Cloud Native Contract Job Trends 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 30 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 102 120
Rank change year-on-year +13 +18 +60
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 30 23 24
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 1.78% 1.06% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.14% 3.63% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 18
10th Percentile £400 £351 £500
25th Percentile £413 £458 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -22.88% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £688
90th Percentile £714 £525 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £493 £625
% change year-on-year -8.72% -21.12% -

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 584 634 828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.64% 29.24% 30.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 355 554
10th Percentile £269 £252 £213
25th Percentile £390 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.09%
75th Percentile £576 £608 £638
90th Percentile £664 £675 £737
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 29
10th Percentile - £17.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £22.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £45.06 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.27% -24.90% +200.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £60.95 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £68.59 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +142.61%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Native

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 29 £488 +1.14% 16
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £650 +30.00% 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (6.67%) Camunda
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 19 (63.33%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) SaaS
5 4 (13.33%) Serverless
6 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.33%) Stackdriver
8 1 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) MPLS
2 6 (20.00%) BGP
2 6 (20.00%) LAN
2 6 (20.00%) WAN
3 5 (16.67%) VoIP
4 4 (13.33%) 5G
5 3 (10.00%) 4G
5 3 (10.00%) DOCSIS
5 3 (10.00%) Firewall
5 3 (10.00%) GPON
5 3 (10.00%) LTE
5 3 (10.00%) Network Security
5 3 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (10.00%) xDSL
6 2 (6.67%) Converged Networks
7 1 (3.33%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (3.33%) VoLTE
7 1 (3.33%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
1 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.33%) Redis
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) MLflow
3 1 (3.33%) Mocha
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) Billing
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Architect
2 7 (23.33%) Security Architect
3 6 (20.00%) IP Architect
3 6 (20.00%) IP Specialist
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 3 (10.00%) OSS Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Umbraco Developer
7 1 (3.33%) VoIP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) REST
2 6 (20.00%) NETCONF
2 6 (20.00%) YANG
3 4 (13.33%) ADO
4 3 (10.00%) Node.js
4 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 2 (6.67%) OAuth
5 2 (6.67%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.33%) .NET
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.33%) HTML
6 1 (3.33%) JSON
6 1 (3.33%) Middleware
6 1 (3.33%) SOAP
6 1 (3.33%) Swagger
6 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.33%) Web Services
6 1 (3.33%) XML
6 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) TM Forum
5 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.33%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.33%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) DevOps
2 14 (46.67%) Microservices
3 13 (43.33%) TOGAF
4 11 (36.67%) Roadmaps
5 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 9 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (26.67%) Architectural Patterns
7 8 (26.67%) Network Architecture
7 8 (26.67%) Network Design
8 7 (23.33%) Agile
9 6 (20.00%) DevSecOps
9 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (20.00%) Migration
9 6 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
9 6 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (20.00%) Security Architecture
9 6 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
10 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (20.00%) CCIE
2 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (20.00%) JNCIE
3 5 (16.67%) CISSP
4 4 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 4 (13.33%) CCSP
5 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
7 1 (3.33%) CCNP
7 1 (3.33%) CISM
7 1 (3.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
1 6 (20.00%) NIST
2 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 5 (16.67%) PSD2
3 2 (6.67%) OASIS TOSCA
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Ansible
2 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Terraform
4 2 (6.67%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (3.33%) Grafana
5 1 (3.33%) Kubeflow
5 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) MuleSoft
1 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.67%) Amdocs
2 2 (6.67%) Ericsson
2 2 (6.67%) Huawei
2 2 (6.67%) NetCracker
2 2 (6.67%) Nokia
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) JDA
3 1 (3.33%) Pega
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk