PaaS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 99 113
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +29
Contract jobs citing PaaS 16 20 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.71% 1.19% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 3.33% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 17 7
10th Percentile £455 £355 £412
25th Percentile £489 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £534 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% +6.80% +17.65%
75th Percentile £637 £600 £627
90th Percentile £650 £615 £667
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.56% -0.63%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 851 601 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.57% 35.73% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 401 477
10th Percentile £313 £306 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £626
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 11
10th Percentile - £16.21 £15.10
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +24.82% -70.43%
75th Percentile £40.63 £25.06 £21.96
90th Percentile £63.35 £27.05 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £36.31 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% +25.00% -37.14%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Scotland

PaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PaaS

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PaaS in Scotland

PaaS
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 PaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. 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 -8 10 £595 +11.42% 3
Glasgow -12 5 £600 +14.07% 1
PaaS
UK

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) Azure
2 12 (75.00%) IaaS
3 10 (62.50%) SaaS
4 6 (37.50%) OCI
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSH
1 1 (6.25%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
1 1 (6.25%) Subversion
1 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
1 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 7 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) User Experience
5 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Open Source
6 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Python
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) VBA
3 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) PMI Certification
1 3 (18.75%) PMP
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow