Cloud Native Contracts in Lancashire

Cloud Native
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 29 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.02% 0.46% 3.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.00% 3.70% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -29.57% -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £487 £700
% change year-on-year +2.77% -30.50% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.05
25th Percentile - - £43.80
Median hourly rate - - £45.88
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £79.00 - £45.88

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 50 27 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 25.51% 12.50% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 36
10th Percentile £333 £328 £203
25th Percentile £398 £498 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £497
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +30.91% -23.61%
75th Percentile £546 £744 £646
90th Percentile £617 £979 £700
North West median daily rate £466 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.80% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile - - £21.36
25th Percentile £26.88 £11.25 £29.84
Median hourly rate £43.86 £11.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +281.35% -71.67% +27.24%
75th Percentile £67.45 £11.75 £45.88
90th Percentile £78.14 - £46.18
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £27.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year +30.28% -23.24% +82.05%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Lancashire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Lancashire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Blackpool - 2 £450 - 1
Cloud Native
North West

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform