IaaS Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 87 103 137
Rank change year-on-year +16 +34 +8
Contract jobs citing IaaS 29 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.78% 1.17% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.50% 3.52% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 16
10th Percentile £406 £415 £433
25th Percentile £425 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £589 £654 £606
90th Percentile £606 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Scotland

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Scotland

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Scotland

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +9 18 £450 - 4
Edinburgh +3 11 £588 -9.79% 4
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 14 (48.28%) PaaS
2 12 (41.38%) SaaS
3 10 (34.48%) Azure
4 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 3 (10.34%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.90%) OCI
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) DHCP
3 2 (6.90%) Network Security
3 2 (6.90%) SSL
4 1 (3.45%) FTP
4 1 (3.45%) HTTP
4 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) JIRA
2 8 (27.59%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.34%) Postman
3 3 (10.34%) Selenium
3 3 (10.34%) Subversion
3 3 (10.34%) TeamCity
3 3 (10.34%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
4 1 (3.45%) Toad
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
4 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
5 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
6 3 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Scrum Master
2 7 (24.14%) Architect
3 6 (20.69%) Senior
4 5 (17.24%) Python Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (13.79%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Database Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Database Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Integration Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (3.45%) Senior QA Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Camel
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) JWT
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) OAuth
2 1 (3.45%) OpenID
2 1 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) SAML
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Batch
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Virtual Team
2 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
3 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
4 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
5 3 (10.34%) Client/Server
5 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (10.34%) Mobile App
6 2 (6.90%) Clustering
6 2 (6.90%) PKI
6 2 (6.90%) Replication
6 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
7 1 (3.45%) CMDB
7 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) AIX
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Agile
2 13 (44.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (41.38%) Kanban
3 12 (41.38%) Scrum
4 10 (34.48%) Roadmaps
5 9 (31.03%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) High Availability
6 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (27.59%) Service Delivery
7 7 (24.14%) Waterfall
8 6 (20.69%) Conflict Resolution
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
9 5 (17.24%) Migration
9 5 (17.24%) Workflow
10 4 (13.79%) Backlog Management
10 4 (13.79%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (13.79%) Investment Management
10 4 (13.79%) ITIL
10 4 (13.79%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Erlang
2 5 (17.24%) Perl
2 5 (17.24%) Prolog
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) Java
4 3 (10.34%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) C++
4 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) VBA
4 3 (10.34%) VBScript
5 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ISEB
1 3 (10.34%) ISTQB
1 3 (10.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.90%) CISM
2 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (6.90%) CRISC
2 2 (6.90%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CCSP
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Virtual Servers
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) Data Guard
1 2 (6.90%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle Flashback
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Oracle
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.45%) Okta
5 1 (3.45%) Talend