Cloud Native Contracts 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 68 81
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 +34
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 20 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.05% 1.37% 1.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.78% 3.96% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 16
10th Percentile £461 £413 £422
25th Percentile £466 £422 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +16.16% -12.39%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £528
90th Percentile £639 - £594
Scotland median daily rate £525 £452 £484
% change year-on-year +16.09% -6.51% -12.05%

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 257 303 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.18% 34.71% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 165 289
10th Percentile £194 £211 £175
25th Percentile £353 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -0.84% -4.20%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £594
Scotland median daily rate £461 £465 £493
% change year-on-year -0.81% -5.58% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 5
10th Percentile - £13.21 -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.13 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -14.72% -54.08%
75th Percentile £23.00 £24.18 £21.67
90th Percentile £24.66 £60.75 £40.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £18.27 £15.25
% change year-on-year +9.30% +19.84% -64.55%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 6 July 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 (5.00%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (45.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (45.00%) Serverless
4 6 (30.00%) Azure
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (20.00%) GitHub
6 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (15.00%) IaaS
7 3 (15.00%) PaaS
7 3 (15.00%) SaaS
8 2 (10.00%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) CloudFront
8 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.00%) GIS
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (20.00%) Storybook
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (15.00%) DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (15.00%) React Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) React
2 6 (30.00%) AWS CDK
3 4 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (20.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (15.00%) Jest
4 3 (15.00%) Spring
5 2 (10.00%) Playwright
5 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.00%) PostGIS
6 1 (5.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Licensing
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 5 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) User Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) OWASP
6 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft