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 advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 131 148
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 27 32 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.21% 1.12% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.70% 3.09% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 19
10th Percentile £411 £414 £471
25th Percentile £417 £457 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £489 £555
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -11.89% +30.59%
75th Percentile £608 £505 £600
90th Percentile £634 £610 £630
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +20.93%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 730 1,037 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 32.72% 36.28% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 712 817
10th Percentile £205 £250 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +1.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 23
10th Percentile £13.80 - £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £18.90
Median hourly rate £18.27 £12.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.54% -71.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £48.00 £28.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.30 £52.55 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 +29 16 £575 +15.93% 8
Glasgow +13 10 £435 -10.77% 8
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 2 (7.41%) GeoServer
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) OpenShift
3 7 (25.93%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (25.93%) Serverless
4 6 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (22.22%) Azure
5 5 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (11.11%) IaaS
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (11.11%) PaaS
6 3 (11.11%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.41%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) BGP
3 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.70%) Internet
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) MPLS
3 1 (3.70%) OSPF
3 1 (3.70%) VXLAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
3 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.81%) Informix
2 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (11.11%) InfluxDB
4 2 (7.41%) GIS
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) Git
2 5 (18.52%) Gradle
2 5 (18.52%) Maven
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Senior
3 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Site Manager
5 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Manager
6 3 (11.11%) Architect
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Database Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Development Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (37.04%) Spring Boot
2 9 (33.33%) Spring
3 8 (29.63%) RESTful
4 7 (25.93%) AWS CDK
5 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.41%) PostGIS
5 2 (7.41%) React
6 1 (3.70%) CSS
6 1 (3.70%) HTML
6 1 (3.70%) JPA
6 1 (3.70%) PySpark
6 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) BYOD
4 1 (3.70%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Agile
2 10 (37.04%) Microservices
3 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Application Security
6 5 (18.52%) Clean Code
6 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Kanban
6 5 (18.52%) Migration
6 5 (18.52%) OWASP
6 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) Scrum
6 5 (18.52%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (14.81%) High Availability
7 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) Java
3 9 (33.33%) Python
4 8 (29.63%) TypeScript
5 5 (18.52%) Bash
5 5 (18.52%) Groovy
5 5 (18.52%) Ruby
5 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CCNP
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Ansible
2 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 3 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Commvault
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.41%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Arista
4 1 (3.70%) Blue Coat
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) F5
4 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.70%) McAfee
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.70%) VMware