Cloud Native Contracts in Essex

Cloud Native
East of England > Essex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Essex. 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 15 30 29
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +28
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.25% 0.90% 2.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 23.81% 3.33% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £315 £563 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £575 £519
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +10.90% +3.70%
75th Percentile £360 £588 £528
90th Percentile £430 - £533
East of England median daily rate £350 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -39.13% +9.94% +4.60%

All Generic Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21 60 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 26.25% 27.03% 49.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 74
10th Percentile £315 £110 £154
25th Percentile £322 £306 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £360
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +28.47% -20.00%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £525
90th Percentile £608 £668 £600
East of England median daily rate £520 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 22 4
10th Percentile £15.48 £12.86 £24.53
25th Percentile £16.44 £14.17 £32.06
Median hourly rate £18.67 £35.65 £40.39
Median % change year-on-year -47.63% -11.74% +42.17%
75th Percentile £21.52 £57.50 £60.41
90th Percentile £22.86 £64.25 £89.00
East of England median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Essex

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Essex

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Essex

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex 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
Basildon +6 4 £315 -45.22% 30
Brentwood - 1 £468 -
Cloud Native
East of England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (60.00%) dbt
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) Tableau
2 3 (60.00%) Looker
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
1 4 (80.00%) React
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) NumPy
2 3 (60.00%) Pandas
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Data Security
2 4 (80.00%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Science
3 3 (60.00%) DataOps
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow Management
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
2 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace