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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 139 182
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 +40
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 48 41 32
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.33% 0.96% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.24% 3.18% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 24
10th Percentile £363 £325 £500
25th Percentile £402 £458 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £688
90th Percentile £681 £659 £700
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -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 1,132 1,289 1,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.33% 30.18% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 738 1,187
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £358 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 74 109
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.44 £24.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £56.25 £54.37
Median % change year-on-year -52.89% +3.46% +129.46%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £69.85 £75.16 £77.60
England median hourly rate £29.27 £54.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -45.80% +17.31% +78.69%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +9 36 £493 -0.10% 48
Berkshire +19 34 £493 +1.03% 42
Hampshire +3 6 £402 -35.68% 7
Surrey - 3 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £563 +12.50% 2
West Sussex -7 1 £340 +4.62% 4
Kent - 1 £375 -
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 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.17%) Camunda
3 1 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (2.08%) Jupyter
3 1 (2.08%) nginx
3 1 (2.08%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) AWS
2 26 (54.17%) Azure
3 11 (22.92%) Serverless
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) Entra ID
5 7 (14.58%) GCP
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub
6 5 (10.42%) SaaS
7 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (6.25%) Datadog
8 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.17%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) MPLS
2 6 (12.50%) BGP
2 6 (12.50%) LAN
2 6 (12.50%) WAN
3 4 (8.33%) VoIP
4 3 (6.25%) 4G
4 3 (6.25%) 5G
4 3 (6.25%) DOCSIS
4 3 (6.25%) Firewall
4 3 (6.25%) GPON
4 3 (6.25%) LTE
4 3 (6.25%) Network Security
4 3 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (6.25%) xDSL
5 2 (4.17%) Converged Networks
6 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) MySQL
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) Redis
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.25%) GitLab
3 2 (4.17%) Git
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) MLflow
4 1 (2.08%) Mocha
General
1 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Finance
4 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.42%) Billing
6 3 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Architect
2 7 (14.58%) Security Architect
3 6 (12.50%) Developer
3 6 (12.50%) IP Architect
3 6 (12.50%) IP Specialist
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Business Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) OSS Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Digital Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Digital Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) REST
2 6 (12.50%) NETCONF
2 6 (12.50%) YANG
3 5 (10.42%) ADO
4 4 (8.33%) Kafka
4 4 (8.33%) Loki
4 4 (8.33%) RESTful
5 3 (6.25%) Node.js
6 2 (4.17%) .NET
6 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.17%) Middleware
6 2 (4.17%) OAuth
6 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.17%) Web Services
7 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.08%) JSON
7 1 (2.08%) SOAP
7 1 (2.08%) Spring
7 1 (2.08%) XML
7 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.25%) TM Forum
5 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) DevOps
2 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (41.67%) Microservices
4 17 (35.42%) Agile
5 14 (29.17%) TOGAF
6 13 (27.08%) Roadmaps
7 12 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (22.92%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (20.83%) Containerisation
9 10 (20.83%) Strategic Thinking
10 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
10 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (16.67%) Analytics
11 8 (16.67%) Network Design
12 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
12 7 (14.58%) Migration
12 7 (14.58%) Network Virtualisation
12 7 (14.58%) Security Architecture
12 7 (14.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (37.50%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 4 (8.33%) Bash
4 3 (6.25%) Scala
5 2 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.08%) Bicep
6 1 (2.08%) Go
6 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) AWS Certification
1 10 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.75%) Degree
2 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) CCIE
4 6 (12.50%) JNCIE
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.42%) CISSP
5 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (8.33%) CCSP
7 3 (6.25%) Master's Degree
7 3 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (2.08%) CISM
8 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) GDPR
2 6 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (12.50%) NIST
3 5 (10.42%) PCI DSS
3 5 (10.42%) PSD2
4 4 (8.33%) QA
5 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
6 2 (4.17%) OASIS TOSCA
7 1 (2.08%) EU AI Act
7 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (2.08%) JSP 440
7 1 (2.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.33%) vSphere
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (39.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (22.92%) Ansible
3 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 6 (12.50%) Terraform
4 5 (10.42%) Grafana
5 4 (8.33%) Argo
5 4 (8.33%) Kustomize
6 2 (4.17%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) MuleSoft
1 5 (10.42%) Salesforce
1 5 (10.42%) VMware
2 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.17%) Amdocs
3 2 (4.17%) Ericsson
3 2 (4.17%) Huawei
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.17%) NetCracker
3 2 (4.17%) Nokia
3 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) JDA
4 1 (2.08%) Pega
4 1 (2.08%) Splunk
4 1 (2.08%) Virgin Media