Cloud Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 61 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 +47 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 10 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 1.35% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 1.41% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £463 £409 £605
25th Percentile £469 £422 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -30.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £531 £534 £694
90th Percentile £538 £600 £705
Scotland median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +6.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 6 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
2 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (30.00%) Workflow Development
6 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
6 2 (20.00%) Human Resource Management
6 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (20.00%) OCI
6 2 (20.00%) Middleware

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
2 2 (20.00%) OCI
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle CX
3 1 (10.00%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 6 (60.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow
3 3 (30.00%) Workflow Development
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Human Resource Management
4 2 (20.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft