Cloud Native Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Native
England > North of England

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 172 172
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 0
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 28 13 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.27% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.78% 1.00% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 39
10th Percentile - £370 £475
25th Percentile £400 £426 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.73% -22.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £700
90th Percentile £711 £541 -
England median daily rate £550 £581 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +31 21 £500 -4.53% 86
Yorkshire +10 5 £629 - 28
North East -2 1 £550 +48.65% 7
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) GCP
3 9 (32.14%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) Apigee
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
4 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 4 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Hazelcast
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) DocumentDB
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (32.14%) GitLab
3 4 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 4 (14.29%) JIRA
4 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 2 (7.14%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.57%) Git
5 1 (3.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Kafka
2 6 (21.43%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) Node.js
2 6 (21.43%) RESTful
3 4 (14.29%) React
4 3 (10.71%) OAuth
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
5 2 (7.14%) GraphQL
5 2 (7.14%) gRPC
5 2 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 2 (7.14%) Playwright
5 2 (7.14%) Puppeteer
5 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.14%) Swagger
6 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.57%) HTML
6 1 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Microservices
2 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven
6 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) API Development
7 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (17.86%) Observability
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
8 4 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 7 (25.00%) Java
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Bash
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.71%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) Groovy
7 1 (3.57%) Scala
7 1 (3.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) COBIT
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Ansible
3 5 (17.86%) Progress Chef
4 4 (14.29%) Grafana
5 2 (7.14%) Control-M
5 2 (7.14%) Istio
5 2 (7.14%) Kiali
5 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.14%) Ariba
3 2 (7.14%) PagerDuty
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Splunk
3 2 (7.14%) xMatters
4 1 (3.57%) BMC
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Remedy
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow