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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 50 65
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 43 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.40% 3.07% 1.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.88% 7.60% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 11
10th Percentile £425 £461 £413
25th Percentile £431 £466 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -13.04% +16.16%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £634
90th Percentile £686 £639 -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £525 £470
% change year-on-year -11.90% +11.82% -2.95%

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 289 263 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.31% 40.34% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 118 165
10th Percentile £350 £195 £213
25th Percentile £413 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £471 £484
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -2.79% +1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £594
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £467
% change year-on-year +2.70% -1.02% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 21
10th Percentile £66.60 - £13.21
25th Percentile £69.00 £17.30 £15.22
Median hourly rate £75.00 £20.37 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +268.23% +12.34% -14.72%
75th Percentile - £24.25 £24.18
90th Percentile £87.00 £32.52 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £20.99 £18.20
% change year-on-year +42.96% +15.30% +19.38%

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 4 July 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 (9.30%) Confluence
2 3 (6.98%) JBoss
3 2 (4.65%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 27 (62.79%) AWS
2 18 (41.86%) Azure
2 18 (41.86%) Serverless
3 13 (30.23%) GCP
4 10 (23.26%) Amazon S3
5 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (20.93%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.95%) Apigee
7 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (11.63%) GitHub
7 5 (11.63%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
8 4 (9.30%) IaaS
8 4 (9.30%) PaaS
8 4 (9.30%) SaaS
9 3 (6.98%) Cloud Run
9 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
9 3 (6.98%) Vertex AI
10 2 (4.65%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) BigQuery
1 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.33%) DataStage
3 1 (2.33%) Db2
3 1 (2.33%) Looker
3 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Cypress.io
1 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
3 3 (6.98%) Snyk
3 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.65%) Git
5 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 6 (13.95%) Banking
3 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
4 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Architect
2 12 (27.91%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Security Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Design Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) GCP Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) AWS CDK
2 4 (9.30%) SLSA
3 3 (6.98%) Kafka
3 3 (6.98%) LangChain
3 3 (6.98%) LangGraph
3 3 (6.98%) Node.js
3 3 (6.98%) REST
4 2 (4.65%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.65%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (4.65%) OAuth
4 2 (4.65%) OpenID
4 2 (4.65%) PySpark
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
4 2 (4.65%) Vue
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) J2EE
5 1 (2.33%) JWT
5 1 (2.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) Microservices
2 17 (39.53%) Agile
3 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
4 12 (27.91%) Scrum
5 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (23.26%) DevOps
6 10 (23.26%) Migration
7 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven
7 9 (20.93%) Software Engineering
8 8 (18.60%) AI
8 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
8 8 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (16.28%) Data Governance
9 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
10 6 (13.95%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (13.95%) Kanban
10 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.95%) Observability
10 6 (13.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
1 9 (20.93%) Python
2 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
3 6 (13.95%) Java
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) Go
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) CISSP
2 3 (6.98%) CISM
2 3 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.33%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (9.30%) NIST
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.63%) Terraform
3 4 (9.30%) Istio
4 2 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.33%) Ansible
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) linkerd
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Google
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (6.98%) Black Duck
2 3 (6.98%) Checkmarx
2 3 (6.98%) EnterpriseDB
2 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.98%) Tenable
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle