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 22 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 49 69
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 22 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.67% 2.79% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.32% 7.59% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 6
10th Percentile £415 £461 £435
25th Percentile £456 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £600 £528
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +13.74% +5.50%
75th Percentile £627 - £568
90th Percentile £684 £630 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.11% +9.50%

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 236 224 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.40% 36.72% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 106 149
10th Percentile £165 £192 £386
25th Percentile £328 £378 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £569
90th Percentile £675 £622 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 9
10th Percentile £14.81 £20.93 £15.33
25th Percentile £16.06 £22.22 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.37 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% -32.60% +85.31%
75th Percentile £41.25 £24.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £37.86 £60.90
Scotland median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £19.50
% change year-on-year -1.72% +23.92% +48.18%

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 22 January 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) SaaS
5 4 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (18.18%) Serverless
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (13.64%) IaaS
6 3 (13.64%) OpenShift
6 3 (13.64%) PaaS
6 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (9.09%) Akamai
7 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (4.55%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Liquibase
3 2 (9.09%) Snyk
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Maven
4 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Design Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) RESTful
1 3 (13.64%) SLSA
2 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) boto
3 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.55%) Jest
3 1 (4.55%) OpenCV
3 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Spring
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
4 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (27.27%) Microservices
5 6 (27.27%) OWASP
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Scrum
6 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) AI
7 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.64%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (13.64%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 3 (13.64%) SBOM
8 3 (13.64%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 3 (13.64%) Go
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) CISM
2 2 (9.09%) CISSP
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) KVM
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
2 6 (27.27%) Terraform
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Fluentd
4 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.55%) Karpenter
4 1 (4.55%) linkerd
4 1 (4.55%) Nagios
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) BiZZdesign
2 2 (9.09%) Black Duck
2 2 (9.09%) Checkmarx
2 2 (9.09%) F5
2 2 (9.09%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.55%) Ping Identity