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 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +27 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 26 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.19% 1.05% 1.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.30% 3.05% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 6
10th Percentile £412 £418 £471
25th Percentile £463 £425 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £545 £475 £538
90th Percentile £648 £633 £566
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

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 230 262 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.10% 34.52% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 125 192
10th Percentile £170 £177 £205
25th Percentile £313 £305 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £434 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.69% -8.63% -4.62%
75th Percentile £510 £533 £538
90th Percentile £581 £616 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 4
10th Percentile £15.80 £12.85 £13.47
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.03 £16.20
Median hourly rate £17.50 £20.94 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +18.16% -21.89%
75th Percentile £30.00 £24.11 £28.67
90th Percentile £57.00 £24.18 £48.37
Scotland median hourly rate £24.45 £21.59 £18.45
% change year-on-year +13.25% +17.02% -32.57%

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 27 October 2025.

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 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Serverless
3 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 9 (34.62%) GCP
4 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 4 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (11.54%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.69%) Akamai
7 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (7.69%) CloudFront
7 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.85%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) Liquibase
2 4 (15.38%) Storybook
3 3 (11.54%) Git
4 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.85%) JIRA
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Developer
2 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) React Developer
2 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 2 (7.69%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Development Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Software Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) RESTful
2 6 (23.08%) React
3 5 (19.23%) AWS CDK
3 5 (19.23%) REST
4 4 (15.38%) CSS
4 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (15.38%) Jest
4 4 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 2 (7.69%) Playwright
5 2 (7.69%) PyTorch
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.85%) Kafka
6 1 (3.85%) LangChain
6 1 (3.85%) LangGraph
6 1 (3.85%) OAuth
6 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
6 1 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (50.00%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) Microservices
6 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
7 6 (23.08%) OWASP
7 6 (23.08%) Secure Coding
8 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 5 (19.23%) Observability
8 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps
9 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Scrum
10 3 (11.54%) AI
10 3 (11.54%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Go
2 5 (19.23%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) AWS Certification
1 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (30.77%) Grafana
2 8 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 8 (30.77%) Terraform
3 6 (23.08%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Fluentd
4 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
4 1 (3.85%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.85%) linkerd
4 1 (3.85%) Nagios
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) F5
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Commvault
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.85%) Ping Identity
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat