Cloud Native Engineer Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cloud Native Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Cloud Native Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Native Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £447 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 978 504 359
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 90.32% 86.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 342 193
10th Percentile £382 £291 £303
25th Percentile £433 £380 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -11.21% -8.93%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £611 £648
South Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +6.47% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 2 6
10th Percentile - £14.98 £15.88
25th Percentile £25.77 £16.68 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £19.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.13% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £36.61 £22.33 £21.88
90th Percentile - £24.02 £22.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.84 £19.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +32.51% -7.14% +3.70%

Cloud Native Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 28 September 2026, Cloud Native Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Cloud Native Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) LangChain
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST

Cloud Native Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LangChain
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
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