IaaS 18 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.26% 1.37% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 3.81% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £406 £347 £444
25th Percentile £420 £397 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £446
Median % change year-on-year - +0.90% -23.43%
75th Percentile £539 £475 £498
90th Percentile £585 £475 £529
Scotland median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 307 315 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 35.92% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 231 230
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -6.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £618 £676
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £23.28
25th Percentile £25.25 - £30.81
Median hourly rate £26.50 £15.42 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.85% -66.66% +110.23%
75th Percentile £27.75 £34.59 £59.20
90th Percentile - £46.08 £60.01
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Glasgow

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Glasgow

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Glasgow

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (22.22%) PaaS
2 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DHCP
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) FTP
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) JIRA
2 5 (27.78%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Mockito
3 1 (5.56%) Toad
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Banking
5 4 (22.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 5 (27.78%) Python Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Camel
1 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.56%) JWT
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OpenID
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) SAML
1 1 (5.56%) Spring
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Batch
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 7 (38.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) PKI
5 1 (5.56%) Replication
5 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (50.00%) Kanban
2 9 (50.00%) Scrum
3 8 (44.44%) High Availability
3 8 (44.44%) Service Delivery
4 7 (38.89%) Roadmaps
5 6 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (27.78%) Workflow
7 4 (22.22%) Backlog Management
7 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Investment Management
7 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
7 4 (22.22%) Wealth Management
8 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 5 (27.78%) Erlang
2 5 (27.78%) Perl
2 5 (27.78%) Prolog
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) CISM
1 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (11.11%) CRISC
2 1 (5.56%) CCSP
2 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.56%) Okta
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Talend