Cloud Native Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Native
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 82 103 131
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +14
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 35 26 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.15% 1.17% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.66% 3.55% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 27
10th Percentile £453 £411 £414
25th Percentile £499 £417 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £488 £489
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% -0.31% -12.68%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £505
90th Percentile £638 £634 £610
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
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 Native within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +10 20 £568 -1.30% 13
Glasgow +4 11 £505 +15.98% 6
Lanarkshire - 3 £525 -
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) AWS
2 15 (42.86%) Amazon S3
2 15 (42.86%) Serverless
3 14 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (31.43%) Azure
4 11 (31.43%) SaaS
5 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (20.00%) PaaS
6 6 (17.14%) Amazon Cognito
6 6 (17.14%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (17.14%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (14.29%) GitHub
8 4 (11.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (11.43%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (11.43%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (11.43%) IaaS
9 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (8.57%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 1 (2.86%) FTP
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle Database
2 4 (11.43%) DynamoDB
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.57%) Parquet
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) GIS
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Cypress.io
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Mockito
3 1 (2.86%) Storybook
3 1 (2.86%) Toad
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.43%) Games
5 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Architect
2 11 (31.43%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (25.71%) Developer
4 7 (20.00%) Senior
5 6 (17.14%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) AWS Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Architect
8 3 (8.57%) AWS Architect
8 3 (8.57%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) DBA
8 3 (8.57%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (8.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.71%) AWS Security Architect
9 2 (5.71%) GCP Architect
9 2 (5.71%) Python Engineer
9 2 (5.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 6 (17.14%) React
3 4 (11.43%) Spring
4 3 (8.57%) JSON
5 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.86%) .NET
6 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.86%) CSS
6 1 (2.86%) Jest
6 1 (2.86%) JMS
6 1 (2.86%) JWT
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth
6 1 (2.86%) OpenID
6 1 (2.86%) Playwright
6 1 (2.86%) REST
6 1 (2.86%) SAML
6 1 (2.86%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.86%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (8.57%) Replication
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (37.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Event-Driven
4 10 (28.57%) Agile
5 9 (25.71%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (22.86%) Cost Optimisation
6 8 (22.86%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (22.86%) Migration
7 7 (20.00%) Community of Practice
7 7 (20.00%) Data Security
7 7 (20.00%) DevOps
7 7 (20.00%) Scrum
8 6 (17.14%) Microservices
8 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
9 5 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
9 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (11.43%) Critical Thinking
10 4 (11.43%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) Java
2 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 5 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) Go
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 10 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (11.43%) Degree
5 2 (5.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.71%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Imperva
3 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.86%) Okta
3 1 (2.86%) Sybase
3 1 (2.86%) Talend