Cloud Native Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 94 98 125
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 3 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.67% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 2.01% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 12
10th Percentile £392 £600 -
25th Percentile £437 £625 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £587 £688 £678
90th Percentile £632 - £699
England median daily rate £550 £581 £650
% change year-on-year -5.38% -10.58% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 647 792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.08% 33.23% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 410 525
10th Percentile £197 £307 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £632 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 19
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.10
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £17.99
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.50
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Birmingham +14 1 £512 -14.67% 18
Coventry +4 1 £375 -42.31% 1
Warwickshire +1 1 £662 -2.00% 2
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Apigee
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Apigee Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Password Management
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Broadcom
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) VMware