Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Cloud Native
South East > East Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in East Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 3.95% - 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.75% - 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £378 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 - £650
75th Percentile £568 - £675
90th Percentile £617 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £593 £500
% change year-on-year -19.83% +18.50% -28.57%

All Generic Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 21.05% 17.78% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £434 £463 £241
25th Percentile £463 £469 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% -15.56%
75th Percentile £613 £681 £634
90th Percentile £668 £725 £744
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.60% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £13.00 - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - £50.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 - £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.11%
75th Percentile £18.25 - £51.50
90th Percentile £19.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £68.75 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +111.54% -18.75% -15.79%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in East Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in East Sussex over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in East Sussex

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
Hove - 1 - -
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Android Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Android Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (33.33%) Android SDK
2 1 (33.33%) gRPC
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) AIOps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace