PaaS Contracts in Scotland

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring PaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PaaS over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing PaaS 19 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.14% 0.43% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 1.27% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 10
10th Percentile £354 £411 £413
25th Percentile £481 £418 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £517 £531
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -2.78% +1.19%
75th Percentile £600 £640 £597
90th Percentile £619 £671 £628
UK median daily rate £589 £596 £600
% change year-on-year -1.22% -0.63% +4.35%

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 599 711 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.04% 34.30% 36.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 482 733
10th Percentile £308 £213 £260
25th Percentile £413 £364 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £626 £622
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile £16.21 £16.22 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £22.88
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%
75th Percentile £25.06 £21.64 £63.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £30.09 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PaaS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PaaS in Scotland

PaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 June 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 25 June 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 - 10 £535 - 6
Edinburgh +7 9 £534 +23.33% 3
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 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) SaaS
2 13 (68.42%) IaaS
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 6 (31.58%) AWS
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
6 3 (15.79%) Serverless
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) OCI
7 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
7 2 (10.53%) PowerApps
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (5.26%) CloudFront
8 1 (5.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) FTP
2 1 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) Maven
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
3 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (5.26%) Toad
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Database Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Service Design Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Camel
2 1 (5.26%) JWT
2 1 (5.26%) Loki
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Batch
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
3 2 (10.53%) Clustering
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.26%) CMDB
4 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) AIX
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Solaris
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) SDLC
4 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Information Security
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) Service Management
5 4 (21.05%) TDD
5 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Kanban
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Java
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.53%) VBA
3 2 (10.53%) VBScript
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.53%) CISM
1 2 (10.53%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (10.53%) CRISC
1 2 (10.53%) ISEB
1 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
1 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CCSP
2 1 (5.26%) OCP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Data Guard
2 2 (10.53%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Flashback
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) AppDynamics
4 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
4 2 (10.53%) Dell
4 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
4 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.26%) Okta
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.26%) Talend