Cloud Native Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Native
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 94 117
Rank change year-on-year -17 +23 +15
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 19 71 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.87% 2.00% 1.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.78% 5.67% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 41 61
10th Percentile £491 £525 £560
25th Percentile £572 £625 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £738
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -5.08% +34.09%
75th Percentile £722 £738 £850
90th Percentile £806 £775 -
Central London median daily rate £625 £700 £731
% change year-on-year -10.71% -4.27% +31.76%

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 683 1,253 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 31.32% 35.34% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 853 1,076
10th Percentile £263 £353 £413
25th Percentile £420 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £579
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.94% +5.27%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £838 £859 £813
Central London median daily rate £575 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £17.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.38 - £37.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +190.17%
75th Percentile £27.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £36.60 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £46.50
% change year-on-year -34.29% -24.73% +158.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (31.58%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Solr
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (5.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) AWS
2 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) Serverless
3 8 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (36.84%) Azure Functions
5 6 (31.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (31.58%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (31.58%) Azure Storage
6 4 (21.05%) GitHub
7 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (10.53%) IaaS
8 2 (10.53%) PaaS
8 2 (10.53%) SaaS
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
9 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DHCP
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Azure SQL Database
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Local Government
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Strategy Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Head of DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Strategy Architect
5 1 (5.26%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) .NET
1 7 (36.84%) .NET Core
2 6 (31.58%) Blazor
3 3 (15.79%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 2 (10.53%) React
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.26%) HTML5
5 1 (5.26%) LDAP
5 1 (5.26%) Middleware
5 1 (5.26%) SignalR
5 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
5 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Microservices
2 9 (47.37%) SDLC
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Front End Development
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Data Development
4 7 (36.84%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (31.58%) Multithreading
6 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
6 2 (10.53%) ETL
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Use Case
6 2 (10.53%) User Experience
6 2 (10.53%) UX Design
6 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) Go
4 7 (36.84%) JavaScript
5 6 (31.58%) C++
5 6 (31.58%) PL/SQL
5 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.53%) Java
7 1 (5.26%) Bash
7 1 (5.26%) C#
7 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.26%) Ruby
7 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Opsgenie
4 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) MuleSoft
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Adobe
2 2 (10.53%) New Relic
2 2 (10.53%) PagerDuty
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (5.26%) Black Duck
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Sparx
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk