Cloud Native Contracts

Cloud Native
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies. 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 312 246 230
Rank change year-on-year -66 -16 +4
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 284 605 1,122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.08% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.19% 3.24% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 398 807
10th Percentile £423 £475 £475
25th Percentile £500 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% -1.04% +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £750
90th Percentile £725 £800 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - £75.75 -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +31.84%
75th Percentile - £81.00 £65.42
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +13.09%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,685 29,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.09% 33.33% 33.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,317 12,877 20,364
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £770
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 612 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.18 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.13 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +58.19% -17.99% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £74.93 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.61 £22.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +57.30% +3.53% -7.61%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -85 235 £600 -7.69% 227
London -78 133 £600 -7.69% 130
UK excluding London +6 118 £525 -12.50% 99
Work from Home -21 95 £650 +4.00% 110
South East +28 40 £500 -20.00% 23
South West -6 25 £628 +4.58% 9
Scotland +32 22 £475 -2.56% 10
Midlands +30 21 £650 - 12
West Midlands +22 21 £650 - 7
North of England -9 12 £480 -24.71% 36
East of England +2 8 £575 +8.49% 5
North West -4 6 £523 -22.59% 27
North East +8 3 £370 -47.14% 5
Yorkshire +2 3 - - 4

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.46%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (1.76%) Apache Solr
4 5 (1.76%) IBM Notes
5 4 (1.41%) nginx
6 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.06%) CMS
6 3 (1.06%) Drupal
6 3 (1.06%) IIS
6 3 (1.06%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.70%) Apache
7 2 (0.70%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 127 (44.72%) AWS
2 124 (43.66%) Azure
3 56 (19.72%) GCP
4 50 (17.61%) Serverless
5 37 (13.03%) OpenShift
6 28 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (7.04%) GitHub
8 20 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (6.34%) SaaS
10 16 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (5.28%) Azure Functions
11 15 (5.28%) Entra ID
11 15 (5.28%) PaaS
12 14 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.58%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (3.87%) Amazon S3
16 10 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.10%) DNS
2 19 (6.69%) SD-WAN
3 15 (5.28%) Firewall
4 14 (4.93%) NX-OS
5 11 (3.87%) VPN
6 9 (3.17%) Network Security
7 7 (2.46%) HTTPS
7 7 (2.46%) IPsec
8 5 (1.76%) HTTP
8 5 (1.76%) LAN
8 5 (1.76%) WAN
9 4 (1.41%) Internet
9 4 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.41%) WLAN
10 3 (1.06%) SSL
11 2 (0.70%) FTP
11 2 (0.70%) MPLS
11 2 (0.70%) SSH
11 2 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.21%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.15%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (4.93%) MongoDB
6 12 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (3.87%) Big Data
7 11 (3.87%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.17%) MySQL
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.46%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.46%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.76%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.76%) Redis
12 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (9.15%) Git
2 24 (8.45%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.87%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.82%) Selenium
5 6 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.76%) GitLab
6 5 (1.76%) Gradle
6 5 (1.76%) Maven
6 5 (1.76%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.41%) JIRA
8 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.06%) Robot Framework
8 3 (1.06%) Subversion
8 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.35%) ESLint
10 1 (0.35%) Lerna
10 1 (0.35%) Storybook
10 1 (0.35%) Vite
General
1 58 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.44%) Finance
3 34 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.58%) Banking
4 13 (4.58%) Retail
5 9 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.76%) Legal
7 5 (1.76%) Marketing
8 4 (1.41%) Front Office
