Cloud Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Automation Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £306, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.065% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £306 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £575 £725
% change year-on-year -17.39% -20.69% +20.83%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,405 1,487 2,254
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 91.90% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 787 876 1,393
10th Percentile £218 £203 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £540 £588
90th Percentile £668 £634 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 44 98
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.78 £12.29
25th Percentile £17.23 £16.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.09 £22.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -42.66% +116.22%
75th Percentile £55.31 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £64.80 £32.52 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.45% -4.29% -1.41%

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cloud Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Cloud Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 1 £306 -
Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 10 February 2026, Cloud Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cloud Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus