Cloud Native Contracts in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 90 116 156
Rank change year-on-year +26 +40 -20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 21 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.03% 0.59% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.34% 1.77% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £620 - £416
25th Percentile £625 £625 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +40.54% -
75th Percentile £675 £678 £495
90th Percentile £688 £699 £674
England median daily rate £600 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +8 12 £674 +3.62% 5
Coventry - 5 £650 -
Birmingham +12 3 £600 -7.69% 4
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (14.29%) CMS
1 3 (14.29%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) CloudFront
3 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 5 (23.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) NX-OS
1 9 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 8 (38.10%) DNS
3 6 (28.57%) Network Security
4 5 (23.81%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) SSL
6 2 (9.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) DB2
1 1 (4.76%) OLAP
1 1 (4.76%) OLTP
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 3 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
1 5 (23.81%) Retail
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Architect
2 9 (42.86%) Network Architect
3 7 (33.33%) Security Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Applications Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) OAuth
1 5 (23.81%) OAuth2
1 5 (23.81%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) Regular Expression
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 3 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Computer Security
2 9 (42.86%) Network Packet Capture
2 9 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
2 9 (42.86%) Password Management
3 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 5 (23.81%) Application Security
4 5 (23.81%) Data Security
4 5 (23.81%) Defensive Programming
4 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
4 5 (23.81%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (23.81%) Penetration Testing
4 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
4 5 (23.81%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 4 (19.05%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CASP
3 1 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (4.76%) GCED
3 1 (4.76%) GIAC
3 1 (4.76%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) VMware NSX
1 9 (42.86%) vSphere
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) Docker
4 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) CSIRT
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) LogRhythm
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) TippingPoint
4 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro