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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 46 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 32 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.27% 3.18% 1.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.39% 8.26% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £425 £463 £400
25th Percentile £431 £471 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -8.70% +16.99%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £634
90th Percentile £686 £638 -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £525 £472
% change year-on-year -16.19% +11.17% -2.38%

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 281 242 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.47% 38.54% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 118 159
10th Percentile £273 £208 £268
25th Percentile £413 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +1.77%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £598
90th Percentile £682 £638 £660
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £453
% change year-on-year +2.65% +2.15% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 17
10th Percentile £17.23 - £12.75
25th Percentile £29.17 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £22.00 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +204.55% +21.35% -16.34%
75th Percentile £73.50 £25.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £47.15 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £18.28 £22.00 £18.13
% change year-on-year -16.91% +21.35% +42.42%

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 26 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) CMS
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) nginx
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) Serverless
4 7 (21.88%) GCP
5 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
6 5 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (15.63%) GitHub
6 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (15.63%) SaaS
7 4 (12.50%) IaaS
7 4 (12.50%) PaaS
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (6.25%) Apigee
8 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) DB2
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) Snyk
4 2 (6.25%) Git
5 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) webpack
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Security Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Design Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Security Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 4 (12.50%) SLSA
2 3 (9.38%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) OpenID
3 2 (6.25%) PySpark
3 2 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) JWT
4 1 (3.13%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.13%) Quarkus
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Microservices
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
4 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 9 (28.13%) Scrum
5 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (15.63%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (15.63%) Architecture Roadmap
8 5 (15.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 5 (15.63%) ETL
8 5 (15.63%) Event-Driven
8 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 4 (12.50%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) Bash
4 1 (3.13%) Go
4 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) CISSP
2 3 (9.38%) CISM
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) NIST
2 3 (9.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Istio
4 1 (3.13%) linkerd
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (9.38%) Black Duck
2 3 (9.38%) Checkmarx
2 3 (9.38%) Tenable
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) EnterpriseDB
4 1 (3.13%) Google