Cloud Native Contract Job Trends 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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 147 175
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 +41
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 38 33 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.10% 0.72% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.50% 2.46% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 25
10th Percentile £363 £325 £500
25th Percentile £401 £455 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £493 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -21.12% -
75th Percentile £538 £533 £700
90th Percentile £670 £672 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%

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 1,085 1,342 1,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.51% 29.38% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 767 1,225
10th Percentile £204 £239 £205
25th Percentile £350 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £614 £619
90th Percentile £664 £696 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 112 104
10th Percentile £15.13 £13.45 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £34.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £54.69
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +4.87% +127.85%
75th Percentile £58.19 £70.00 £66.77
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.21
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +18 28 £488 +1.14% 51
Berkshire +23 27 £475 -1.45% 38
Hampshire +9 5 £402 -38.72% 8
Surrey - 2 £425 - 7
Buckinghamshire +5 1 £650 +30.00% 5
West Sussex -3 1 £340 +4.62%
Kent - 1 £375 - 3
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 6 (15.79%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.26%) Camunda
3 1 (2.63%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.63%) nginx
3 1 (2.63%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) AWS
1 23 (60.53%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Serverless
3 8 (21.05%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) GitHub
5 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (10.53%) SaaS
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) MPLS
2 6 (15.79%) BGP
2 6 (15.79%) LAN
2 6 (15.79%) WAN
3 4 (10.53%) 5G
3 4 (10.53%) VoIP
4 3 (7.89%) 4G
4 3 (7.89%) DOCSIS
4 3 (7.89%) Firewall
4 3 (7.89%) GPON
4 3 (7.89%) LTE
4 3 (7.89%) Network Security
4 3 (7.89%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (7.89%) xDSL
5 2 (5.26%) Converged Networks
6 1 (2.63%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (2.63%) VoLTE
6 1 (2.63%) VoWiFi
6 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.63%) MySQL
4 1 (2.63%) Redis
4 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.89%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) MLflow
3 1 (2.63%) Mocha
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Telecoms
4 6 (15.79%) Finance
5 4 (10.53%) Billing
6 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Banking
7 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Security Architect
3 6 (15.79%) IP Architect
3 6 (15.79%) IP Specialist
4 5 (13.16%) Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Lead
5 3 (7.89%) OSS Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) REST
2 6 (15.79%) NETCONF
2 6 (15.79%) YANG
3 4 (10.53%) ADO
3 4 (10.53%) Kafka
3 4 (10.53%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) .NET
4 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) Node.js
4 2 (5.26%) OAuth
4 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.26%) Web Services
4 2 (5.26%) YAML
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (2.63%) Blazor
5 1 (2.63%) gRPC
5 1 (2.63%) Jest
5 1 (2.63%) PySpark
5 1 (2.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.53%) Security Posture
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) TM Forum
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) DevOps
2 19 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (47.37%) Microservices
4 14 (36.84%) TOGAF
5 12 (31.58%) Agile
6 11 (28.95%) Roadmaps
7 10 (26.32%) Strategic Thinking
8 9 (23.68%) Architectural Patterns
8 9 (23.68%) Enterprise Architecture
8 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (23.68%) Network Design
8 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
9 8 (21.05%) Network Architecture
10 7 (18.42%) Analytics
10 7 (18.42%) Mentoring
10 7 (18.42%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (18.42%) Security Architecture
10 7 (18.42%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (15.79%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
4 3 (7.89%) Scala
5 2 (5.26%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) Bicep
6 1 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (23.68%) AWS Certification
3 8 (21.05%) Degree
4 6 (15.79%) CCIE
4 6 (15.79%) JNCIE
5 5 (13.16%) Azure Certification
5 5 (13.16%) CISSP
5 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
6 4 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (10.53%) CCSP
6 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Master's Degree
7 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
7 3 (7.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.63%) CCNP
8 1 (2.63%) CISM
8 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (15.79%) NIST
2 5 (13.16%) GDPR
2 5 (13.16%) PCI DSS
2 5 (13.16%) PSD2
3 4 (10.53%) QA
4 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
5 2 (5.26%) OASIS TOSCA
6 1 (2.63%) EU AI Act
6 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (2.63%) JSP 440
6 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.95%) Ansible
3 7 (18.42%) Terraform
4 2 (5.26%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (2.63%) Grafana
5 1 (2.63%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.89%) MuleSoft
1 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.26%) Amdocs
2 2 (5.26%) Ericsson
2 2 (5.26%) Huawei
2 2 (5.26%) NetCracker
2 2 (5.26%) Nokia
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) JDA
3 1 (2.63%) Pega
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.63%) Splunk
3 1 (2.63%) VMware