Cloud Native Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Native
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the North of England. 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 170 160 190
Rank change year-on-year -10 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 15 42 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.77% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.21% 2.57% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 43
10th Percentile £370 £463 £513
25th Percentile £426 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -25.15% +6.12% +7.46%
75th Percentile £535 £700 £700
90th Percentile £538 - £768
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,242 1,637 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.63% 30.08% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 1,088 1,868
10th Percentile £263 £275 £205
25th Percentile £400 £410 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +6.77% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £575
90th Percentile £674 £688 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 81 94
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -11.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £28.23 £33.75 £26.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £44.03
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -7 8 £508 -24.78% 19
Yorkshire 0 4 - - 2
North East +5 3 £370 -47.14% 5
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Kong
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) ThoughtSpot
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Django
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Microservices
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Application Security
5 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Istio
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.67%) VMware