Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Cloud Native
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Herefordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 6.38% - 8.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 18.75% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -18.46% - +30.00%

All Generic Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16 32 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 34.04% 51.61% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 9
10th Percentile £506 £573 £480
25th Percentile £631 £612 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £635 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -5.93% +35.00%
75th Percentile - £831 £725
90th Percentile £820 £850 £728
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.58% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £30.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year -2.83% +12.27% +37.50%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Herefordshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

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

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Ledbury - 3 £650 -
Cloud Native
West Midlands

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (100.00%) Flask
1 3 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (100.00%) gRPC
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft