Cloud Native Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Native
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 103 111
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 34 23 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.94% 1.05% 1.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.56% 3.42% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 38
10th Percentile £435 £531 £524
25th Percentile £473 £588 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £650 £694
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% -6.31% -5.93%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £738
90th Percentile £719 £746 £786
Central London median daily rate £563 £650 £694
% change year-on-year -13.46% -6.31% -5.13%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 611 673 1,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.78% 30.63% 35.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 460 882
10th Percentile £363 £274 £350
25th Percentile £475 £423 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £806 £850 £856
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £613
% change year-on-year - -6.12% +6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.94%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) AWS
3 11 (32.35%) Serverless
4 7 (20.59%) PaaS
5 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) Azure AKS
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (11.76%) IaaS
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (8.82%) SaaS
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon Macie
9 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
9 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
9 2 (5.88%) Datadog
9 2 (5.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) VPN
3 2 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (2.94%) 4G
4 1 (2.94%) 5G
4 1 (2.94%) 5G NR
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (2.94%) LTE
4 1 (2.94%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Architect
2 9 (26.47%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Azure Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) Site Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Security Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Security Technical Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (8.82%) Spring
2 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (5.88%) React
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) YAML
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.94%) Blazor
4 1 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.94%) Jest
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) Next.js
4 1 (2.94%) Prisma
4 1 (2.94%) React Native
4 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) PKI
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (41.18%) Microservices
4 10 (29.41%) Agile
4 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (26.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (20.59%) Service-Level Objective
7 6 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (14.71%) API Management
8 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (14.71%) Incident Response
8 5 (14.71%) Migration
8 5 (14.71%) Observability
8 5 (14.71%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (11.76%) Analytics
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) Bicep
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) Go
5 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Scala
5 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Swift
5 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (5.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.94%) CISA
5 1 (2.94%) CISM
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 13 (38.24%) Terraform
3 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
4 4 (11.76%) Ansible
5 3 (8.82%) Grafana
6 1 (2.94%) CASB
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.94%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat