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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 46 67
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 45 22 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.86% 3.39% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.48% 8.37% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 9
10th Percentile £409 £435 £410
25th Percentile £425 £462 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +7.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £598 £539 £634
90th Percentile £649 £638 £655
Scotland median daily rate £450 £494 £435
% change year-on-year -8.91% +13.56% -9.28%

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 273 263 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.55% 40.52% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 127 158
10th Percentile £350 £200 £185
25th Percentile £413 £372 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £592
90th Percentile £650 £578 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 16
10th Percentile £68.00 - £12.61
25th Percentile £72.50 - £13.44
Median hourly rate £75.00 £17.30 £18.07
Median % change year-on-year +333.53% -4.23% +1.95%
75th Percentile £80.00 £20.07 £18.34
90th Percentile £89.00 £37.87 £22.55
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.83 £18.13
% change year-on-year +51.29% +9.38% -5.47%

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 August 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 (8.89%) Apache
1 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) JBoss
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) nginx
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 32 (71.11%) AWS
2 20 (44.44%) Serverless
3 14 (31.11%) Amazon S3
3 14 (31.11%) Azure
4 13 (28.89%) GCP
5 12 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.33%) Apigee
8 4 (8.89%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (8.89%) IaaS
8 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
8 4 (8.89%) PaaS
8 4 (8.89%) SaaS
9 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
9 3 (6.67%) Cloud Run
9 3 (6.67%) Vertex AI
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) HTTP
1 1 (2.22%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.22%) DataStage
5 1 (2.22%) Db2
5 1 (2.22%) Looker
5 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (6.67%) GitLab
4 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.22%) JIRA
5 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) webpack
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.78%) Finance
4 7 (15.56%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Developer
2 15 (33.33%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Developer
6 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
7 3 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.44%) GCP Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) AWS CDK
2 6 (13.33%) REST
3 5 (11.11%) OAuth
3 5 (11.11%) Spring
3 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.89%) Kafka
4 4 (8.89%) Node.js
4 4 (8.89%) OAuth2
4 4 (8.89%) PySpark
4 4 (8.89%) React
5 3 (6.67%) LangChain
5 3 (6.67%) LangGraph
5 3 (6.67%) OpenID
6 2 (4.44%) A2A Protocol
6 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.44%) Model Context Protocol
6 2 (4.44%) Next.js
6 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.44%) RESTful
6 2 (4.44%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Agile
2 19 (42.22%) Microservices
3 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 12 (26.67%) Scrum
5 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (24.44%) Event-Driven
5 11 (24.44%) Migration
6 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (20.00%) AI
7 9 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 9 (20.00%) Observability
8 8 (17.78%) DevOps
8 8 (17.78%) ETL
8 8 (17.78%) Integration Patterns
8 8 (17.78%) Kanban
8 8 (17.78%) Pair Programming
8 8 (17.78%) TDD
9 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
9 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 10 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 9 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Go
6 1 (2.22%) Bash
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.22%) CCSK
1 1 (2.22%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.89%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Grafana
3 3 (6.67%) Istio
4 2 (4.44%) Kibana
5 1 (2.22%) Ansible
5 1 (2.22%) Argo
5 1 (2.22%) linkerd
5 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) EnterpriseDB
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.22%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk