Public Cloud Contracts in Scotland

Public Cloud
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public 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 93 96 144
Rank change year-on-year +3 +48 -31
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 23 33 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.42% 1.49% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.72% 4.51% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 13
10th Percentile £424 £418 £455
25th Percentile £522 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +19.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £603 £716 £623
90th Percentile £727 £750 £650
UK median daily rate £609 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +1.46% -4.00% +4.17%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Public 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%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Scotland

Public Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Public Cloud in Scotland

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Scotland

Public 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 Public 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
Glasgow +6 21 £580 +16.00% 7
Edinburgh -7 2 £425 -33.33% 11
Public Cloud
UK

Public 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) SaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) Python Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Lead Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Team Leader
6 2 (8.70%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.35%) Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Linux Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Linux Server Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Test Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Spring
1 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) SDLC
2 10 (43.48%) Deployment Automation
2 10 (43.48%) Mentoring
3 9 (39.13%) Knowledge Transfer
3 9 (39.13%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) TDD
4 6 (26.09%) Cost Reduction
4 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (21.74%) Agile
5 5 (21.74%) Migration
6 4 (17.39%) SOA
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Human-Centred Design
8 2 (8.70%) Inclusive Design
8 2 (8.70%) ITIL
8 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.70%) Runbook
8 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (4.35%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Java
3 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
4 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
5 6 (26.09%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.70%) SQL
7 1 (4.35%) Bicep
7 1 (4.35%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) IBM
1 1 (4.35%) Informatica
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.35%) StreamSets
1 1 (4.35%) Tanium
1 1 (4.35%) VMware