Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Native
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 47 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 21 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.68% 0.24% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.79% 1.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £409 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £591 £613 -
90th Percentile £654 - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -1.46% -14.58% -3.52%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 133 87 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 35.95% 21.17% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 75
10th Percentile £252 £289 £198
25th Percentile £379 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £539
90th Percentile £735 £647 £598
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 11
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £22.00
25th Percentile £20.51 £46.25 £37.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +116.22%
75th Percentile £61.56 £64.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £69.75 £75.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £43.75 £61.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.28% +1.67% +47.31%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 October 2025. 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
Cambridge +18 20 £550 -4.35% 10
Cloud Native
East of England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Azure AKS
2 11 (52.38%) PaaS
3 9 (42.86%) Azure Functions
3 9 (42.86%) GitHub
3 9 (42.86%) GitHub Copilot
3 9 (42.86%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JMeter
1 2 (9.52%) Postman
1 2 (9.52%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
1 6 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) QA Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (80.95%) .NET
2 12 (57.14%) RESTful
3 10 (47.62%) PyTorch
3 10 (47.62%) TensorFlow
4 9 (42.86%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (9.52%) Pandas
5 2 (9.52%) scikit-learn
6 1 (4.76%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) AI
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 16 (76.19%) Machine Learning
2 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (71.43%) LLM
3 15 (71.43%) Prompt Engineering
3 15 (71.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 14 (66.67%) Test Automation
5 13 (61.90%) Data Privacy
6 11 (52.38%) API Management
7 10 (47.62%) Scrum
7 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
8 9 (42.86%) Deep Learning
9 8 (38.10%) API Design
9 8 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (38.10%) Data Science
9 8 (38.10%) Validation
10 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
11 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (28.57%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) MCP
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) EU AI Act
2 13 (61.90%) NIST
3 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (42.86%) Foundry
3 1 (4.76%) Clearswift