Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 58 64
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 7 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.94% 2.63% 2.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.54% 6.84% 6.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 11
10th Percentile £471 £495 £418
25th Percentile £503 £550 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £580 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £653 £610 £691
90th Percentile £674 £729 £725
Scotland median daily rate £500 £572 £625
% change year-on-year -12.51% -8.56% +19.05%

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 276 307 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.15% 38.52% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 158 163
10th Percentile £311 £313 £214
25th Percentile £401 £407 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +5.57% -9.74%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £589 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £475
% change year-on-year +1.71% -1.68% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 12
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.24 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.75 £15.86
Median hourly rate £16.25 £20.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +15.28% +69.33%
75th Percentile £29.16 £27.75 £28.06
90th Percentile £38.00 £61.02 £57.13
Scotland median hourly rate £30.00 £22.44 £18.14
% change year-on-year +33.70% +23.72% +47.44%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Glasgow

Public 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 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
1 2 (28.57%) Community of Practice
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Stability
1 2 (28.57%) SDLC
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Enablement
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
2 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
2 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle