Private Cloud Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Private Cloud
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 77 66
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 11 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.99% 0.95% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.64% 2.22% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £403 - £356
25th Percentile £406 - £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £358 £358
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% - -34.70%
75th Percentile £488 - £359
90th Percentile £518 - £360
Scotland median daily rate £425 £358 £358
% change year-on-year +18.72% - -34.70%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

Private 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 316 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.55% 42.93% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 157 144
10th Percentile £275 £285 £306
25th Percentile £363 £368 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £465 £453
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +2.65% -13.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £583 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £463
% change year-on-year - -2.70% -7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 3
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.58 £18.72
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.30 £19.05
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.97 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +120.13% +1.94% +35.10%
75th Percentile - £24.38 £31.82
90th Percentile - £57.50 £39.15
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £19.97 £18.13
% change year-on-year +50.23% +10.15% +2.31%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Private Cloud
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 3 (27.27%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (27.27%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Asset Management
4 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Client Onboarding
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Observability
5 3 (27.27%) Operational Stability
5 3 (27.27%) Runbook
5 3 (27.27%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) C
4 2 (18.18%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Grafana
2 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
3 2 (18.18%) Salt
4 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) SaltStack
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) Dell
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft