Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Cloud Native
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Cheltenham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 8.51% - 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 16.00% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £624 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £750
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Generic Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 50 32 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 53.19% 24.81% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 17
10th Percentile £156 £547 £318
25th Percentile £353 £548 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £668 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.48% +6.80% +19.05%
75th Percentile £616 £676 £738
90th Percentile £650 £689 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -9.09% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £32.50 - -
25th Percentile £41.88 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile £79.38 - -
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £45.34 £24.56 £78.00
% change year-on-year +84.59% -68.51% +30.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Cheltenham

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (87.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (87.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Backend Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
1 7 (87.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) FastAPI
1 7 (87.50%) Flask
1 7 (87.50%) GraphQL
1 7 (87.50%) gRPC
1 7 (87.50%) REST
1 7 (87.50%) WebSockets
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Go
1 7 (87.50%) Python
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Grafana
2 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft