Cloud Native Contracts in Cheshire

Cloud Native
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 53 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.11% 0.20% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.16% 0.64% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £381 - £553
25th Percentile £400 £511 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £523 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% -7.19% -8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £534 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £524 £700
% change year-on-year -4.53% -25.18% +9.80%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 158 156 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.19% 30.95% 46.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 143
10th Percentile £314 £297 £263
25th Percentile £358 £425 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +13.89% +2.27%
75th Percentile £553 £567 £580
90th Percentile £636 £606 £648
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 7
10th Percentile £29.46 £14.15 £21.89
25th Percentile £29.80 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.50 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +30.45% +47.26%
75th Percentile £33.75 £43.75 £52.88
90th Percentile £55.50 - £66.25
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Cheshire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Cheshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Cheshire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 4 £536 -
Macclesfield - 1 £400 -
Cloud Native
North West

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) SOLID
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft