Cloud Native Contracts in Glasgow

Cloud Native
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native 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 68 72 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 11 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.38% 1.14% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.58% 3.61% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £413 £426
25th Percentile £409 £414 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £435 £488
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% -10.77% -15.22%
75th Percentile £628 £488 £495
90th Percentile £679 £519 £496
Scotland median daily rate £528 £488 £489
% change year-on-year +8.21% -0.31% -12.68%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

Cloud Native 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 307 277 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 31.58% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 163 238
10th Percentile £313 £214 £267
25th Percentile £407 £356 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -9.74% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £613
90th Percentile £589 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £15.65 £15.42 -
25th Percentile £18.28 £15.86 -
Median hourly rate £20.29 £18.00 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% +69.33% -51.68%
75th Percentile £36.64 £28.06 £22.81
90th Percentile £64.58 £57.13 £41.37
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Glasgow

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Glasgow

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Glasgow

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 6 (54.55%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
5 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Big Data
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Mockito
1 1 (9.09%) Toad
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Architect
2 8 (72.73%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) JMS
2 1 (9.09%) JWT
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Architectural Patterns
1 8 (72.73%) Enterprise Architecture
1 8 (72.73%) Event-Driven
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Community of Practice
3 6 (54.55%) Data Security
4 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
6 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 1 (9.09%) Change Data Capture
7 1 (9.09%) Coaching
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (9.09%) DevOps
7 1 (9.09%) Investment Management
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Certification
1 7 (63.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 7 (63.64%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) Talend