IaaS Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 142 147
Rank change year-on-year +37 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing IaaS 21 26 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.96% 0.94% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 2.59% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 17
10th Percentile £413 £433 £413
25th Percentile £425 £446 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £671 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £638 £622
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +12.20%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 1,004 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.24% 36.31% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 756 782
10th Percentile £230 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 20
10th Percentile £15.32 £33.33 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £55.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £61.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.26% +67.88% -36.80%
75th Percentile £18.54 £68.25 £47.43
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.90 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +29 10 £664 +15.43% 6
Glasgow +11 10 £450 +0.90% 5
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) PaaS
3 6 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 4 (19.05%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (19.05%) SaaS
5 3 (14.29%) iPaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (19.05%) DHCP
3 3 (14.29%) LAN
3 3 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
2 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) Subversion
2 2 (9.52%) TeamCity
2 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (47.62%) Public Sector
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 4 (19.05%) Back Office
4 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Investment Banking
4 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Hardware Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Technical Architect
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
3 3 (14.29%) J2EE
3 3 (14.29%) Web Services
4 2 (9.52%) Middleware
5 1 (4.76%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Client/Server
1 5 (23.81%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Agile
1 9 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 7 (33.33%) High Availability
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 5 (23.81%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (23.81%) SOA
4 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (19.05%) API Management
5 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Investment Management
5 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) Service Management
5 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Storage Management
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (19.05%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) C++
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) VBA
3 2 (9.52%) VBScript
4 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
1 2 (9.52%) ISEB
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Firmware
2 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.76%) Docker
4 1 (4.76%) KVM
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Puppet
3 1 (4.76%) Nagios
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) HP