Cloud Native Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Native
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 231 191
Rank change year-on-year -16 -40 +28
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 100 261 641
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 1.04% 1.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.31% 3.30% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 180 480
10th Percentile £485 £474 £475
25th Percentile £513 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £634
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.38% +17.09%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile - £775 £819
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,324 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.64% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 154 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Cloud Native
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Native trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Native.

Cloud Native daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Cloud Native daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (17.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
3 4 (4.00%) Apache Solr
3 4 (4.00%) nginx
4 3 (3.00%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.00%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (64.00%) Azure
2 48 (48.00%) AWS
3 22 (22.00%) GCP
4 17 (17.00%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (17.00%) Serverless
5 15 (15.00%) SaaS
6 10 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
9 5 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.00%) CloudFront
9 5 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (5.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.00%) Network Security
3 5 (5.00%) VPN
4 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (4.00%) IPsec
4 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.00%) FTP
6 2 (2.00%) HTTP
6 2 (2.00%) Internet
6 2 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (2.00%) SSH
7 1 (1.00%) Firewall
7 1 (1.00%) LAN
7 1 (1.00%) MPLS
7 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.00%) WAN
7 1 (1.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.00%) MySQL
4 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.00%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.00%) Couchbase
8 3 (3.00%) Informix
9 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.00%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.00%) Redis
10 1 (1.00%) Big Data
10 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (8.00%) Git
2 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.00%) GitLab
5 1 (1.00%) Appium
5 1 (1.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.00%) ESLint
5 1 (1.00%) JIRA
5 1 (1.00%) JUnit
5 1 (1.00%) Lerna
5 1 (1.00%) NUnit
5 1 (1.00%) Selenium
5 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.00%) Storybook
5 1 (1.00%) TestNG
5 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.00%) Vite
General
1 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.00%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.00%) Finance
4 7 (7.00%) Retail
5 5 (5.00%) Marketing
5 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.00%) Banking
8 2 (2.00%) Electronics
8 2 (2.00%) Front Office
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Back Office
9 1 (1.00%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (36.00%) Architect
2 22 (22.00%) Developer
3 21 (21.00%) Technical Architect
4 17 (17.00%) Senior
5 15 (15.00%) Security Engineer
6 12 (12.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (12.00%) SharePoint Architect
7 7 (7.00%) Cloud Developer
7 7 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) SAP Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Lead
10 4 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) SOC Engineer
11 3 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.00%) .NET
2 10 (10.00%) Node.js
2 10 (10.00%) YAML
3 9 (9.00%) OAuth
4 8 (8.00%) JSON
4 8 (8.00%) OAuth2
5 7 (7.00%) React
5 7 (7.00%) SAML
6 6 (6.00%) .NET Framework
6 6 (6.00%) CSS
6 6 (6.00%) Kafka
6 6 (6.00%) OpenID
7 5 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.00%) AWS CDK
7 5 (5.00%) HTML
7 5 (5.00%) REST
7 5 (5.00%) RESTful
7 5 (5.00%) SAPUI5
8 4 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.00%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.00%) Security Posture
4 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (3.00%) Replication
8 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.00%) BYOD
9 1 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Unix
4 4 (4.00%) CentOS
5 3 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.00%) CI/CD
1 27 (27.00%) DevOps
1 27 (27.00%) Migration
2 26 (26.00%) Agile
3 24 (24.00%) Microservices
4 22 (22.00%) Data Security
5 20 (20.00%) Change Management
6 19 (19.00%) Data Migration
6 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (16.00%) Cloud Security
7 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (10.00%) Incident Response
8 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.00%) Test Automation
10 8 (8.00%) Computer Science
10 8 (8.00%) High Availability
10 8 (8.00%) Use Case
11 7 (7.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.00%) Python
2 13 (13.00%) Java
2 13 (13.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (13.00%) SQL
3 12 (12.00%) Go
3 12 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.00%) C#
5 7 (7.00%) Bash
5 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.00%) PHP
7 3 (3.00%) C++
7 3 (3.00%) Scala
8 2 (2.00%) ABAP
8 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.00%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.00%) Bicep
9 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (7.00%) Degree
5 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (8.00%) NIST
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 7 (7.00%) GDPR
3 4 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.00%) NCSC
4 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (12.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.00%) Terraform
3 10 (10.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (3.00%) Argo
5 3 (3.00%) Grafana
6 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.00%) Puppet
6 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.00%) CASB
7 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.00%) Istio
7 1 (1.00%) Kibana
7 1 (1.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.00%) NetApp
3 10 (10.00%) Google
3 10 (10.00%) SAP
4 8 (8.00%) Oracle
5 4 (4.00%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.00%) Splunk
6 3 (3.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.00%) Centrify
7 2 (2.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.00%) Commvault
7 2 (2.00%) Databricks
7 2 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.00%) Genesys
7 2 (2.00%) Guidewire
7 2 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.00%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.00%) OpenAI