Cloud Native Contracts in London

Cloud Native
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 256 181
Rank change year-on-year +117 -75 +9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 255 140 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.96% 0.79% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.34% 2.39% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 95 230
10th Percentile £400 £455 £500
25th Percentile £425 £513 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% -1.89%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £738
90th Percentile £750 £750 £825
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - £90.00
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
England median hourly rate £51.25 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.61%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,779 5,864 9,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.80% 33.29% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,155 4,117 6,535
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 143 97
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.44 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.40 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -22.86% -13.58%
75th Percentile £48.94 £49.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.77 £71.25 £86.32
England median hourly rate £32.85 £36.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +55.32% -11.32%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Central London +33 47 £625 -3.85% 288
West London +6 4 £500 -4.76% 34
South London - 2 £636 - 23
East London - 1 £450 - 7
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.53%) Confluence
4 6 (2.35%) Apache
5 3 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.18%) CMS
6 2 (0.78%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) Drupal
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Mule
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Shopify
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 137 (53.73%) AWS
2 78 (30.59%) Azure
3 62 (24.31%) Serverless
4 51 (20.00%) GCP
5 31 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (9.41%) Amazon S3
7 23 (9.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (8.24%) PaaS
9 20 (7.84%) Azure AKS
9 20 (7.84%) GitHub
10 17 (6.67%) SaaS
11 15 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (5.88%) IaaS
12 14 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (3.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.06%) Firewall
2 10 (3.92%) VPN
3 8 (3.14%) DNS
4 5 (1.96%) Network Security
5 3 (1.18%) DSL
5 3 (1.18%) MPLS
5 3 (1.18%) WAN
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.78%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.78%) Junos
6 2 (0.78%) LAN
6 2 (0.78%) Multicast
6 2 (0.78%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.78%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) SSH
6 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.78%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.37%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.71%) Big Data
3 12 (4.71%) BigQuery
4 10 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.53%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.75%) MySQL
8 6 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.18%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.18%) Flink
11 3 (1.18%) Metadata
11 3 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.78%) OLTP
12 2 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (9.80%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.88%) Git
3 12 (4.71%) GitLab
4 10 (3.92%) JIRA
5 8 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.96%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.96%) Gradle
7 4 (1.57%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.57%) git-flow
7 4 (1.57%) MLflow
8 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.18%) JMeter
9 2 (0.78%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.39%) Gatling
10 1 (0.39%) Postman
10 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.39%) Storybook
General
1 75 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 71 (27.84%) Finance
3 32 (12.55%) Banking
4 8 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (2.75%) Marketing
6 6 (2.35%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.35%) Retail
7 5 (1.96%) Front Office
7 5 (1.96%) Publishing
8 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Advertising
9 3 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (30.20%) Architect
2 38 (14.90%) Senior
3 35 (13.73%) Developer
4 24 (9.41%) Solutions Architect
5 20 (7.84%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (7.84%) Lead
5 20 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.88%) GCP Architect
8 14 (5.49%) Data Engineer
9 12 (4.71%) Azure Architect
10 11 (4.31%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.31%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.31%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 11 (4.31%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.53%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.02%) React
2 22 (8.63%) Spring
3 20 (7.84%) Kafka
3 20 (7.84%) Spring Boot
4 18 (7.06%) RESTful
5 17 (6.67%) .NET
6 16 (6.27%) GraphQL
6 16 (6.27%) REST
7 15 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 12 (4.71%) Node.js
9 11 (4.31%) OAuth
10 9 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (3.14%) AWS CDK
12 7 (2.75%) JWT
13 6 (2.35%) ARM Templates
14 5 (1.96%) OAuth2
14 5 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.96%) Vue
15 4 (1.57%) Flask
15 4 (1.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.49%) Public Cloud
3 13 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.57%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.57%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.18%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.18%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.18%) TWAP
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.59%) Linux
2 6 (2.35%) Windows
3 4 (1.57%) Unix
4 3 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.78%) SUSE
5 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (49.02%) DevOps
2 113 (44.31%) CI/CD
3 100 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (34.12%) Agile
5 69 (27.06%) Microservices
6 51 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 44 (17.25%) Migration
8 40 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (13.33%) Observability
10 33 (12.94%) High Availability
11 32 (12.55%) Event-Driven
11 32 (12.55%) Mentoring
12 30 (11.76%) Analytics
12 30 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 28 (10.98%) Scrum
14 26 (10.20%) Cloud Security
14 26 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (10.20%) Software Engineering
15 24 (9.41%) Machine Learning
15 24 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (38.82%) Python
2 51 (20.00%) Java
3 35 (13.73%) SQL
4 24 (9.41%) Go
5 23 (9.02%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.45%) Bicep
8 12 (4.71%) C#
9 10 (3.92%) Bash
10 6 (2.35%) Scala
11 5 (1.96%) C++
12 4 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.57%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.78%) PHP
15 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (12.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.49%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 10 (3.92%) Degree
5 7 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (1.57%) CISSP
8 3 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CISM
8 3 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.39%) OCP
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.71%) QA
2 11 (4.31%) GDPR
3 10 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.53%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.75%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.57%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.57%) NIST
6 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.18%) NCSC
7 3 (1.18%) RMADS
8 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) GxP
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.39%) SLA
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.18%) Firmware
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (39.61%) Terraform
2 99 (38.82%) Kubernetes
3 33 (12.94%) Ansible
4 21 (8.24%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.49%) Grafana
6 11 (4.31%) Rancher
7 8 (3.14%) Puppet
8 7 (2.75%) Kibana
8 7 (2.75%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.96%) Argo
10 3 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.18%) Kubeflow
10 3 (1.18%) logstash
10 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.78%) Cilium
11 2 (0.78%) Podman
11 2 (0.78%) Salt
12 1 (0.39%) CASB
12 1 (0.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 41 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.45%) Google
3 11 (4.31%) Oracle
4 9 (3.53%) Splunk
5 8 (3.14%) Databricks
6 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.57%) SAP
8 3 (1.18%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.18%) Solace
8 3 (1.18%) Teradata
9 2 (0.78%) Adobe
9 2 (0.78%) Arista
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) Dell
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 2 (0.78%) New Relic
9 2 (0.78%) Sitecore