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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 133 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +52 +45
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 57 44 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.43% 1.06% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.60% 3.41% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 23
10th Percentile £381 £325 £475
25th Percentile £413 £458 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £545 £618 £688
90th Percentile £660 £674 £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 1,240 1,291 1,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.12% 31.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 729 1,089
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £363 £388 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +0.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £690 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 75 103
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.04 £18.59
25th Percentile £15.53 £26.25 £24.17
Median hourly rate £22.75 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% - +40.00%
75th Percentile £54.00 £71.57 £64.15
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.16 £77.31
England median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.45% +3.78% +50.85%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend 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 15 November 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 15 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
Thames Valley +8 44 £480 -4.00% 31
Berkshire +20 42 £480 -2.64% 18
Hampshire -2 7 £426 -31.84% 4
Surrey - 3 - - 6
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £563 -4.26% 6
West Sussex -11 1 £340 +4.62% 1
Kent - 1 £375 - 2
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.51%) Camunda
2 2 (3.51%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.75%) CMS
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
3 1 (1.75%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 26 (45.61%) Azure
3 11 (19.30%) Serverless
4 8 (14.04%) Amazon S3
4 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (14.04%) GCP
4 8 (14.04%) OpenShift
5 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.28%) Entra ID
6 5 (8.77%) GitHub
6 5 (8.77%) SaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (5.26%) Datadog
8 3 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) MPLS
2 9 (15.79%) WAN
3 6 (10.53%) BGP
3 6 (10.53%) LAN
4 4 (7.02%) VoIP
4 4 (7.02%) VPN
5 3 (5.26%) 4G
5 3 (5.26%) 5G
5 3 (5.26%) Broadband
5 3 (5.26%) DOCSIS
5 3 (5.26%) Firewall
5 3 (5.26%) GPON
5 3 (5.26%) LTE
5 3 (5.26%) NaaS
5 3 (5.26%) Network Security
5 3 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.26%) xDSL
6 2 (3.51%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Big Data
4 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) Redis
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.02%) Git
3 3 (5.26%) GitLab
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.75%) MLflow
5 1 (1.75%) Mocha
General
1 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.77%) Billing
6 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.75%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Architect
2 9 (15.79%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Security Architect
4 6 (10.53%) IP Architect
4 6 (10.53%) IP Specialist
4 6 (10.53%) Site Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) OSS Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Telecoms Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) REST
2 8 (14.04%) Loki
3 6 (10.53%) NETCONF
3 6 (10.53%) YANG
4 5 (8.77%) ADO
5 4 (7.02%) Kafka
5 4 (7.02%) RESTful
6 3 (5.26%) Node.js
6 3 (5.26%) Web Services
7 2 (3.51%) .NET
7 2 (3.51%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.51%) Middleware
7 2 (3.51%) OAuth
7 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.75%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (1.75%) Blazor
8 1 (1.75%) gRPC
8 1 (1.75%) Jest
8 1 (1.75%) NestJS
8 1 (1.75%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (14.04%) Virtual Team
3 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.02%) Security Posture
4 4 (7.02%) TM Forum
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) CI/CD
2 28 (49.12%) DevOps
3 22 (38.60%) Agile
4 20 (35.09%) Microservices
5 17 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (24.56%) TOGAF
7 13 (22.81%) Observability
7 13 (22.81%) Roadmaps
8 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (19.30%) Architectural Patterns
9 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
10 10 (17.54%) Strategic Thinking
11 9 (15.79%) Analytics
11 9 (15.79%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 9 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (14.04%) AI
12 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
12 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Management
12 8 (14.04%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 9 (15.79%) Bash
3 7 (12.28%) SQL
4 6 (10.53%) Java
5 3 (5.26%) Scala
6 2 (3.51%) C#
6 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) Bicep
7 1 (1.75%) Go
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Certification
3 10 (17.54%) Degree
4 7 (12.28%) CCIE
5 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (10.53%) JNCIE
6 5 (8.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (8.77%) CISSP
7 4 (7.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
7 4 (7.02%) CCSP
8 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
8 3 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.75%) CISM
10 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) GDPR
2 6 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.53%) NIST
3 5 (8.77%) PCI DSS
3 5 (8.77%) PSD2
4 4 (7.02%) QA
5 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
5 3 (5.26%) SLA
6 2 (3.51%) OASIS TOSCA
7 1 (1.75%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.75%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (1.75%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (21.05%) Docker
2 8 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.04%) vSphere
3 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (40.35%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.05%) Ansible
3 10 (17.54%) Grafana
3 10 (17.54%) Prometheus
4 8 (14.04%) Argo
4 8 (14.04%) Kustomize
5 7 (12.28%) Terraform
6 2 (3.51%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (3.51%) Puppet
7 1 (1.75%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (15.79%) VMware
2 8 (14.04%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.77%) MuleSoft
3 5 (8.77%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco
4 3 (5.26%) Fortinet
4 3 (5.26%) Juniper
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.51%) Amdocs
5 2 (3.51%) Ericsson
5 2 (3.51%) Huawei
5 2 (3.51%) NetCracker
5 2 (3.51%) Nokia
5 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) JDA
6 1 (1.75%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.75%) Pega
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Virgin Media