Public Cloud Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 58 98
Rank change year-on-year -7 +40 -6
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 1.72% 1.07%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 5.13% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 10
10th Percentile - £545 £446
25th Percentile £413 £594 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £638 £513
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +24.39% -9.69%
75th Percentile £438 £750 £620
90th Percentile - £760 £653
Scotland median daily rate £572 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -8.56% +19.05% -8.70%

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 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) StreamSets
1 1 (50.00%) Tanium
1 1 (50.00%) VMware