9 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.70%) Games
10 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.70%) Wearables
11 1 (0.35%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 86 (30.28%) Architect
2 54 (19.01%) Developer
3 33 (11.62%) Senior
4 26 (9.15%) Technical Architect
5 21 (7.39%) Site Engineer
5 21 (7.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.34%) Network Architect
6 18 (6.34%) Security Engineer
7 16 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 15 (5.28%) SharePoint Architect
9 14 (4.93%) Cloud Architect
10 11 (3.87%) Analyst
10 11 (3.87%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.87%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.52%) Full Stack Developer
11 10 (3.52%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.82%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.82%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.97%) Kafka
2 27 (9.51%) .NET
3 18 (6.34%) .NET Core
3 18 (6.34%) RESTful
4 17 (5.99%) Node.js
4 17 (5.99%) React
5 15 (5.28%) HTML
6 14 (4.93%) Spring
6 14 (4.93%) Spring Boot
7 13 (4.58%) JSON
8 12 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (4.23%) OAuth
8 12 (4.23%) YAML
9 11 (3.87%) SAML
10 9 (3.17%) CSS
10 9 (3.17%) OAuth2
10 9 (3.17%) OpenID
10 9 (3.17%) REST
11 8 (2.82%) .NET Framework
11 8 (2.82%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.51%) Data Structures
2 20 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.99%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.87%) Product Ownership
7 10 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 8 (2.82%) Algorithms
9 8 (2.82%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.76%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.41%) Replication
12 4 (1.41%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.68%) Linux
2 28 (9.86%) Windows
3 19 (6.69%) Unix
4 4 (1.41%) CentOS
5 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (35.56%) DevOps
2 91 (32.04%) Agile
3 87 (30.63%) CI/CD
4 80 (28.17%) Microservices
5 50 (17.61%) Migration
6 48 (16.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (13.73%) Software Engineering
9 37 (13.03%) Change Management
10 35 (12.32%) Incident Response
10 35 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 34 (11.97%) Containerisation
12 33 (11.62%) Cloud Security
12 33 (11.62%) SDLC
13 27 (9.51%) Analytics
14 25 (8.80%) Test Automation
15 23 (8.10%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (8.10%) Data Migration
15 23 (8.10%) Data Security
15 23 (8.10%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (23.94%) Python
2 57 (20.07%) SQL
3 43 (15.14%) Java
4 32 (11.27%) JavaScript
5 29 (10.21%) Go
6 21 (7.39%) C#
6 21 (7.39%) TypeScript
7 18 (6.34%) Bash
8 14 (4.93%) PowerShell
9 9 (3.17%) Ruby
10 8 (2.82%) C++
11 7 (2.46%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.46%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.11%) Groovy
12 6 (2.11%) PHP
12 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.76%) Scala
14 4 (1.41%) Perl
15 2 (0.70%) ABAP
16 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 73 (25.70%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.34%) Degree
4 10 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.41%) CCIE
7 4 (1.41%) CCNP
7 4 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.70%) CASP
9 2 (0.70%) CCNA
9 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.70%) GCED
9 2 (0.70%) GIAC
9 2 (0.70%) GSEC
9 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.58%) QA
2 11 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.52%) NIST
4 8 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.11%) GDPR
6 4 (1.41%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.41%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (17.25%) Docker
2 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.93%) VMware NSX
2 14 (4.93%) vSphere
3 13 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 91 (32.04%) Kubernetes
2 60 (21.13%) Terraform
3 29 (10.21%) Ansible
4 25 (8.80%) Istio
5 16 (5.63%) Grafana
6 14 (4.93%) CSIRT
6 14 (4.93%) Prometheus
7 13 (4.58%) Argo
8 11 (3.87%) Kibana
9 8 (2.82%) Puppet
10 7 (2.46%) Rancher
11 6 (2.11%) Opsgenie
11 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (1.06%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.06%) Netcool
14 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.35%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 56 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.51%) Google
3 21 (7.39%) Cisco
4 20 (7.04%) Splunk
5 18 (6.34%) NetApp
6 16 (5.63%) Oracle
7 15 (5.28%) VMware
8 14 (4.93%) New Relic
8 14 (4.93%) SAP
9 11 (3.87%) Dynatrace
9 11 (3.87%) Salesforce
10 9 (3.17%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.82%) Adobe
11 8 (2.82%) Palo Alto
12 7 (2.46%) MuleSoft
13 6 (2.11%) CyberArk
13 6 (2.11%) PagerDuty
14 5 (1.76%) Lotus
15 4 (1.41%) Fortinet
15 4 (1.41%) Red Hat