PaaS Contracts in Glasgow

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 72 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing PaaS 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.88% - 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% - 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £433 - £445
25th Percentile £515 - £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 - £492
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.65%
75th Percentile £597 - £552
90th Percentile £600 - £554
Scotland median daily rate £532 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -11.33% +9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 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%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Glasgow

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Glasgow

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Glasgow

PaaS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 4 (57.14%) IaaS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (14.29%) OCI
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Mockito
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Database Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Security Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 1 (14.29%) JWT
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) AIX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Solaris
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Information Security
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Batch Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CISM
1 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (28.57%) CRISC
2 1 (14.29%) CCSP
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
1 1 (14.29%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Flashback
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (28.57%) MuleSoft
4 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 1 (14.29%) Okta
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Talend