Cloud Native Contracts in Central London

Cloud Native
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 110 109
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 36 23 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.80% 0.94% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.29% 3.07% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 38
10th Percentile £435 £531 £524
25th Percentile £508 £588 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £694
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -6.31% -5.13%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £738
90th Percentile £706 £746 £831
London median daily rate £575 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -3.70%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Central London

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Central London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Central London

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +19 34 £588 -9.62% 25
Camden - 2 £550 - 2
Cloud Native
London

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (2.78%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.78%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) AWS
3 11 (30.56%) Serverless
4 7 (19.44%) PaaS
5 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.89%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (11.11%) IaaS
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (8.33%) SaaS
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (5.56%) AWS KMS
9 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.56%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) Firewall
2 3 (8.33%) VPN
3 2 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) 4G
4 1 (2.78%) 5G
4 1 (2.78%) 5G NR
4 1 (2.78%) DNS
4 1 (2.78%) LTE
4 1 (2.78%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Azure Architect
4 6 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (13.89%) Security Architect
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 4 (11.11%) Developer
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior
7 3 (8.33%) Site Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Security Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Integration Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Security Technical Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (8.33%) Spring
2 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.56%) JSON
3 2 (5.56%) React
3 2 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.78%) Blazor
4 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.78%) Jest
4 1 (2.78%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) Next.js
4 1 (2.78%) Prisma
4 1 (2.78%) React Native
4 1 (2.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Unix
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
1 19 (52.78%) DevOps
1 19 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (38.89%) Microservices
3 10 (27.78%) Agile
3 10 (27.78%) Containerisation
3 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (19.44%) Migration
5 7 (19.44%) Service-Level Objective
6 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.89%) API Management
7 5 (13.89%) Cloud Security
7 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.89%) Incident Response
7 5 (13.89%) Observability
7 5 (13.89%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (11.11%) Analytics
8 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.11%) Bicep
3 4 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 2 (5.56%) C#
4 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.78%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Scala
5 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
5 1 (2.78%) Swift
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (8.33%) CISA
3 3 (8.33%) CISM
3 3 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
1 2 (5.56%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 13 (36.11%) Terraform
3 5 (13.89%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.11%) Ansible
5 3 (8.33%) Grafana
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.56%) Nagios
6 2 (5.56%) SCCM
7 1 (2.78%) CASB
7 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.56%) Qualys
3 2 (5.56%) Snow
4 1 (2.78%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat