Cloud Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 94 109
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 11 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.25% 0.76% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.79% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 10
10th Percentile £409 £425 £468
25th Percentile £421 £438 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -10.87% +21.05%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £644
90th Percentile £656 £656 £673
Scotland median daily rate £500 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 836 1,133 1,809
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 95.53% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 789 1,248
10th Percentile £178 £225 £239
25th Percentile £340 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 11 13
10th Percentile £15.69 £13.16 -
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.71 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.52% -11.40% -65.22%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.47 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £43.75 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
% change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 15 June 2024, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Ansible
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Change Management
4 3 (27.27%) Ruby
4 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
5 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Groovy
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) Linux
5 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (9.09%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Gradle
General
1 1 (9.09%) Banking
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
2 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Fintech
5 1 (9.09%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Ruby
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) CASB
2 1 (9.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk