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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 94 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 23 14
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.58% 1.40% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 3.52% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 8
10th Percentile £358 £400 £413
25th Percentile - £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £532 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -7.48% +8.24%
75th Percentile £564 £592 £613
90th Percentile £578 £601 £664
UK median daily rate £539 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.30% -4.17% +3.90%

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 709 653 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.84% 39.67% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 444 504
10th Percentile £311 £275 £258
25th Percentile £395 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £583 £538 £541
90th Percentile £675 £600 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £12.74 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +42.24% -71.92%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -37.78%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -5 5 £460 -13.13%
Glasgow +2 4 £452 -19.62% 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 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) IaaS
1 5 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
3 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce