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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 39 66
Rank change year-on-year +14 +27 +18
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 55 29 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.75% 4.55% 1.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.43% 11.33% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 8
10th Percentile £409 £416 £409
25th Percentile £428 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +11.67% -6.15%
75th Percentile £598 £580 £503
90th Percentile £643 £644 £633
Scotland median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.25%

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 283 256 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.86% 40.19% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 112 146
10th Percentile £205 £175 £203
25th Percentile £406 £359 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% +2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £459
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -8.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 17
10th Percentile - £16.25 £12.73
25th Percentile £19.33 - £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.75 £17.30 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year +48.84% -5.85% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.38 £23.89
90th Percentile £87.00 £60.00 £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £32.34 £21.86 £19.30
% change year-on-year +47.92% +13.29% +0.60%

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 24 September 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 (7.27%) Apache
1 4 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) JBoss
3 1 (1.82%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.82%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 40 (72.73%) AWS
2 21 (38.18%) Serverless
3 16 (29.09%) Azure
4 15 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 14 (25.45%) GCP
6 13 (23.64%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (10.91%) Apigee
9 5 (9.09%) Anthropic Claude
9 5 (9.09%) Azure AKS
9 5 (9.09%) IaaS
9 5 (9.09%) PaaS
9 5 (9.09%) SaaS
10 4 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (7.27%) OpenShift
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (5.45%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (5.45%) Cloud Run
11 3 (5.45%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) CTI
1 1 (1.82%) HTTP
1 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (5.45%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.45%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) DataStage
5 1 (1.82%) Db2
5 1 (1.82%) Looker
5 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) GitLab
2 6 (10.91%) Cypress.io
3 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.64%) Git
4 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.82%) webpack
General
1 15 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Finance
4 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 2 (3.64%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.82%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Developer
2 16 (29.09%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (10.91%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Data Architect
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) GCP Architect
8 2 (3.64%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) AWS CDK
2 6 (10.91%) REST
3 5 (9.09%) OAuth
3 5 (9.09%) Spring
3 5 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 5 (9.09%) Terraform
4 4 (7.27%) LangGraph
4 4 (7.27%) Node.js
4 4 (7.27%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.27%) PySpark
4 4 (7.27%) React
5 3 (5.45%) .NET
5 3 (5.45%) Kafka
5 3 (5.45%) LangChain
5 3 (5.45%) OpenID
6 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.64%) RESTful
6 2 (3.64%) Spring Security
6 2 (3.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.82%) IVR
5 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Agile
2 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
3 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (34.55%) AI
5 18 (32.73%) Microservices
6 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (27.27%) Observability
7 14 (25.45%) Mentoring
7 14 (25.45%) Software Engineering
8 13 (23.64%) Scrum
9 12 (21.82%) LLM
10 11 (20.00%) Event-Driven
10 11 (20.00%) Migration
10 11 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (18.18%) DevOps
12 9 (16.36%) Data Governance
12 9 (16.36%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (16.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) JavaScript
2 12 (21.82%) TypeScript
3 11 (20.00%) Java
4 5 (9.09%) SQL
5 2 (3.64%) C#
5 2 (3.64%) Go
6 1 (1.82%) Bash
6 1 (1.82%) DAML
6 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.82%) CCSK
3 1 (1.82%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Grafana
2 3 (5.45%) Istio
3 2 (3.64%) Kibana
4 1 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (1.82%) linkerd
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Google
3 2 (3.64%) EnterpriseDB
3 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.82%) IBM
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) Splunk