Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Cloud Native
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Gloucestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 3.39% - 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.16% - 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £563 - £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.00%
75th Percentile £738 - £825
90th Percentile £750 - £840
South West median daily rate £625 £513 £625
% change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate - £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - +8.97% -

All Generic Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 128 93 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 33.42% 25.20% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 69 71
10th Percentile £278 £400 £330
25th Percentile £415 £460 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -4.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £731
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 13
10th Percentile £31.50 - £19.60
25th Percentile £31.54 £22.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £23.99 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.68% -70.01% +33.33%
75th Percentile £79.86 £70.00 £83.40
90th Percentile £91.90 - -
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -50.37% -3.57% +7.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Gloucestershire

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Cheltenham - 9 £650 - 11
Gloucester - 9 £650 - 7
Cloud Native
South West

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Azure DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) Serverless
3 8 (61.54%) GitHub
4 7 (53.85%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (53.85%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (30.77%) AWS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 2 (15.38%) GCP
7 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
7 1 (7.69%) IaaS
7 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (53.85%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Backend Developer
2 7 (53.85%) Python Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) REST
2 7 (53.85%) FastAPI
2 7 (53.85%) Flask
2 7 (53.85%) GraphQL
2 7 (53.85%) gRPC
2 7 (53.85%) WebSockets
3 3 (23.08%) ARM Templates
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) YAML
5 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) Node.js
5 1 (7.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
2 11 (84.62%) Containerisation
2 11 (84.62%) DevOps
3 10 (76.92%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.69%) Cryptography
7 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.69%) Digital Innovation
7 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
7 1 (7.69%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (7.69%) Scrum
7 1 (7.69%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Go
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) C
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) CCSP
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CISM
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP
4 1 (7.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Grafana
2 8 (61.54%) Prometheus
3 4 (30.77%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat