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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 255 225
Rank change year-on-year -61 -30 -3
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 278 591 1,149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 1.03% 1.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.15% 3.10% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 393 830
10th Percentile £417 £475 £475
25th Percentile £495 £525 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £750
90th Percentile £725 £794 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile - - £61.81
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £63.62
Median % change year-on-year - +22.61% +31.84%
75th Percentile - - £65.42
90th Percentile - £85.20 -
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 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -65 225 £575 -11.54% 244
London -71 133 £600 -7.69% 151
UK excluding London +7 109 £500 -16.67% 123
Work from Home -18 98 £600 -4.00% 143
South East +36 36 £498 -20.40% 42
Scotland +36 23 £472 -3.43% 10
South West -11 17 £600 - 9
West Midlands +20 13 £650 - 7
Midlands +16 13 £650 - 13
North of England -4 12 £480 -26.15% 37
East of England +9 8 £575 +9.21% 6
North West -11 6 £523 -19.62% 23
North East +7 3 £370 -47.14% 7
Yorkshire +1 3 - - 7

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 20 (7.19%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.88%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.16%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.80%) Cloud Foundry
5 5 (1.80%) IBM Notes
6 4 (1.44%) nginx
7 3 (1.08%) Apache
7 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.08%) CMS
7 3 (1.08%) Drupal
7 3 (1.08%) IIS
7 3 (1.08%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.72%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Shopify
1 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 131 (47.12%) Azure
2 130 (46.76%) AWS
3 55 (19.78%) GCP
4 53 (19.06%) Serverless
5 36 (12.95%) OpenShift
6 31 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.27%) SaaS
9 21 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (6.83%) GitHub
11 17 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.12%) Azure Functions
11 17 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (6.12%) PaaS
12 15 (5.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (5.40%) Entra ID
13 14 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
15 12 (4.32%) Amazon S3
16 10 (3.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.27%) DNS
2 15 (5.40%) Firewall
3 11 (3.96%) VPN
4 9 (3.24%) Network Security
5 7 (2.52%) HTTPS
5 7 (2.52%) IPsec
6 5 (1.80%) HTTP
6 5 (1.80%) Internet
7 4 (1.44%) LAN
7 4 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (1.44%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.44%) WAN
8 3 (1.08%) SSL
8 3 (1.08%) WLAN
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.72%) DHCP
9 2 (0.72%) FTP
9 2 (0.72%) SSH
10 1 (0.36%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (9.35%) NoSQL
3 19 (6.83%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.40%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (3.60%) Big Data
6 10 (3.60%) MySQL
6 10 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.52%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.52%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.80%) Couchbase
10 5 (1.80%) Redis
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.44%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (9.71%) Git
2 25 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.96%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.88%) Selenium
5 5 (1.80%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.80%) GitLab
5 5 (1.80%) Gradle
5 5 (1.80%) Maven
5 5 (1.80%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.44%) JIRA
6 4 (1.44%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.08%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.08%) Subversion
8 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) ESLint
9 1 (0.36%) Lerna
9 1 (0.36%) Storybook
9 1 (0.36%) Vite
General
1 58 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.75%) Finance
3 30 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.04%) Banking
4 14 (5.04%) Retail
5 9 (3.24%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.16%) Legal
8 5 (1.80%) Marketing
9 4 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.44%) Front Office
10 3 (1.08%) German Language
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Wearables
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 73 (26.26%) Architect
2 58 (20.86%) Developer
3 39 (14.03%) Senior
4 26 (9.35%) Technical Architect
5 21 (7.55%) Site Engineer
5 21 (7.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 18 (6.47%) Security Engineer
7 17 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.04%) Cloud Architect
8 14 (5.04%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.68%) Analyst
9 13 (4.68%) SharePoint Architect
10 11 (3.96%) Full Stack Developer
10 11 (3.96%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.60%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.60%) Lead
12 9 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 9 (3.24%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.51%) Kafka
2 28 (10.07%) .NET
3 18 (6.47%) .NET Core
3 18 (6.47%) Node.js
3 18 (6.47%) React
3 18 (6.47%) RESTful
4 16 (5.76%) HTML
5 14 (5.04%) JSON
5 14 (5.04%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.68%) OAuth
6 13 (4.68%) Spring
7 12 (4.32%) YAML
8 11 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (3.60%) CSS
9 10 (3.60%) OpenID
9 10 (3.60%) REST
9 10 (3.60%) SAML
10 9 (3.24%) AWS CDK
10 9 (3.24%) OAuth2
11 8 (2.88%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.35%) Data Structures
2 19 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 14 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.88%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.52%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.16%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.16%) Mobile App
10 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.80%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.44%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (12.59%) Linux
2 29 (10.43%) Windows
3 18 (6.47%) Unix
4 4 (1.44%) CentOS
5 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (37.77%) DevOps
2 93 (33.45%) Agile
3 86 (30.94%) CI/CD
4 81 (29.14%) Microservices
5 53 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (17.99%) Migration
7 41 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (14.03%) Change Management
9 38 (13.67%) Software Engineering
10 36 (12.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 34 (12.23%) Cloud Security
12 33 (11.87%) Containerisation
12 33 (11.87%) SDLC
13 25 (8.99%) Analytics
14 23 (8.27%) Collaborative Working
14 23 (8.27%) Data Migration
14 23 (8.27%) Data Security
14 23 (8.27%) Task Automation
14 23 (8.27%) Test Automation
15 21 (7.55%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.18%) Python
2 61 (21.94%) SQL
3 44 (15.83%) Java
4 35 (12.59%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.15%) Go
6 23 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.55%) C#
8 18 (6.47%) Bash
9 15 (5.40%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.60%) Ruby
11 9 (3.24%) C++
12 8 (2.88%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.88%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.16%) Groovy
13 6 (2.16%) PHP
13 6 (2.16%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.80%) Scala
15 3 (1.08%) Perl
16 2 (0.72%) ABAP
17 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.12%) Degree
4 9 (3.24%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.08%) CCIE
7 3 (1.08%) CCNP
7 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.72%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) CASP
8 2 (0.72%) CCNA
8 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.72%) GCED
8 2 (0.72%) GIAC
8 2 (0.72%) GSEC
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (4.68%) QA
2 11 (3.96%) NIST
3 8 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.52%) GDPR
5 4 (1.44%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.44%) NCSC
6 3 (1.08%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (16.55%) Docker
2 14 (5.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 88 (31.65%) Kubernetes
2 59 (21.22%) Terraform
3 30 (10.79%) Ansible
4 24 (8.63%) Istio
5 17 (6.12%) Grafana
6 14 (5.04%) Prometheus
7 13 (4.68%) Argo
8 11 (3.96%) Kibana
9 9 (3.24%) Puppet
10 7 (2.52%) Progress Chef
10 7 (2.52%) Rancher
11 6 (2.16%) Opsgenie
12 4 (1.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.08%) Netcool
13 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.36%) CASB
14 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.35%) Google
3 20 (7.19%) Splunk
4 18 (6.47%) NetApp
4 18 (6.47%) SAP
5 16 (5.76%) Oracle
6 15 (5.40%) New Relic
7 12 (4.32%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.96%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.24%) Adobe
9 9 (3.24%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.88%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.88%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.52%) PagerDuty
12 6 (2.16%) Cisco
12 6 (2.16%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.80%) Lotus
14 4 (1.44%) Black Duck
14 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.44%) Red Hat