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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 101 123
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -26
Contract jobs citing PaaS 13 12 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 0.65% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.26% 2.00% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 13
10th Percentile £345 £410 -
25th Percentile £369 £423 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +22.35% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £541 £538
90th Percentile £643 £600 £640
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -5.98% -0.43% +2.17%

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 575 601 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.16% 32.38% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 395 586
10th Percentile £351 £213 £300
25th Percentile £425 £379 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £616 £624
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 0 7 £525 +2.94% 6
Glasgow - 6 £358 - 4
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 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) SaaS
2 8 (61.54%) IaaS
3 7 (53.85%) Azure
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
6 2 (15.38%) Serverless
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
3 2 (15.38%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Gradle
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) Subversion
3 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 4 (30.77%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Designer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) Loki
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Architecture Roadmap
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) SDLC
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (23.08%) Kanban
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Feature Driven Development
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) VBA
3 2 (15.38%) VBScript
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) Groovy
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) ISEB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.69%) OCP
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow