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 advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 149 114
Rank change year-on-year +57 -35 +30
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 31 19 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.44% 0.69% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 1.89% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 35
10th Percentile £418 £455 £422
25th Percentile £488 £488 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.30% +14.50%
75th Percentile £706 £623 £725
90th Percentile £738 £650 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +11.63%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 723 1,006 1,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.50% 36.38% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 690 813
10th Percentile £200 £237 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £553
90th Percentile £646 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 24 24
10th Percentile £13.33 - £15.54
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £19.45
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.40 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -68.45% -5.61%
75th Percentile £44.75 £25.72 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.53 £51.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +24 16 £500 -16.67% 4
Edinburgh +35 14 £631 +23.17% 4
South Lanarkshire - 1 £700 -
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 2 (6.45%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Serverless
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) Apigee
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) LAN
1 3 (9.68%) WAN
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) Firewall
3 1 (3.23%) Internet
3 1 (3.23%) MPLS
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) VSAN
3 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
2 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) JMeter
1 3 (9.68%) LoadRunner
1 3 (9.68%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
3 9 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Billing
5 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Full Stack Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Commercial Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Contracts Manager
4 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Angular Developer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) AngularJS
1 12 (38.71%) CSS
1 12 (38.71%) HTML
2 11 (35.48%) JPA
2 11 (35.48%) REST
2 11 (35.48%) Spring
2 11 (35.48%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.23%) BYOD
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) IoT
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Android
2 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
2 14 (45.16%) Machine Learning
2 14 (45.16%) Microservices
3 13 (41.94%) Full Stack Development
4 12 (38.71%) Decision-Making
5 11 (35.48%) SDLC
6 10 (32.26%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (32.26%) Operational Stability
7 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Analytics
9 3 (9.68%) Change Control
9 3 (9.68%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (9.68%) Performance Metrics
9 3 (9.68%) Performance Testing
9 3 (9.68%) Scalability Testing
9 3 (9.68%) Security Testing
9 3 (9.68%) Test Management
9 3 (9.68%) Test Strategy
9 3 (9.68%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Java
2 13 (41.94%) TypeScript
3 12 (38.71%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) Python
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) Groovy
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) CISSP
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.23%) Istio
1 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Confluent
1 2 (6.45%) Databricks
1 2 (6.45%) Google
1 2 (6.45%) IBM
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.45%) Sage
1 2 (6.45%) VMware
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
2 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
2 1 (3.23%) Foundry
2 1 (3.23%) Informatica
2 1 (3.23%) StreamSets
2 1 (3.23%) Teradata