Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Cloud Native
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 43 65
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.36% 0.58% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.10% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £488 - £713
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £557 £468 £575
% change year-on-year +19.04% -18.70% +10.90%

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 213 182 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 25.69% 52.91% 27.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 94 83
10th Percentile £263 £401 £280
25th Percentile £375 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +13.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £600
90th Percentile £750 £684 £684
East of England median daily rate £454 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -11.41% +6.77% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 52 59
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.32 £29.20
25th Percentile £17.77 £59.38 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% -0.76%
75th Percentile £75.63 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.15 £87.50 £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £66.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.29% +21.36% -15.71%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Hatfield - 2 - - 3
Cloud Native
East of England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) GCP DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Argo
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google