Cloud Native Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Native
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 102 120 152
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 +38
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 9 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 1.52% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 13
10th Percentile £362 £600 £615
25th Percentile £367 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -29.38% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £675
90th Percentile £669 - £698
England median daily rate £550 £581 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands - 6 £431 - 12
West Midlands +4 3 £512 -21.23% 21
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (11.11%) Apigee
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (11.11%) Datadog
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Metadata
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Apigee Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Security
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 2 (22.22%) Scala
5 1 (11.11%) Bicep
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Broadcom
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) VMware