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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 95 130
Rank change year-on-year +5 +35 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 36 22 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.08% 1.13% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.02% 3.42% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 24
10th Percentile £342 - £413
25th Percentile £444 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £435 £480
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% -9.28% -13.21%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £521
90th Percentile £660 £634 £584
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% -1.89%

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 717 644 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.45% 33.03% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 390 682
10th Percentile £200 £205 £213
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -8.48% +3.13%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £588 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 18
10th Percentile - £12.30 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.44 £16.42
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.07 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.81% -55.63%
75th Percentile £24.66 £19.92 £34.38
90th Percentile £57.50 £38.08 £49.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +12.68% +31.58%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +14 18 £475 -7.32% 20
Glasgow -7 17 £500 +14.94% 25
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 - 7
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 (5.56%) Anypoint
1 2 (5.56%) Mule
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) Azure
3 12 (33.33%) Serverless
4 10 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
6 6 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
7 5 (13.89%) AWS CodePipeline
7 5 (13.89%) GCP
7 5 (13.89%) GitHub
7 5 (13.89%) IaaS
7 5 (13.89%) PaaS
8 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (11.11%) SaaS
9 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (8.33%) Datadog
9 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 2 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) AMQP
1 2 (5.56%) DSL
1 2 (5.56%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.78%) FTP
2 1 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) NewSQL
5 2 (5.56%) CockroachDB
5 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.56%) OLTP
5 2 (5.56%) Power BI
5 2 (5.56%) Redis
5 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.78%) GIS
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.78%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.11%) GitLab
2 4 (11.11%) Storybook
3 2 (5.56%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.78%) Mockito
4 1 (2.78%) Toad
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
4 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Senior
4 6 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Database Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) React Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Developer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) OAuth
2 8 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 8 (22.22%) OAuth2
3 7 (19.44%) OpenID
3 7 (19.44%) React
3 7 (19.44%) REST
3 7 (19.44%) RESTful
3 7 (19.44%) SAML
4 6 (16.67%) Spring
5 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
6 4 (11.11%) CSS
6 4 (11.11%) Kafka
6 4 (11.11%) Tailwind CSS
7 3 (8.33%) Apache Camel
7 3 (8.33%) Jest
7 3 (8.33%) JWT
7 3 (8.33%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (5.56%) Flask
8 2 (5.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 21 (58.33%) DevOps
3 20 (55.56%) Agile
4 16 (44.44%) Microservices
5 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
7 7 (19.44%) Observability
7 7 (19.44%) Scrum
8 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 5 (13.89%) Architecture Roadmap
9 5 (13.89%) Clean Code
9 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven
9 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (13.89%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (13.89%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Java
2 15 (41.67%) Python
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 7 (19.44%) TypeScript
5 6 (16.67%) Go
6 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.56%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (5.56%) DataWeave
8 1 (2.78%) Bicep
8 1 (2.78%) C#
8 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Terraform
2 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.89%) Grafana
4 4 (11.11%) Ansible
4 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.78%) Facebook
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) Talend