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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 91
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +11
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 6 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.94% 0.84% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.37% 2.33% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £264 - £530
25th Percentile £323 £538 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £576 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.02% +0.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £454 £613 £650
90th Percentile £474 - £665
Scotland median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.70% +4.39% +9.52%

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 253 301 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.78% 36.13% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 148 224
10th Percentile £177 £209 £167
25th Percentile £359 £345 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £614 £633 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 4
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.09 £13.47
25th Percentile - £17.31 £16.20
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% -55.14%
75th Percentile £24.38 £23.89 £26.73
90th Percentile £60.00 £24.18 £42.94
Scotland median hourly rate £21.86 £18.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +18.97% -4.20% -44.58%

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
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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (16.67%) npm
4 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) webpack
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (50.00%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Jest
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) Cryptography
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Go
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Informatica
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (16.67%) StreamSets