Cloud Native Contracts in England

Cloud Native
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 258 213
Rank change year-on-year -73 -45 +17
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 223 496 928
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 1.03% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 3.06% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 342 672
10th Percentile £433 £500 £500
25th Percentile £500 £553 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £775
90th Percentile £746 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +19.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +14.11%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - £85.20 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +31.84%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,132 16,230 23,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.61% 33.61% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,301 11,278 16,982
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £414 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 809 575 640
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.49 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +51.21% -16.69% +2.96%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.93
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +4.05%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
London -55 134 £600 -7.69% 121
South East +28 32 £498 -21.96% 19
South West +2 18 £600 - 12
Midlands +30 13 £650 - 6
West Midlands +18 13 £650 - 3
North of England -13 12 £480 -26.15% 37
East of England +10 8 £575 +9.21% 4
North West -9 6 £523 -21.13% 25
North East +4 3 £370 -47.14% 5
Yorkshire +1 3 - - 7
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (8.52%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.04%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.69%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.79%) nginx
6 3 (1.35%) Apache
6 3 (1.35%) CMS
6 3 (1.35%) Drupal
6 3 (1.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.90%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.45%) Confluence
8 1 (0.45%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Shopify
1 2 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.45%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 119 (53.36%) Azure
2 98 (43.95%) AWS
3 44 (19.73%) GCP
4 43 (19.28%) Serverless
5 29 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (11.21%) OpenShift
7 20 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (8.52%) SaaS
9 17 (7.62%) Azure Functions
10 16 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (7.17%) Entra ID
10 16 (7.17%) GitHub
10 16 (7.17%) PaaS
11 15 (6.73%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (5.38%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 9 (4.04%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.31%) DNS
2 11 (4.93%) VPN
3 10 (4.48%) Firewall
4 8 (3.59%) Network Security
5 7 (3.14%) HTTPS
5 7 (3.14%) IPsec
6 5 (2.24%) HTTP
7 4 (1.79%) Internet
7 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.35%) LAN
8 3 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.35%) SSL
8 3 (1.35%) WAN
8 3 (1.35%) WLAN
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.90%) DHCP
9 2 (0.90%) FTP
9 2 (0.90%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.66%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.97%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (5.38%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.48%) Big Data
7 10 (4.48%) MySQL
8 9 (4.04%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.14%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.69%) RDBMS
11 5 (2.24%) Couchbase
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.79%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.79%) Redis
12 4 (1.79%) Tableau
13 3 (1.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (8.07%) Git
2 15 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.93%) SonarQube
4 7 (3.14%) Selenium
5 5 (2.24%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.79%) GitLab
6 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.35%) JIRA
7 3 (1.35%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.35%) Subversion
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) NUnit
General
1 48 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.39%) Finance
3 25 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.83%) Banking
4 13 (5.83%) Retail
5 9 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.69%) Legal
7 5 (2.24%) Marketing
8 4 (1.79%) Front Office
9 3 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.35%) German Language
9 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.90%) Games
10 2 (0.90%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (30.49%) Architect
2 35 (15.70%) Developer
3 28 (12.56%) Senior
4 24 (10.76%) Technical Architect
5 18 (8.07%) Site Engineer
5 18 (8.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.83%) Analyst
7 13 (5.83%) Security Engineer
7 13 (5.83%) SharePoint Architect
7 13 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.38%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (4.48%) Full Stack Developer
10 8 (3.59%) Business Analyst
11 7 (3.14%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) Lead
12 6 (2.69%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.69%) Consultant
12 6 (2.69%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.11%) .NET
1 27 (12.11%) Kafka
2 17 (7.62%) .NET Core
3 14 (6.28%) JSON
4 13 (5.83%) OAuth
5 11 (4.93%) HTML
5 11 (4.93%) React
5 11 (4.93%) YAML
6 10 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.48%) Node.js
6 10 (4.48%) OpenID
6 10 (4.48%) RESTful
6 10 (4.48%) SAML
7 9 (4.04%) OAuth2
7 9 (4.04%) REST
8 8 (3.59%) .NET Framework
8 8 (3.59%) Blazor
9 7 (3.14%) SOAP
10 6 (2.69%) ASP.NET
11 5 (2.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.97%) Data Structures
2 19 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.28%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.14%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.69%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.24%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (2.24%) Solar Panel
9 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.76%) Windows
2 22 (9.87%) Linux
3 10 (4.48%) Unix
4 4 (1.79%) CentOS
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (42.60%) DevOps
2 72 (32.29%) Agile
2 72 (32.29%) CI/CD
3 64 (28.70%) Microservices
4 45 (20.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (19.28%) Migration
6 34 (15.25%) Change Management
7 31 (13.90%) Cloud Security
7 31 (13.90%) SDLC
8 30 (13.45%) Containerisation
9 29 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (13.00%) Software Engineering
10 27 (12.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 25 (11.21%) Analytics
12 21 (9.42%) Data Security
12 21 (9.42%) Test Automation
13 19 (8.52%) Data Migration
13 19 (8.52%) Task Automation
14 18 (8.07%) Full Stack Development
14 18 (8.07%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.77%) Python
2 49 (21.97%) SQL
3 29 (13.00%) Java
4 25 (11.21%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.31%) Go
6 20 (8.97%) C#
7 15 (6.73%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.48%) C++
9 9 (4.04%) PL/SQL
9 9 (4.04%) T-SQL
9 9 (4.04%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.14%) Bash
11 6 (2.69%) PHP
12 5 (2.24%) Scala
13 3 (1.35%) Perl
13 3 (1.35%) Ruby
14 1 (0.45%) Bicep
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 49 (21.97%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.62%) Degree
4 9 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.35%) CCIE
7 3 (1.35%) CCNP
7 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.90%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.90%) CASP
8 2 (0.90%) CCNA
8 2 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.90%) GCED
8 2 (0.90%) GIAC
8 2 (0.90%) GSEC
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.38%) NIST
3 10 (4.48%) QA
4 8 (3.59%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.14%) GDPR
6 4 (1.79%) GRC
6 4 (1.79%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.79%) NCSC
7 3 (1.35%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (17.49%) Docker
2 15 (6.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 68 (30.49%) Kubernetes
2 49 (21.97%) Terraform
3 21 (9.42%) Istio
4 20 (8.97%) Ansible
5 11 (4.93%) Grafana
6 10 (4.48%) Argo
6 10 (4.48%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.59%) Kibana
8 7 (3.14%) Puppet
8 7 (3.14%) Rancher
9 6 (2.69%) Opsgenie
10 5 (2.24%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (1.35%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.35%) Netcool
12 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 54 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.31%) Google
3 16 (7.17%) NetApp
3 16 (7.17%) Splunk
4 13 (5.83%) Oracle
5 12 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 11 (4.93%) New Relic
7 10 (4.48%) SAP
8 9 (4.04%) Adobe
8 9 (4.04%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.04%) MuleSoft
8 9 (4.04%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.59%) Palo Alto
10 7 (3.14%) PagerDuty
11 6 (2.69%) Cisco
12 5 (2.24%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.79%) Black Duck
14 3 (1.35%) AppDynamics
14 3 (1.35%) SolarWinds
14 3 (1.35%) Talend