Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Cloud Native
Hampshire > Fleet

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Fleet. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Fleet 2.63% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £625 £610 £633
% change year-on-year +2.46% -3.63% -27.66%

All Generic Skills
Fleet

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 Fleet.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fleet 39.47% - 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £366 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.20% -6.71%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Fleet

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Fleet

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Fleet

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Fleet citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fleet 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Apigee
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) EMV
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk