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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 100 133
Rank change year-on-year +16 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 41 20 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.36% 1.05% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.73% 3.10% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 24
10th Percentile £361 - £413
25th Percentile £444 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £435 £480
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% -9.28% -8.67%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £521
90th Percentile £650 £634 £584
UK median daily rate £514 £581 £638
% change year-on-year -11.61% -8.82% -1.92%

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 715 646 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.16% 33.86% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 391 659
10th Percentile £201 £200 £223
25th Percentile £362 £359 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £538 £576 £550
90th Percentile £585 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 17
10th Percentile - £12.30 £12.82
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £19.17 £18.13 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% -5.47% -55.63%
75th Percentile £24.66 £19.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £36.10 £50.14
UK median hourly rate £29.42 £42.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -30.79% +17.65% +36.32%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +20 22 £485 +7.67% 25
Glasgow -5 19 £500 +14.94% 11
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 (4.88%) Anypoint
1 2 (4.88%) Mule
1 2 (4.88%) nginx
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) Serverless
3 10 (24.39%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
5 6 (14.63%) GCP
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub
6 5 (12.20%) Amazon Cognito
6 5 (12.20%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.20%) IaaS
6 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
6 5 (12.20%) PaaS
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (9.76%) SaaS
8 3 (7.32%) Datadog
9 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) AMQP
1 2 (4.88%) DSL
1 2 (4.88%) Kerberos
2 1 (2.44%) FTP
2 1 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) NewSQL
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) CockroachDB
5 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.88%) OLTP
5 2 (4.88%) Power BI
5 2 (4.88%) Redis
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.44%) GIS
6 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.44%) Metadata
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) GitLab
3 4 (9.76%) Cypress.io
3 4 (9.76%) Storybook
4 3 (7.32%) Git
4 3 (7.32%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
5 1 (2.44%) Mockito
5 1 (2.44%) Toad
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.20%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
4 7 (17.07%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.32%) Database Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) React Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Python Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) OAuth
2 9 (21.95%) OAuth2
2 9 (21.95%) RESTful
3 8 (19.51%) AWS CDK
3 8 (19.51%) REST
4 7 (17.07%) OpenID
4 7 (17.07%) React
4 7 (17.07%) SAML
5 6 (14.63%) Spring
6 5 (12.20%) Kafka
6 5 (12.20%) Spring Boot
7 4 (9.76%) CSS
7 4 (9.76%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (7.32%) Apache Camel
8 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (7.32%) Jest
8 3 (7.32%) JWT
8 3 (7.32%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (7.32%) SOAP
8 3 (7.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) CI/CD
2 24 (58.54%) Agile
2 24 (58.54%) DevOps
3 17 (41.46%) Microservices
4 16 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
6 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 10 (24.39%) Observability
7 8 (19.51%) Scrum
8 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.63%) Roadmaps
10 5 (12.20%) Architecture Roadmap
10 5 (12.20%) Clean Code
10 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (12.20%) High Availability
10 5 (12.20%) Migration
10 5 (12.20%) SDLC
10 5 (12.20%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 18 (43.90%) Java
3 9 (21.95%) Go
4 8 (19.51%) SQL
5 7 (17.07%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (7.32%) Bash
8 2 (4.88%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (4.88%) DataWeave
8 2 (4.88%) Perl
9 1 (2.44%) Bicep
9 1 (2.44%) C#
9 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
1 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (19.51%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) KVM
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
2 14 (34.15%) Terraform
3 10 (24.39%) Grafana
4 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (17.07%) Ansible
6 1 (2.44%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.44%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.44%) Kustomize
6 1 (2.44%) linkerd
6 1 (2.44%) Nagios
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) Splunk
3 3 (7.32%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Commvault
4 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.44%) Facebook
4 1 (2.44%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.44%) Okta
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.44%) Talend