Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Cloud Native
South East > West Sussex

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in West Sussex. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.40% 1.50% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.28% 5.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £335 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £345 £338 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -5.37% -18.00% +6.38%

All Generic Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 78 37 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 30.95% 27.82% 20.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 25 38
10th Percentile £236 £170 £152
25th Percentile £400 £313 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £703 £738 £593
90th Percentile £720 £800 £678
South East median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.41 - £70.07
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.20%
75th Percentile £20.69 - -
90th Percentile £21.83 - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -34.58% +55.07%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Burgess Hill -4 1 £340 +4.62%
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker