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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 87 116
Rank change year-on-year -18 +29 +30
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 17 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.00% 1.17% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.82% 3.89% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 9
10th Percentile £409 - £525
25th Percentile £478 £625 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £655 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.25% +0.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £536 £684 £688
90th Percentile £558 £703 £701
England median daily rate £519 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -13.58% -7.69% -

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 602 566 714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.31% 30.20% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 360 453
10th Percentile £234 £250 £275
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +4.15% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £750 £725
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 24
10th Percentile - £15.01 £18.78
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.75 £21.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.83% +44.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.56 £30.00
90th Percentile - £58.75 £50.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £41.02
% change year-on-year -36.84% +15.80% +57.77%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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
Warwickshire -12 8 £500 -25.60%
Shropshire - 5 £526 - 5
Coventry -7 3 £600 -7.69%
Birmingham 0 1 £425 -41.38% 11
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (23.53%) SAS
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (11.76%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
4 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (23.53%) Serverless
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (11.76%) Collibra
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) LAN
1 5 (29.41%) WAN
2 4 (23.53%) Wireshark
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 4 (23.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 4 (23.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
2 3 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
2 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) GIS
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
3 3 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Network Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Test Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Environment Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth2
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) SOAP
1 2 (11.76%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) IoT
1 2 (11.76%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Analytics
4 8 (47.06%) High Availability
5 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (35.29%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
7 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
7 5 (29.41%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (29.41%) Remote Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
8 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
8 4 (23.53%) ETL
8 4 (23.53%) Migration
8 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
8 4 (23.53%) Visual Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Bicep
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) HP ALM
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Oracle
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Databricks
3 5 (29.41%) HP
3 5 (29.41%) Micro Focus
3 5 (29.41%) Progress
4 2 (11.76%) Informatica
4 2 (11.76%) Pega
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce