Cloud Native Contracts in the South West

Cloud Native
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 138 146
Rank change year-on-year +25 +8 -48
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 37 30 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.16% 0.81% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.48% 2.92% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 19 15
10th Percentile £520 £508 £411
25th Percentile £600 £556 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +6.67% +18.42%
75th Percentile £638 £676 £631
90th Percentile £650 £723 £690
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
England median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +21.17%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,064 1,027 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 33.31% 27.88% 25.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 703 654
10th Percentile £300 £251 £205
25th Percentile £450 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +14.58% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £575
90th Percentile £688 £725 £668
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 140 58
10th Percentile £13.41 - £15.46
25th Percentile £15.17 - £25.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +359.18% -80.30% +0.57%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.32 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the South West

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Bristol +32 22 £625 +9.65% 6
Wiltshire -1 11 £600 - 1
Dorset - 4 - - 1
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (10.81%) Apache Solr
1 4 (10.81%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (32.43%) AWS
1 12 (32.43%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) GCP
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudTrail
3 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) VPN
2 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 4 (10.81%) HTTPS
2 4 (10.81%) IPsec
2 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (40.54%) SAP HANA
2 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (10.81%) Couchbase
3 4 (10.81%) MySQL
3 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Spinnaker
2 4 (10.81%) Git
General
1 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) German Language
2 4 (10.81%) Legal
2 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.11%) Electronics
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.11%) Marketing
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) SAP Architect
5 6 (16.22%) Database Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Database Engineer
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (13.51%) Security Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) SAP HANA Architect
7 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) SOC Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 3 (8.11%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (8.11%) SAP Business Analyst
9 2 (5.41%) ERP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) JSON
1 4 (10.81%) LEMP Stack
1 4 (10.81%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (10.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Public Cloud
2 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.81%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.70%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) CentOS
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) DevOps
1 16 (43.24%) Logistics
2 15 (40.54%) Migration
3 11 (29.73%) Agile
3 11 (29.73%) Microservices
4 9 (24.32%) ERP
4 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (16.22%) Business Case
5 6 (16.22%) Database Migration
5 6 (16.22%) Database Tuning
5 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
5 6 (16.22%) SIEM
6 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
6 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.51%) Information Security
6 5 (13.51%) SDLC
6 5 (13.51%) Security Architecture
6 5 (13.51%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.22%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) PHP
3 1 (2.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) SC Cleared
1 20 (54.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) NIST
2 8 (21.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (10.81%) GDPR
3 4 (10.81%) HIPAA
3 4 (10.81%) NCSC
3 4 (10.81%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) Ansible
3 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
4 5 (13.51%) Istio
5 4 (10.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
6 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) SAP
2 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Google
3 4 (10.81%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat