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

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 132 126
Rank change year-on-year +40 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 27 6 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.39% 0.22% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.86% 0.86% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 28
10th Percentile £374 £458 £550
25th Percentile £400 £480 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -21.13% +6.00%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £700
90th Percentile £656 - -
England median daily rate £525 £588 £650
% change year-on-year -10.64% -9.62% -
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 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 555 695 1,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.59% 25.95% 33.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 460 679
10th Percentile £203 £287 £300
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 78 40
10th Percentile £22.72 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.38 £15.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.90 £25.25 £31.49
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -19.82% +57.45%
75th Percentile £57.60 £37.44 £66.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.31 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.79% +43.68% -16.69%

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 13 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 13 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 +29 20 £500 -4.76% 87
Cheshire +2 7 £447 -14.45% 13
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
2 6 (22.22%) Serverless
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (18.52%) Apigee
3 5 (18.52%) Azure
4 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub
5 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 2 (7.41%) DocumentDB
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.70%) MySQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (33.33%) GitLab
1 9 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) CircleCI
2 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 3 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.70%) Git
4 1 (3.70%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Senior
2 8 (29.63%) Software Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Developer
5 4 (14.81%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Lead
5 4 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Payments Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Payments Solutions Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) C# Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) RESTful
2 7 (25.93%) .NET
2 7 (25.93%) Kafka
2 7 (25.93%) Node.js
3 5 (18.52%) React
4 4 (14.81%) OAuth
5 3 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 3 (11.11%) Playwright
5 3 (11.11%) Puppeteer
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
6 2 (7.41%) OpenAPI
6 2 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (7.41%) Swagger
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.70%) CSS
7 1 (3.70%) HTML
7 1 (3.70%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 12 (44.44%) Microservices
2 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
6 6 (22.22%) API Development
6 6 (22.22%) Event-Driven
6 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 6 (22.22%) Observability
7 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (18.52%) TDD
8 4 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
8 4 (14.81%) Migration
8 4 (14.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 8 (29.63%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 6 (22.22%) Python
5 5 (18.52%) Bash
6 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
7 3 (11.11%) C#
8 1 (3.70%) Scala
8 1 (3.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) COBIT
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) Progress Chef
4 4 (14.81%) Ansible
5 3 (11.11%) Grafana
5 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.70%) BMC
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Remedy
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow