Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in East London

Cloud Native
London > East London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in East London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 21 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.00% 0.89% 1.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.32% 2.94% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £549 - £501
25th Percentile £563 £563 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £528
90th Percentile £621 - £534
London median daily rate £559 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.88% - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 41 34 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 41.00% 30.36% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 96
10th Percentile £161 - £340
25th Percentile £354 £400 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £478 £585
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -18.38% +6.36%
75th Percentile £713 £588 £660
90th Percentile £1,000 £637 £770
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £24.66 £11.95
Median % change year-on-year - +106.36% -46.85%
London median hourly rate £27.71 £39.00 £28.88
% change year-on-year -28.95% +35.06% -14.62%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in East London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 3 £585 - 1
Cloud Native
London

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Figma
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) OSGi
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team Management
2 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe