Cloud Native Contracts in England

Cloud Native
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in England. 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 232 311 270
Rank change year-on-year +79 -41 -52
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 275 241 490
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.13% 0.65% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.31% 2.10% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 158 337
10th Percentile £400 £421 £500
25th Percentile £425 £500 £558
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -
75th Percentile £688 £675 £713
90th Percentile £775 £729 £796
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile £55.25 - £76.13
Median hourly rate £55.50 - £78.00
75th Percentile £55.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.61%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,317 11,465 17,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.15% 30.83% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 7,505 11,795
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 827 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.63 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
London +68 181 £575 -4.17% 445
North of England +34 28 £550 +9.73% 121
South East +40 26 £575 +15.00% 160
North West +31 21 £500 -4.53% 86
East of England +32 10 £350 -39.13% 21
Midlands +18 9 £459 -29.38% 37
South West +28 8 £463 -22.92% 40
East Midlands - 6 £431 - 12
Yorkshire +10 5 £629 - 28
West Midlands +4 3 £512 -21.23% 21
North East -2 1 £550 +48.65% 7
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (3.27%) Apache
1 9 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.91%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (2.18%) Confluence
4 5 (1.82%) nginx
4 5 (1.82%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.45%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Shopify
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (41.09%) AWS
2 112 (40.73%) Azure
3 61 (22.18%) GCP
3 61 (22.18%) Serverless
4 34 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (9.82%) GitHub
6 26 (9.45%) Azure AKS
7 25 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.64%) PaaS
9 19 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (6.91%) SaaS
10 18 (6.55%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (5.82%) IaaS
12 15 (5.45%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (4.73%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.36%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.36%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (4.00%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.45%) Firewall
2 20 (7.27%) 5G
3 15 (5.45%) 4G
3 15 (5.45%) Radio Access Network
4 13 (4.73%) 5G NR
4 13 (4.73%) LTE
5 12 (4.36%) VPN
6 8 (2.91%) MPLS
7 7 (2.55%) BGP
7 7 (2.55%) DNS
7 7 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.55%) VLAN
8 6 (2.18%) Network Security
9 4 (1.45%) HTTP
10 3 (1.09%) NX-OS
11 2 (0.73%) DSL
11 2 (0.73%) OSPF
11 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.73%) VSAN
11 2 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.55%) NoSQL
2 11 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.64%) BigQuery
3 10 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.64%) Power BI
4 7 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (2.55%) Looker
5 5 (1.82%) Big Data
5 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.82%) Metadata
5 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.82%) Tableau
6 4 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.73%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.73%) MySQL
8 2 (0.73%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 38 (13.82%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.00%) GitLab
3 14 (5.09%) Git
4 12 (4.36%) JIRA
5 7 (2.55%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (2.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.82%) Robot Framework
7 5 (1.82%) Selenium
8 4 (1.45%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.09%) git-flow
9 3 (1.09%) Gradle
9 3 (1.09%) JMeter
9 3 (1.09%) MSI
10 2 (0.73%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.73%) Postman
11 1 (0.36%) Gatling
11 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 86 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 55 (20.00%) Finance
3 29 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.45%) Telecoms
5 21 (7.64%) Banking
6 12 (4.36%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (4.36%) Retail
7 5 (1.82%) Billing
7 5 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.45%) Legal
8 4 (1.45%) Marketing
9 3 (1.09%) Aviation
9 3 (1.09%) Front Office
10 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.36%) French Language
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (28.36%) Architect
2 38 (13.82%) Senior
3 29 (10.55%) Solutions Architect
4 28 (10.18%) Developer
5 22 (8.00%) Cloud Architect
6 21 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 17 (6.18%) Lead
9 16 (5.82%) Azure Architect
10 15 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 10 (3.64%) GCP Engineer
13 10 (3.64%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.64%) Security Architect
13 10 (3.64%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.64%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.82%) .NET
1 27 (9.82%) Kafka
2 22 (8.00%) React
3 13 (4.73%) Spring
3 13 (4.73%) Spring Boot
4 12 (4.36%) AngularJS
4 12 (4.36%) GraphQL
5 11 (4.00%) AWS CDK
5 11 (4.00%) Node.js
6 10 (3.64%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.64%) RESTful
7 8 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (2.91%) PySpark
8 7 (2.55%) REST
9 6 (2.18%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.18%) Blazor
9 6 (2.18%) gRPC
9 6 (2.18%) OAuth
10 5 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.09%) Public Cloud
3 13 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 10 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.91%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.45%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.45%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) TWAP
8 4 (1.45%) VWAP
9 3 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.64%) Linux
2 16 (5.82%) Windows
3 8 (2.91%) Unix
4 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.73%) SUSE
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (48.36%) CI/CD
1 133 (48.36%) DevOps
2 95 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 92 (33.45%) Agile
4 83 (30.18%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (24.36%) Microservices
6 60 (21.82%) Containerisation
7 38 (13.82%) Analytics
7 38 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 38 (13.82%) High Availability
8 37 (13.45%) Migration
9 36 (13.09%) Observability
10 31 (11.27%) Software Engineering
10 31 (11.27%) Test Automation
11 28 (10.18%) Data Engineering
12 27 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (8.73%) Event-Driven
13 24 (8.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 24 (8.73%) Mentoring
13 24 (8.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (44.00%) Python
2 52 (18.91%) Java
3 42 (15.27%) SQL
4 25 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 25 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 22 (8.00%) Bash
6 21 (7.64%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.27%) Bicep
8 18 (6.55%) C#
9 16 (5.82%) Go
10 12 (4.36%) Scala
11 8 (2.91%) C++
11 8 (2.91%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.55%) Groovy
13 6 (2.18%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.18%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.73%) Swift
17 1 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 27 (9.82%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.45%) Degree
3 23 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.91%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.82%) CISSP
11 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.45%) CISM
11 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.45%) PMP
12 3 (1.09%) CCNP
12 3 (1.09%) CISA
13 2 (0.73%) CCIE
13 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.36%) QA
2 10 (3.64%) GDPR
3 9 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.91%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.55%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.82%) NIST
7 3 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.09%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.36%) COBIT
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 110 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 106 (38.55%) Terraform
3 65 (23.64%) Ansible
4 16 (5.82%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.45%) Grafana
6 13 (4.73%) Progress Chef
7 11 (4.00%) Puppet
8 8 (2.91%) NSN NetAct
8 8 (2.91%) Rancher
9 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.45%) Amdocs OSS
11 3 (1.09%) Argo
11 3 (1.09%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.09%) Istio
12 2 (0.73%) Control-M
12 2 (0.73%) Kiali
12 2 (0.73%) Nagios
12 2 (0.73%) Salt
12 2 (0.73%) SCCM
12 2 (0.73%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.82%) Google
3 14 (5.09%) Ericsson
4 13 (4.73%) Splunk
5 12 (4.36%) Nokia
6 9 (3.27%) Oracle
7 8 (2.91%) SAP
7 8 (2.91%) VMware
8 7 (2.55%) Databricks
8 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.18%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.18%) Cisco
9 6 (2.18%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.18%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.45%) Amdocs
11 4 (1.45%) Ciena
11 4 (1.45%) NetCracker
11 4 (1.45%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.45%) Salesforce