Cloud Native Contracts in the South East

Cloud Native
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 157 191 193
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 43 24 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.75% 0.42% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.65% 1.25% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 52
10th Percentile £393 £500 £526
25th Percentile £469 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £506 £700 £653
90th Percentile £673 £735 £775
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,624 1,926 2,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.23% 34.01% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 1,308 1,650
10th Percentile £210 £205 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £719 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 93 117
10th Percentile £11.79 £17.82 £13.95
25th Percentile £18.35 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £49.18
90th Percentile £75.16 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +28 36 £493 -26.96% 12
Berkshire +7 29 £494 -26.81% 9
Buckinghamshire +30 7 £400 - 2
Hampshire - 7 £672 - 1
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) OpenShift
2 12 (27.91%) AWS
3 10 (23.26%) Azure
4 9 (20.93%) GCP
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.33%) IaaS
6 1 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) NX-OS
1 6 (13.95%) SD-WAN
2 2 (4.65%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (27.91%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Git
2 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Banking
2 3 (6.98%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Retail
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Site Engineer
1 18 (41.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 8 (18.60%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Network Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Core Java Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (2.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.33%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.33%) CSS
2 1 (2.33%) DOM
2 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
2 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) Spring
2 1 (2.33%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) DevOps
2 22 (51.16%) Containerisation
3 20 (46.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 18 (41.86%) Collaborative Working
4 18 (41.86%) Incident Response
4 18 (41.86%) ITSM
5 17 (39.53%) Change Management
6 16 (37.21%) Agile
7 15 (34.88%) GitOps
7 15 (34.88%) Microservices
7 15 (34.88%) Task Automation
8 13 (30.23%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (30.23%) Software Engineering
9 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
11 7 (16.28%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (16.28%) Performance Optimisation
11 7 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (16.28%) Time Management
11 7 (16.28%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 1 (2.33%) Bash
2 1 (2.33%) Bicep
2 1 (2.33%) C#
2 1 (2.33%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (53.49%) SC Cleared
1 23 (53.49%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) CCNA
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) OCP
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 6 (13.95%) VMware NSX
2 6 (13.95%) vSphere
3 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (44.19%) Istio
3 13 (30.23%) Prometheus
4 12 (27.91%) Argo
4 12 (27.91%) Grafana
4 12 (27.91%) Kibana
5 9 (20.93%) Terraform
6 7 (16.28%) Rancher
7 6 (13.95%) CSIRT
8 2 (4.65%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Google
2 6 (13.95%) Cisco
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) VMware
4 1 (2.33%) BMC
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) F5
4 1 (2.33%) Nokia
4 1 (2.33%) Remedy
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow