Cloud Native Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 96 125 162
Rank change year-on-year +29 +37 -33
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.68% 0.59% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.03% 1.83% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 11
10th Percentile £600 - £431
25th Percentile £625 £625 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -
75th Percentile £688 £678 £581
90th Percentile - £699 £700
England median daily rate £581 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 641 765 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.30% 32.14% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 524 719
10th Percentile £304 £263 £255
25th Percentile £363 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +5.26% +12.76%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £586
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 27
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.71 £17.99 £12.96
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +51.32% -5.71%
75th Percentile £40.25 £52.50 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £65.50 £19.38
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Coventry - 5 £650 -
Birmingham +8 4 £600 -7.69% 6
Warwickshire - 3 £675 -
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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