Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Cloud Native
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the City of Westminster. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.88% - 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.00% - 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £466 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £800
75th Percentile £484 - £850
90th Percentile £486 - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £669 £685
% change year-on-year -6.51% -2.44% +7.03%

All Generic Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20 24 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 48.78% 42.86% 69.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 33
10th Percentile £363 £358 £438
25th Percentile £444 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -30.77% +23.81%
75th Percentile £641 £575 £938
90th Percentile £730 £731 £1,000
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £26.00
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -45.54%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Paddington - 1 £475 -
Westminster - 1 £475 - 1
Cloud Native
Central London

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Fastify
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk