Cloud Native Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Native
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Manchester. 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 63 91 98
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 16 5 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 0.33% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.02% 1.19% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 16
10th Percentile £400 £490 £563
25th Percentile £406 £504 £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -23.64% +5.77%
75th Percentile £655 £541 £700
90th Percentile £748 £546 -
North West median daily rate £500 £524 £700
% change year-on-year -4.53% -25.18% +9.80%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Manchester

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Manchester

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Manchester

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) Apigee
4 3 (18.75%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) DocumentDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) GitLab
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Node.js
2 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 5 (31.25%) Kafka
3 4 (25.00%) React
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
4 3 (18.75%) OAuth
5 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 2 (12.50%) OpenAPI
5 2 (12.50%) Playwright
5 2 (12.50%) Puppeteer
5 2 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (12.50%) Swagger
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.25%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Microservices
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) API Development
5 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Observability
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (18.75%) User Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
7 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) TypeScript
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) COBIT
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) PagerDuty
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow