Cloud Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 152 144
Rank change year-on-year +39 -8 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 15 14 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.69% 0.51% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.53% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £410 - £461
25th Percentile £439 - £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +14.72%
75th Percentile £600 - £588
90th Percentile £603 £675 £657
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.81
25th Percentile - - £41.89
Median hourly rate - - £44.82
75th Percentile - - £47.78
90th Percentile - - £47.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -68.42% +110.46% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,047 2,617 3,298
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 95.48% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 1,856 2,339
10th Percentile £200 £232 £217
25th Percentile £360 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 54
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.44 £17.74
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -26.07% -20.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.81
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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 +42 8 £443 -31.92% 4
Glasgow +12 6 £600 -
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Terraform
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Ansible
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Linux
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
5 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
5 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (20.00%) Packer
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (20.00%) Bash
6 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (20.00%) Spring

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 (6.67%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Gradle
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
1 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Coaching
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (20.00%) Packer
5 1 (6.67%) CASB
5 1 (6.67%) Knative
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk