Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Cloud Native
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 66 62
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 +32
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 20 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.46% 0.51% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.33% 2.11% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 15
10th Percentile £446 £453 £479
25th Percentile £456 £456 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £648 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year +40.11% -26.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £695 £469 £650
90th Percentile £785 £473 -
South West median daily rate £648 £630 £625
% change year-on-year +2.86% +0.80% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - +8.97% -

All Generic Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 240 190 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 29.52% 24.14% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 73 227
10th Percentile £213 £143 £230
25th Percentile £450 £250 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% -21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £660
90th Percentile £713 £705 £722
South West median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 37 26
10th Percentile £6.00 £26.31 £58.38
25th Percentile £15.60 £66.25 £70.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £82.09
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% -14.73% +26.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £83.40
90th Percentile £74.23 £75.00 £84.02
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -66.43% - +7.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Bristol

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Bristol

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) GCP
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) OCI
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (5.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.00%) Datadog
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) IaaS
7 1 (5.00%) PaaS
7 1 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Django Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Software Engineering
4 1 (5.00%) Junior Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Python/Django Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 3 (15.00%) Next.js
3 3 (15.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (15.00%) Spring
3 3 (15.00%) Vue
4 2 (10.00%) Express.js
5 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
5 1 (5.00%) Django
5 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (30.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (15.00%) AI
8 3 (15.00%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
8 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
1 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) Bicep
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Ruby
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (10.00%) OCA
4 2 (10.00%) OCP
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CSPO
5 1 (5.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Argo
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Data Guard
4 2 (10.00%) Kibana
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (10.00%) SCCM
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (5.00%) Brocade
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (5.00%) VMware