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 in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 135 148
Rank change year-on-year +41 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 21 29 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 1.09% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 3.01% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 20
10th Percentile £413 £413 £394
25th Percentile £415 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -12.05% +29.41%
75th Percentile £634 £503 £600
90th Percentile - £588 £628
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £644
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.01% +17.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 679 964 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.68% 36.08% 36.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 650 856
10th Percentile £205 £209 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% - +14.71%
75th Percentile £561 £550 £564
90th Percentile £662 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 26
10th Percentile £12.68 - £16.56
25th Percentile £15.74 £10.63 £20.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £14.50 £42.48
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -65.86% +1.13%
75th Percentile £29.59 £21.67 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.45 £48.93 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 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 +22 12 £575 +16.16% 7
Glasgow +21 8 £435 -10.08% 2
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 (9.52%) GeoServer
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 6 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 6 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (19.05%) AWS CodeCommit
5 4 (19.05%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (9.52%) Azure
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) MPLS
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (19.05%) InfluxDB
2 4 (19.05%) Informix
2 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.52%) GIS
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) Gradle
2 5 (23.81%) Maven
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 6 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Site Manager
4 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Database Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Developer
6 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Database Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Development Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Network Project Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 8 (38.10%) Spring
3 7 (33.33%) RESTful
4 6 (28.57%) AWS CDK
5 2 (9.52%) PostGIS
6 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.76%) CSS
6 1 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (4.76%) JPA
6 1 (4.76%) PySpark
6 1 (4.76%) React
6 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) BYOD
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) IoT
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Unix
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Microservices
3 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Application Security
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (23.81%) OWASP
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (23.81%) Service-Level Objective
4 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Kanban
5 4 (19.05%) Migration
5 4 (19.05%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (14.29%) Community of Practice
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Java
3 7 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 5 (23.81%) Bash
4 5 (23.81%) Groovy
4 5 (23.81%) Ruby
4 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (23.81%) Terraform
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Commvault
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
1 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft