Cloud Operations Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Cloud Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Operations 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 113 123 162
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.27% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.31% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £573 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% - -
75th Percentile £638 £604 -
90th Percentile - £612 -
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Cloud Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Operations in Scotland

Cloud Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Operations in Scotland

Cloud Operations
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 Operations 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 - 3 £625 - 3
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk