Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Cloud Native
South East > Surrey

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Surrey. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.97% - 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.36% - 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.00%
75th Percentile - - £506
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £625
% change year-on-year -3.85% -16.80% -

All Generic Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 119 138 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.95% 32.55% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 86 168
10th Percentile £204 £185 £189
25th Percentile £204 £275 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £409 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -20.58% -1.90%
75th Percentile £508 £538 £581
90th Percentile £643 £591 £673
South East median daily rate £492 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.29% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 16
10th Percentile £40.93 £13.25 £27.25
25th Percentile £58.82 £18.33 £37.19
Median hourly rate £70.16 £24.18 £68.16
Median % change year-on-year +190.16% -64.52% +292.15%
75th Percentile £72.58 £26.72 £77.72
90th Percentile £76.94 £71.90 £82.79
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -32.86% -33.33% +56.72%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Surrey

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 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
Redhill - 2 - -
Guildford - 1 £400 - 2
Horley - 1 - -
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) CloudFront
3 2 (50.00%) Datadog
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Architect
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Interface Catalogue
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware