Public Cloud Contract Job Trends 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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 98 111
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 28 18 33
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.83% 1.07% 1.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.78% 2.99% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 19
10th Percentile £423 £375 £394
25th Percentile £434 £519 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £578 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -17.46% +36.59%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £750
90th Percentile £564 £727 £765
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 586 603 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.20% 35.79% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 330 504
10th Percentile £181 £192 £234
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £610 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.05% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 23 27
10th Percentile £14.87 £19.60 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.30 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +31.06% -8.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.60 £40.91 £60.60
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.55% -22.35% +21.43%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Scotland

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Public Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 December 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 19 December 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 +5 21 £500 -13.79%
Edinburgh +6 5 £420 -27.02%
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 19 (67.86%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
3 7 (25.00%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (14.29%) SaaS
7 3 (10.71%) Serverless
8 2 (7.14%) IaaS
8 2 (7.14%) PaaS
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Internet
1 2 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) MongoDB
2 8 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (32.14%) JIRA
3 7 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 7 (25.00%) Git
3 7 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 7 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (21.43%) PyCharm
4 6 (21.43%) Visual Studio
5 3 (10.71%) GitLab
5 3 (10.71%) Liquibase
5 3 (10.71%) Vite
6 1 (3.57%) JUnit
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Java Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Python Developer
6 3 (10.71%) React Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Change Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Spring
1 9 (32.14%) Spring Boot
2 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
2 5 (17.86%) Kafka
3 4 (14.29%) React
3 4 (14.29%) RESTful
4 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (10.71%) Next.js
4 3 (10.71%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) Middleware
6 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.57%) JPA
6 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.57%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (64.29%) Agile
2 18 (64.29%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) SDLC
4 9 (32.14%) Microservices
4 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
5 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (14.29%) Build Automation
9 4 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
9 4 (14.29%) Fintech
9 4 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
9 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.29%) Operational Stability
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Java
2 12 (42.86%) Python
3 7 (25.00%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.71%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (46.43%) Terraform
3 11 (39.29%) Ansible
4 3 (10.71%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Splunk
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle