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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 274 294
Rank change year-on-year +64 +20 -9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 132 119 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 0.57% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.04% 1.99% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 77 118
10th Percentile £363 £408 £450
25th Percentile £413 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £680
90th Percentile £658 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £522 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -13.07% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £74.25
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - £78.00
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £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 4,340 5,985 7,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.58% 28.91% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,632 3,585 4,926
10th Percentile £210 £208 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £611
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 746 413
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.29 £32.12 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +48.20% +1.98%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £31.91 £34.21 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.74% +55.50% -18.46%

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 30 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 30 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 +19 35 £525 +10.53% 237
North of England +33 33 £500 +4.17% 1,227
North West +29 25 £500 -4.31% 606
South East +41 24 £440 -12.00% 1,471
Midlands +13 17 £500 -23.08% 985
East of England +36 11 £408 -29.13% 775
South West +29 10 £425 -32.27% 628
East Midlands - 9 £500 - 394
Yorkshire +24 8 £570 - 487
West Midlands +3 8 £512 -21.23% 525
Wales - 6 £475 - 150
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 5 (3.79%) Apache
1 5 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.52%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.52%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.76%) CMS
3 1 (0.76%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.76%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.52%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 72 (54.55%) AWS
2 46 (34.85%) Azure
3 33 (25.00%) Serverless
4 32 (24.24%) GCP
5 27 (20.45%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (18.94%) GitHub
7 22 (16.67%) Amazon S3
8 13 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (7.58%) SaaS
12 9 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.82%) PaaS
13 8 (6.06%) Amazon Cognito
13 8 (6.06%) Power Platform
14 7 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (5.30%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (4.55%) Apigee
15 6 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.58%) 5G
2 9 (6.82%) Firewall
3 7 (5.30%) MPLS
4 5 (3.79%) WAN
5 4 (3.03%) VoIP
5 4 (3.03%) VPN
6 3 (2.27%) 4G
6 3 (2.27%) BGP
6 3 (2.27%) DOCSIS
6 3 (2.27%) GPON
6 3 (2.27%) LAN
6 3 (2.27%) LTE
6 3 (2.27%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (2.27%) VLAN
6 3 (2.27%) xDSL
7 2 (1.52%) Converged Networks
7 2 (1.52%) OSPF
7 2 (1.52%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.52%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.76%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.58%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.82%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.06%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 8 (6.06%) Power BI
5 7 (5.30%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.03%) Tableau
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.27%) GIS
9 3 (2.27%) Looker
9 3 (2.27%) Metadata
9 3 (2.27%) Parquet
10 2 (1.52%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 19 (14.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.06%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) GitLab
3 7 (5.30%) Cypress.io
4 6 (4.55%) JIRA
5 5 (3.79%) CircleCI
5 5 (3.79%) Selenium
6 4 (3.03%) Storybook
7 3 (2.27%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.76%) Mockito
8 1 (0.76%) MSI
8 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) Toad
General
1 56 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.91%) Finance
3 20 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.88%) Public Sector
5 15 (11.36%) Telecoms
6 13 (9.85%) Banking
7 7 (5.30%) Billing
8 5 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.27%) Aviation
9 3 (2.27%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.27%) Legal
10 2 (1.52%) Digital Health
10 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (41.67%) Architect
2 28 (21.21%) Solutions Architect
3 22 (16.67%) Senior
4 20 (15.15%) Developer
5 11 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Cloud Architect
7 9 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Lead
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.55%) OSS Project Manager
9 6 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.55%) Telecoms Manager
9 6 (4.55%) Telecoms Project Manager
10 5 (3.79%) AWS Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) React
2 18 (13.64%) Kafka
3 16 (12.12%) AWS CDK
4 11 (8.33%) RESTful
5 9 (6.82%) Node.js
6 8 (6.06%) OAuth
7 7 (5.30%) .NET
7 7 (5.30%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.30%) Spring
8 6 (4.55%) CSS
8 6 (4.55%) PySpark
8 6 (4.55%) REST
9 5 (3.79%) Playwright
10 4 (3.03%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.03%) Jest
10 4 (3.03%) OpenID
10 4 (3.03%) SAML
10 4 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.03%) Tailwind CSS
11 3 (2.27%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (2.27%) Replication
5 3 (2.27%) TM Forum
6 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.52%) IoT
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.52%) NHS
6 2 (1.52%) SCADA
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Windows
3 3 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.76%) VMS
4 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.64%) CI/CD
2 50 (37.88%) Agile
3 48 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (35.61%) DevOps
5 30 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (21.97%) Migration
7 27 (20.45%) Microservices
8 25 (18.94%) Containerisation
9 23 (17.42%) Analytics
9 23 (17.42%) Roadmaps
10 20 (15.15%) Event-Driven
10 20 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (14.39%) Artificial Intelligence
11 19 (14.39%) Test Automation
12 18 (13.64%) Computer Science
13 17 (12.88%) Architectural Patterns
13 17 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (12.88%) Data Modelling
13 17 (12.88%) Data Security
14 16 (12.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 46 (34.85%) Python
2 38 (28.79%) Java
3 33 (25.00%) SQL
4 20 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.88%) Bash
6 16 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.30%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.55%) Bicep
8 6 (4.55%) Scala
9 5 (3.79%) C#
10 3 (2.27%) Groovy
11 2 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.76%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.76%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.21%) AWS Certification
2 22 (16.67%) Degree
3 21 (15.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (12.88%) Azure Certification
5 15 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (9.09%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.55%) PMI Certification
7 6 (4.55%) PMP
7 6 (4.55%) Security Cleared
8 5 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared
9 4 (3.03%) CITP
9 4 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.27%) CCNP
11 2 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.52%) CCIE
11 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.52%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.52%) JNCIP
11 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.06%) GDPR
3 7 (5.30%) QA
4 6 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.52%) NIST
5 2 (1.52%) OASIS TOSCA
5 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.76%) COBIT
6 1 (0.76%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Docker
2 3 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.94%) Terraform
3 9 (6.82%) Ansible
4 8 (6.06%) Amdocs OSS
4 8 (6.06%) Grafana
5 4 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.27%) Control-M
6 3 (2.27%) HP ALM
6 3 (2.27%) Istio
6 3 (2.27%) Kiali
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.52%) Puppet
8 1 (0.76%) CASB
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.91%) Google
3 10 (7.58%) Oracle
4 8 (6.06%) Amdocs
4 8 (6.06%) Ericsson
4 8 (6.06%) NetCracker
4 8 (6.06%) Nokia
5 6 (4.55%) Ciena
6 5 (3.79%) Cisco
7 4 (3.03%) Databricks
7 4 (3.03%) Splunk
8 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.27%) HP
8 3 (2.27%) Micro Focus
8 3 (2.27%) PagerDuty
8 3 (2.27%) Progress
8 3 (2.27%) xMatters
9 2 (1.52%) Informatica
9 2 (1.52%) Juniper
9 2 (1.52%) SAP