Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cloud Platform Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 72 90
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 3 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.90% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.95% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £613 £530 £538
90th Percentile - £535 -
Scotland median daily rate £600 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +17.07% -18.00% +21.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 562 737 955
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.85% 95.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 385 577
10th Percentile £271 £187 £208
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -7.47% -
75th Percentile £543 £520 £542
90th Percentile £611 £588 £600
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 14
10th Percentile £30.00 £13.64 £13.16
25th Percentile £42.12 £16.37 £14.39
Median hourly rate £60.00 £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +226.53% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £73.75 £24.03 £37.24
90th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £59.86
Scotland median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +22.85% +2.31% -

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) FinOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) FinOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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