Cloud Native Contracts in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 72 80
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +23
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 13 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.09% 0.31% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.83% 1.15% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 14
10th Percentile £405 - £493
25th Percentile £406 - £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £700 - £700
90th Percentile £748 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £600
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 223 262 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 35.79% 26.98% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 154 308
10th Percentile £313 £263 £350
25th Percentile £425 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £604
90th Percentile £615 £619 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 36 4
10th Percentile £27.29 - £19.18
25th Percentile £28.86 £12.15 £20.19
Median hourly rate £32.81 £13.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +143.04% -36.65% +0.28%
75th Percentile £66.35 £15.19 £21.55
90th Percentile £85.67 £16.76 £21.97
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.00 £14.63 £10.63
% change year-on-year +43.59% +37.58% -44.76%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Leeds +12 11 £550 - 42
Halifax - 5 £500 - 1
Cloud Native
Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Datadog
5 1 (7.69%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) DataStage
3 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) Log4j
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Architect
3 2 (15.38%) GCP Data Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) JDBC
2 1 (7.69%) JMS
2 1 (7.69%) JNDI
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (15.38%) API Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 2 (15.38%) Design Thinking
6 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
6 2 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Brio
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Talend
3 1 (7.69%) TIBCO