Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in the North East

Cloud Native
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the North East. 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 40 31
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +31
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.62% 0.32% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.38% 0.95% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £545 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +37.50% -38.46%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £705 - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 94 105 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 25.34% 33.87% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 39 49
10th Percentile £163 £312 £140
25th Percentile £170 £394 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £460 £454
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +1.32% -16.70%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £525
90th Percentile £600 £660 £635
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £12.44 £26.45 £14.95
25th Percentile £12.79 £39.14 £23.75
Median hourly rate £13.49 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.79% +42.09% -50.76%
75th Percentile £43.94 - £46.18
90th Percentile £62.13 - £51.71
England median hourly rate £27.21 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.98% -10.11% +27.14%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the North East

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North East over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the North East

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 6 £600 - 3
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Mocha
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 2 (33.33%) Jest
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) API Development
2 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CISA
3 1 (16.67%) CISM
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Blue Prism
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) UiPath