Cloud Native Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 132 136
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 32 14 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.21% 0.50% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.08% 1.53% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 25
10th Percentile £375 £605 £513
25th Percentile £469 £678 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.93% +21.74% -
75th Percentile £500 £731 £630
90th Percentile £563 £791 £650
South East median daily rate £498 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -26.30% +8.00% +9.31%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 784 915 1,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.66% 32.41% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 608 676
10th Percentile £205 £275 £216
25th Percentile £300 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £669 £700 £661
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +10.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 32
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £13.67
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £60.39 £70.90 £24.44
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £66.49
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.45
% change year-on-year -1.21% +124.20% -34.02%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +7 25 £500 -28.57% 5
Buckinghamshire +27 7 £400 - 1
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) OpenShift
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) AWS
4 9 (28.13%) GCP
5 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) PaaS
7 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
7 2 (6.25%) IaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.13%) SaaS
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Retail
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Site Engineer
1 12 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Architect
4 1 (3.13%) .NET Developer
4 1 (3.13%) Applications Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Applications Support
4 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Developer
4 1 (3.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.13%) CSS
3 1 (3.13%) DOM
3 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.13%) HTML
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) OAuth
3 1 (3.13%) OpenID
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) SOAP
3 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) DevOps
2 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 15 (46.88%) Collaborative Working
4 14 (43.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 13 (40.63%) Agile
5 13 (40.63%) Change Management
5 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (37.50%) ITSM
7 11 (34.38%) GitOps
7 11 (34.38%) Task Automation
8 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
9 9 (28.13%) Microservices
9 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
10 8 (25.00%) Incident Response
10 8 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
11 7 (21.88%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (21.88%) Time Management
12 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
2 2 (6.25%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) Bicep
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) CCNA
2 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (46.88%) Istio
3 9 (28.13%) Prometheus
3 9 (28.13%) Terraform
4 8 (25.00%) Argo
4 8 (25.00%) Grafana
4 8 (25.00%) Kibana
5 7 (21.88%) Rancher
6 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Google
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) F5
3 2 (6.25%) Nokia
4 1 (3.13%) BMC
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Remedy
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow