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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 62 82
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 +37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 29 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.57% 1.57% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.55% 4.32% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 10
10th Percentile £416 £410 £394
25th Percentile £463 £415 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -6.15% -4.10%
75th Percentile £580 £475 £512
90th Percentile £644 £618 £549
Scotland median daily rate £488 £443 £480
% change year-on-year +10.17% -7.72% -2.34%

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 251 301 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.53% 36.40% 37.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 149 223
10th Percentile £178 £209 £166
25th Percentile £363 £347 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £633 £640 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 4
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.09 £13.47
25th Percentile - £17.31 £16.20
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% -55.14%
75th Percentile £24.38 £23.89 £26.73
90th Percentile £60.00 £24.18 £42.94
Scotland median hourly rate £21.86 £18.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +18.97% -4.20% -44.58%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native 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 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) Serverless
4 9 (31.03%) GCP
5 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (17.24%) SaaS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.79%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (13.79%) IaaS
6 4 (13.79%) PaaS
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.90%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) Power BI
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
2 4 (13.79%) GitLab
2 4 (13.79%) Liquibase
2 4 (13.79%) Storybook
3 3 (10.34%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Maven
4 1 (3.45%) webpack
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.24%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) React Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Development Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Software Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) RESTful
2 6 (20.69%) React
3 5 (17.24%) AWS CDK
3 5 (17.24%) REST
4 4 (13.79%) CSS
4 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (13.79%) Jest
4 4 (13.79%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (6.90%) FastAPI
5 2 (6.90%) Playwright
5 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.90%) Spring
5 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (3.45%) Flask
6 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.45%) Kafka
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.45%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (13.79%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 15 (51.72%) Agile
4 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) Microservices
6 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (20.69%) OWASP
7 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 6 (20.69%) Secure Coding
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.24%) Observability
8 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Architecture Roadmap
9 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.79%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
9 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) Go
2 5 (17.24%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.34%) Bash
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.34%) Perl
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.45%) NCSC
1 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 8 (27.59%) Grafana
2 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
2 8 (27.59%) Terraform
3 6 (20.69%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Fluentd
4 1 (3.45%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.45%) linkerd
4 1 (3.45%) Nagios
4 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Splunk
3 3 (10.34%) Google
4 2 (6.90%) F5
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Commvault
5 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.45%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.45%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat