Cloud Specialist Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Cloud Specialist
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in Scotland is £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.063% 0.11% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £590 -
25th Percentile £560 £617 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £698 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% - -
75th Percentile £580 £792 -
90th Percentile - £827 -
UK median daily rate £500 £610 £606
% change year-on-year -18.03% +0.62% -6.73%

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 1,428 1,716 2,152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.92% 92.76% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 1,015 1,370
10th Percentile £206 £195 £232
25th Percentile £362 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 59
10th Percentile £16.51 £12.35 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.80 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £38.04 £24.17 £55.08
90th Percentile £64.60 £45.62 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.05% -8.30% +69.81%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cloud Specialist job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Specialist job vacancies in Scotland

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

Cloud Specialist 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) logstash