Cloud Native Contracts in Birmingham

Cloud Native
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 72 86
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.54% 0.56% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 1.62% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £600 £624 £444
25th Percentile £600 £641 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +14.44% -
75th Percentile £600 £663 £634
90th Percentile £600 £685 £674
West Midlands median daily rate £650 £650 £469
% change year-on-year - +38.67% -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 211 308 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.36% 34.34% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 183 269
10th Percentile £261 £320 £263
25th Percentile £355 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £600
90th Percentile £739 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 7
10th Percentile £18.88 £15.65 £12.40
25th Percentile £22.33 £20.22 £13.83
Median hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +61.76% -9.26%
75th Percentile £40.81 £30.00 £17.70
90th Percentile £54.80 £88.75 £18.42
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.65 £27.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year -10.36% +66.67% -1.90%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Birmingham

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in Birmingham

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) OLAP
1 1 (25.00%) OLTP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Regular Expression
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 2 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) API Design
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) CASP
2 2 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (50.00%) GCED
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 2 (50.00%) GSEC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (50.00%) TippingPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Trend Micro
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle