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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 115 147
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 +10
Contract jobs citing Private Cloud 7 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.24% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.02% 0.75% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - £524
25th Percentile - - £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -40.33% +6.19% -11.37%
75th Percentile £523 - £598
90th Percentile £622 - £613
UK median daily rate £585 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +8.74% -10.33% +3.45%

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 688 668 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.40% 32.22% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 405 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £250
25th Percentile £362 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -7.07% +1.54%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £668 £633
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 30
10th Percentile - £12.49 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +19.84% -64.55%
75th Percentile £25.49 £35.00 £22.39
90th Percentile £58.25 £60.10 £48.33
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -10 5 £358 - 2
Edinburgh - 2 £675 - 4
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 3 (42.86%) JBoss
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) RAML
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
1 3 (42.86%) WSDL
2 2 (28.57%) FastAPI
2 2 (28.57%) Flask
2 2 (28.57%) Hugging Face
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) LangChain
2 2 (28.57%) Loki
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
2 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) API Development
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
4 3 (42.86%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (42.86%) Budget Control
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 3 (42.86%) Conflict Resolution
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Servant Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) Situational Awareness
4 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Distributed Cache
5 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
5 2 (28.57%) GitOps
5 2 (28.57%) LLM
5 2 (28.57%) ModelOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) VMware