Cloud Native Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 57 86
Rank change year-on-year +10 +29 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 20 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.20% 1.84% 2.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.37% 5.49% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 21
10th Percentile £468 £403 £450
25th Percentile £499 £429 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £575 £496
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +15.93% -12.21%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £588
90th Percentile £638 - £625
Scotland median daily rate £528 £488 £489
% change year-on-year +8.21% -0.31% -12.68%

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 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
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 1 (5.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (45.00%) SaaS
4 8 (40.00%) Serverless
5 7 (35.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (25.00%) PaaS
8 4 (20.00%) Azure
9 3 (15.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (15.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (15.00%) GCP
9 3 (15.00%) IaaS
10 2 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (10.00%) GitHub
10 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 1 (5.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Storybook
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Games
4 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Architect
4 3 (15.00%) DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Security Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.00%) GCP Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 5 (25.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) Jest
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) PostGIS
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (5.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Licensing
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 5 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Threat Detection
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Kanban
5 3 (15.00%) Software Licensing
5 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft