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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 271 225
Rank change year-on-year -56 -46 -3
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 277 586 1,152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 1.02% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 3.05% 3.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 393 831
10th Percentile £417 £476 £481
25th Percentile £500 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +19.27%
75th Percentile £684 £713 £750
90th Percentile £741 £794 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -14.79% - +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% +14.11%

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 12,935 19,188 29,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.31% 33.29% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,332 13,186 20,393
10th Percentile £270 £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 £670 £675 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 632 728
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -12.50%

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 14 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 14 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 -66 225 £581 -10.58% 231
London -70 135 £600 -7.69% 124
UK excluding London +19 107 £511 -14.79% 118
Work from Home -17 98 £600 -4.00% 123
South East +29 32 £498 -21.96% 28
Scotland +32 23 £472 -3.43% 11
South West -5 19 £600 - 14
Midlands +23 13 £650 - 11
West Midlands +21 13 £650 - 6
North of England -9 12 £480 -26.15% 42
East of England +12 8 £575 +9.21% 5
North West 0 6 £523 -21.13% 30
North East +4 3 £370 -47.14% 5
Yorkshire +2 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 21 (7.58%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.25%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (2.53%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.17%) Apache Solr
5 5 (1.81%) Cloud Foundry
5 5 (1.81%) 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
Cloud Services
1 135 (48.74%) Azure
2 133 (48.01%) AWS
3 56 (20.22%) GCP
4 53 (19.13%) Serverless
5 33 (11.91%) OpenShift
6 31 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (8.30%) SaaS
9 22 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (7.22%) GitHub
11 18 (6.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (6.14%) Azure Functions
12 17 (6.14%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (6.14%) PaaS
13 16 (5.78%) Entra ID
14 15 (5.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
17 12 (4.33%) Amazon S3
18 11 (3.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.30%) DNS
2 15 (5.42%) Firewall
3 11 (3.97%) VPN
4 9 (3.25%) Network Security
5 7 (2.53%) HTTPS
5 7 (2.53%) IPsec
6 5 (1.81%) HTTP
6 5 (1.81%) 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 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.03%) NoSQL
3 21 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 18 (6.50%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (3.97%) Big Data
6 11 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.61%) MySQL
7 10 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.25%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.53%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.81%) Redis
11 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.44%) Couchbase
11 4 (1.44%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.44%) Informix
11 4 (1.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (10.11%) Git
2 26 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.97%) SonarQube
4 8 (2.89%) Selenium
5 5 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.81%) GitLab
5 5 (1.81%) Gradle
5 5 (1.81%) Maven
5 5 (1.81%) 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 (20.94%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.16%) Finance
3 30 (10.83%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.69%) Banking
5 12 (4.33%) Retail
6 11 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Legal
8 5 (1.81%) Marketing
9 4 (1.44%) Front Office
9 4 (1.44%) German Language
10 3 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
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 (26.35%) Architect
2 58 (20.94%) Developer
3 41 (14.80%) Senior
4 26 (9.39%) Technical Architect
5 18 (6.50%) Security Engineer
5 18 (6.50%) Site Engineer
5 18 (6.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 17 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (6.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.05%) Cloud Architect
7 14 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.69%) Analyst
8 13 (4.69%) SharePoint Architect
9 11 (3.97%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.61%) Full Stack Developer
10 10 (3.61%) Lead
11 9 (3.25%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.25%) Java Developer
12 8 (2.89%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.89%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.11%) .NET
1 28 (10.11%) Kafka
2 18 (6.50%) .NET Core
2 18 (6.50%) Node.js
2 18 (6.50%) React
2 18 (6.50%) RESTful
3 16 (5.78%) HTML
4 14 (5.05%) JSON
5 13 (4.69%) OAuth
5 13 (4.69%) Spring Boot
6 12 (4.33%) Spring
6 12 (4.33%) YAML
7 11 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (3.61%) CSS
8 10 (3.61%) OpenID
8 10 (3.61%) REST
8 10 (3.61%) SAML
9 9 (3.25%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.25%) OAuth2
10 8 (2.89%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.39%) Data Structures
2 19 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.14%) Public Cloud
4 15 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.33%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.89%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.89%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.17%) Mobile App
9 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.81%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.81%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.27%) Linux
2 29 (10.47%) Windows
3 18 (6.50%) 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
1 104 (37.55%) DevOps
2 95 (34.30%) Agile
3 86 (31.05%) CI/CD
4 79 (28.52%) Microservices
5 54 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 52 (18.77%) Migration
7 40 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (13.00%) Change Management
8 36 (13.00%) Software Engineering
9 35 (12.64%) Cloud Security
10 34 (12.27%) SDLC
11 33 (11.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 30 (10.83%) Containerisation
13 25 (9.03%) Analytics
14 23 (8.30%) Data Migration
14 23 (8.30%) Data Security
14 23 (8.30%) Test Automation
15 22 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
16 21 (7.58%) Collaborative Working
16 21 (7.58%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.35%) Python
2 65 (23.47%) SQL
3 43 (15.52%) Java
4 35 (12.64%) JavaScript
5 31 (11.19%) Go
6 23 (8.30%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.22%) C#
8 18 (6.50%) Bash
9 15 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.61%) C++
10 10 (3.61%) Ruby
11 9 (3.25%) PL/SQL
11 9 (3.25%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.17%) Groovy
12 6 (2.17%) PHP
12 6 (2.17%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.81%) Scala
14 3 (1.08%) Perl
15 2 (0.72%) ABAP
16 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 54 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.41%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.86%) Degree
4 9 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.08%) CCIE
8 3 (1.08%) CCNP
8 3 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.72%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.72%) CASP
9 2 (0.72%) CCNA
9 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.72%) GCED
9 2 (0.72%) GIAC
9 2 (0.72%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (4.69%) QA
3 12 (4.33%) NIST
4 8 (2.89%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.53%) GDPR
6 4 (1.44%) GRC
6 4 (1.44%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.44%) NCSC
7 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (16.25%) Docker
2 15 (5.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 85 (30.69%) Kubernetes
2 62 (22.38%) Terraform
3 33 (11.91%) Ansible
4 21 (7.58%) Istio
5 14 (5.05%) Grafana
6 11 (3.97%) Argo
6 11 (3.97%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.25%) Puppet
8 8 (2.89%) Kibana
9 7 (2.53%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.53%) Rancher
10 6 (2.17%) Opsgenie
11 4 (1.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (1.08%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.08%) Netcool
12 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.36%) CASB
13 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.39%) Google
3 20 (7.22%) Splunk
4 18 (6.50%) NetApp
5 17 (6.14%) Oracle
5 17 (6.14%) SAP
6 15 (5.42%) New Relic
7 12 (4.33%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.97%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.25%) Adobe
9 9 (3.25%) MuleSoft
9 9 (3.25%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.89%) Palo Alto
11 7 (2.53%) PagerDuty
12 6 (2.17%) Cisco
12 6 (2.17%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.81%) Lotus
14 4 (1.44%) Black Duck
14 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.44%) Red Hat