Cloud Native Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 119 178
Rank change year-on-year +15 +59 -24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 23 24 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.04% 0.86% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.56% 2.82% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 12
10th Percentile £351 £500 £515
25th Percentile £458 £529 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.88% - +38.89%
75th Percentile £500 £688 £659
90th Percentile £525 £700 £721
South East median daily rate £493 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -21.12% +2.04% +11.36%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 646 851 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.10% 30.50% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 571 793
10th Percentile £250 £244 £264
25th Percentile £400 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +13.89%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £613
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +9.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 26
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.50 £13.75
25th Percentile £23.37 £21.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.88 £60.63 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.27% +206.96% -58.09%
75th Percentile £60.83 £72.40 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.38 £75.73 £77.43
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £55.00 £23.39
% change year-on-year +4.27% +135.14% -49.15%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Berkshire +8 21 £482 -22.88% 9
Buckinghamshire +24 2 £500 +42.86% 3
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) OpenShift
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) 5G
2 8 (34.78%) 3G
2 8 (34.78%) 4G
3 6 (26.09%) 3GPP
4 2 (8.70%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (8.70%) DNS
4 2 (8.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (34.78%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Site Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Designer
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) DevOps Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Integration Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Integration Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) OSS Integration Manager
4 1 (4.35%) OSS Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Designer
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Self-Motivation
1 8 (34.78%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.70%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) Change Management
2 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
2 11 (47.83%) ITSM
2 11 (47.83%) Microservices
2 11 (47.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 9 (39.13%) GitOps
3 9 (39.13%) Incident Response
3 9 (39.13%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
3 9 (39.13%) Task Automation
4 8 (34.78%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (34.78%) Product Requirements
5 6 (26.09%) Agile
6 2 (8.70%) Business Analysis
6 2 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (8.70%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
6 2 (8.70%) Migration
6 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) MiFID
1 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (39.13%) Argo
2 9 (39.13%) Grafana
2 9 (39.13%) Istio
2 9 (39.13%) Kibana
2 9 (39.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft