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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 165 194
Rank change year-on-year +37 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 25 32 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.58% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.54% 2.06% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 17
10th Percentile £414 £375 £520
25th Percentile £450 £469 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £498 £650
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -23.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £618 £500 £701
90th Percentile £687 £563 £793
England median daily rate £525 £588 £650
% change year-on-year -10.64% -9.62% -

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 984 1,552 1,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.77% 28.13% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 936 1,309
10th Percentile £204 £205 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £722
England median daily rate £545 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 152 93
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.72 £18.08
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £19.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £47.50 £48.08
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -1.21% +123.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £66.21
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.31 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.79% +43.68% -16.72%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +29 20 £538 +8.04% 44
Berkshire +23 19 £500 - 28
Hampshire - 4 £610 - 17
Buckinghamshire +9 1 £675 +68.75% 10
Surrey - 1 £425 - 6
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 (8.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Azure AKS
6 3 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (8.00%) Azure API Management
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.00%) IaaS
7 2 (8.00%) PaaS
7 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) MPLS
2 4 (16.00%) 5G
2 4 (16.00%) BGP
2 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) VLAN
3 3 (12.00%) 4G
3 3 (12.00%) 5G NR
3 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) LTE
3 3 (12.00%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (4.00%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (4.00%) VoIP
4 1 (4.00%) VoLTE
4 1 (4.00%) VoWiFi
4 1 (4.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Selenium
2 4 (16.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Telecoms
3 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Automation Tester
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms Tester
2 4 (16.00%) Tester
3 3 (12.00%) Subject Matter Expert
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Operations Director
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Technical Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) OAuth
1 2 (8.00%) OpenID
1 2 (8.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) ADO
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (8.00%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Mathematics
7 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Functional Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Optimization Problems
7 5 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Data Collection
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
8 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (16.00%) Migration
8 4 (16.00%) Service Management
8 4 (16.00%) Test Strategy
9 3 (12.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (20.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) Bicep
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
1 5 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCNP
4 1 (4.00%) CCSK
4 1 (4.00%) CEH
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) GIAC
4 1 (4.00%) PhD
4 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Terraform
4 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) CASB
5 1 (4.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (4.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) NSN NetAct
5 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Ericsson
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) Cisco
3 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.00%) Nokia
3 1 (4.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce