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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 109 112
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -19
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 10 28
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.63% 0.54% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.73% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 15
10th Percentile £345 £408 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -16.67%
75th Percentile £557 £533 £544
90th Percentile £598 £539 £630
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -6.09% -3.16% +3.26%

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 578 578 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.35% 31.48% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 362 543
10th Percentile £325 £225 £300
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £555 £530 £550
90th Percentile £625 £594 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.07
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £15.44
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% +19.31% -
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £25.11
90th Percentile £55.51 - £29.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +44.93%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 - 8 £475 - 6
Edinburgh +4 1 £475 -5.00%
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 7 (70.00%) IaaS
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Gradle
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Observability
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Product Management
5 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Go
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow