PaaS Contracts in Scotland

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for PaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PaaS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 132 116
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing PaaS 10 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 1.04% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 2.85% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 40
10th Percentile £453 £422 £413
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £654 £597 £575
90th Percentile £674 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £600 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +2.13% +2.17% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

PaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 730 981 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.94% 36.29% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 726 777
10th Percentile £232 £250 £300
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.04%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £573
90th Percentile £634 £636 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 17
10th Percentile £15.94 £17.72 £18.87
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -61.06%
75th Percentile £19.57 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £34.48 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 16 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +25 9 £589 +2.39% 6
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) IaaS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) iPaaS
3 3 (30.00%) OCI
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) IPsec
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Administrator
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Administrator
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Test Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) J2EE
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (30.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
1 5 (50.00%) SOA
2 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) ERP
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) C++
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) VBA
1 2 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) KVM
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Okta
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle