Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Cloud Native
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Nottingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 2.45% 0.81% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.50% 3.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £509 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £566 £588 -
90th Percentile £616 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 £575 -
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -

All Generic Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 80 29 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 32.65% 23.39% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 19 16
10th Percentile £190 £305 £301
25th Percentile £331 £418 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -14.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £676
90th Percentile £659 £588 £746
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £444 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -6.58% -20.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile - £13.24 £15.33
25th Percentile £12.95 £13.72 £16.19
Median hourly rate £13.08 £14.52 £21.86
Median % change year-on-year -9.92% -33.58% +4.90%
75th Percentile £13.20 £15.31 £26.50
90th Percentile - £15.79 -
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.08 £13.81 £21.86
% change year-on-year -5.32% -36.81% +9.28%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Nottingham over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Nottingham

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
3 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Architect
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (50.00%) ADO
3 2 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (33.33%) REST
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
5 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 1 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Bicep
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Istio
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft