Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 66
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 5 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.83% 0.30% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 0.84% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £264 - £540
25th Percentile £323 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £576 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.02% -4.08% +19.70%
75th Percentile £454 £613 £699
90th Percentile £474 - £745
Scotland median daily rate £500 £578 £700
% change year-on-year -13.46% -17.46% +36.59%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Public Cloud 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 229 237 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.10% 35.69% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 108 173
10th Percentile £156 £192 £300
25th Percentile £263 £372 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £550
90th Percentile £571 £619 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 6
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.92 £14.69
25th Percentile £15.69 £21.74 £19.01
Median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -18.47% +27.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.28 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £26.62 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +12.84% +22.99% -8.67%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (60.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) FinOps
5 1 (20.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) Google