Cloud Platform Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 157 164
Rank change year-on-year +38 +7 -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 12 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.54% 0.25% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.26% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 1
10th Percentile £441 £491 -
25th Percentile £453 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% +3.90% -
75th Percentile £519 £529 £525
90th Percentile £532 £534 -
UK median daily rate £528 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.21% +2.17% -

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 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Platform Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow +8 7 £453 - 2
Edinburgh +42 4 £515 -1.39% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Cloud Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Python
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 8 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (50.00%) Ansible
4 6 (50.00%) Docker
4 6 (50.00%) Kibana
4 6 (50.00%) GitLab
4 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (50.00%) Azure
4 6 (50.00%) Bash
4 6 (50.00%) Java
4 6 (50.00%) Linux
4 6 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (50.00%) Scala
4 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (50.00%) Databricks
4 6 (50.00%) Grafana
4 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (50.00%) Artifactory
4 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Serverless

Cloud Platform 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 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (50.00%) Serverless
2 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (41.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (25.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 6 (50.00%) GitLab
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (50.00%) DataOps
3 6 (50.00%) GitOps
3 6 (50.00%) MLOps
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Observability
5 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
7 1 (8.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
2 6 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (50.00%) Scala
3 5 (41.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Terraform
3 6 (50.00%) Ansible
3 6 (50.00%) Grafana
3 6 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Databricks