Cloud Native Contracts in the East Midlands

Cloud Native
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.12% - 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.90% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £376 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.34%
75th Percentile £555 - £508
90th Percentile £644 - -
England median daily rate £550 £581 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 154 200 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.73% 25.87% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 137 204
10th Percentile £244 £164 £202
25th Percentile £349 £230 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £436
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -5.86% -3.22%
75th Percentile £544 £567 £541
90th Percentile £600 £625 £696
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 22
10th Percentile - £11.75 £16.80
25th Percentile - £12.28 £18.34
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -36.26% +28.41%
75th Percentile £16.11 £18.32 £62.50
90th Percentile £24.03 £24.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the East Midlands

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the East Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the East Midlands

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northamptonshire - 4 £385 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £575 - 4
Derbyshire - 1 £700 -
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft