Hybrid Cloud Contracts in Scotland

Hybrid Cloud
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hybrid Cloud in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hybrid Cloud 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 110 125 137
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing Hybrid Cloud 6 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.18% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 0.55% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 18
10th Percentile £524 £533 £450
25th Percentile £541 £544 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +2.68% -13.85%
75th Percentile £666 £594 £651
90th Percentile £716 £598 £691
UK median daily rate £583 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +5.91% -8.33% -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Hybrid Cloud 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 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Hybrid Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Hybrid Cloud in Scotland

Hybrid Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Hybrid Cloud in Scotland

Hybrid Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Hybrid Cloud in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Hybrid Cloud in Scotland

Hybrid Cloud
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 Hybrid Cloud 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 +6 5 £625 +8.70% 3
Glasgow - 1 £550 - 3
Hybrid Cloud
UK

Hybrid Cloud
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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) OWASP
4 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Security Management
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (16.67%) COBIT
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat