Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cloud Native
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 59 63
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +40
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 28 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 4.42% 1.14% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.91% 4.68% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 14
10th Percentile £420 £463 £568
25th Percentile - £487 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% -14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £731 -
90th Percentile £745 £750 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% -14.29%

All Generic Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 235 171 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 37.07% 24.39% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 116 192
10th Percentile £375 £304 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £634 £688 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £503 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +0.60% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 5
10th Percentile - £12.15 -
25th Percentile - £13.01 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -31.37% +0.28%
75th Percentile - £22.25 -
90th Percentile - £28.75 £21.87
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £15.68 £19.00
% change year-on-year +35.84% -17.47% -4.28%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Leeds

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
1 1 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 13 (46.43%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) GitHub
3 12 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (35.71%) Serverless
5 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (25.00%) GCP
6 5 (17.86%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
7 3 (10.71%) Slack
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (7.14%) PaaS
9 1 (3.57%) Datadog
9 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) SSL
2 1 (3.57%) BGP
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) IPsec
2 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) DataStage
3 1 (3.57%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) CircleCI
3 4 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (10.71%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) GitLab
6 1 (3.57%) Log4j
General
1 10 (35.71%) Public Sector
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
2 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.57%) WebSphere Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) React
2 6 (21.43%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
5 2 (7.14%) Blazor
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
6 1 (3.57%) Django
6 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
6 1 (3.57%) FHIR
6 1 (3.57%) Flask
6 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.57%) Kafka
6 1 (3.57%) LDAP
6 1 (3.57%) OAuth
6 1 (3.57%) Playwright
6 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) NHS
2 3 (10.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (64.29%) DevOps
2 18 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (50.00%) Agile
4 10 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 6 (21.43%) Data Architecture
5 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (17.86%) Microservices
6 5 (17.86%) Observability
7 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (10.71%) Architectural Patterns
8 3 (10.71%) Clean Code
8 3 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
2 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 5 (17.86%) C#
4 4 (14.29%) Bicep
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.14%) SQL
7 1 (3.57%) Java
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) NCSC
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) HL7
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (67.86%) Terraform
2 11 (39.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 6 (21.43%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Brio
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Informatica
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Talend
3 1 (3.57%) TIBCO