Cloud Native Contracts in the East of England

Cloud Native
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 103 110
Rank change year-on-year +31 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.14% 0.42% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.09% 1.66% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 10
10th Percentile £315 - £500
25th Percentile £321 £563 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £533
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +7.98% -16.27%
75th Percentile £476 £650 £656
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 421 481 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 36.83% 25.25% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 228 359
10th Percentile £195 £177 £205
25th Percentile £363 £290 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £591
90th Percentile £668 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 121 39
10th Percentile £16.95 £12.86 £20.50
25th Percentile £20.95 £24.75 £21.13
Median hourly rate £61.50 £59.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% -0.83% +71.43%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £70.75
England median hourly rate £32.72 £37.50 £25.58
% change year-on-year -12.74% +46.60% -3.47%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the East of England

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the East of England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the East of England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Essex +16 6 £321 -44.11% 31
Hertfordshire +27 4 £650 -3.70% 39
Bedfordshire -1 3 £450 - 23
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (30.77%) Apache
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) dbt
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) Vertex AI
4 2 (15.38%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) ChatGPT
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) BigQuery
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
1 4 (30.77%) Tableau
2 3 (23.08%) Looker
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) MSI
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Aviation
3 3 (23.08%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Packager
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 4 (30.77%) AngularJS
2 4 (30.77%) PySpark
3 3 (23.08%) Kafka
3 3 (23.08%) NumPy
3 3 (23.08%) Pandas
4 2 (15.38%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) Django
5 1 (7.69%) JSR 170
5 1 (7.69%) Next.js
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth
5 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.69%) OSGi
5 1 (7.69%) SAML
5 1 (7.69%) Spring
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
3 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (30.77%) Data Security
3 4 (30.77%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Generative AI
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (30.77%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (23.08%) Data Management
4 3 (23.08%) DataOps
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Adobe
2 1 (7.69%) Checkmarx
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI