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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 14 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.19% 2.61% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.98% 7.17% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 10
10th Percentile £433 £465 £414
25th Percentile £463 £496 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £683 £568 £611
Median % change year-on-year +20.26% -7.16% +22.25%
75th Percentile £686 £600 £634
90th Percentile - £626 -
Scotland median daily rate £440 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -16.19% -12.50% +20.00%

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 234 223 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.68% 36.32% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 120 134
10th Percentile £170 £192 £318
25th Percentile £350 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £600
90th Percentile £683 £626 £654
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 16
10th Percentile £15.62 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.23 £21.92 £17.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.59 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +175.54% -18.47% +36.10%
75th Percentile £72.00 £25.59 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.34 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.23 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% +17.95% +72.34%

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 23 March 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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) JBoss
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (14.29%) IaaS
5 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 2 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (7.14%) Apigee
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.14%) Route 53
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 4 (28.57%) JIRA
4 3 (21.43%) Snyk
5 1 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Design Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) GCP Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) SLSA
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) J2EE
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Application Security
5 4 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 4 (28.57%) OWASP
5 4 (28.57%) SBOM
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) CRM
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
6 3 (21.43%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CISM
1 3 (21.43%) CISSP
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Istio
3 1 (7.14%) Karpenter
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) BiZZdesign
1 3 (21.43%) Black Duck
1 3 (21.43%) Checkmarx
1 3 (21.43%) Tenable
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) EnterpriseDB
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk