Cloud Computing Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Computing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 153 159
Rank change year-on-year +29 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 17 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.62% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 1.71% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £515 £388 £271
25th Percentile £519 £446 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £420
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +22.02% +48.94%
75th Percentile £609 £538 £438
90th Percentile £630 £560 £460
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +175.23% -
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.75 £18.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% -17.05% +12.82%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services 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 cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 729 992 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.11% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 735 778
10th Percentile £230 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
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 Cloud Computing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Edinburgh +30 1 £638 +40.11% 5
Glasgow +6 1 £550 +4.76% 3
Renfrewshire -2 1 £525 -2.53%
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Flink
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) API Management
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) B2C
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) McAfee
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas
2 1 (33.33%) VMware