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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 92 116
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 -11
Contract jobs citing PaaS 12 14 18
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.82% 0.89% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 2.55% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £408 £403 £413
25th Percentile £475 £511 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% +7.90%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £600
90th Percentile £595 £551 £650
UK median daily rate £543 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -7.26% +1.74% -

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 569 550 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.65% 34.83% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 349 466
10th Percentile £313 £312 £323
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £584
90th Percentile £671 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.77 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +55.64% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.04 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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
Glasgow - 7 £550 - 2
Edinburgh -4 3 £475 -9.52% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) IaaS
2 9 (75.00%) SaaS
3 7 (58.33%) AWS
4 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Internet
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Principal Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
3 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) CRM
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) AI
3 2 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Product Management
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics