Private Cloud Contracts in Scotland

Private Cloud
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Private 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 113 121 154
Rank change year-on-year +8 +33 +3
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 3 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 1.09% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £419 £606 £544
25th Percentile £510 £615 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £630 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% +11.63%
75th Percentile £719 £665 £606
90th Percentile £738 £686 £616
UK median daily rate £615 £538 £615
% change year-on-year +14.31% -12.52% +9.33%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Private 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%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in Scotland

Private Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Private Cloud in Scotland

Private Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Private Cloud in Scotland

Private 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 Private 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 - 2 £713 - 4
Glasgow 0 1 £358 -43.17% 2
Private Cloud
UK

Private 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RAML
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISM
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) COBIT
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle