Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Chester

Cloud Native
Cheshire > Chester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Chester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.77% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -24.26% +11.90% -

All Generic Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 31 28 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 27.43% 41.18% 34.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 2
10th Percentile £192 £463 £517
25th Percentile £419 £513 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -1.64% +56.43%
75th Percentile £613 £571 £569
90th Percentile £678 £594 £576
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £17.50
75th Percentile £27.25 - £17.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.25 £26.71 £19.75
% change year-on-year -39.15% +35.22% +13.80%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Chester

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Anypoint
1 1 (50.00%) Mule
1 1 (50.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk