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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 49 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 17 19 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.46% 3.00% 2.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.61% 7.69% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 12
10th Percentile £420 £468 £402
25th Percentile £444 £499 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -1.30% +15.93%
75th Percentile £686 £600 £634
90th Percentile - £638 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -3.36%

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 257 247 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.14% 39.02% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 121 139
10th Percentile £221 £200 £400
25th Percentile £393 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -6.86% +6.47%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £604
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 22 16
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.30 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.23 £18.23 £17.56
Median hourly rate £67.00 £22.94 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +192.10% -20.73% +33.53%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.54 £60.75
90th Percentile - £33.70 -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £23.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year +30.43% +25.89% +48.54%

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 22 April 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 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) nginx
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub
2 5 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) SaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 5 (29.41%) GitLab
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
4 3 (17.65%) Snyk
5 1 (5.88%) Git
5 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Security Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Design Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) SLSA
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) J2EE
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Application Security
5 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
5 4 (23.53%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 4 (23.53%) OWASP
5 4 (23.53%) SBOM
5 4 (23.53%) SDLC
5 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Static Application Security Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CISSP
2 3 (17.65%) CISM
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Argo
4 1 (5.88%) Istio
4 1 (5.88%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.88%) linkerd
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (17.65%) Black Duck
1 3 (17.65%) Checkmarx
1 3 (17.65%) Tenable
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) EnterpriseDB
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk