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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 66 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -1
Contract jobs citing IaaS 23 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.02% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.46% 1.10% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 1
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £425 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +15.67%
75th Percentile £550 £475 -
90th Percentile £598 - -
Scotland median daily rate £530 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -18.54% +18.18% +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 272 272 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.74% 35.42% 35.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 198 210
10th Percentile £326 £200 £363
25th Percentile £406 £357 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £537 £505 £600
90th Percentile £600 £588 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - £51.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.26% +50.00% +59.09%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £59.83
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%

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 24 June 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 5 (21.74%) PaaS
2 4 (17.39%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DHCP
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) FTP
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) Git
1 9 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 7 (30.43%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Mockito
3 1 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Banking
5 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Python Engineer
1 9 (39.13%) Scrum Master
2 8 (34.78%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
1 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.35%) JWT
1 1 (4.35%) Middleware
1 1 (4.35%) OAuth
1 1 (4.35%) OpenID
1 1 (4.35%) REST
1 1 (4.35%) SAML
1 1 (4.35%) Spring
1 1 (4.35%) Spring Batch
1 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Virtual Team
2 9 (39.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
3 8 (34.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) AIX
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Solaris
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) High Availability
3 10 (43.48%) Kanban
3 10 (43.48%) Scrum
4 9 (39.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (39.13%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (34.78%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Service Delivery
6 7 (30.43%) DevOps
6 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
7 6 (26.09%) Conflict Resolution
7 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (21.74%) Workflow
9 4 (17.39%) Backlog Management
9 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (17.39%) Investment Management
9 4 (17.39%) Waterfall
9 4 (17.39%) Wealth Management
10 3 (13.04%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) Erlang
2 9 (39.13%) Perl
2 9 (39.13%) Prolog
2 9 (39.13%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) CISM
1 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (8.70%) CRISC
2 1 (4.35%) CCSP
2 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (30.43%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Data Guard
1 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) VMware
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Talend