Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Cloud Native
East of England > Suffolk

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Suffolk. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 1.33% 0.92% 1.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.26% 2.44% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -28.57%
East of England median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -16.67%

All Generic Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19 41 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 25.33% 37.61% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 12
10th Percentile £206 £185 £133
25th Percentile £213 £220 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £369
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -18.64% -44.30%
75th Percentile £525 £450 £481
90th Percentile £550 £675 £500
East of England median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.60 - -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.11% +9.17% +9.09%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Ipswich +7 1 £500 +17.65% 12
Cloud Native
East of England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) MediatR
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CQRS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft