Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cloud Native
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Coventry. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -9 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.50% 0.99% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.17% 6.67% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £417 - -
25th Percentile £432 £363 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £375 £625
Median % change year-on-year +24.33% -40.00% -
75th Percentile £502 £388 £638
90th Percentile £519 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £506 £613
% change year-on-year +5.83% -17.39% -5.77%

All Generic Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 81 15 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 40.50% 14.85% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 11 28
10th Percentile £263 - £421
25th Percentile £304 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -20.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £641
90th Percentile £531 £625 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £22.23 - -
25th Percentile £25.00 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.21 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -3.52% +3.87% +19.90%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Coventry

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (20.00%) Azure
5 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (20.00%) Datadog
5 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Architect
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Interface Catalogue
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (60.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AVEVA