Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Cloud Native
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 54 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 7.52% 0.32% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 15.34% 0.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 36 1 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £746 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £500 -
% change year-on-year -3.70% - -

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 352 139 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 49.03% 44.55% 34.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 90 87
10th Percentile £325 £219 £388
25th Percentile £406 £314 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £511 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% +4.87% -15.22%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £666
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £504 £475
% change year-on-year -4.27% +6.00% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +53.90%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Sheffield

Cloud Native
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 41 (75.93%) AWS
1 41 (75.93%) GCP
2 23 (42.59%) Serverless
3 9 (16.67%) AWS KMS
4 8 (14.81%) Azure
5 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.70%) SaaS
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (42.59%) NoSQL
2 8 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.85%) DataStage
3 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (57.41%) Liquibase
2 27 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 26 (48.15%) GitLab
4 10 (18.52%) JIRA
5 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 30 (55.56%) Finance
2 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
3 26 (48.15%) Banking
4 21 (38.89%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) Senior
2 13 (24.07%) Senior Software Engineer
3 12 (22.22%) Architect
4 10 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) AWS Software Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Security Architect
5 8 (14.81%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (12.96%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) GCP Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Lead
6 7 (12.96%) Lead Architect
6 7 (12.96%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 6 (11.11%) Python Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Security Solutions Architect
8 5 (9.26%) GCP Software Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Lead Security Architect
9 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) REST
2 23 (42.59%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (42.59%) RESTful
3 3 (5.56%) Middleware
4 2 (3.70%) JSON
4 2 (3.70%) OAuth
4 2 (3.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.70%) OpenID
4 2 (3.70%) SAML
5 1 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (48.15%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (46.30%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) DevOps
2 35 (64.81%) Software Engineering
3 33 (61.11%) CI/CD
4 32 (59.26%) Containerisation
5 30 (55.56%) Computer Science
5 30 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
6 29 (53.70%) Cryptography
6 29 (53.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (51.85%) Change Management
8 24 (44.44%) Agile
8 24 (44.44%) Microservices
8 24 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (42.59%) High Availability
10 21 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (38.89%) Non-Functional Testing
11 20 (37.04%) Continuous Delivery
12 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure Automation
13 18 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (33.33%) Data Security
14 13 (24.07%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) Go
1 31 (57.41%) Python
2 9 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (9.26%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (61.11%) Degree
2 30 (55.56%) Master's Degree
3 23 (42.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (20.37%) AWS Certification
5 8 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (14.81%) CISM
5 8 (14.81%) CISSP
5 8 (14.81%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (12.96%) PhD
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) PMI Certification
7 3 (5.56%) PMP
8 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (62.96%) Terraform
2 31 (57.41%) Kubernetes
3 23 (42.59%) Ansible
3 23 (42.59%) Grafana
3 23 (42.59%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) CSIRT
4 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) Splunk
2 11 (20.37%) Google
3 9 (16.67%) Centrify
3 9 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 7 (12.96%) BiZZdesign
5 5 (9.26%) F5
6 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
7 2 (3.70%) Alibaba
8 1 (1.85%) Databricks
8 1 (1.85%) Informatica
8 1 (1.85%) Talend