Cloud Native Contracts

Cloud Native
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 258 217
Rank change year-on-year -52 -41 +2
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 297 597 1,175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.00% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.24% 2.99% 4.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 400 842
10th Percentile £413 £475 £480
25th Percentile £495 £529 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +20.93%
75th Percentile £675 £701 £750
90th Percentile £725 £800 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile - £76.13 £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +41.37%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +21.17%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,235 19,964 29,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,730 20,414
10th Percentile £263 £306 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £650
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 654 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.75 £16.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -16.72% +2.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £49.88
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England -48 243 £575 -11.54% 220
London -50 142 £600 -7.69% 130
UK excluding London +37 123 £525 -13.22% 108
Work from Home -23 103 £600 -4.00% 135
South East +38 33 £500 -25.93% 27
South West +22 29 £600 - 11
Scotland +28 27 £488 -0.31% 17
West Midlands +29 13 £650 - 9
Midlands +25 13 £650 - 10
North of England -8 13 £501 -22.88% 33
East of England +12 8 £575 +9.94% 6
North West -11 7 £524 -25.18% 23
North East +11 3 £370 -47.14% 3
Yorkshire +1 3 - - 7

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (7.07%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.03%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (2.36%) Apache Solr
3 7 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.68%) Cloud Foundry
4 5 (1.68%) IBM Notes
5 4 (1.35%) Apache
5 4 (1.35%) nginx
6 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.01%) CMS
6 3 (1.01%) Drupal
6 3 (1.01%) IIS
6 3 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.67%) Confluence
7 2 (0.67%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (0.67%) Shopify
1 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 147 (49.49%) Azure
2 138 (46.46%) AWS
3 53 (17.85%) GCP
4 52 (17.51%) Serverless
5 34 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (10.77%) OpenShift
7 28 (9.43%) SaaS
8 26 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (6.73%) GitHub
10 20 (6.73%) PaaS
11 19 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.40%) Azure Functions
12 17 (5.72%) Entra ID
13 16 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (5.05%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (4.71%) IaaS
16 12 (4.04%) Amazon S3
16 12 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.08%) DNS
2 16 (5.39%) Firewall
3 11 (3.70%) VPN
4 10 (3.37%) Network Security
5 7 (2.36%) HTTPS
5 7 (2.36%) IPsec
6 5 (1.68%) HTTP
6 5 (1.68%) Internet
6 5 (1.68%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.68%) WAN
7 4 (1.35%) FTP
7 4 (1.35%) LAN
7 4 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.01%) DHCP
8 3 (1.01%) SSL
8 3 (1.01%) WLAN
9 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.67%) SSH
10 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.08%) NoSQL
2 24 (8.08%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (3.70%) MySQL
6 10 (3.37%) Big Data
6 10 (3.37%) Hadoop
7 9 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.69%) SAP HANA
9 7 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.02%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.02%) Redis
11 5 (1.68%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.35%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (10.10%) Git
2 24 (8.08%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.69%) Selenium
5 5 (1.68%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.68%) GitLab
5 5 (1.68%) Gradle
5 5 (1.68%) JIRA
5 5 (1.68%) Maven
5 5 (1.68%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.35%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.01%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.01%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.01%) Subversion
8 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.34%) Appium
9 1 (0.34%) ESLint
9 1 (0.34%) Lerna
9 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 61 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.17%) Finance
3 37 (12.46%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.71%) Banking
5 12 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (4.04%) Retail
6 10 (3.37%) Marketing
7 8 (2.69%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.36%) Legal
9 5 (1.68%) Electronics
9 5 (1.68%) German Language
9 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.35%) Front Office
11 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Games
