Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Cloud Native
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Liverpool. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 2.98% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £600 - -

All Generic Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 92 51 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 30.46% 32.90% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 7
10th Percentile £404 £159 £235
25th Percentile £500 £408 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +7.78% -12.20%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £500
90th Percentile £638 £654 £538
Merseyside median daily rate £525 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +5.53% +10.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 2
10th Percentile £17.60 - £18.04
25th Percentile - - £18.05
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £18.09
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -4.35% -38.69%
75th Percentile - - £18.11
90th Percentile - - £18.11
Merseyside median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £18.09
% change year-on-year +154.10% -4.35% -38.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Liverpool over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Liverpool

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AI
4 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Information Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Information Security Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Java Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Java Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
1 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Security
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Project Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Security Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) API Design
3 3 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (33.33%) SABSA
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 3 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (33.33%) CCSP
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) CISSP
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft