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 advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 201 182
Rank change year-on-year -55 -19 +18
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 140 350 645
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.79% 1.29% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 3.60% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 237 460
10th Percentile £459 £500 £525
25th Percentile £508 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +20.00%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £788
90th Percentile £750 £800 £875
England median daily rate £581 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
London

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,852 9,722 14,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.04% 35.90% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,137 6,983 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £725 £745 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 113 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.15
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -20.72% +35.85%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £53.16
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.60 £71.55
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -2 23 £650 -5.45% 9
West London - 4 £525 - 7
South London +10 1 £698 +21.30% 2
East London -4 1 - - 16
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 19 (13.57%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.43%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (4.29%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.86%) Apache
5 3 (2.14%) Apache Solr
5 3 (2.14%) IIS
6 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.43%) Confluence
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (1.43%) Shopify
1 2 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 86 (61.43%) Azure
2 69 (49.29%) AWS
3 38 (27.14%) Serverless
4 20 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (13.57%) GCP
6 18 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (12.14%) Azure Functions
7 17 (12.14%) SaaS
8 16 (11.43%) GitHub
9 13 (9.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (9.29%) PaaS
10 10 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 10 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.43%) Azure Storage
12 8 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.71%) DNS
2 4 (2.86%) HTTP
3 3 (2.14%) DHCP
3 3 (2.14%) Firewall
3 3 (2.14%) FTP
3 3 (2.14%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.14%) Internet
3 3 (2.14%) IPsec
3 3 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.43%) SSH
5 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.43%) NoSQL
2 14 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (8.57%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.00%) Big Data
5 7 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 6 (4.29%) MySQL
6 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.57%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.86%) Redis
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.14%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.14%) Tableau
10 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (7.86%) SonarQube
2 10 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.43%) Git
4 4 (2.86%) Selenium
5 3 (2.14%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.14%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.14%) JIRA
5 3 (2.14%) Robot Framework
5 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.43%) GitLab
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.71%) NUnit
General
1 36 (25.71%) Finance
2 25 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.43%) Banking
6 8 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Front Office
7 4 (2.86%) Marketing
8 3 (2.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.43%) Legal
9 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (36.43%) Architect
2 33 (23.57%) Developer
3 24 (17.14%) Senior
4 20 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 12 (8.57%) SharePoint Architect
6 11 (7.86%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Analyst
8 9 (6.43%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.00%) Lead
10 6 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Consultant
11 5 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) React Developer
11 5 (3.57%) Security Analyst
11 5 (3.57%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.71%) .NET
2 17 (12.14%) .NET Core
3 15 (10.71%) Kafka
4 11 (7.86%) React
5 10 (7.14%) HTML
5 10 (7.14%) REST
6 9 (6.43%) .NET Framework
7 8 (5.71%) Blazor
7 8 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.71%) JSON
7 8 (5.71%) OpenID
7 8 (5.71%) RESTful
8 7 (5.00%) GraphQL
9 6 (4.29%) OAuth
9 6 (4.29%) YAML
10 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET
10 5 (3.57%) Middleware
10 5 (3.57%) Node.js
10 5 (3.57%) SAML
11 4 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Data Structures
2 14 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.57%) Solar Panel
6 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.14%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) PKI
8 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.14%) Windows
2 14 (10.00%) Linux
3 7 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.00%) DevOps
2 46 (32.86%) Microservices
3 45 (32.14%) CI/CD
4 44 (31.43%) Agile
5 24 (17.14%) Migration
6 23 (16.43%) SDLC
7 21 (15.00%) Change Management
7 21 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 19 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.14%) Data Migration
9 17 (12.14%) Front End Development
9 17 (12.14%) Test Automation
10 16 (11.43%) Full Stack Development
11 15 (10.71%) Data Security
12 14 (10.00%) Analytics
12 14 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 13 (9.29%) Data Development
13 13 (9.29%) Observability
13 13 (9.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (34.29%) Python
2 38 (27.14%) SQL
3 23 (16.43%) Java
3 23 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.00%) C#
4 21 (15.00%) Go
5 12 (8.57%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.14%) C++
7 9 (6.43%) PL/SQL
7 9 (6.43%) T-SQL
8 7 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.57%) Bash
9 5 (3.57%) Scala
10 4 (2.86%) Ruby
11 3 (2.14%) Perl
12 1 (0.71%) Groovy
12 1 (0.71%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.71%) PHP
12 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.00%) Degree
4 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.14%) CCIE
5 3 (2.14%) CCNP
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.57%) GRC
3 4 (2.86%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.86%) NIST
4 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 22 (15.71%) Docker
2 10 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (23.57%) Kubernetes
2 27 (19.29%) Terraform
3 7 (5.00%) Ansible
4 6 (4.29%) Puppet
5 5 (3.57%) Opsgenie
6 4 (2.86%) Grafana
7 3 (2.14%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.14%) Netcool
7 3 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.43%) Argo
8 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.71%) Istio
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.71%) NetApp
3 11 (7.86%) Oracle
4 10 (7.14%) New Relic
4 10 (7.14%) SAP
4 10 (7.14%) Splunk
5 9 (6.43%) Adobe
5 9 (6.43%) Google
5 9 (6.43%) MuleSoft
5 9 (6.43%) Salesforce
6 8 (5.71%) Dynatrace
7 7 (5.00%) PagerDuty
8 5 (3.57%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.86%) Black Duck
9 4 (2.86%) Darktrace
9 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.14%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.14%) Centrify
10 3 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.14%) SolarWinds