Cloud Native Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 65 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -9
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 9 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.85% 1.20% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.80% 3.88% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £41,250 £22,000 -
25th Percentile £58,125 £47,500 £70,097
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,360 £71,991
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.68% -4.86%
75th Percentile £101,875 £98,750 £73,971
90th Percentile £110,500 £119,500 £77,000
Scotland median annual salary £71,250 £80,180 £71,991
% change year-on-year -11.14% +11.38% -4.86%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 237 258 340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.40% 31.08% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 144 116 234
10th Percentile £27,038 £25,313 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £71,563 £93,778 £73,886
90th Percentile £96,750 £100,000 £86,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in Edinburgh

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) GitHub
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Apigee
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Run
4 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (11.11%) AWS IoT
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) AMQP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) QC Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Development
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) React
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Django
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) API Management
5 2 (22.22%) Application Security
5 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft