Cloud Native Contracts in Yorkshire

Cloud Native
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 101 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 +38
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 26 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.13% 0.23% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.87% 0.85% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 17
10th Percentile £405 - £450
25th Percentile £406 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £655 - £700
90th Percentile £717 - -
England median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -

All Generic Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 443 470 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.28% 27.17% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 255 418
10th Percentile £306 £263 £243
25th Percentile £392 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £625 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 69 41
10th Percentile £17.11 - -
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.63 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% +37.58% -44.76%
75th Percentile £31.45 £18.27 -
90th Percentile £59.91 £41.88 £22.25
England median hourly rate £32.85 £37.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year -12.40% +66.78% -15.15%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Yorkshire +19 13 £550 - 56
South Yorkshire +14 13 £475 - 20
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) GCP
2 15 (57.69%) AWS
3 12 (46.15%) Azure
4 9 (34.62%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (34.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 8 (30.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (30.77%) SaaS
6 7 (26.92%) Azure AKS
6 7 (26.92%) GitHub
7 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (11.54%) Amazon S3
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (7.69%) Serverless
10 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (3.85%) Datadog
10 1 (3.85%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) BigQuery
1 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.69%) DataStage
2 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
2 2 (7.69%) Hazelcast
2 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Jaeger
3 2 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Log4j
General
1 17 (65.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Architect
1 8 (30.77%) Business Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Analyst
2 4 (15.38%) Data Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Architect
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 2 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) OAuth
1 9 (34.62%) SAML
2 8 (30.77%) OpenID
3 7 (26.92%) JSON
4 6 (23.08%) OAuth2
5 5 (19.23%) Kafka
6 2 (7.69%) gRPC
6 2 (7.69%) PySpark
7 1 (3.85%) .NET
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
7 1 (3.85%) JDBC
7 1 (3.85%) JMS
7 1 (3.85%) JNDI
7 1 (3.85%) LDAP
7 1 (3.85%) Node.js
7 1 (3.85%) React
7 1 (3.85%) RESTful
7 1 (3.85%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (42.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (34.62%) GAP Analysis
4 9 (34.62%) RBAC
4 9 (34.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (30.77%) Identity Management
6 7 (26.92%) Agile
6 7 (26.92%) Privileged Identity Management
6 7 (26.92%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Analytics
8 5 (19.23%) Data Architecture
8 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 4 (15.38%) Microservices
10 3 (11.54%) Data Engineering
10 3 (11.54%) ETL
10 3 (11.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) Bash
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) Groovy
2 3 (11.54%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NCSC
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (46.15%) Terraform
3 9 (34.62%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (15.38%) Grafana
5 3 (11.54%) Control-M
5 3 (11.54%) Istio
5 3 (11.54%) Kiali
6 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Alibaba
2 4 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) Splunk
3 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
3 3 (11.54%) Databricks
3 3 (11.54%) xMatters
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.69%) Talend
5 1 (3.85%) Brio
5 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) TIBCO