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 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 52 91 94
Rank change year-on-year +39 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 19 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.13% 0.28% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.51% 1.08% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 14
10th Percentile - £487 £554
25th Percentile £400 £496 £564
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -20.75% +10.42%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £700
90th Percentile £733 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £523 £663
% change year-on-year -4.31% -21.13% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £79.00 - -

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 253 371 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.30% 25.93% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 248 396
10th Percentile £209 £300 £317
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £625
90th Percentile £668 £733 £686
North West median daily rate £456 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -7.51% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 33 26
10th Percentile £24.25 £13.10 £16.74
25th Percentile £32.13 £15.92 £17.69
Median hourly rate £61.25 £25.25 £27.60
Median % change year-on-year +142.57% -8.51% +78.06%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.63 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.90 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +18.42% -9.76% +45.35%

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 29 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) Apigee
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub
4 4 (21.05%) Serverless
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.79%) Azure
5 3 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MongoDB
1 6 (31.58%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
3 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (10.53%) DocumentDB
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) GitLab
1 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 5 (26.32%) CircleCI
3 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
2 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Node.js
2 6 (31.58%) React
2 6 (31.58%) RESTful
3 5 (26.32%) .NET
4 4 (21.05%) Kafka
4 4 (21.05%) OAuth
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
5 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
5 3 (15.79%) Playwright
5 3 (15.79%) Puppeteer
6 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
6 2 (10.53%) OpenAPI
6 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (10.53%) Swagger
7 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.26%) CSS
7 1 (5.26%) Express.js
7 1 (5.26%) HTML5
7 1 (5.26%) REST
7 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
1 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Microservices
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
5 5 (26.32%) API Development
5 5 (26.32%) Event-Driven
5 5 (26.32%) Observability
6 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 4 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Incident Management
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (21.05%) Zero Trust
7 3 (15.79%) Front End Development
7 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) TypeScript
2 7 (36.84%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) Bash
5 3 (15.79%) Python
6 1 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (5.26%) Scala
6 1 (5.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) COBIT
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) PagerDuty
3 1 (5.26%) BMC
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity
3 1 (5.26%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow