Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cloud Native
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.67% - 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.76% - 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £562 - -
25th Percentile £586 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £723 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £600 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -38.46%

All Generic Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 74 72 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 24.67% 36.55% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 24 32
10th Percentile £146 £311 £132
25th Percentile £167 £336 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.47% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £536 £650 £556
90th Percentile £600 £720 £715
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £369 £450 £454
% change year-on-year -17.94% -0.88% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £18.48
25th Percentile £13.37 £18.00 £26.69
Median hourly rate £13.49 £19.00 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -41.09% -
75th Percentile £13.61 £20.00 £40.31
90th Percentile - - £52.13
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £13.49 £19.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -29.00% -40.63% -

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Newcastle upon Tyne

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Mocha
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Backend Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Node.js
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) API Development
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) SABSA
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CISA
3 1 (20.00%) CISM
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Blue Prism
1 1 (20.00%) UiPath