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 in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 238 227
Rank change year-on-year -77 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 243 524 881
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 1.11% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 3.32% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 347 631
10th Percentile £449 £492 £500
25th Percentile £500 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £688 £723 £775
90th Percentile £728 £800 £863
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £644
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.01% +17.00%
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% +6.03%
75th Percentile - £81.00 £65.42
90th Percentile - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +45.41%

All Generic Skills
England

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London -87 134 £600 -7.69% 117
South East +34 43 £498 -20.40% 21
South West -9 26 £630 +5.00% 5
West Midlands +26 21 £650 - 10
Midlands +24 21 £650 - 14
North of England -10 15 £487 -25.15% 26
East of England +1 8 £575 +7.98% 6
North West -7 8 £508 -24.78% 19
Yorkshire 0 4 - - 2
North East +5 3 £370 -47.14% 5
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 (7.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.06%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (1.65%) Apache Solr
4 4 (1.65%) CMS
4 4 (1.65%) nginx
5 3 (1.23%) Drupal
5 3 (1.23%) IIS
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Confluence
7 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.41%) IBM Notes
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 110 (45.27%) Azure
2 96 (39.51%) AWS
3 44 (18.11%) GCP
4 38 (15.64%) Serverless
5 33 (13.58%) OpenShift
6 23 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.58%) GitHub
8 16 (6.58%) PaaS
8 16 (6.58%) SaaS
9 15 (6.17%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (6.17%) Entra ID
10 12 (4.94%) Azure Functions
11 11 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.53%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (4.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.29%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (3.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.47%) DNS
2 18 (7.41%) SD-WAN
3 14 (5.76%) NX-OS
4 11 (4.53%) Firewall
4 11 (4.53%) VPN
5 7 (2.88%) HTTPS
5 7 (2.88%) IPsec
5 7 (2.88%) Network Security
6 5 (2.06%) HTTP
7 4 (1.65%) LAN
7 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.65%) WAN
7 4 (1.65%) WLAN
8 3 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.23%) SSL
9 2 (0.82%) FTP
9 2 (0.82%) Internet
9 2 (0.82%) SSH
10 1 (0.41%) MPLS
10 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 23 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (7.00%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.12%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.70%) Big Data
5 9 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.29%) MySQL
7 6 (2.47%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.06%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.06%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.65%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.65%) Tableau
10 3 (1.23%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Git
2 14 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.53%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.88%) Selenium
5 5 (2.06%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.65%) GitLab
7 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.23%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.23%) Subversion
7 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.82%) JIRA
9 1 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
General
1 49 (20.16%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.46%) Finance
3 31 (12.76%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.17%) Retail
5 14 (5.76%) Banking
6 8 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.06%) Legal
8 5 (2.06%) Marketing
9 4 (1.65%) Front Office
10 3 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.82%) Games
11 2 (0.82%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (33.74%) Architect
2 31 (12.76%) Developer
3 25 (10.29%) Technical Architect
4 24 (9.88%) Site Engineer
4 24 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 22 (9.05%) Senior
6 18 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.41%) Network Architect
7 17 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (6.58%) SharePoint Architect
8 16 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.35%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.94%) Analyst
11 11 (4.53%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (4.12%) Data Engineer
13 9 (3.70%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.29%) Full Stack Developer
15 7 (2.88%) Consultant
16 6 (2.47%) Azure Architect
16 6 (2.47%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.17%) Kafka
2 24 (9.88%) .NET
3 14 (5.76%) .NET Core
4 12 (4.94%) JSON
4 12 (4.94%) OAuth
5 11 (4.53%) HTML
5 11 (4.53%) Node.js
5 11 (4.53%) React
5 11 (4.53%) SAML
5 11 (4.53%) YAML
6 10 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.12%) RESTful
7 9 (3.70%) OAuth2
7 9 (3.70%) OpenID
8 8 (3.29%) .NET Framework
9 7 (2.88%) REST
10 6 (2.47%) ASP.NET
10 6 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.47%) SOAP
10 6 (2.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.47%) Data Structures
2 20 (8.23%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.17%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.88%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.47%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.65%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.65%) Solar Panel
10 3 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.29%) Linux
2 21 (8.64%) Windows
3 13 (5.35%) Unix
4 4 (1.65%) CentOS
5 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (39.92%) DevOps
2 75 (30.86%) Agile
3 72 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 68 (27.98%) Microservices
5 44 (18.11%) Migration
6 42 (17.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (16.87%) Change Management
8 37 (15.23%) Incident Response
9 35 (14.40%) Containerisation
9 35 (14.40%) Software Engineering
10 32 (13.17%) Cloud Security
10 32 (13.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.52%) SDLC
13 25 (10.29%) Analytics
14 24 (9.88%) Task Automation
15 23 (9.47%) Data Security
16 22 (9.05%) Test Automation
17 21 (8.64%) Collaborative Working
18 20 (8.23%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (21.81%) Python
2 44 (18.11%) SQL
3 33 (13.58%) Java
4 24 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.82%) C#
6 17 (7.00%) Go
7 15 (6.17%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.94%) TypeScript
9 7 (2.88%) Bash
10 6 (2.47%) C++
10 6 (2.47%) PHP
11 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.06%) Scala
11 5 (2.06%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.23%) Perl
12 3 (1.23%) Ruby
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (31.28%) Security Cleared
2 73 (30.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) Degree
4 10 (4.12%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.65%) CCIE
7 4 (1.65%) CCNP
8 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.23%) GIAC
8 3 (1.23%) GSEC
9 2 (0.82%) CISM
9 2 (0.82%) GCIH
9 2 (0.82%) Linux+ Certification
9 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.82%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (0.41%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (4.94%) NIST
2 9 (3.70%) QA
3 8 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.47%) GDPR
5 4 (1.65%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.65%) NCSC
6 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.82%) GRC
7 2 (0.82%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 43 (17.70%) Docker
2 14 (5.76%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.76%) VMware NSX
2 14 (5.76%) vSphere
3 13 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) Snort
Systems Management
1 76 (31.28%) Kubernetes
2 51 (20.99%) Terraform
3 27 (11.11%) Istio
4 17 (7.00%) Ansible
5 16 (6.58%) Grafana
6 15 (6.17%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.76%) Argo
7 14 (5.76%) CSIRT
8 13 (5.35%) Kibana
9 7 (2.88%) Rancher
10 6 (2.47%) Opsgenie
11 5 (2.06%) Puppet
12 4 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (1.65%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (1.23%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.23%) Netcool
13 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.82%) logstash
15 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
15 1 (0.41%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 50 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.29%) Google
3 21 (8.64%) Cisco
4 18 (7.41%) NetApp
4 18 (7.41%) Splunk
5 15 (6.17%) VMware
6 11 (4.53%) Oracle
7 10 (4.12%) New Relic
7 10 (4.12%) Salesforce
8 9 (3.70%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.70%) SAP
8 9 (3.70%) ServiceNow
9 8 (3.29%) Adobe
10 7 (2.88%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.47%) MuleSoft
11 6 (2.47%) PagerDuty
12 5 (2.06%) CyberArk
13 4 (1.65%) Black Duck
14 3 (1.23%) Centrify
14 3 (1.23%) Databricks