Cloud Native Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Native
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 147 187
Rank change year-on-year +21 +40 -37
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 1.38% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 17
10th Percentile £600 £615 £435
25th Percentile £625 £625 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -17.46%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile - £698 £798
England median daily rate £581 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 844 1,088 1,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.94% 31.63% 29.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 733 1,077
10th Percentile £220 £240 £213
25th Percentile £350 £373 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +17.28%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 41 58
10th Percentile £10.47 £16.70 £12.27
25th Percentile £13.93 £18.13 £14.66
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £16.37
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +37.43% +5.63%
75th Percentile £28.88 £53.75 £19.94
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £22.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
West Midlands +29 13 £650 - 9
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) CloudFront
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 5 (38.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 7 (53.85%) Network Security
3 5 (38.46%) VPN
4 3 (23.08%) Firewall
4 3 (23.08%) SSL
5 1 (7.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Electronics
5 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (7.69%) Marketing
5 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth
1 5 (38.46%) OAuth2
1 5 (38.46%) SAML
2 2 (15.38%) Regular Expression
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Swagger
3 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
1 3 (23.08%) Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (15.38%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
3 5 (38.46%) Application Security
3 5 (38.46%) Data Security
3 5 (38.46%) Defensive Programming
3 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
3 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Penetration Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
3 5 (38.46%) The Twelve-Factor App
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (23.08%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) BC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) CASP
3 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (15.38%) GCED
3 2 (15.38%) GIAC
3 2 (15.38%) GSEC
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Salesforce
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) LogRhythm
2 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 2 (15.38%) TippingPoint
2 2 (15.38%) Trend Micro
3 1 (7.69%) SAP