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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 18 21 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.49% 3.37% 1.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.84% 8.79% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 11
10th Percentile £420 £463 £400
25th Percentile £444 £473 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +16.16%
75th Percentile £686 £609 £634
90th Percentile - £638 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £472
% change year-on-year -19.05% +11.17% -3.43%

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 263 239 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.38% 38.30% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 116 147
10th Percentile £221 £205 £320
25th Percentile £406 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £506
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -5.24% +5.64%
75th Percentile £575 £543 £604
90th Percentile £686 £638 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £465 £466
% change year-on-year +2.15% -0.11% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 19 16
10th Percentile £17.23 - £13.38
25th Percentile £41.12 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £69.00 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +213.64% +20.42% -15.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £26.52 £60.19
90th Percentile - £39.43 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £29.05 £22.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +32.02% +22.22% +34.33%

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 6 May 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) JBoss
2 1 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 3 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.11%) IaaS
5 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 5 (27.78%) GitLab
3 4 (22.22%) JIRA
4 3 (16.67%) Snyk
5 2 (11.11%) Git
6 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Security Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Design Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) SLSA
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) CSS
2 1 (5.56%) J2EE
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) OpenID
2 1 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) Quarkus
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 8 (44.44%) Microservices
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Application Security
5 4 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 4 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 4 (22.22%) OWASP
5 4 (22.22%) SBOM
5 4 (22.22%) SDLC
5 4 (22.22%) Security Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Bash
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) CISSP
2 3 (16.67%) CISM
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Argo
4 1 (5.56%) Istio
4 1 (5.56%) Karpenter
4 1 (5.56%) linkerd
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (16.67%) Black Duck
1 3 (16.67%) Checkmarx
1 3 (16.67%) Tenable
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) EnterpriseDB
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk