Cloud Native Contracts in the South East

Cloud Native
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 162 193
Rank change year-on-year +36 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 29 46 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.92% 0.81% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% 2.83% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 28 15
10th Percentile £352 £439 £500
25th Percentile £402 £474 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £498 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.56% -20.40% -
75th Percentile £500 £528 £700
90th Percentile £603 £673 £708
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,015 1,625 1,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.27% 28.63% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 953 1,319
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £350 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £597 £623 £629
90th Percentile £660 £690 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 175 97
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £16.94
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.64 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.39% +4.76% +153.68%
75th Percentile £61.12 £61.30 £66.21
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
% change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Thames Valley +12 21 £450 -8.72% 258
Berkshire +9 21 £450 -8.72% 184
Hampshire +26 5 £426 -35.06% 92
Surrey - 2 £425 - 63
West Sussex - 1 £340 - 37
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (6.90%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Serverless
4 5 (17.24%) Azure AKS
4 5 (17.24%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.79%) SaaS
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub
6 3 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) 5G
1 4 (13.79%) MPLS
1 4 (13.79%) VoIP
2 3 (10.34%) 4G
2 3 (10.34%) DOCSIS
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) GPON
2 3 (10.34%) LTE
2 3 (10.34%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (10.34%) xDSL
3 2 (6.90%) Converged Networks
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
4 1 (3.45%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security
4 1 (3.45%) VoLTE
4 1 (3.45%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Jenkins
1 5 (17.24%) Selenium
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
6 1 (3.45%) Finance
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Architect
2 3 (10.34%) OSS Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Senior
2 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Consultant
3 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Security Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Data Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) Middleware
2 2 (6.90%) OAuth
2 2 (6.90%) OpenID
2 2 (6.90%) SAML
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
3 1 (3.45%) ADO
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.45%) gRPC
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) TM Forum
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 15 (51.72%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Migration
5 8 (27.59%) Analytics
5 8 (27.59%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
6 6 (20.69%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (20.69%) Mathematics
6 6 (20.69%) Microservices
6 6 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (17.24%) Data Analytics
7 5 (17.24%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Optimization Problems
7 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) Java
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 5 (17.24%) SQL
5 3 (10.34%) Bicep
5 3 (10.34%) Scala
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) Degree
2 7 (24.14%) Master's Degree
3 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
4 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.34%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (6.90%) CISSP
6 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.45%) CCNP
7 1 (3.45%) CCSK
7 1 (3.45%) CEH
7 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.45%) CISM
7 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.45%) GIAC
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.45%) PhD
7 1 (3.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 2 (6.90%) OASIS TOSCA
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
4 1 (3.45%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (3.45%) JSP 440
4 1 (3.45%) NCSC
4 1 (3.45%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Kubernetes
2 8 (27.59%) Ansible
2 8 (27.59%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Amdocs OSS
3 2 (6.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (6.90%) Puppet
4 1 (3.45%) CASB
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Amdocs
2 2 (6.90%) Ericsson
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Huawei
2 2 (6.90%) NetCracker
2 2 (6.90%) Nokia
3 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.45%) Forcepoint
3 1 (3.45%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) VMware