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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 263 173
Rank change year-on-year +95 -90 +1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 189 134 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.56% 0.77% 1.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.32% 2.30% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 92 243
10th Percentile £400 £451 £500
25th Percentile £418 £513 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £728 £700 £738
90th Percentile £775 £736 £813
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 £40.00 - £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 4,380 5,824 9,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.14% 33.34% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 4,116 6,683
10th Percentile £333 £313 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 150 106
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.49 £18.47
25th Percentile £22.57 £19.40 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.90 £27.42 £34.81
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% -21.23% -19.98%
75th Percentile £47.06 £50.63 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £86.65
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%

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 29 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 29 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 +28 37 £573 -12.39% 59
West London +9 2 £512 -2.48% 139
South London +7 2 £636 -8.82% 4
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 12 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.17%) Apache
2 6 (3.17%) Confluence
3 5 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.12%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.59%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 101 (53.44%) AWS
2 68 (35.98%) Azure
3 58 (30.69%) Serverless
4 33 (17.46%) GCP
5 25 (13.23%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (10.05%) Azure AKS
8 17 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (8.99%) GitHub
8 17 (8.99%) PaaS
9 15 (7.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (7.41%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (7.41%) SaaS
11 12 (6.35%) IaaS
12 10 (5.29%) Datadog
13 9 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.52%) Firewall
2 11 (5.82%) VPN
3 8 (4.23%) DNS
4 3 (1.59%) MPLS
4 3 (1.59%) Network Security
5 2 (1.06%) BGP
5 2 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (1.06%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.06%) DSL
5 2 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.06%) IOS XR
5 2 (1.06%) Junos
5 2 (1.06%) LAN
5 2 (1.06%) Multicast
5 2 (1.06%) NX-OS
5 2 (1.06%) OSPF
5 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.06%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.06%) WAN
6 1 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.87%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.29%) Big Data
3 9 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (2.65%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.12%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.12%) MySQL
9 3 (1.59%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.59%) Power BI
10 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.06%) Flink
10 2 (1.06%) OLTP
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (11.64%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.35%) Git
3 11 (5.82%) GitLab
4 8 (4.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (3.70%) JIRA
6 5 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.12%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.12%) git-flow
7 4 (2.12%) Gradle
8 3 (1.59%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.59%) JMeter
9 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.06%) Postman
9 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.53%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) MLflow
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.53%) Storybook
General
1 58 (30.69%) Finance
2 57 (30.16%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.23%) Banking
4 10 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.17%) Retail
6 3 (1.59%) Front Office
6 3 (1.59%) Marketing
7 2 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (0.53%) Billing
8 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Legal
8 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (30.16%) Architect
2 26 (13.76%) Developer
2 26 (13.76%) Senior
3 18 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 16 (8.47%) Cloud Architect
4 16 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.47%) Lead
5 13 (6.88%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (6.35%) GCP Architect
6 12 (6.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 11 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.29%) Azure Architect
9 9 (4.76%) AWS Architect
9 9 (4.76%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.52%) .NET
1 18 (9.52%) React
2 14 (7.41%) Spring
3 13 (6.88%) GraphQL
3 13 (6.88%) Kafka
4 12 (6.35%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.29%) Node.js
5 10 (5.29%) RESTful
6 9 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.23%) AWS CDK
7 8 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (4.23%) REST
8 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
9 5 (2.65%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.65%) Vue
10 4 (2.12%) Blazor
10 4 (2.12%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.12%) Flask
10 4 (2.12%) JSON
10 4 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (5.29%) Public Cloud
3 8 (4.23%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.65%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.12%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.12%) TWAP
6 4 (2.12%) VWAP
7 3 (1.59%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.59%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.23%) Linux
2 7 (3.70%) Windows
3 5 (2.65%) Unix
4 3 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.06%) SUSE
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (51.85%) DevOps
2 87 (46.03%) CI/CD
3 82 (43.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (31.22%) Agile
5 55 (29.10%) Microservices
6 44 (23.28%) Containerisation
7 33 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (16.93%) Migration
9 31 (16.40%) Observability
10 27 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 27 (14.29%) High Availability
11 23 (12.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (11.11%) API Management
12 21 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (10.58%) Analytics
13 20 (10.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 20 (10.58%) Software Engineering
14 19 (10.05%) Cloud Security
14 19 (10.05%) GitOps
14 19 (10.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (41.27%) Python
2 32 (16.93%) Java
3 30 (15.87%) SQL
4 21 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.52%) Go
6 17 (8.99%) Bicep
6 17 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 17 (8.99%) TypeScript
7 13 (6.88%) C#
8 11 (5.82%) Bash
9 6 (3.17%) C++
9 6 (3.17%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.65%) Scala
11 4 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.12%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.12%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.06%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) COBOL
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.64%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) AWS Certification
4 10 (5.29%) Degree
5 9 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
8 5 (2.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.06%) CISM
10 2 (1.06%) CISSP
10 2 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.53%) CISA
11 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.53%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.53%) OCP
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.70%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) GDPR
2 6 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.59%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) RMADS
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (20.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) Firmware
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (47.09%) Kubernetes
2 84 (44.44%) Terraform
3 34 (17.99%) Ansible
4 17 (8.99%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.35%) Grafana
6 11 (5.82%) Rancher
7 9 (4.76%) Puppet
8 7 (3.70%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.12%) Argo
9 4 (2.12%) Kibana
10 2 (1.06%) Cilium
10 2 (1.06%) Salt
11 1 (0.53%) CASB
11 1 (0.53%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.53%) Podman
11 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.35%) Google
3 9 (4.76%) Splunk
4 7 (3.70%) Databricks
4 7 (3.70%) Oracle
5 5 (2.65%) SAP
6 4 (2.12%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.12%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.59%) Adobe
7 3 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.59%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.06%) Arista
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco
8 2 (1.06%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.06%) Dell
8 2 (1.06%) New Relic
8 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.53%) Solace