PaaS Job Trends in Scotland

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 141 177
Rank change year-on-year +16 +36 -93
Permanent jobs citing PaaS 18 6 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.46% 0.24% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.28% 1.00% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 20
10th Percentile £55,380 £55,594 -
25th Percentile £75,938 £58,361 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,359 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.06% +22.47% -21.43%
75th Percentile £100,000 £76,993 £70,099
90th Percentile - £80,141 £85,000
UK median annual salary £81,000 £67,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year +20.90% +1.52% -6.80%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 791 600 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.16% 23.92% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 460 219 607
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,855 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -0.26% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,641 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

PaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PaaS job vacancy trend in Scotland

PaaS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PaaS

PaaS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing PaaS in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for PaaS in Scotland

PaaS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PaaS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +11 6 £100,000 +29.51% 7
Glasgow +2 5 £40,800 -29.04% 6
Inverclyde - 4 £77,500 -
Aberdeen -14 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
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 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 11 (61.11%) IaaS
3 8 (44.44%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) AIX
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Solaris
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (27.78%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 4 (22.22%) Service Design
4 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (5.56%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
6 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.56%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (5.56%) SOAR
6 1 (5.56%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) CISM
1 2 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow