Cloud Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 151 145
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 15 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.70% 0.63% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.66% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 16
10th Percentile £410 £425 £448
25th Percentile £430 £494 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £600 - £597
90th Percentile - - £661
UK median daily rate £550 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.39% +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.81
25th Percentile - - £41.89
Median hourly rate - - £44.82
75th Percentile - - £47.78
90th Percentile - - £47.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £74.25 £61.95
% change year-on-year -59.60% +19.86% +14.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,026 2,569 3,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 95.29% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,786 2,312
10th Percentile £200 £224 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.15
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +31 9 £450 -12.20% 6
Glasgow +14 5 £600 -
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Scotland region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Ansible
4 6 (40.00%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) Terraform
5 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (26.67%) Linux
7 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (20.00%) Change Management
7 3 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (20.00%) Java
7 3 (20.00%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) Ruby
7 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (20.00%) Spring
7 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
7 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
7 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 (6.67%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Gradle
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
1 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) JPA
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (20.00%) Change Management
5 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
6 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (13.33%) Operational Stability
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (20.00%) Packer
5 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (6.67%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk