Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 45 59
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 48 26 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.51% 4.18% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.49% 10.61% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 8
10th Percentile £409 £412 £409
25th Percentile £425 £463 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.27% -8.24%
75th Percentile £598 £545 £503
90th Percentile £646 £638 £633
Scotland median daily rate £450 £494 £433
% change year-on-year -8.91% +14.22% -9.80%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 291 245 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.48% 39.39% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 102 146
10th Percentile £211 £177 £203
25th Percentile £405 £353 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £510 £572
90th Percentile £609 £600 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £461
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 16
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.18 £12.61
25th Percentile £20.94 - £14.79
Median hourly rate £50.38 £17.30 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +191.18% -4.58% +2.31%
75th Percentile £75.00 £18.69 £19.15
90th Percentile £85.00 £33.00 £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.97 £18.13
% change year-on-year +50.23% +10.15% -1.73%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.33%) Apache
1 4 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.08%) Ethereum
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 34 (70.83%) AWS
2 20 (41.67%) Serverless
3 15 (31.25%) Azure
4 14 (29.17%) Amazon S3
4 14 (29.17%) GCP
5 12 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (12.50%) Apigee
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 4 (8.33%) IaaS
8 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 4 (8.33%) PaaS
8 4 (8.33%) SaaS
9 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Run
9 3 (6.25%) Vertex AI
10 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) HTTP
1 1 (2.08%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) DataStage
5 1 (2.08%) Db2
5 1 (2.08%) Looker
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 5 (10.42%) GitLab
3 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.17%) Git
4 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.75%) Finance
4 7 (14.58%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
6 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) Architect
3 8 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) GCP Architect
8 2 (4.17%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) AWS CDK
2 6 (12.50%) REST
3 5 (10.42%) OAuth
3 5 (10.42%) Spring
3 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
3 5 (10.42%) Terraform
4 4 (8.33%) LangGraph
4 4 (8.33%) Node.js
4 4 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 4 (8.33%) PySpark
4 4 (8.33%) React
5 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 3 (6.25%) LangChain
5 3 (6.25%) OpenID
6 2 (4.17%) .NET
6 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.17%) Playwright
6 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.17%) RESTful
6 2 (4.17%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Agile
2 19 (39.58%) Microservices
3 17 (35.42%) CI/CD
4 14 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (25.00%) AI
5 12 (25.00%) Scrum
6 11 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven
6 11 (22.92%) Migration
7 10 (20.83%) Observability
8 9 (18.75%) Data Governance
8 9 (18.75%) DevOps
8 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 8 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
9 8 (16.67%) Kanban
9 8 (16.67%) LLM
9 8 (16.67%) Pair Programming
9 8 (16.67%) TDD
10 7 (14.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.25%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) JavaScript
2 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 5 (10.42%) SQL
5 2 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
6 1 (2.08%) C#
6 1 (2.08%) DAML
6 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.08%) CCSK
2 1 (2.08%) CISSP
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Grafana
2 3 (6.25%) Istio
3 2 (4.17%) Kibana
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Argo
4 1 (2.08%) linkerd
4 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) EnterpriseDB
3 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.08%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.08%) IBM
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk