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 in the UK excluding London. 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 280 276 290
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -38
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 122 155 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.68% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.01% 2.13% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 120 169
10th Percentile £413 £450 £463
25th Percentile £473 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £637 £680 £688
90th Percentile £675 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £644
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.01% +17.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £74.25 -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +6.03%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
% change year-on-year - +22.61% +45.41%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
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 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 12 June 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 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
South East +34 43 £498 -20.40% 21
South West -9 26 £630 +5.00% 5
Scotland +41 21 £470 -2.95% 9
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 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 (3.28%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.28%) nginx
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.46%) CMS
2 3 (2.46%) Drupal
3 2 (1.64%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 51 (41.80%) AWS
2 38 (31.15%) OpenShift
3 34 (27.87%) Azure
4 22 (18.03%) GCP
5 8 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.56%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.56%) Serverless
6 7 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (4.92%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.10%) CloudFront
8 5 (4.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CodeCommit
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.30%) DNS
1 15 (12.30%) SD-WAN
2 11 (9.02%) Firewall
2 11 (9.02%) NX-OS
3 10 (8.20%) VPN
4 8 (6.56%) Network Security
5 4 (3.28%) HTTPS
5 4 (3.28%) IPsec
5 4 (3.28%) LAN
5 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.28%) WAN
6 3 (2.46%) SSL
6 3 (2.46%) WLAN
7 1 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.82%) Internet
7 1 (0.82%) MPLS
7 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.21%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.11%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.10%) Big Data
5 5 (4.10%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.10%) MySQL
6 4 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.28%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.28%) InfluxDB
6 4 (3.28%) Informix
7 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.64%) GIS
9 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Git
2 11 (9.02%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.10%) Gradle
3 5 (4.10%) Maven
3 5 (4.10%) Spinnaker
4 3 (2.46%) Artifactory
4 3 (2.46%) Selenium
4 3 (2.46%) Subversion
5 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.82%) JIRA
General
1 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.02%) Finance
2 11 (9.02%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.20%) Retail
4 6 (4.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.28%) Legal
6 3 (2.46%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.64%) Marketing
7 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (21.31%) Architect
2 19 (15.57%) Site Engineer
2 19 (15.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (11.48%) Developer
4 13 (10.66%) Network Architect
5 12 (9.84%) Security Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.38%) Senior
8 8 (6.56%) Analyst
8 8 (6.56%) Business Analyst
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Site Manager
9 5 (4.10%) Site Reliability Manager
9 5 (4.10%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.39%) Kafka
2 12 (9.84%) Spring
2 12 (9.84%) Spring Boot
3 9 (7.38%) RESTful
4 6 (4.92%) AWS CDK
4 6 (4.92%) SAML
5 5 (4.10%) .NET
5 5 (4.10%) OAuth
5 5 (4.10%) OAuth2
5 5 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (4.10%) YAML
6 4 (3.28%) JSON
6 4 (3.28%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (3.28%) Node.js
7 3 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.64%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.64%) CSS
8 2 (1.64%) Django
8 2 (1.64%) PostGIS
8 2 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.84%) Public Cloud
2 11 (9.02%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.74%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.46%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.46%) Replication
7 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.82%) BYOD
8 1 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.82%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.11%) Linux
2 12 (9.84%) Windows
3 6 (4.92%) Unix
4 4 (3.28%) CentOS
4 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (44.26%) DevOps
2 49 (40.16%) Agile
3 40 (32.79%) CI/CD
3 40 (32.79%) Microservices
4 34 (27.87%) Incident Response
5 30 (24.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 28 (22.95%) Containerisation
7 25 (20.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (18.85%) Collaborative Working
9 22 (18.03%) Software Engineering
9 22 (18.03%) Task Automation
10 19 (15.57%) Change Management
10 19 (15.57%) ITSM
11 18 (14.75%) Cloud Security
12 17 (13.93%) Migration
13 16 (13.11%) GitOps
14 14 (11.48%) Application Security
14 14 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (10.66%) Network Virtualisation
16 12 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.03%) SQL
2 18 (14.75%) Java
3 16 (13.11%) Python
4 9 (7.38%) Bash
5 8 (6.56%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.10%) C#
6 5 (4.10%) Groovy
6 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.10%) PHP
6 5 (4.10%) Ruby
6 5 (4.10%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.64%) Perl
7 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.82%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (31.97%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) CASP
5 1 (0.82%) CCNA
5 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.82%) Degree
5 1 (0.82%) GCED
5 1 (0.82%) GIAC
5 1 (0.82%) GSEC
5 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.82%) OCP
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (7.38%) NIST
1 9 (7.38%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) GDPR
2 4 (3.28%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.28%) NCSC
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (19.67%) Docker
2 11 (9.02%) VMware NSX
2 11 (9.02%) vSphere
3 10 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (38.52%) Kubernetes
2 25 (20.49%) Istio
3 23 (18.85%) Terraform
4 21 (17.21%) Ansible
5 17 (13.93%) Grafana
6 14 (11.48%) Prometheus
7 13 (10.66%) Argo
7 13 (10.66%) Kibana
8 11 (9.02%) CSIRT
9 7 (5.74%) Rancher
10 4 (3.28%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (2.46%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.64%) Puppet
12 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.82%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.82%) NetIQ Identity Manager
Vendors
1 14 (11.48%) Cisco
2 13 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.02%) Google
3 11 (9.02%) VMware
4 6 (4.92%) Oracle
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.28%) Commvault
6 4 (3.28%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.28%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.28%) Splunk
7 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.64%) Databricks
9 1 (0.82%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.82%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.82%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.82%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.82%) NetIQ
9 1 (0.82%) Remedy
9 1 (0.82%) TippingPoint