Cloud Native Contracts in the North West

Cloud Native
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 99 130 119
Rank change year-on-year +31 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 21 7 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.07% 0.25% 1.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.75% 0.94% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 32
10th Percentile - £461 £563
25th Percentile £400 £488 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -25.18% +9.80%
75th Percentile £644 £538 -
90th Percentile £683 £544 -
England median daily rate £550 £581 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +28 16 £500 -4.76% 80
Cheshire +4 5 £447 -14.45% 5
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) Apigee
3 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) Serverless
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
1 4 (19.05%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) GitLab
1 9 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) CircleCI
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (9.52%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Kafka
2 6 (28.57%) .NET
2 6 (28.57%) Node.js
2 6 (28.57%) RESTful
3 4 (19.05%) React
4 3 (14.29%) OAuth
5 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
5 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
5 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
5 2 (9.52%) Playwright
5 2 (9.52%) Puppeteer
5 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (9.52%) Swagger
6 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.76%) CSS
6 1 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (4.76%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Microservices
2 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 5 (23.81%) API Development
6 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (23.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (23.81%) Observability
6 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 3 (14.29%) TDD
8 3 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) TypeScript
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Bash
4 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (4.76%) Scala
6 1 (4.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) COBIT
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Ansible
2 5 (23.81%) Progress Chef
3 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) Grafana
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.76%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow