Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Cloud Native
East of England > Norfolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Norfolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 6.91% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 19.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £557 £468 £575
% change year-on-year +19.04% -18.70% +10.90%

All Generic Skills
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 77 10 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 35.48% 30.30% 47.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 4 13
10th Percentile £186 £164 £148
25th Percentile £205 £237 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £307
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +63.13% +40.60%
75th Percentile £469 £720 £400
90th Percentile £560 - £460
East of England median daily rate £454 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -11.41% +6.77% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 11
10th Percentile £6.00 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - £12.86
Median hourly rate £15.79 £15.33 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +2.20% -28.61%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £17.63
90th Percentile - - £26.25
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £66.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.29% +21.36% -15.71%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Norfolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Norfolk over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Norfolk

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

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 Norfolk region over the 6 months to 15 April 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
Norwich - 15 £519 - 4
Cloud Native
East of England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk 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 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Boomi
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.67%) Data Vault
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 5 (33.33%) Designer
2 5 (33.33%) Integration Architect
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Application Security Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
1 3 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Avro
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (6.67%) Protocol Buffers
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (6.67%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Event-Driven
2 6 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 6 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
2 6 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) AI
4 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) LLM
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Confluent
1 1 (6.67%) Informatica
1 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Talend