Cloud Native Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 290 299 291
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -49
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 105 152 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.66% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 2.04% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 117 171
10th Percentile £400 £470 £464
25th Percentile £466 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% - +18.23%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £688
90th Percentile £684 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +19.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile - £76.13 £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +14.11%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +31.84%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +22 32 £498 -21.96% 20
Scotland +30 23 £472 -3.43% 10
South West -7 17 £600 - 11
West Midlands +25 13 £650 - 5
Midlands +25 13 £650 - 9
North of England -7 12 £480 -26.15% 36
East of England +8 8 £575 +9.21% 4
North West -8 6 £523 -22.59% 25
North East +4 3 £370 -47.14% 5
Yorkshire -4 3 - - 6
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (3.81%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.81%) nginx
2 3 (2.86%) CMS
2 3 (2.86%) Drupal
3 2 (1.90%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.43%) AWS
2 36 (34.29%) Azure
3 28 (26.67%) OpenShift
4 22 (20.95%) GCP
5 12 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.52%) Serverless
7 9 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.76%) CloudFront
11 5 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (3.81%) PaaS
13 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.86%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (2.86%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.24%) DNS
2 12 (11.43%) Firewall
3 10 (9.52%) VPN
4 9 (8.57%) Network Security
5 4 (3.81%) HTTPS
5 4 (3.81%) IPsec
5 4 (3.81%) LAN
5 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.81%) WAN
6 3 (2.86%) SSL
6 3 (2.86%) WLAN
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.95%) Internet
8 1 (0.95%) MPLS
8 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.62%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.76%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.76%) MySQL
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.81%) Big Data
6 4 (3.81%) Informix
7 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.86%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.90%) GIS
8 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.95%) DB2
9 1 (0.95%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) Git
2 11 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.76%) Gradle
3 5 (4.76%) Maven
3 5 (4.76%) Spinnaker
4 3 (2.86%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.86%) Selenium
4 3 (2.86%) Subversion
5 2 (1.90%) JIRA
6 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.52%) Finance
2 10 (9.52%) Retail
3 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.76%) Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Legal
6 3 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.90%) German Language
7 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
7 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Games
8 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (14.29%) Architect
2 14 (13.33%) Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Security Engineer
4 12 (11.43%) Site Engineer
4 12 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Senior
6 10 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
8 8 (7.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) Business Analyst
10 6 (5.71%) SOC Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Site Manager
11 5 (4.76%) Site Reliability Manager
12 4 (3.81%) Applications Architect
12 4 (3.81%) Azure Architect
12 4 (3.81%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) Kafka
1 12 (11.43%) Spring Boot
2 11 (10.48%) Spring
3 10 (9.52%) RESTful
4 7 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 6 (5.71%) OAuth
6 5 (4.76%) JSON
6 5 (4.76%) OAuth2
6 5 (4.76%) SAML
6 5 (4.76%) YAML
7 4 (3.81%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.86%) .NET
8 3 (2.86%) Node.js
8 3 (2.86%) React
9 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.90%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.90%) PostGIS
9 2 (1.90%) Regular Expression
9 2 (1.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Public Cloud
2 7 (6.67%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.81%) Replication
5 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.90%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.95%) BYOD
7 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) FMCG
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.38%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Unix
4 4 (3.81%) CentOS
5 3 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (45.71%) DevOps
2 45 (42.86%) Agile
3 36 (34.29%) CI/CD
4 30 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (27.62%) Microservices
6 23 (21.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
7 20 (19.05%) Migration
8 19 (18.10%) Containerisation
9 18 (17.14%) Cloud Security
9 18 (17.14%) Incident Response
10 17 (16.19%) Task Automation
11 15 (14.29%) Application Security
12 14 (13.33%) Change Management
13 13 (12.38%) Software Engineering
14 12 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (11.43%) ITSM
14 12 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (10.48%) GitOps
15 11 (10.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.90%) SQL
2 15 (14.29%) Python
3 14 (13.33%) Java
4 9 (8.57%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.67%) Bash
6 5 (4.76%) Groovy
6 5 (4.76%) PHP
6 5 (4.76%) Ruby
6 5 (4.76%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.81%) C#
7 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.95%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (20.95%) SC Cleared
1 22 (20.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.90%) BC Cleared
3 2 (1.90%) CASP
3 2 (1.90%) CCNA
3 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (1.90%) Degree
3 2 (1.90%) GCED
3 2 (1.90%) GIAC
3 2 (1.90%) GSEC
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (8.57%) NIST
2 8 (7.62%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
3 4 (3.81%) HIPAA
3 4 (3.81%) NCSC
4 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (35.24%) Kubernetes
2 25 (23.81%) Terraform
3 22 (20.95%) Ansible
4 20 (19.05%) Istio
5 11 (10.48%) Grafana
6 9 (8.57%) Prometheus
7 8 (7.62%) Argo
7 8 (7.62%) Kibana
8 7 (6.67%) Rancher
9 4 (3.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.90%) Puppet
12 1 (0.95%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Google
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle
3 5 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.81%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.81%) Splunk
5 3 (2.86%) Cisco
5 3 (2.86%) Commvault
5 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.90%) Citrix
6 2 (1.90%) Databricks
6 2 (1.90%) F5
6 2 (1.90%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.90%) Nokia
6 2 (1.90%) TippingPoint
6 2 (1.90%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.95%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.95%) BMC