PaaS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing PaaS 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.07% - 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.71% - 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £335 - -
25th Percentile £406 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.36%
75th Percentile £597 - £678
90th Percentile £644 - £729
Scotland median daily rate £513 £500 £425
% change year-on-year +2.50% +17.65% -16.67%

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 295 194 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.33% 27.64% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 125 174
10th Percentile £319 £298 £363
25th Percentile £412 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £525 £615
90th Percentile £641 £608 £726
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £15.09 £19.00 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +44.38% -
Scotland median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £17.72
% change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

PaaS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Glasgow

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) IaaS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Spring
1 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) FinOps
4 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (12.50%) Kanban
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) SIAM
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow