Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Cloud Native
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Northampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 4.35% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £399 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £483 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Generic Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 18 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 41.74% 16.07% 19.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 14 16
10th Percentile £325 - £285
25th Percentile £358 £356 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £445
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% -0.11% +1.14%
75th Percentile £455 £569 £459
90th Percentile £499 £575 £499
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £445 £445
% change year-on-year -5.62% - +1.14%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Northampton

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Northampton over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Northampton

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 5 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (10.00%) Google Gemini
6 1 (10.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Aerospike
2 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (30.00%) Metadata
3 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Redis
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Database Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) Node.js
3 4 (40.00%) pytest
4 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (20.00%) Jest
5 2 (20.00%) PySpark
6 1 (10.00%) CrewAI
6 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
6 1 (10.00%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Smart City
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (60.00%) ETL
5 5 (50.00%) Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Backtesting
5 5 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
5 5 (50.00%) Secure Coding
5 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
6 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (40.00%) Data Protection
6 4 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (40.00%) ETL Development
6 4 (40.00%) Integration Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
7 3 (30.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
2 4 (40.00%) Informatica
3 3 (30.00%) Talend
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Teradata