Cloud Native Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Native
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 132 143
Rank change year-on-year +30 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 23 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.07% 1.04% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.20% 2.84% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 16
10th Percentile £409 £413 £495
25th Percentile £416 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £489 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -14.21% +34.12%
75th Percentile £622 £503 £606
90th Percentile £634 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +19.27%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cloud Native 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 719 985 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.43% 36.44% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 667 798
10th Percentile £200 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £559
90th Percentile £651 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 21
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -69.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.10 £51.34 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
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 Native within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +25 12 £575 +16.40% 7
Glasgow +18 10 £435 -10.77% 3
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
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 (8.70%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
3 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (30.43%) Serverless
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
4 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CodeCommit
6 3 (13.04%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (8.70%) Azure
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Internet
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
2 1 (4.35%) MPLS
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.35%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (17.39%) Informix
2 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.04%) InfluxDB
4 2 (8.70%) GIS
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) Gradle
2 5 (21.74%) Maven
General
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Java Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Site Manager
4 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Manager
5 3 (13.04%) AWS Developer
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Database Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Development Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Network Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Network Project Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Security Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Spring Boot
2 9 (39.13%) Spring
3 8 (34.78%) RESTful
4 7 (30.43%) AWS CDK
5 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.70%) PostGIS
5 2 (8.70%) React
6 1 (4.35%) CSS
6 1 (4.35%) HTML
6 1 (4.35%) JPA
6 1 (4.35%) PySpark
6 1 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) BYOD
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 10 (43.48%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (21.74%) Application Security
5 5 (21.74%) Clean Code
5 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Kanban
5 5 (21.74%) Migration
5 5 (21.74%) OWASP
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (21.74%) Scrum
5 5 (21.74%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (17.39%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) Java
3 9 (39.13%) Python
4 8 (34.78%) TypeScript
5 5 (21.74%) Bash
5 5 (21.74%) Groovy
5 5 (21.74%) Ruby
5 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
6 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Commvault
2 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft