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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 40 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 55 26 9
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 8.14% 4.16% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.78% 10.83% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 6
10th Percentile £407 £412 £419
25th Percentile £428 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.29% -7.58%
75th Percentile £598 £545 £559
90th Percentile £643 £648 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -15.89%

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 278 240 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.12% 38.40% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 113 135
10th Percentile £207 £171 £187
25th Percentile £407 £325 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +2.27% -7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £538
90th Percentile £650 £580 £616
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 17
10th Percentile £18.68 £16.03 £12.73
25th Percentile - £17.04 £15.22
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.30 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -5.85% +3.70%
75th Percentile £25.75 £21.56 £23.89
90th Percentile £67.30 £43.50 £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £38.15 £19.97 £19.30
% change year-on-year +91.02% +3.50% +8.89%

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 10 October 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 (7.27%) Apache
1 4 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.82%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) AWS
2 20 (36.36%) Serverless
3 15 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 15 (27.27%) Azure
4 14 (25.45%) GCP
5 13 (23.64%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (14.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (10.91%) Apigee
8 5 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
8 5 (9.09%) Azure AKS
8 5 (9.09%) IaaS
8 5 (9.09%) PaaS
8 5 (9.09%) SaaS
9 4 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (7.27%) OpenShift
10 3 (5.45%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (5.45%) Cloud Run
10 3 (5.45%) Vertex AI
11 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) CTI
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
1 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.45%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.82%) DataStage
5 1 (1.82%) Db2
5 1 (1.82%) Looker
5 1 (1.82%) MySQL
5 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) GitLab
2 6 (10.91%) Cypress.io
3 5 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.45%) Git
5 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.82%) JUnit
6 1 (1.82%) Mockito
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 15 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Finance
4 8 (14.55%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Developer
2 16 (29.09%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) GCP Architect
8 2 (3.64%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) AWS CDK
1 7 (12.73%) REST
2 6 (10.91%) Spring
2 6 (10.91%) Spring Boot
3 5 (9.09%) Node.js
3 5 (9.09%) OAuth
3 5 (9.09%) React
3 5 (9.09%) Terraform
4 4 (7.27%) Kafka
4 4 (7.27%) LangGraph
4 4 (7.27%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.27%) PySpark
5 3 (5.45%) .NET
5 3 (5.45%) LangChain
5 3 (5.45%) OpenID
5 3 (5.45%) Playwright
6 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.64%) Spring Security
6 2 (3.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.82%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.82%) IVR
5 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
1 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Agile
2 24 (43.64%) CI/CD
3 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (34.55%) AI
4 19 (34.55%) Microservices
5 16 (29.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 15 (27.27%) Observability
7 14 (25.45%) Software Engineering
8 13 (23.64%) Scrum
9 12 (21.82%) Event-Driven
9 12 (21.82%) LLM
9 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (21.82%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (20.00%) Migration
10 11 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (16.36%) Data Governance
12 9 (16.36%) Pair Programming
12 9 (16.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) JavaScript
2 13 (23.64%) TypeScript
3 12 (21.82%) Java
4 5 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (3.64%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) DAML
6 1 (1.82%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Istio
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
3 2 (3.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Google
3 2 (3.64%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.64%) EnterpriseDB
3 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.64%) Splunk
4 1 (1.82%) Databricks
4 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.82%) IBM
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce