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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 60 72
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 21 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.41% 1.49% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.09% 4.26% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 8
10th Percentile £406 £421 £474
25th Percentile £444 £440 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +0.95% +5.50%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £578
90th Percentile £648 £641 £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 231 258 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.50% 34.86% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 123 188
10th Percentile £172 £176 £232
25th Percentile £307 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £545
90th Percentile £569 £610 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 5
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.42 £14.08
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.19 -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +33.13% -21.89%
75th Percentile £30.00 £24.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.00 - £50.90
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -23.28%

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 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) GCP
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.52%) Akamai
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.76%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 4 (19.05%) Liquibase
3 3 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Architect
1 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Development Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Software Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) RESTful
2 5 (23.81%) REST
3 4 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
4 2 (9.52%) FastAPI
4 2 (9.52%) PyTorch
4 2 (9.52%) Spring
4 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.76%) boto
5 1 (4.76%) Flask
5 1 (4.76%) Kafka
5 1 (4.76%) LangChain
5 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
5 1 (4.76%) OAuth
5 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.76%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.76%) Pandas
5 1 (4.76%) React
5 1 (4.76%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (66.67%) DevOps
3 13 (61.90%) Agile
4 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (28.57%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 5 (23.81%) Observability
7 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (19.05%) Scrum
9 3 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
9 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 3 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 3 (14.29%) Secure Coding
9 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Go
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
1 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 8 (38.10%) Grafana
2 8 (38.10%) Prometheus
2 8 (38.10%) Terraform
3 6 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Fluentd
4 1 (4.76%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.76%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.76%) linkerd
4 1 (4.76%) Nagios
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) Google
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) F5
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Commvault
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.76%) Ping Identity
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat