Cloud Operations Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cloud Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Operations over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 165 174
Rank change year-on-year +42 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.035% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.038% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £628
25th Percentile £525 - £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 - £658
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.11%
75th Percentile £604 - £674
90th Percentile £612 - £675
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £623
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.36% +24.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cloud Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,942 2,610 3,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.68% 92.55% 93.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,872 2,340
10th Percentile £228 £260 £244
25th Percentile £399 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in Scotland

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in Scotland

Cloud Operations
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 Operations within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Glasgow - 6 £573 -
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 6 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 6 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (83.33%) Cost Control
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft