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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 271 219
Rank change year-on-year -39 -52 +21
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 241 490 951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.97% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.12% 2.89% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 337 678
10th Percentile £425 £500 £500
25th Percentile £500 £558 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £775
90th Percentile £731 £796 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +19.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile - £76.13 £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +14.11%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +31.84%

All Generic Skills
England

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,373 16,983 24,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.76% 33.65% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,428 11,801 17,096
10th Percentile £263 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 591 641
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.16 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 -45 140 £600 -7.69% 132
South East +33 33 £500 -25.93% 29
South West +14 29 £600 - 12
West Midlands +30 13 £650 - 8
Midlands +25 13 £650 - 9
North of England -3 13 £501 -22.88% 35
East of England +8 8 £575 +9.94% 4
North West -8 7 £524 -25.18% 25
North East +11 3 £370 -47.14% 3
Yorkshire +4 3 - - 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 19 (7.88%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.73%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (2.90%) Apache Solr
3 7 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.66%) Apache
4 4 (1.66%) nginx
5 3 (1.24%) CMS
5 3 (1.24%) Drupal
5 3 (1.24%) IIS
6 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.83%) Confluence
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.41%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (0.83%) Shopify
1 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 127 (52.70%) Azure
2 102 (42.32%) AWS
3 43 (17.84%) Serverless
4 41 (17.01%) GCP
5 32 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (9.96%) OpenShift
7 21 (8.71%) SaaS
8 20 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (7.88%) Azure Functions
10 17 (7.05%) Entra ID
10 17 (7.05%) PaaS
11 16 (6.64%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (6.64%) GitHub
12 15 (6.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.98%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (3.73%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.96%) DNS
2 11 (4.56%) VPN
3 10 (4.15%) Firewall
4 8 (3.32%) Network Security
5 7 (2.90%) HTTPS
5 7 (2.90%) IPsec
6 5 (2.07%) HTTP
7 4 (1.66%) FTP
7 4 (1.66%) Internet
7 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.24%) DHCP
8 3 (1.24%) LAN
8 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.24%) SSL
8 3 (1.24%) WAN
8 3 (1.24%) WLAN
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.83%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.96%) NoSQL
1 24 (9.96%) SQL Server
2 22 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (5.81%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.56%) MySQL
6 10 (4.15%) Big Data
6 10 (4.15%) Hadoop
7 9 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.90%) SAP HANA
9 6 (2.49%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.07%) Redis
11 4 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.66%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.66%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.24%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (8.71%) Git
2 14 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.56%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.90%) Selenium
5 5 (2.07%) JIRA
5 5 (2.07%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.66%) GitLab
6 4 (1.66%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.24%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.24%) Subversion
8 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 50 (20.75%) Finance
2 49 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.45%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.81%) Banking
5 12 (4.98%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (4.98%) Retail
6 11 (4.56%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.15%) Marketing
8 8 (3.32%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.90%) Legal
10 5 (2.07%) Electronics
10 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.66%) Front Office
11 4 (1.66%) German Language
12 3 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Games
13 2 (0.83%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Back Office
14 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (28.63%) Architect
2 40 (16.60%) Developer
3 34 (14.11%) Senior
4 23 (9.54%) Technical Architect
5 20 (8.30%) Analyst
6 16 (6.64%) Cloud Architect
6 16 (6.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.64%) Site Engineer
6 16 (6.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 15 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.81%) Business Analyst
8 14 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.39%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.98%) SharePoint Architect
11 10 (4.15%) Full Stack Developer
12 9 (3.73%) Lead
13 7 (2.90%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.49%) Consultant
14 6 (2.49%) Database Engineer
14 6 (2.49%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.69%) .NET
2 24 (9.96%) Kafka
3 17 (7.05%) .NET Core
4 14 (5.81%) JSON
5 13 (5.39%) OAuth
5 13 (5.39%) YAML
6 12 (4.98%) React
6 12 (4.98%) REST
7 11 (4.56%) HTML
8 10 (4.15%) .NET Framework
8 10 (4.15%) Node.js
8 10 (4.15%) OpenID
8 10 (4.15%) SAML
9 9 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (3.73%) OAuth2
9 9 (3.73%) RESTful
10 8 (3.32%) Blazor
10 8 (3.32%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.49%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.88%) Data Structures
2 17 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.39%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.32%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.90%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.49%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.07%) Solar Panel
9 4 (1.66%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.96%) Windows
2 22 (9.13%) Linux
3 9 (3.73%) Unix
4 4 (1.66%) CentOS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (41.49%) DevOps
2 78 (32.37%) Agile
3 75 (31.12%) CI/CD
4 71 (29.46%) Microservices
5 49 (20.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (17.84%) Migration
7 33 (13.69%) Change Management
8 31 (12.86%) Cloud Security
8 31 (12.86%) SDLC
9 30 (12.45%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.62%) Containerisation
11 26 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (10.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 23 (9.54%) Analytics
13 21 (8.71%) Data Security
13 21 (8.71%) Test Automation
14 19 (7.88%) Full Stack Development
15 18 (7.47%) Cybersecurity
16 17 (7.05%) Front End Development
16 17 (7.05%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.65%) Python
2 55 (22.82%) SQL
3 26 (10.79%) Java
4 25 (10.37%) C#
4 25 (10.37%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.71%) Go
6 15 (6.22%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.15%) C++
8 9 (3.73%) PL/SQL
8 9 (3.73%) T-SQL
8 9 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.90%) Bash
10 6 (2.49%) PHP
11 5 (2.07%) Scala
12 4 (1.66%) Ruby
13 3 (1.24%) Perl
14 1 (0.41%) Bicep
14 1 (0.41%) Groovy
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.47%) Degree
4 8 (3.32%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.24%) CCIE
8 3 (1.24%) CCNP
8 3 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.83%) CASP
9 2 (0.83%) CCNA
9 2 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.83%) GCED
9 2 (0.83%) GIAC
9 2 (0.83%) GSEC
10 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.39%) NIST
3 10 (4.15%) QA
4 7 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.90%) GDPR
5 5 (2.07%) GRC
6 4 (1.66%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.66%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.66%) NCSC
7 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (16.18%) Docker
2 16 (6.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (27.80%) Kubernetes
2 54 (22.41%) Terraform
3 25 (10.37%) Ansible
4 19 (7.88%) Istio
5 11 (4.56%) Grafana
6 9 (3.73%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.73%) Puppet
7 8 (3.32%) Argo
8 7 (2.90%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.90%) Rancher
9 6 (2.49%) Kibana
10 5 (2.07%) Opsgenie
11 4 (1.66%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (1.24%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.24%) Netcool
12 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (23.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.71%) Google
3 20 (8.30%) SAP
4 15 (6.22%) NetApp
4 15 (6.22%) Splunk
5 12 (4.98%) Oracle
5 12 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 11 (4.56%) New Relic
7 9 (3.73%) Adobe
7 9 (3.73%) MuleSoft
8 8 (3.32%) Dynatrace
8 8 (3.32%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.32%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.90%) PagerDuty
10 6 (2.49%) Cisco
11 5 (2.07%) CyberArk
12 4 (1.66%) Black Duck
12 4 (1.66%) Darktrace
12 4 (1.66%) Databricks
12 4 (1.66%) VMware