Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in West London

Cloud Native
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in West London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 34 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 20 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in West London 7.07% 0.81% 2.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 22.73% 2.63% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £374 £493 £350
25th Percentile £484 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £675
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -16.67% +35.00%
75th Percentile £512 £606 £850
90th Percentile £587 £633 -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £58.00
London median hourly rate £38.75 £85.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -54.41% +14.86% -

All Generic Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 88 76 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 31.10% 30.65% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 127
10th Percentile £225 £205 £234
25th Percentile £350 £366 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £481 £535
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -10.05% +2.88%
75th Percentile £500 £531 £673
90th Percentile £588 £594 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile - - £31.67
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £43.59
Median hourly rate £28.95 £26.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -52.94% +234.85%
75th Percentile £43.94 £42.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £46.98 £73.60 £81.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.50 £29.86
% change year-on-year -25.92% +18.89% +6.68%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in West London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in West London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in West London

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Hounslow - 4 £493 -
Hillingdon -9 3 - - 3
Richmond upon Thames - 1 £625 -
Cloud Native
London

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) SaaS
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.00%) dbt
5 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) Collibra
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Big Data
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Flink
2 1 (5.00%) Mixpanel
2 1 (5.00%) OLAP
2 1 (5.00%) OLTP
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Specialist
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Backend Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) GraphQL
2 10 (50.00%) Node.js
2 10 (50.00%) Playwright
2 10 (50.00%) Vitest
3 6 (30.00%) YAML
4 2 (10.00%) JWT
4 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 2 (10.00%) OAuth
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) Great Expectations
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) CentOS
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (75.00%) DevOps
3 14 (70.00%) Agile
4 11 (55.00%) Mentoring
5 10 (50.00%) Coaching
5 10 (50.00%) E-Commerce
6 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
6 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
8 7 (35.00%) Observability
8 7 (35.00%) Process Improvement
9 6 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (25.00%) ETL
11 4 (20.00%) AI
11 4 (20.00%) Analytics
11 4 (20.00%) API Design
11 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
11 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) Go
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (10.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Grafana
3 2 (10.00%) Kibana
3 2 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
1 2 (10.00%) Informatica
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
1 2 (10.00%) Teradata
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft