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

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 113 147
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 17 14 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.85% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.64% 1.69% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 12
10th Percentile £363 £601 £614
25th Percentile £402 £622 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - +27.45%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £678
90th Percentile £649 - £699
England median daily rate £500 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -

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 645 828 1,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.28% 30.45% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 536 710
10th Percentile £200 £213 £263
25th Percentile £375 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £744 £700
England median daily rate £535 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 60 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £10.42 £17.01
25th Percentile £15.09 £13.68 £18.81
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -30.28% +60.29%
75th Percentile £33.91 £28.88 £52.81
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.00 £22.34
% change year-on-year -3.11% +56.70% -15.72%

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 24 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 24 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 - 9 £500 - 312
West Midlands +6 8 £556 -14.46% 420
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 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (11.76%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Serverless
3 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (11.76%) Collibra
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) NX-OS
3 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (23.53%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (11.76%) GIS
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Metadata
5 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (29.41%) Banking
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Payments Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Apigee Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) IoT
2 2 (11.76%) SCADA
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 6 (35.29%) Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Data Governance
3 6 (35.29%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (29.41%) Architectural Design
4 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
4 5 (29.41%) Domain-Driven Design
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Requirements Management
4 5 (29.41%) TOGAF
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
5 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Bicep
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) Scala
5 1 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.76%) HP ALM
4 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 3 (17.65%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) HP
4 2 (11.76%) Informatica
4 2 (11.76%) Micro Focus
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 2 (11.76%) Progress
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) VMware