12 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 77 (25.93%) Architect
2 65 (21.89%) Developer
3 48 (16.16%) Senior
4 25 (8.42%) Technical Architect
5 20 (6.73%) Analyst
6 19 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
7 18 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.06%) Security Engineer
8 16 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.39%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (4.71%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.04%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (4.04%) SharePoint Architect
11 11 (3.70%) Lead
12 9 (3.03%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.69%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.69%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (11.78%) .NET
2 26 (8.75%) Kafka
3 19 (6.40%) React
4 18 (6.06%) Node.js
5 17 (5.72%) .NET Core
5 17 (5.72%) RESTful
6 16 (5.39%) HTML
7 14 (4.71%) JSON
7 14 (4.71%) YAML
8 13 (4.38%) OAuth
8 13 (4.38%) REST
8 13 (4.38%) Spring Boot
9 12 (4.04%) Spring
10 10 (3.37%) .NET Framework
10 10 (3.37%) CSS
10 10 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (3.37%) OpenID
10 10 (3.37%) SAML
11 9 (3.03%) AWS CDK
11 9 (3.03%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.42%) Data Structures
2 17 (5.72%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (5.72%) Public Cloud
3 15 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.04%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 8 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.69%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.69%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.68%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.68%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.11%) Linux
2 29 (9.76%) Windows
3 17 (5.72%) Unix
4 4 (1.35%) CentOS
5 3 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (36.03%) DevOps
2 99 (33.33%) Agile
3 89 (29.97%) CI/CD
4 85 (28.62%) Microservices
5 58 (19.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (17.17%) Migration
7 41 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (12.46%) Software Engineering
9 35 (11.78%) Change Management
9 35 (11.78%) Cloud Security
10 34 (11.45%) SDLC
11 32 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 29 (9.76%) Containerisation
13 23 (7.74%) Analytics
13 23 (7.74%) Cybersecurity
13 23 (7.74%) Data Security
13 23 (7.74%) Full Stack Development
14 22 (7.41%) Scrum
14 22 (7.41%) Test Automation
15 21 (7.07%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (24.58%) Python
2 67 (22.56%) SQL
3 41 (13.80%) Java
4 35 (11.78%) JavaScript
5 28 (9.43%) Go
6 27 (9.09%) C#
7 23 (7.74%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.06%) Bash
9 15 (5.05%) PowerShell
10 11 (3.70%) Ruby
11 10 (3.37%) C++
12 9 (3.03%) PL/SQL
12 9 (3.03%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.02%) Groovy
13 6 (2.02%) PHP
13 6 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.68%) Scala
15 3 (1.01%) Perl
16 2 (0.67%) ABAP
17 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 59 (19.87%) Security Cleared
2 56 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.07%) Degree
4 10 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.35%) CCNP
8 4 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.01%) CCIE
9 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.67%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) CASP
10 2 (0.67%) CCNA
10 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.67%) GCED
10 2 (0.67%) GIAC
10 2 (0.67%) GSEC
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.38%) NIST
2 13 (4.38%) QA
3 7 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.36%) GDPR
4 5 (1.68%) GRC
5 4 (1.35%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.35%) ISO 9001
5 4 (1.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (15.49%) Docker
2 16 (5.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 83 (27.95%) Kubernetes
2 65 (21.89%) Terraform
3 37 (12.46%) Ansible
4 19 (6.40%) Istio
5 14 (4.71%) Grafana
6 11 (3.70%) Puppet
7 10 (3.37%) Prometheus
8 9 (3.03%) Argo
8 9 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.36%) Rancher
10 6 (2.02%) Kibana
11 5 (1.68%) Opsgenie
12 4 (1.35%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (1.01%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.01%) Netcool
13 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.34%) CASB
14 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 64 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.09%) SAP
3 24 (8.08%) Google
4 19 (6.40%) Splunk
5 17 (5.72%) NetApp
6 16 (5.39%) Oracle
7 15 (5.05%) New Relic
8 12 (4.04%) Salesforce
9 10 (3.37%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.03%) Adobe
10 9 (3.03%) MuleSoft
10 9 (3.03%) Palo Alto
11 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
12 7 (2.36%) Cisco
12 7 (2.36%) PagerDuty
13 6 (2.02%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.68%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.68%) Lotus
14 5 (1.68%) VMware
15 4 (1.35%) SolarWinds