Cloud Operations Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cloud Operations (CloudOps)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Cloud Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 116 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Operations 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% - -
75th Percentile - £638 -
90th Percentile £830 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £625
% change year-on-year +7.84% -18.40% +4.17%

All Process & 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 1,297 1,499 2,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 84.99% 91.51% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 716 880 1,323
10th Percentile £224 £224 £264
25th Percentile £381 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £669 £631 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 43 82
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £12.03
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.06
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £43.30 £24.18 £59.76
90th Percentile £64.00 £40.90 £73.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Cloud Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Cloud Operations job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cloud Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cloud Operations

Cloud Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Operations in Scotland over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 7 February 2026. 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
Perthshire - 4 £763 -
Edinburgh -4 1 £850 +36.00%
Cloud Operations
UK

Cloud Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Qualitative Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AI
1 5 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 5 (100.00%) Market Making
1 5 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 5 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Systematic Trading
1 5 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Workflow
2 4 (80.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) C++
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL