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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 109 75
Rank change year-on-year +35 -34 +36
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 56 20 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.97% 0.97% 2.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.21% 3.08% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 9 51
10th Percentile £435 £467 £563
25th Percentile £575 £525 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £683
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -4.76% -2.50%
75th Percentile £697 £738 £738
90th Percentile £820 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £625 £650 £688
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.52% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 682 650 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 36.14% 31.58% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 421 741
10th Percentile £349 £350 £313
25th Percentile £457 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% +6.44%
75th Percentile £700 £710 £750
90th Percentile £810 £838 £850
Central London median daily rate £585 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile £16.96 £18.40 £23.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £32.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -27.84% -25.91%
75th Percentile £65.57 - £56.94
90th Percentile £91.00 £66.30 £73.25
Central London median hourly rate £28.29 £25.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.36% -27.43% -30.69%

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 August 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 (1.79%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.79%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.79%) Maximo
1 1 (1.79%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 22 (39.29%) Azure
2 21 (37.50%) AWS
3 11 (19.64%) PaaS
4 10 (17.86%) GCP
4 10 (17.86%) Serverless
5 9 (16.07%) SaaS
6 8 (14.29%) IaaS
7 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.93%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (5.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.36%) Slack
10 2 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) DNS
2 2 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) NAS
3 1 (1.79%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.57%) Big Data
4 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.57%) MySQL
4 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.79%) Parquet
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) GitLab
2 4 (7.14%) Selenium
3 3 (5.36%) Gradle
3 3 (5.36%) Maven
3 3 (5.36%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.79%) Snyk
General
1 26 (46.43%) Finance
2 22 (39.29%) Social Skills
3 15 (26.79%) Banking
4 8 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.36%) Front Office
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (41.07%) Architect
2 12 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 6 (10.71%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (10.71%) Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 4 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) FIX Protocol
1 6 (10.71%) Spring
1 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
2 5 (8.93%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (7.14%) .NET
3 4 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (7.14%) RESTful
4 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.36%) Kafka
4 3 (5.36%) REST
5 2 (3.57%) JSON
5 2 (3.57%) React
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.79%) MACH
6 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.79%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.71%) Fixed Income
2 6 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.93%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) PKI
5 2 (3.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) Derivative
6 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Unix
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) AIX
3 1 (1.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) DevOps
2 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
3 25 (44.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (32.14%) Microservices
5 17 (30.36%) Agile
6 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 15 (26.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (23.21%) Migration
9 12 (21.43%) Event-Driven
10 11 (19.64%) Observability
11 10 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (16.07%) Cloud Security
12 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
13 8 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (12.50%) Project Management
14 7 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
15 6 (10.71%) DevSecOps
15 6 (10.71%) GitOps
15 6 (10.71%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) Python
2 12 (21.43%) Java
3 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.71%) Bicep
4 6 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.14%) SQL
6 2 (3.57%) Bash
6 2 (3.57%) Go
6 2 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.79%) C#
7 1 (1.79%) COBOL
7 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.79%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 4 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.36%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.57%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.57%) NIST
5 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.79%) MiFID
5 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (41.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (37.50%) Terraform
3 5 (8.93%) ITRS Geneos
3 5 (8.93%) Kibana
3 5 (8.93%) logstash
3 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.14%) Grafana
5 3 (5.36%) Ansible
5 3 (5.36%) Argo
6 2 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.57%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) CASB
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.79%) Podman
7 1 (1.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Google
3 5 (8.93%) Solace
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) NetApp
5 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.79%) Portware
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce