Cloud Computing Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Computing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 153 160
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 4 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.52% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.47% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 6
10th Percentile £535 £376 £353
25th Percentile £569 £440 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.94% +54.26%
75th Percentile £634 £538 £469
90th Percentile £640 £539 £538
UK median daily rate £600 £565 £575
% change year-on-year +6.15% -1.70% +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +175.23% +12.82%
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £21.38
% change year-on-year -2.63% -11.11% +9.62%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Cloud Computing 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 737 1,021 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.96% 35.60% 30.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 770 792
10th Percentile £256 £253 £278
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £569
90th Percentile £656 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 21
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -42.86%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -35.38% +54.39% -7.51%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
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 Cloud Computing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 +28 2 £631 +38.74% 7
Renfrewshire -1 2 £525 -2.53%
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Google