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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 248 204
Rank change year-on-year +68 -44 -24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 181 144 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.44% 0.81% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.01% 2.44% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 101 235
10th Percentile £406 £429 £500
25th Percentile £455 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £738
90th Percentile £780 £750 £800
England median daily rate £550 £581 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.25 - -
Median hourly rate £55.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 - £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 4,516 5,909 9,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.99% 33.14% 35.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,054 4,182 6,966
10th Percentile £325 £301 £375
25th Percentile £451 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £750
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 160 109
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.50 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.60 £18.93 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%
75th Percentile £50.31 £47.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £66.78 £83.15
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +17 36 £563 -13.46% 36
West London +10 2 £475 -9.52% 12
East London +15 1 £575 - 3
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 9 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.31%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (2.76%) Confluence
3 5 (2.76%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.21%) Apache
4 4 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.21%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (2.21%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (40.88%) AWS
2 73 (40.33%) Azure
3 50 (27.62%) Serverless
4 32 (17.68%) GCP
5 25 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.60%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (11.05%) Azure AKS
8 17 (9.39%) GitHub
8 17 (9.39%) PaaS
9 14 (7.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (7.18%) SaaS
11 12 (6.63%) IaaS
12 11 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.52%) Amazon S3
13 10 (5.52%) Azure Functions
14 9 (4.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (4.97%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (4.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.39%) Firewall
2 12 (6.63%) 4G
2 12 (6.63%) 5G
2 12 (6.63%) Radio Access Network
3 10 (5.52%) 5G NR
3 10 (5.52%) LTE
4 8 (4.42%) VPN
5 7 (3.87%) DNS
6 4 (2.21%) HTTP
7 3 (1.66%) Network Security
8 2 (1.10%) DSL
8 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.55%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.15%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.87%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (2.76%) Big Data
4 5 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.76%) Power BI
4 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.21%) Looker
6 3 (1.66%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.66%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.66%) Metadata
6 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.10%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.10%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.10%) OLTP
8 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (11.05%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.63%) GitLab
3 9 (4.97%) Git
4 7 (3.87%) JIRA
5 5 (2.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.66%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.66%) git-flow
7 3 (1.66%) Gradle
7 3 (1.66%) JMeter
8 2 (1.10%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.10%) Postman
8 2 (1.10%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.55%) Gatling
9 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.55%) MSI
9 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 46 (25.41%) Finance
3 18 (9.94%) Banking
4 12 (6.63%) Telecoms
5 10 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.97%) Retail
7 6 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.21%) Marketing
9 3 (1.66%) Front Office
9 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Publishing
11 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.55%) Legal
11 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 52 (28.73%) Architect
2 22 (12.15%) Senior
3 20 (11.05%) Developer
3 20 (11.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.94%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (8.84%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (6.63%) Azure Architect
6 12 (6.63%) Data Engineer
6 12 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (6.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 9 (4.97%) Lead
8 9 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) GCP Architect
9 7 (3.87%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.87%) Python Engineer
9 7 (3.87%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.87%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.60%) .NET
2 14 (7.73%) React
3 13 (7.18%) Kafka
4 11 (6.08%) Spring
4 11 (6.08%) Spring Boot
5 9 (4.97%) GraphQL
6 8 (4.42%) .NET Core
6 8 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (3.87%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.87%) AWS CDK
8 6 (3.31%) Blazor
9 5 (2.76%) JSON
9 5 (2.76%) Node.js
9 5 (2.76%) REST
9 5 (2.76%) Vue
10 4 (2.21%) Django
10 4 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (2.21%) Flask
10 4 (2.21%) gRPC
10 4 (2.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.52%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 7 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.21%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.21%) TWAP
6 4 (2.21%) VWAP
7 3 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.66%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.66%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.26%) Linux
2 10 (5.52%) Windows
3 6 (3.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.10%) Android
5 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.10%) SUSE
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (55.25%) DevOps
2 98 (54.14%) CI/CD
3 74 (40.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (32.60%) Agile
5 47 (25.97%) Microservices
6 41 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (19.89%) Containerisation
8 32 (17.68%) High Availability
9 26 (14.36%) Migration
10 25 (13.81%) Analytics
10 25 (13.81%) Observability
11 23 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.60%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (11.60%) Software Engineering
13 20 (11.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (10.50%) API Management
14 19 (10.50%) SDLC
15 17 (9.39%) GitOps
16 16 (8.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 83 (45.86%) Python
2 28 (15.47%) Java
3 24 (13.26%) SQL
4 19 (10.50%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.39%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.84%) Bicep
6 16 (8.84%) Go
7 13 (7.18%) C#
8 12 (6.63%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.52%) Bash
10 9 (4.97%) Scala
11 8 (4.42%) C++
11 8 (4.42%) Shell Script
12 6 (3.31%) PL/SQL
12 6 (3.31%) T-SQL
13 5 (2.76%) Groovy
14 4 (2.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (1.66%) Kotlin
16 2 (1.10%) Swift
17 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (8.29%) Degree
1 15 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.18%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.08%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 3 (1.66%) CISA
8 3 (1.66%) CISM
8 3 (1.66%) CISSP
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.55%) OCP
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) PCI DSS
2 4 (2.21%) GDPR
2 4 (2.21%) QA
3 3 (1.66%) HIPAA
3 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.10%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (19.89%) Docker
2 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (46.96%) Kubernetes
2 76 (41.99%) Terraform
3 45 (24.86%) Ansible
4 12 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.97%) Grafana
5 9 (4.97%) Puppet
6 8 (4.42%) Rancher
7 7 (3.87%) NSN NetAct
8 6 (3.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.66%) Argo
9 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.10%) Nagios
10 2 (1.10%) Salt
10 2 (1.10%) SCCM
11 1 (0.55%) CASB
11 1 (0.55%) Cilium
11 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.55%) Istio
11 1 (0.55%) Podman
11 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) Google
3 10 (5.52%) Splunk
4 8 (4.42%) Ericsson
4 8 (4.42%) Oracle
5 7 (3.87%) Nokia
6 6 (3.31%) MuleSoft
6 6 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.76%) Databricks
7 5 (2.76%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.76%) SAP
8 4 (2.21%) AppDynamics
8 4 (2.21%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.66%) Adobe
9 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.66%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.10%) Dell
10 2 (1.10%) New Relic
10 2 (1.10%) Qualys
10 2 (1.10%) VMware