Cloud Native Contract Job Trends 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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 93 125
Rank change year-on-year +8 +32 +13
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 129 60 16
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.58% 2.18% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.11% 5.74% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 39 12
10th Percentile £405 £448 £568
25th Percentile £458 £500 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £655
Median % change year-on-year - -19.85% +19.09%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £675
90th Percentile £671 £750 £731
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +46.34% -39.71% +8.97%

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 1,416 1,045 766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.32% 37.89% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 662 455
10th Percentile £306 £263 £203
25th Percentile £413 £387 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £624
90th Percentile £700 £663 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 69 20
10th Percentile £12.93 £18.80 £15.46
25th Percentile £14.34 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.08 £27.53
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -8.91% +0.10%
75th Percentile £34.90 £40.46 £51.25
90th Percentile £68.79 £50.00 £55.45
England median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year +15.22% -44.34% +14.77%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Native

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 14 October 2026. 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
West Midlands +14 115 £551 +3.87% 55
East Midlands -17 12 £414 -17.71% 37
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (17.05%) SAS
2 15 (11.63%) Confluence
3 4 (3.10%) Apache
3 4 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (61.24%) AWS
2 44 (34.11%) Azure
3 30 (23.26%) Serverless
4 24 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (18.60%) GitHub
5 23 (17.83%) Amazon S3
6 20 (15.50%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (13.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 18 (13.95%) Power Platform
8 13 (10.08%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (8.53%) Snowflake
11 8 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (4.65%) GCP
12 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (4.65%) SaaS
13 5 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.20%) Firewall
2 3 (2.33%) BGP
2 3 (2.33%) BIG-IP
2 3 (2.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (2.33%) OSPF
2 3 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (2.33%) VXLAN
2 3 (2.33%) WAN
2 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.33%) WLAN
3 1 (0.78%) AMQP
3 1 (0.78%) DNS
3 1 (0.78%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (0.78%) Modbus
3 1 (0.78%) MQTT
3 1 (0.78%) OpenVPN
3 1 (0.78%) VPN
3 1 (0.78%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) Data Lake
2 18 (13.95%) Pentaho
3 16 (12.40%) Power BI
4 14 (10.85%) NoSQL
5 13 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (7.75%) DynamoDB
8 9 (6.98%) Metadata
8 9 (6.98%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.43%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (3.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 4 (3.10%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 3 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 2 (1.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.38%) Git
3 21 (16.28%) GitLab
4 15 (11.63%) JIRA
5 12 (9.30%) JUnit
5 12 (9.30%) Maven
5 12 (9.30%) Mockito
6 10 (7.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.55%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.55%) Gatling
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.78%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.78%) Hudson
8 1 (0.78%) NUnit
8 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 42 (32.56%) Public Sector
2 39 (30.23%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.08%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (8.53%) Finance
6 8 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.10%) Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Publishing
8 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.78%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.78%) Aviation
9 1 (0.78%) Front Office
9 1 (0.78%) Local Government
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (26.36%) Architect
2 23 (17.83%) Developer
3 22 (17.05%) Senior
4 17 (13.18%) Java Developer
5 16 (12.40%) Data Engineer
5 16 (12.40%) Lead
6 15 (11.63%) Data Architect
7 11 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.53%) Scrum Master
7 11 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Java Scrum Master
12 5 (3.88%) AWS Data Engineer
12 5 (3.88%) Lead Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Lead Java Developer
13 4 (3.10%) SAS Architect
13 4 (3.10%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (27.13%) Spring
2 33 (25.58%) Spring Boot
3 31 (24.03%) RESTful
4 26 (20.16%) Terraform
5 19 (14.73%) REST
6 11 (8.53%) JPA
6 11 (8.53%) SOAP
7 10 (7.75%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (7.75%) AngularJS
7 10 (7.75%) Hibernate
7 10 (7.75%) Kafka
7 10 (7.75%) Spring Cloud
7 10 (7.75%) Web Services
8 7 (5.43%) OAuth
8 7 (5.43%) OpenID
9 6 (4.65%) React
10 4 (3.10%) LangChain
10 4 (3.10%) Node.js
10 4 (3.10%) OAuth2
10 4 (3.10%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.18%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (12.40%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.98%) Autonomous Agent
4 8 (6.20%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (3.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.88%) SCADA
7 4 (3.10%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.10%) IoT
7 4 (3.10%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.55%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.55%) W3C
10 1 (0.78%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.43%) Linux
2 3 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.55%) Unix
3 2 (1.55%) Windows
4 1 (0.78%) CentOS
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (80.62%) CI/CD
2 85 (65.89%) DevOps
3 70 (54.26%) Agile
4 56 (43.41%) Microservices
5 45 (34.88%) Containerisation
6 43 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 36 (27.91%) Observability
7 36 (27.91%) Scrum
8 35 (27.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (26.36%) Technical Leadership
10 33 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (24.03%) ETL
12 30 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (22.48%) AI
14 28 (21.71%) Analytics
15 27 (20.93%) Migration
16 26 (20.16%) Data Modelling
16 26 (20.16%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (18.60%) Event-Driven
18 23 (17.83%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 52 (40.31%) Java
2 25 (19.38%) Python
2 25 (19.38%) SQL
3 15 (11.63%) TypeScript
4 6 (4.65%) Bicep
4 6 (4.65%) Scala
5 3 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.55%) C#
6 2 (1.55%) Go
6 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 55 (42.64%) Security Cleared
2 45 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.95%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.43%) Degree
6 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.10%) SAS Certification
8 3 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.78%) CEH
10 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.78%) CISSP
10 1 (0.78%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.30%) QA
3 9 (6.98%) GDPR
4 3 (2.33%) GRC
5 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (37.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 22 (17.05%) Grafana
3 18 (13.95%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.75%) Ansible
5 3 (2.33%) Argo
6 2 (1.55%) Kibana
6 2 (1.55%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.95%) Denodo
3 14 (10.85%) Databricks
4 11 (8.53%) Talend
5 7 (5.43%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.43%) OpenAI
6 5 (3.88%) Informatica
6 5 (3.88%) Oracle
7 3 (2.33%) Arista
7 3 (2.33%) Aruba
7 3 (2.33%) F5
7 3 (2.33%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.33%) SAP
7 3 (2.33%) Thales
8 2 (1.55%) New Relic
9 1 (0.78%) Charles River
9 1 (0.78%) Google
9 1 (0.78%) Murex
9 1 (0.78%) Ping Identity