Cloud Platform Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cloud Platform Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Platform Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Platform Engineer 8 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.50% 0.44% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.47% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - - £530
25th Percentile £588 £488 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -18.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £613 £527 £706
90th Percentile - £535 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £576
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.19% +0.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,439 1,692 2,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 92.06% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 995 1,401
10th Percentile £202 £190 £225
25th Percentile £360 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £569
90th Percentile £615 £650 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 64 59
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.38 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +22.85% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £39.51 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £64.80 £46.81 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.25%

Cloud Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Platform Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cloud Platform Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Platform Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Cloud Platform Engineer
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 Platform Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Glasgow - 5 - -
Edinburgh +6 3 £600 +17.65% 2
Cloud Platform Engineer
UK

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Cloud Platform Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cloud Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) AI
4 4 (50.00%) AWS
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Docker
4 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
4 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) FinOps
6 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) GCP
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (12.50%) Ansible
7 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS

Cloud Platform Engineer Skill Set
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 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) FinOps
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
6 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Greenplum
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle