Public Cloud Contracts in Glasgow

Public Cloud
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 58 64 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 21 18 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.63% 2.05% 0.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.84% 6.50% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 2
10th Percentile £495 £418 £560
25th Percentile £550 £434 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £610 £691 £625
90th Percentile £729 £725 £640
Scotland median daily rate £572 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -8.56% +19.05% -8.70%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Glasgow

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Glasgow

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Glasgow

Public Cloud
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 (47.62%) AWS
1 10 (47.62%) SaaS
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) MySQL
2 3 (14.29%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.76%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) PyCharm
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Python Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Lead Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Team Leader
6 2 (9.52%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.76%) Analyst
7 1 (4.76%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Linux Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Spring
1 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) SDLC
2 10 (47.62%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
3 9 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
3 9 (42.86%) Microservices
3 9 (42.86%) TDD
4 6 (28.57%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Migration
5 4 (19.05%) SOA
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
7 2 (9.52%) Human-Centred Design
7 2 (9.52%) Inclusive Design
7 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Runbook
7 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.76%) ITIL
8 1 (4.76%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (4.76%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Java
3 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 6 (28.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) Bicep
6 1 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft