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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 174 167
Rank change year-on-year +39 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 33 12 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.00% 0.26% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.21% 0.98% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 7 34
10th Percentile £394 £368 £466
25th Percentile £400 £409 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -26.15% +6.12%
75th Percentile £600 £536 £700
90th Percentile £727 £538 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -13.00% -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.61%

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 1,028 1,222 1,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.26% 26.52% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 744 1,125
10th Percentile £213 £265 £288
25th Percentile £365 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.33% +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £610
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £537 £550 £571
% change year-on-year -2.32% -3.64% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 156 81
10th Percentile £20.59 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.80 £15.59 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% -7.51% -10.61%
75th Percentile £55.05 £28.55 £40.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £47.47 £66.69
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.11 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.24% +51.68% -15.15%

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 22 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 22 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 25 £450 -13.88% 111
Yorkshire +14 8 £570 - 78
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) GCP
3 7 (21.21%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) GitHub
4 6 (18.18%) Serverless
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (15.15%) Apigee
5 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon Neptune
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) DocumentDB
3 2 (6.06%) Hazelcast
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) GitLab
3 5 (15.15%) CircleCI
3 5 (15.15%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.09%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Architect
1 11 (33.33%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Developer
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (9.09%) .NET Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Payments Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Payments Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Architect
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Data Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) RESTful
2 8 (24.24%) Kafka
2 8 (24.24%) Node.js
3 7 (21.21%) .NET
4 5 (15.15%) React
5 4 (12.12%) OAuth
6 3 (9.09%) AWS CDK
6 3 (9.09%) GraphQL
6 3 (9.09%) Playwright
6 3 (9.09%) Puppeteer
7 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
7 2 (6.06%) gRPC
7 2 (6.06%) OpenAPI
7 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (6.06%) Swagger
8 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 1 (3.03%) CSS
8 1 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (3.03%) REST
8 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 3 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) Microservices
3 12 (36.36%) Agile
3 12 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 11 (33.33%) DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 6 (18.18%) API Development
8 5 (15.15%) DevSecOps
8 5 (15.15%) Event-Driven
8 5 (15.15%) Migration
8 5 (15.15%) Observability
8 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.15%) TDD
8 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
9 4 (12.12%) Incident Management
9 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (12.12%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Java
2 10 (30.30%) TypeScript
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 8 (24.24%) Bash
5 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
6 3 (9.09%) C#
6 3 (9.09%) Groovy
6 3 (9.09%) Python
7 1 (3.03%) Scala
7 1 (3.03%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) COBIT
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Terraform
3 6 (18.18%) Grafana
4 3 (9.09%) Control-M
4 3 (9.09%) Istio
4 3 (9.09%) Kiali
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) PagerDuty
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
2 3 (9.09%) xMatters
3 1 (3.03%) BMC
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Remedy
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow