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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 59 72
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 +27
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 24 13 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.89% 1.84% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.53% 5.20% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 8
10th Percentile £406 £424 £474
25th Percentile £444 £448 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £600 £528
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% +13.74% +5.50%
75th Percentile £538 - £578
90th Percentile £648 £614 £591
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £535
% change year-on-year +5.56% -15.89% +7.00%

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 228 250 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.95% 35.46% 36.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 118 189
10th Percentile £161 £192 £232
25th Percentile £263 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £549
90th Percentile £581 £633 £600
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 7
10th Percentile £14.35 £17.17 £15.29
25th Percentile £15.69 £19.81 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +3.15% +9.99%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £25.44 £60.60
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -8.67%

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 20 November 2025.

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 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 10 (41.67%) GCP
4 6 (25.00%) Serverless
5 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (16.67%) SaaS
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.50%) IaaS
7 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
7 3 (12.50%) PaaS
7 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (8.33%) Akamai
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (4.17%) GitHub
9 1 (4.17%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) GitLab
1 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) Liquibase
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) webpack
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Development Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) RESTful
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.33%) PyTorch
4 2 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) boto
5 1 (4.17%) Flask
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) LangChain
5 1 (4.17%) LangGraph
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.17%) Pandas
5 1 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 14 (58.33%) Agile
4 13 (54.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Microservices
6 6 (25.00%) Observability
6 6 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (20.83%) AI
7 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 4 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 3 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (12.50%) LLM
9 3 (12.50%) Secure Coding
9 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Go
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 2 (8.33%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Bicep
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (37.50%) Grafana
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 8 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 6 (25.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Argo
5 1 (4.17%) Fluentd
5 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.17%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.17%) Kustomize
5 1 (4.17%) linkerd
5 1 (4.17%) Nagios
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
1 5 (20.83%) Splunk
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) F5
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Commvault
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.17%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat