Cloud Native Contracts in the North West

Cloud Native
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 127 134
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 6 33 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 1.07% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 3.25% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 36
10th Percentile £458 £550 £513
25th Percentile £480 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £675 £619
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% +9.09% +15.12%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £700
90th Percentile - - £775
England median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 689 1,014 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.83% 33.03% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 665 1,078
10th Percentile £286 £300 £226
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 40 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.85 £11.48
25th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £14.19
Median hourly rate £25.25 £31.49 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.82% +57.45% +11.73%
75th Percentile £40.63 £66.00 £40.38
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £52.08
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +2 4 £525 -22.22% 24
Cheshire -1 1 £523 -5.00%
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) ThoughtSpot
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) VMware