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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 108 113
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 10 29
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.62% 0.55% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.74% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 17
10th Percentile £400 £408 £250
25th Percentile £438 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £533 £575
90th Percentile £638 £539 £620
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £583
% change year-on-year -6.09% -1.37% +1.39%

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 582 574 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.24% 31.70% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 358 548
10th Percentile £335 £267 £309
25th Percentile £420 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.45%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £561
90th Percentile £628 £594 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 4
10th Percentile £13.58 £17.19 £14.53
25th Percentile £14.15 £18.50 £16.58
Median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -
75th Percentile £37.55 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £51.02 - £28.07
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +35.87%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 - 7 £525 - 11
Edinburgh -3 2 £475 -5.00% 4
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 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) IaaS
2 7 (70.00%) SaaS
3 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Software 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
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (10.00%) SIAM
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow