Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Cloud Computing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 66 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 6 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.84% 1.98% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 6.20% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 16
10th Percentile £337 £452 £325
25th Percentile £387 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £578 £425
90th Percentile £653 £726 £608
Scotland median daily rate £500 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -9.09% +37.50% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 242 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 41.23% 32.01% 29.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 159 188
10th Percentile £313 £313 £348
25th Percentile £402 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £514 £617
90th Percentile £638 £621 £707
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.75 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +119.78% +47.54% +17.17%
Scotland median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
% change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Computing in Glasgow

Cloud Computing
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Greenplum
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Talend