Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cloud Native
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 47 58
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.38% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 2.00% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile £675 £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £650 £500 £350
% change year-on-year +30.00% +42.86% -46.15%

All Generic Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 71 100 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.20% 33.44% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 74 117
10th Percentile £270 £250 £363
25th Percentile £372 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £625
90th Percentile £673 £614 £800
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £490 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +7.40% -8.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £13.00 £16.19 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.70% - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £34.35 £22.25
% change year-on-year -55.60% +54.36% +30.88%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JDA