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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 50 65
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 43 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.28% 2.82% 1.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.73% 7.09% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 12
10th Percentile £409 £426 £413
25th Percentile £425 £460 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £599
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -20.67% +24.74%
75th Percentile £609 £545 £634
90th Percentile £654 £639 -
Scotland median daily rate £449 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -11.87% +13.22% -6.05%

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 292 254 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.87% 39.81% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 119 161
10th Percentile £363 £199 £210
25th Percentile £413 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -1.58% -
75th Percentile £575 £536 £600
90th Percentile £650 £605 £656
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £461
% change year-on-year +3.33% -2.44% -4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 19
10th Percentile £66.60 - £12.97
25th Percentile £69.00 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £75.00 £17.30 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +333.53% -4.58% -14.72%
75th Percentile - £23.00 £21.47
90th Percentile £87.00 £34.70 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.97 £18.13
% change year-on-year +50.23% +10.15% +18.92%

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 17 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%) Apache
1 4 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) JBoss
3 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 20 (46.51%) Serverless
3 16 (37.21%) Azure
4 14 (32.56%) GCP
5 12 (27.91%) Amazon S3
6 11 (25.58%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (13.95%) Apigee
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (9.30%) Azure AKS
9 4 (9.30%) IaaS
9 4 (9.30%) PaaS
9 4 (9.30%) SaaS
10 3 (6.98%) Cloud Run
10 3 (6.98%) OpenShift
10 3 (6.98%) Vertex AI
11 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.65%) GitHub
11 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.98%) BigQuery
2 3 (6.98%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.33%) DataStage
4 1 (2.33%) Db2
4 1 (2.33%) Looker
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Cypress.io
2 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Snyk
4 1 (2.33%) webpack
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.93%) 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 17 (39.53%) Architect
2 12 (27.91%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Cloud Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Data Architect
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior
7 3 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) GCP Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Security 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%) PySpark
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%) RESTful
4 2 (4.65%) Vue
5 1 (2.33%) JWT
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.33%) Quarkus
5 1 (2.33%) React
5 1 (2.33%) SLSA
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
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 17 (39.53%) Agile
1 17 (39.53%) Microservices
2 13 (30.23%) CI/CD
3 12 (27.91%) Migration
3 12 (27.91%) Scrum
4 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (20.93%) AI
5 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (20.93%) Data Governance
5 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven
6 8 (18.60%) ETL
6 8 (18.60%) Integration Patterns
6 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
7 7 (16.28%) DevOps
7 7 (16.28%) Observability
7 7 (16.28%) Roadmaps
8 6 (13.95%) Kanban
8 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
8 6 (13.95%) Pair Programming
8 6 (13.95%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
3 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
4 6 (13.95%) Java
4 6 (13.95%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) Go
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) CISSP
2 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.33%) CCSK
2 1 (2.33%) CISM
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) 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%) EnterpriseDB
2 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.33%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.33%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.33%) Tenable