Cloud Native Contracts in South Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 59 46
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.75% 0.20% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.65% 0.79% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 9
10th Percentile £406 - £450
25th Percentile £407 - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £608 - -
90th Percentile £710 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 170 127 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 35.94% 25.97% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 69 95
10th Percentile £349 £235 £266
25th Percentile £388 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £514 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -12.51% +11.90%
75th Percentile £577 £588 £675
90th Percentile £638 £623 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 34
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile - £11.04 £9.80
Median hourly rate £15.00 £12.75 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +19.94% -46.88%
75th Percentile - £32.81 -
90th Percentile - £41.88 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +43.59% +37.58% -44.76%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in South Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in South Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in South Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Sheffield +16 13 £475 - 9
Cloud Native
Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) GCP
2 9 (69.23%) AWS
3 8 (61.54%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (61.54%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
3 8 (61.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 8 (61.54%) SaaS
4 7 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (53.85%) Azure AKS
5 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (30.77%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Hazelcast
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) DataStage
3 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jaeger
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) OAuth
1 8 (61.54%) OpenID
1 8 (61.54%) SAML
2 7 (53.85%) JSON
3 6 (46.15%) OAuth2
4 2 (15.38%) gRPC
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) GAP Analysis
2 8 (61.54%) Identity Management
2 8 (61.54%) RBAC
2 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (53.85%) Privileged Identity Management
3 7 (53.85%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
7 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.69%) Analytics
8 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
8 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
8 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
8 1 (7.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) Groovy
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 8 (61.54%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (61.54%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Control-M
3 3 (23.08%) Grafana
3 3 (23.08%) Istio
3 3 (23.08%) Kiali
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Alibaba
2 3 (23.08%) AppDynamics
2 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 3 (23.08%) xMatters
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Talend