Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Cloud Native
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 22 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 12.29% 1.29% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 24.72% 3.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 0
10th Percentile £366 £549 -
25th Percentile £409 £566 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% - -
75th Percentile £582 £716 -
90th Percentile £619 £736 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £638 -
% change year-on-year -13.73% - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 89 57 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 49.72% 36.77% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 47
10th Percentile £249 £313 £168
25th Percentile £400 £415 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +6.95% -1.58%
75th Percentile £651 £600 £550
90th Percentile £780 £700 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -16.46% -1.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile - - £58.75
25th Percentile £23.00 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -69.33% +100.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile £40.25 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £32.25 £35.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -8.51% -35.91% +66.67%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Cambridge over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in Cambridge

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) Azure AKS
2 12 (54.55%) PaaS
3 10 (45.45%) GitHub
3 10 (45.45%) GitHub Copilot
3 10 (45.45%) Serverless
4 9 (40.91%) Azure Functions
5 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) AWS
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JMeter
1 2 (9.09%) Postman
1 2 (9.09%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) .NET Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (81.82%) .NET
2 13 (59.09%) RESTful
3 11 (50.00%) PyTorch
3 11 (50.00%) TensorFlow
4 10 (45.45%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (9.09%) Pandas
5 2 (9.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) AI
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 17 (77.27%) Machine Learning
2 17 (77.27%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (72.73%) LLM
3 16 (72.73%) Prompt Engineering
3 16 (72.73%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
5 14 (63.64%) Data Privacy
6 12 (54.55%) API Management
7 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (45.45%) Deep Learning
8 10 (45.45%) Scrum
9 9 (40.91%) API Design
9 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (36.36%) Data Science
10 8 (36.36%) Validation
11 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
11 7 (31.82%) DevOps
12 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (68.18%) EU AI Act
1 15 (68.18%) NIST
2 4 (18.18%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (45.45%) Foundry
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk