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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 135 188
Rank change year-on-year +14 +53 +40
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 55 42 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.38% 1.03% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.45% 3.30% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 23 23
10th Percentile £396 £325 £475
25th Percentile £416 £457 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £551 £618 £688
90th Percentile £665 £674 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £608
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.23% -6.54%

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 1,235 1,273 1,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.98% 31.29% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 719 1,072
10th Percentile £204 £253 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +2.24% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £609
90th Percentile £675 £691 £693
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 74 107
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.84 £18.77
25th Percentile £15.62 £26.44 £24.80
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% -1.87% +42.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £71.74 £63.29
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £76.92
England median hourly rate £27.50 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.45% +2.62% +52.54%

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 18 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 18 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 +18 42 £493 -1.50% 29
Berkshire +16 39 £500 +1.42% 17
Hampshire -1 7 £426 -31.84% 2
Buckinghamshire +4 3 £475 -19.15% 7
Surrey - 3 - - 6
West Sussex -10 1 £340 +4.62% 2
Kent - 1 £375 - 3
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 (10.91%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.64%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.82%) CMS
3 1 (1.82%) nginx
3 1 (1.82%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (56.36%) AWS
2 26 (47.27%) Azure
3 11 (20.00%) Serverless
4 8 (14.55%) Amazon S3
4 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (14.55%) GCP
4 8 (14.55%) OpenShift
5 7 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.73%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.09%) GitHub
6 5 (9.09%) SaaS
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (5.45%) Datadog
8 3 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) MPLS
1 9 (16.36%) WAN
2 6 (10.91%) BGP
2 6 (10.91%) LAN
3 4 (7.27%) VPN
4 3 (5.45%) Broadband
4 3 (5.45%) Firewall
4 3 (5.45%) NaaS
4 3 (5.45%) Network Security
4 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.64%) Big Data
3 2 (3.64%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.82%) MySQL
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.27%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) GitLab
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.82%) MLflow
5 1 (1.82%) Mocha
General
1 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Finance
4 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
6 5 (9.09%) Billing
7 4 (7.27%) Banking
8 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.82%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 24 (43.64%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 7 (12.73%) Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Security Architect
4 6 (10.91%) IP Architect
4 6 (10.91%) IP Specialist
4 6 (10.91%) Site Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Data Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Digital Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Digital Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.82%) REST
2 8 (14.55%) Loki
3 6 (10.91%) NETCONF
3 6 (10.91%) YANG
4 5 (9.09%) ADO
5 4 (7.27%) Kafka
5 4 (7.27%) RESTful
6 3 (5.45%) Node.js
6 3 (5.45%) Web Services
7 2 (3.64%) .NET
7 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.64%) Middleware
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth
7 2 (3.64%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.82%) Express.js
8 1 (1.82%) Pandas
8 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.82%) Swagger
8 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (14.55%) Virtual Team
3 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.27%) Security Posture
5 3 (5.45%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.82%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.82%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.64%) Linux
2 8 (14.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 25 (45.45%) DevOps
3 22 (40.00%) Agile
4 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (30.91%) Microservices
5 13 (23.64%) Observability
5 13 (23.64%) Roadmaps
6 12 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.82%) TOGAF
7 11 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 10 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
9 9 (16.36%) Mentoring
9 9 (16.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (14.55%) Analytics
10 8 (14.55%) Architectural Patterns
10 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (14.55%) Network Design
11 7 (12.73%) Data Modelling
11 7 (12.73%) Enterprise Architecture
11 7 (12.73%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (45.45%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) Bash
3 8 (14.55%) SQL
4 6 (10.91%) Java
5 3 (5.45%) Scala
6 2 (3.64%) C#
6 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.64%) R
7 1 (1.82%) Bicep
7 1 (1.82%) Go
7 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.18%) AWS Certification
4 8 (14.55%) Degree
5 7 (12.73%) CCIE
6 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (10.91%) JNCIE
7 5 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (9.09%) CISSP
8 4 (7.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
8 4 (7.27%) CCSP
9 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.82%) CISM
10 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.82%) PhD
10 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) GDPR
2 6 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.91%) NIST
3 5 (9.09%) PCI DSS
3 5 (9.09%) PSD2
4 4 (7.27%) QA
5 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
5 3 (5.45%) SLA
6 1 (1.82%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.82%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.82%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.82%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Docker
2 8 (14.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.55%) vSphere
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.18%) Ansible
2 10 (18.18%) Grafana
2 10 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 8 (14.55%) Argo
3 8 (14.55%) Kustomize
4 7 (12.73%) Terraform
5 2 (3.64%) Puppet
6 1 (1.82%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) VMware
2 8 (14.55%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 5 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
4 3 (5.45%) Fortinet
4 3 (5.45%) Juniper
4 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) JDA
6 1 (1.82%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.82%) Pega
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk
6 1 (1.82%) Virgin Media