PaaS Contracts in Scotland

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 93 116 137
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 -17
Contract jobs citing PaaS 23 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 0.59% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.57% 1.76% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 17
10th Percentile £400 £473 £478
25th Percentile £513 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £592 £627 £588
90th Percentile £601 £667 £625
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -

All Cloud 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 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%

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PaaS in Scotland

PaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Scotland

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

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 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
Edinburgh +7 14 £530 -7.91% 6
Glasgow - 7 £562 - 6
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 -
PaaS
UK

PaaS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) SaaS
2 14 (60.87%) IaaS
3 10 (43.48%) Azure
4 9 (39.13%) AWS
5 7 (30.43%) Serverless
6 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
6 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (26.09%) OpenShift
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (21.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (21.74%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (17.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (17.39%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (17.39%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 4 (17.39%) Route 53
9 3 (13.04%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
9 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 2 (8.70%) SSL
3 1 (4.35%) FTP
3 1 (4.35%) HTTP
3 1 (4.35%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Git
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
3 3 (13.04%) Postman
3 3 (13.04%) Selenium
3 3 (13.04%) Subversion
3 3 (13.04%) TeamCity
3 3 (13.04%) WebDriver
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
5 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.35%) Gradle
5 1 (4.35%) Maven
5 1 (4.35%) Mockito
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) QA Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Database Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Designer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Security Designer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) AWS CDK
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Camel
4 1 (4.35%) JWT
4 1 (4.35%) Loki
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
4 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Batch
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
3 3 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
4 2 (8.70%) Clustering
4 2 (8.70%) PKI
4 2 (8.70%) Replication
4 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.35%) CMDB
5 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) AIX
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Solaris
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
4 7 (30.43%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) Kanban
5 6 (26.09%) Scrum
5 6 (26.09%) Software Delivery
6 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
6 5 (21.74%) Migration
6 5 (21.74%) SDLC
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (17.39%) Information Security
7 4 (17.39%) ITIL
7 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) TDD
8 3 (13.04%) ATDD
8 3 (13.04%) BDD
8 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Bash
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) C#
4 3 (13.04%) C++
4 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
4 3 (13.04%) VBA
4 3 (13.04%) VBScript
5 2 (8.70%) Groovy
5 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Go
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) ISEB
1 3 (13.04%) ISTQB
1 3 (13.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISM
2 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (8.70%) CRISC
2 2 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) CCSP
3 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) OCP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Data Guard
3 2 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Flashback
3 2 (8.70%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.70%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.35%) Imperva
4 1 (4.35%) Okta
4 1 (4.35%) Talend
4 1 (4.35%) VMware