PaaS Job Trends in Edinburgh

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 87 64
Rank change year-on-year -18 -23 +36
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 5 16 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.49% 1.35% 4.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 3.14% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 40
10th Percentile £67,179 £47,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £68,813 - £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £55,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% -22.07% +17.63%
75th Percentile £78,790 £64,572 £84,056
90th Percentile £80,860 £74,144 £100,064
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +34.18% -12.00% -1.96%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

PaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 474 509 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 46.29% 42.88% 46.84%
Number of salaries quoted 143 226 394
10th Percentile £25,750 £36,875 £37,575
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,813 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,715 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% -8.13% +9.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PaaS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

PaaS
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PaaS

PaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) dbt
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
2 3 (60.00%) Sentry
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Business Case
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (20.00%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google