Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Cloud Native
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Shropshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.25% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.07% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 - -
75th Percentile £536 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £661 £625
% change year-on-year -18.96% +5.72% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 58 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 18.65% 19.67% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 10
10th Percentile £226 £168 £391
25th Percentile £400 £203 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £315 £480
Median % change year-on-year +54.37% -34.38% -4.00%
75th Percentile £510 £525 £499
90th Percentile £558 £585 £509
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -9.30% +30.43% +17.95%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Telford - 6 £526 - 4
Cloud Native
West Midlands

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 5 (71.43%) SAS
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 4 (57.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 4 (57.14%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) Pentaho
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Gatling
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) SAS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Environment Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Batch
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Visual Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Workflow
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) Unified Process
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Denodo
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) PagerDuty
3 1 (14.29%) Pega
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk