Cloud Native Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Native
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 154 241 238
Rank change year-on-year +87 -3 -45
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 159 104 262
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.61% 0.68% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.86% 2.36% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 68 180
10th Percentile £404 £493 £463
25th Percentile £431 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £703 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 - £750
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £650
% change year-on-year - -11.54% -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Cloud Native
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Native trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Native.

Cloud Native daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Native daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Native.

Cloud Native hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (5.03%) Apache
2 7 (4.40%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.14%) nginx
4 4 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.63%) CMS
5 1 (0.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.63%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.63%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Notion
1 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.63%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (54.09%) AWS
2 82 (51.57%) Azure
3 45 (28.30%) GCP
4 32 (20.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 32 (20.13%) Serverless
5 26 (16.35%) PaaS
5 26 (16.35%) SaaS
6 23 (14.47%) IaaS
7 17 (10.69%) GitHub
8 16 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (8.81%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (6.29%) Azure AKS
11 10 (6.29%) Entra ID
12 8 (5.03%) Apigee
12 8 (5.03%) OneDrive
13 7 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.13%) Firewall
2 24 (15.09%) DNS
2 24 (15.09%) HTTP
3 20 (12.58%) TCP/IP
4 18 (11.32%) BGP
4 18 (11.32%) DHCP
4 18 (11.32%) HTTPS
4 18 (11.32%) OSPF
5 5 (3.14%) 5G
6 4 (2.52%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (2.52%) VPN
7 3 (1.89%) Network Security
7 3 (1.89%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.89%) SSL
8 2 (1.26%) 4G
8 2 (1.26%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.63%) FTP
9 1 (0.63%) Internet
9 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.84%) NoSQL
2 6 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.14%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.52%) SAP HANA
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.89%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.89%) Parquet
5 3 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.26%) Looker
6 2 (1.26%) Power BI
6 2 (1.26%) Tableau
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.06%) GitLab
3 13 (8.18%) Git
4 8 (5.03%) MSI
5 6 (3.77%) JIRA
6 5 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.52%) NUnit
8 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.63%) Mockito
10 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.63%) Postman
10 1 (0.63%) Selenium
10 1 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.63%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.63%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.63%) Toad
10 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.06%) Finance
3 14 (8.81%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.77%) Banking
6 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.52%) Billing
7 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.89%) Legal
8 3 (1.89%) Retail
9 2 (1.26%) Aviation
9 2 (1.26%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Marketing
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (33.33%) Architect
2 29 (18.24%) Cloud Architect
3 26 (16.35%) Developer
4 25 (15.72%) Senior
5 24 (15.09%) Technical Architect
6 23 (14.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (11.32%) Cloud Native Architect
8 13 (8.18%) Security Architect
9 12 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (6.92%) AWS Architect
10 11 (6.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (6.92%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (6.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Network Security Architect
11 9 (5.66%) Security Technical Architect
12 8 (5.03%) .NET Developer
12 8 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Data Engineer
13 7 (4.40%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.06%) .NET
2 14 (8.81%) AWS CDK
3 12 (7.55%) OAuth
4 9 (5.66%) OpenID
4 9 (5.66%) RESTful
5 8 (5.03%) React
6 7 (4.40%) .NET Core
6 7 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.14%) ARM Templates
7 5 (3.14%) ASP.NET
7 5 (3.14%) Kafka
7 5 (3.14%) SAML
7 5 (3.14%) YAML
8 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.52%) JSON
8 4 (2.52%) Keycloak
8 4 (2.52%) LDAP
8 4 (2.52%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.89%) Spring
10 2 (1.26%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.26%) NHS
6 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.63%) Life Science
6 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.63%) PKI
6 1 (0.63%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.63%) Replication
6 1 (0.63%) TWAP
6 1 (0.63%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.47%) Linux
2 15 (9.43%) Windows
3 7 (4.40%) Unix
4 4 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.26%) SUSE
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.63%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (46.54%) DevOps
2 72 (45.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (37.74%) CI/CD
4 51 (32.08%) Agile
5 36 (22.64%) Microservices
6 33 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (19.50%) Containerisation
8 29 (18.24%) Test Automation
9 27 (16.98%) Migration
10 22 (13.84%) Sprint Planning
11 20 (12.58%) Computer Science
12 17 (10.69%) Scrum
13 16 (10.06%) DevSecOps
13 16 (10.06%) Roadmaps
14 14 (8.81%) Cloud Security
14 14 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (8.18%) Analytics
15 13 (8.18%) API Management
15 13 (8.18%) Identity Access Management
15 13 (8.18%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (35.22%) Python
2 29 (18.24%) SQL
3 26 (16.35%) Bicep
4 20 (12.58%) Bash
5 17 (10.69%) Java
5 17 (10.69%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.43%) C#
7 12 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.03%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.40%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.52%) Groovy
11 3 (1.89%) Go
11 3 (1.89%) Ruby
12 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.26%) Scala
13 1 (0.63%) C++
13 1 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.63%) Perl
13 1 (0.63%) PHP
13 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (12.58%) Degree
2 18 (11.32%) AWS Certification
3 16 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (9.43%) Security Cleared
5 14 (8.81%) SC Cleared
6 10 (6.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.66%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.89%) CITP
9 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.89%) PMP
10 2 (1.26%) CISSP
10 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.63%) CISA
11 1 (0.63%) GIAC
11 1 (0.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
1 6 (3.77%) QA
2 3 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.89%) GDPR
3 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.26%) NIST
3 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) FedRAMP
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (18.87%) Docker
2 7 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.52%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 78 (49.06%) Terraform
2 49 (30.82%) Kubernetes
3 30 (18.87%) Ansible
4 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.03%) Argo
5 8 (5.03%) Grafana
6 7 (4.40%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.40%) Puppet
7 6 (3.77%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.89%) Amdocs OSS
9 3 (1.89%) Consul
9 3 (1.89%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.89%) logstash
10 1 (0.63%) Kibana
10 1 (0.63%) NSN NetAct
10 1 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.63%) Packer
10 1 (0.63%) QRadar
10 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.84%) Cisco
3 20 (12.58%) Palo Alto
4 19 (11.95%) Fortinet
5 18 (11.32%) CheckPoint
5 18 (11.32%) Google
6 11 (6.92%) SAP
6 11 (6.92%) Splunk
7 9 (5.66%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.14%) Oracle
8 5 (3.14%) VMware
9 4 (2.52%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.52%) Ericsson
9 4 (2.52%) Nokia
10 3 (1.89%) Amdocs
10 3 (1.89%) Broadcom
10 3 (1.89%) Ciena
10 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.89%) NetCracker
11 2 (1.26%) IBM