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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 253 218
Rank change year-on-year -82 -35 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 227 505 941
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 1.03% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 3.05% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 347 671
10th Percentile £433 £500 £500
25th Percentile £500 £556 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £775
90th Percentile £746 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +14.11%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - £85.20 -
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 11,288 16,535 23,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.64% 33.66% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,395 11,470 17,004
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 588 630
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.64
Median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -51 137 £600 -7.69% 136
South East +20 31 £498 -28.93% 32
South West +4 20 £600 - 14
Midlands +30 14 £650 - 12
West Midlands +26 14 £650 - 7
North of England -9 12 £480 -26.15% 38
East of England +4 8 £575 +9.94% 4
North West -9 6 £523 -22.59% 26
Yorkshire +7 3 - - 9
North East +6 3 £370 -47.14% 3
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 18 (7.93%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.96%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.64%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.76%) nginx
6 3 (1.32%) Apache
6 3 (1.32%) CMS
6 3 (1.32%) Drupal
6 3 (1.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.44%) Confluence
8 1 (0.44%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Shopify
1 2 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 123 (54.19%) Azure
2 100 (44.05%) AWS
3 44 (19.38%) GCP
3 44 (19.38%) Serverless
4 31 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (10.57%) OpenShift
6 20 (8.81%) SaaS
7 19 (8.37%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (8.37%) Azure Functions
7 19 (8.37%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (7.05%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (7.05%) Entra ID
8 16 (7.05%) GitHub
8 16 (7.05%) PaaS
9 15 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (5.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (4.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.96%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.13%) DNS
2 11 (4.85%) VPN
3 10 (4.41%) Firewall
4 8 (3.52%) Network Security
5 7 (3.08%) HTTPS
5 7 (3.08%) IPsec
6 5 (2.20%) HTTP
7 4 (1.76%) FTP
7 4 (1.76%) Internet
7 4 (1.76%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.32%) LAN
8 3 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.32%) SSL
8 3 (1.32%) WAN
8 3 (1.32%) WLAN
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.88%) DHCP
9 2 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.01%) NoSQL
2 24 (10.57%) SQL Server
3 20 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (6.17%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.85%) Big Data
7 10 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.41%) MySQL
8 9 (3.96%) Hadoop
8 9 (3.96%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.64%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.64%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.76%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.76%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.76%) Redis
12 4 (1.76%) Tableau
13 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 21 (9.25%) Git
2 15 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.85%) SonarQube
4 7 (3.08%) Selenium
5 5 (2.20%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.76%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.76%) GitLab
6 4 (1.76%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.32%) JIRA
7 3 (1.32%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.32%) Subversion
8 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) NUnit
General
1 49 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.38%) Finance
3 26 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.17%) Banking
5 12 (5.29%) Retail
6 11 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.08%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.76%) Front Office
10 4 (1.76%) German Language
11 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Electronics
12 2 (0.88%) Games
12 2 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Back Office
13 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (29.52%) Architect
2 37 (16.30%) Developer
3 30 (13.22%) Senior
4 23 (10.13%) Technical Architect
5 17 (7.49%) Site Engineer
5 17 (7.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.73%) Analyst
7 13 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
7 13 (5.73%) Security Engineer
8 12 (5.29%) SharePoint Architect
8 12 (5.29%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (4.41%) Full Stack Developer
10 8 (3.52%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.52%) Lead
11 7 (3.08%) Data Engineer
12 6 (2.64%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.64%) Consultant
12 6 (2.64%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.22%) .NET
2 24 (10.57%) Kafka
3 17 (7.49%) .NET Core
4 14 (6.17%) JSON
5 13 (5.73%) OAuth
5 13 (5.73%) YAML
6 11 (4.85%) HTML
6 11 (4.85%) React
7 10 (4.41%) .NET Framework
7 10 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (4.41%) Node.js
7 10 (4.41%) OpenID
7 10 (4.41%) REST
7 10 (4.41%) RESTful
7 10 (4.41%) SAML
8 9 (3.96%) OAuth2
9 8 (3.52%) Blazor
10 7 (3.08%) SOAP
11 6 (2.64%) ASP.NET
11 6 (2.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.37%) Data Structures
1 19 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (6.17%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.08%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.64%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.64%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.64%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.20%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.20%) Solar Panel
8 4 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.76%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.57%) Windows
2 22 (9.69%) Linux
3 10 (4.41%) Unix
4 4 (1.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (43.17%) DevOps
2 75 (33.04%) Agile
3 74 (32.60%) CI/CD
4 64 (28.19%) Microservices
5 48 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (18.94%) Migration
7 32 (14.10%) Change Management
8 31 (13.66%) Cloud Security
8 31 (13.66%) SDLC
9 30 (13.22%) Software Engineering
10 28 (12.33%) Containerisation
10 28 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (11.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (11.01%) Analytics
13 21 (9.25%) Test Automation
14 20 (8.81%) Data Security
15 19 (8.37%) Full Stack Development
16 18 (7.93%) Task Automation
17 17 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (7.49%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (24.67%) Python
2 53 (23.35%) SQL
3 27 (11.89%) Java
4 25 (11.01%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.13%) Go
6 22 (9.69%) C#
7 15 (6.61%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.41%) C++
9 9 (3.96%) PL/SQL
9 9 (3.96%) T-SQL
10 8 (3.52%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.08%) Bash
12 6 (2.64%) PHP
13 5 (2.20%) Scala
14 3 (1.32%) Perl
14 3 (1.32%) Ruby
15 1 (0.44%) Bicep
15 1 (0.44%) Groovy
15 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 47 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 19 (8.37%) Degree
4 9 (3.96%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.32%) CCIE
8 3 (1.32%) CCNP
8 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.88%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.88%) CASP
9 2 (0.88%) CCNA
9 2 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.88%) GCED
9 2 (0.88%) GIAC
9 2 (0.88%) GSEC
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.29%) NIST
3 10 (4.41%) QA
4 8 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.08%) GDPR
6 4 (1.76%) GRC
6 4 (1.76%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.76%) NCSC
7 3 (1.32%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (16.74%) Docker
2 15 (6.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (29.07%) Kubernetes
2 53 (23.35%) Terraform
3 22 (9.69%) Ansible
4 20 (8.81%) Istio
5 10 (4.41%) Grafana
6 9 (3.96%) Argo
6 9 (3.96%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.08%) Kibana
7 7 (3.08%) Puppet
7 7 (3.08%) Rancher
8 6 (2.64%) Opsgenie
9 5 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (1.32%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.32%) Netcool
11 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 55 (24.23%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.13%) Google
3 16 (7.05%) Splunk
4 15 (6.61%) NetApp
5 13 (5.73%) Oracle
6 12 (5.29%) Salesforce
6 12 (5.29%) SAP
7 11 (4.85%) New Relic
8 9 (3.96%) Adobe
8 9 (3.96%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.96%) MuleSoft
8 9 (3.96%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.52%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.08%) PagerDuty
11 6 (2.64%) Cisco
12 5 (2.20%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.76%) Black Duck
14 3 (1.32%) AppDynamics
14 3 (1.32%) Centrify
14 3 (1.32%) Databricks