Cloud Native Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 217 282 312
Rank change year-on-year +65 +30 -20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 119 118 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.93% 0.57% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.81% 1.93% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 73 116
10th Percentile £394 £401 £457
25th Percentile £413 £473 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £603
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -12.86% +0.42%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £700
90th Percentile £657 £675 -
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £72.75
25th Percentile - - £76.13
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.61%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
Scotland +21 35 £528 +8.21% 26
North of England +34 28 £550 +9.73% 121
South East +40 26 £575 +15.00% 160
North West +31 21 £500 -4.53% 86
East of England +32 10 £350 -39.13% 21
Midlands +18 9 £459 -29.38% 37
South West +28 8 £463 -22.92% 40
East Midlands - 6 £431 - 12
Yorkshire +10 5 £629 - 28
Wales - 5 £475 - 10
West Midlands +4 3 £512 -21.23% 21
North East -2 1 £550 +48.65% 7
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.36%) Apache
1 4 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.68%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.84%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 67 (56.30%) AWS
2 47 (39.50%) Azure
3 34 (28.57%) GCP
4 24 (20.17%) Serverless
5 18 (15.13%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 14 (11.76%) GitHub
7 14 (11.76%) SaaS
8 9 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.56%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (7.56%) PaaS
9 8 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (5.88%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.04%) Amazon Cognito
11 6 (5.04%) IaaS
12 5 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.20%) Apigee
12 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.40%) Firewall
2 8 (6.72%) 5G
2 8 (6.72%) MPLS
3 7 (5.88%) BGP
3 7 (5.88%) VLAN
4 5 (4.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.52%) 4G
5 3 (2.52%) 5G NR
5 3 (2.52%) LTE
5 3 (2.52%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (2.52%) VPN
6 2 (1.68%) OSPF
6 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.68%) WAN
7 1 (0.84%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.84%) FTP
7 1 (0.84%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.84%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.84%) VoWiFi
7 1 (0.84%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) NoSQL
2 7 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.04%) BigQuery
3 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.04%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.20%) Power BI
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.36%) Tableau
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.52%) Looker
6 3 (2.52%) Metadata
6 3 (2.52%) Parquet
7 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.68%) Big Data
7 2 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.68%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.24%) GitLab
3 6 (5.04%) Git
4 5 (4.20%) Robot Framework
4 5 (4.20%) Selenium
5 4 (3.36%) CircleCI
5 4 (3.36%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.36%) JIRA
6 2 (1.68%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.84%) Mockito
7 1 (0.84%) MSI
7 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.84%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.84%) Storybook
7 1 (0.84%) Toad
General
1 49 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.97%) Finance
4 17 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.76%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.20%) Banking
6 5 (4.20%) Billing
6 5 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.36%) Games
8 3 (2.52%) Aviation
8 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.52%) Legal
9 2 (1.68%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (36.97%) Architect
2 23 (19.33%) Senior
2 23 (19.33%) Solutions Architect
3 15 (12.61%) Developer
4 11 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (5.88%) Security Architect
7 7 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Lead
8 6 (5.04%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Automation Tester
9 5 (4.20%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Telecoms Tester
9 5 (4.20%) Tester
10 4 (3.36%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) Kafka
1 14 (11.76%) React
2 13 (10.92%) AWS CDK
3 7 (5.88%) .NET
4 6 (5.04%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.04%) Node.js
4 6 (5.04%) OAuth
4 6 (5.04%) PySpark
4 6 (5.04%) RESTful
5 5 (4.20%) Spring
6 3 (2.52%) JSON
6 3 (2.52%) NumPy
6 3 (2.52%) OpenID
6 3 (2.52%) Pandas
6 3 (2.52%) Playwright
6 3 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.52%) REST
6 3 (2.52%) SAML
6 3 (2.52%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.68%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.20%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.52%) Oracle Licensing
6 3 (2.52%) Replication
6 3 (2.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) NHS
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.84%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Linux
2 4 (3.36%) Windows
3 2 (1.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (46.22%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (36.97%) Agile
3 41 (34.45%) CI/CD
4 32 (26.89%) DevOps
5 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (18.49%) Containerisation
6 22 (18.49%) Microservices
7 20 (16.81%) Migration
7 20 (16.81%) Test Automation
8 19 (15.97%) Event-Driven
8 19 (15.97%) Roadmaps
9 18 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (13.45%) Mentoring
10 16 (13.45%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (12.61%) Data Security
12 14 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.92%) Computer Science
13 13 (10.92%) Enterprise Architecture
13 13 (10.92%) Scrum
14 12 (10.08%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 51 (42.86%) Python
2 29 (24.37%) Java
3 22 (18.49%) SQL
4 15 (12.61%) Bash
5 14 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.92%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.04%) C#
9 3 (2.52%) Bicep
9 3 (2.52%) Scala
10 2 (1.68%) Groovy
11 1 (0.84%) Go
11 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.84%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 26 (21.85%) AWS Certification
2 19 (15.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 17 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 17 (14.29%) Degree
4 12 (10.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (8.40%) Master's Degree
6 9 (7.56%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 5 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.36%) CITP
9 4 (3.36%) PMI Certification
9 4 (3.36%) PMP
10 3 (2.52%) CCNP
11 2 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.68%) CCIE
11 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.68%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.68%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.88%) QA
2 6 (5.04%) GDPR
3 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.68%) NIST
4 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.84%) COBIT
5 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (17.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (20.17%) Kubernetes
2 22 (18.49%) Terraform
3 18 (15.13%) Ansible
4 7 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.04%) Grafana
6 4 (3.36%) Amdocs OSS
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (2.52%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.68%) Control-M
8 2 (1.68%) Istio
8 2 (1.68%) Kiali
8 2 (1.68%) Puppet
8 2 (1.68%) WSUS
9 1 (0.84%) CASB
9 1 (0.84%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.84%) NSN NetAct
Vendors
1 23 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.13%) Google
3 8 (6.72%) Oracle
4 6 (5.04%) Ericsson
5 5 (4.20%) Nokia
6 4 (3.36%) Amdocs
6 4 (3.36%) Ciena
6 4 (3.36%) Cisco
6 4 (3.36%) NetCracker
6 4 (3.36%) VMware
7 3 (2.52%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.52%) Splunk
8 2 (1.68%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.68%) Ariba
8 2 (1.68%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.68%) Juniper
8 2 (1.68%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.68%) SAP
8 2 (1.68%) xMatters
9 1 (0.84%) Databricks