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 in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 114 138
Rank change year-on-year +33 +24 -9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 21 31 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.39% 1.15% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.85% 3.87% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 7
10th Percentile £388 £375 £590
25th Percentile £443 £456 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £498 £700
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% -28.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £597 £500 £707
90th Percentile £648 £563 £748
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £675
% change year-on-year +15.00% -25.93% +9.76%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 545 801 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.07% 29.82% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 473 613
10th Percentile £303 £205 £280
25th Percentile £423 £295 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 62 24
10th Percentile £14.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.50 £19.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.46% +143.75%
75th Percentile £66.12 £59.97 £70.90
90th Percentile £88.60 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.81 £47.19 £51.25
% change year-on-year +1.31% -7.93% +138.37%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Berkshire +27 20 £500 - 73
Buckinghamshire +10 1 £675 +68.75% 61
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) AWS
3 8 (38.10%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Azure AKS
4 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.52%) IaaS
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) MPLS
2 5 (23.81%) BGP
2 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
2 5 (23.81%) VLAN
3 3 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) 5G
4 1 (4.76%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) VoIP
4 1 (4.76%) VoLTE
4 1 (4.76%) VoWiFi
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Robot Framework
1 5 (23.81%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Billing
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
1 5 (23.81%) Automation Tester
1 5 (23.81%) Telecoms Tester
1 5 (23.81%) Tester
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Principal Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Principal Technical Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) OAuth
1 2 (9.52%) OpenID
1 2 (9.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Algorithms
1 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 6 (28.57%) Mathematics
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
5 5 (23.81%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Functional Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Optimization Problems
5 5 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) Data Collection
6 4 (19.05%) Migration
7 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 4 (19.05%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) Bicep
5 2 (9.52%) C#
5 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
1 5 (23.81%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) CCSK
3 1 (4.76%) CEH
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CISSP
3 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) GIAC
3 1 (4.76%) PhD
3 1 (4.76%) SANS
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Ansible
2 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (23.81%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) Progress Chef
4 2 (9.52%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) CASB
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce