Cloud Native Contract Job Trends 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 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 120 66
Rank change year-on-year +48 -54 +83
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 59 13 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.08% 0.56% 3.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.10% 1.83% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 7 48
10th Percentile £435 £545 £582
25th Percentile £581 £622 £640
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £719 £688
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +4.51% +5.85%
75th Percentile £688 £756 £738
90th Percentile £806 £795 £858
London median daily rate £550 £606 £650
% change year-on-year -9.28% -6.73% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
London median hourly rate £38.75 £85.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year -54.41% -5.56% -

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 728 709 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.98% 30.68% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 446 723
10th Percentile £350 £358 £313
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +2.78%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £731
90th Percentile £800 £838 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £22.90 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.45 £25.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -26.31% -26.32%
75th Percentile £50.79 £27.00 £44.54
90th Percentile £88.75 £53.20 £53.00
London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.62 £27.50
% change year-on-year -13.03% +14.98% -5.58%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Central London over the 6 months to 22 September 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 22 September 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 +48 56 £650 -9.60% 43
City of Westminster - 2 £475 -
West End of London - 1 £475 -
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 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.69%) CICS
1 1 (1.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.69%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.69%) Maximo
1 1 (1.69%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) GCP
3 9 (15.25%) Amazon S3
4 7 (11.86%) Serverless
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (10.17%) SaaS
6 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (8.47%) PaaS
7 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.78%) GitHub
7 4 (6.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (6.78%) IaaS
7 4 (6.78%) Slack
7 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.08%) Datadog
8 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) VPN
3 1 (1.69%) NAS
3 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) MySQL
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.39%) Big Data
4 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.69%) Parquet
5 1 (1.69%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.69%) Power BI
5 1 (1.69%) Redis
5 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) Selenium
4 4 (6.78%) Gradle
4 4 (6.78%) Maven
4 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.69%) Git
6 1 (1.69%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) MLflow
6 1 (1.69%) Mocha
6 1 (1.69%) Snyk
General
1 28 (47.46%) Finance
2 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 17 (28.81%) Banking
4 10 (16.95%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Front Office
6 4 (6.78%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.69%) Billing
8 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Retail
8 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Architect
2 10 (16.95%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (13.56%) Developer
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
4 5 (8.47%) GCP Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Lead
6 3 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Specialist
7 2 (3.39%) GCP Data Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Payments Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) FIX Protocol
1 7 (11.86%) Spring
1 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
2 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (10.17%) RESTful
3 5 (8.47%) React
4 3 (5.08%) .NET
4 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 3 (5.08%) Node.js
4 3 (5.08%) REST
5 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
5 2 (3.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.69%) Fastify
6 1 (1.69%) LangChain
6 1 (1.69%) MACH
6 1 (1.69%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.69%) Swagger
6 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.17%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.69%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.69%) Derivative
6 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Unix
2 2 (3.39%) Windows
3 1 (1.69%) AIX
3 1 (1.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) DevOps
2 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
3 19 (32.20%) Microservices
4 18 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (28.81%) Containerisation
6 16 (27.12%) Agile
6 16 (27.12%) Event-Driven
7 14 (23.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (20.34%) Machine Learning
8 12 (20.34%) Migration
9 10 (16.95%) Observability
10 9 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (13.56%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (13.56%) Cloud Security
11 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.56%) Software Engineering
12 7 (11.86%) Project Management
12 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
12 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (42.37%) Python
2 19 (32.20%) Java
3 9 (15.25%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.39%) Bash
5 2 (3.39%) Bicep
5 2 (3.39%) Go
5 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) COBOL
6 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.69%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.69%) CISSP
3 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.78%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) QA
3 3 (5.08%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.39%) NIST
4 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.69%) MiFID
5 1 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (37.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 19 (32.20%) Terraform
3 6 (10.17%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (10.17%) Kibana
3 6 (10.17%) logstash
4 4 (6.78%) Argo
4 4 (6.78%) Grafana
5 3 (5.08%) Puppet
6 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.69%) Ansible
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.69%) Podman
7 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Google
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.17%) Solace
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.69%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) NetApp
5 1 (1.69%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.69%) Portware
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk
5 1 (1.69%) TIBCO