Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cloud Native
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 73 102
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 +28
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 38 14 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.06% 1.32% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.74% 3.20% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 6
10th Percentile £400 £315 £450
25th Percentile £500 £317 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £613 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +13.95% -5.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £623 £763 £650
England median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.42% - -7.69%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 564 438 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.59% 41.28% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 244 323
10th Percentile £185 £250 £209
25th Percentile £313 £396 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £560
90th Percentile £713 £700 £675
England median daily rate £513 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -5.31% -1.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 59 133
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.76 £13.63
25th Percentile £16.17 £41.91 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -16.03%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £93.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.50 £37.00 £32.06
% change year-on-year -9.46% +15.42% +42.48%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the East of England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cambridgeshire +26 25 £550 -13.69% 3
Bedfordshire +1 13 £575 - 1
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (78.95%) Azure
2 18 (47.37%) Azure AKS
3 13 (34.21%) Serverless
4 12 (31.58%) PaaS
5 11 (28.95%) Azure Functions
6 10 (26.32%) AWS
6 10 (26.32%) GitHub
6 10 (26.32%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (7.89%) GCP
10 2 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (2.63%) AWS KMS
11 1 (2.63%) Azure API Management
11 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
11 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) JMeter
2 2 (5.26%) Postman
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) MLflow
General
1 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Aviation
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Architect
1 8 (21.05%) Developer
1 8 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Lead
4 4 (10.53%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.89%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Data Scientist
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.26%) QA Leader
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.63%) Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (50.00%) .NET
2 15 (39.47%) RESTful
3 11 (28.95%) A2A Protocol
3 11 (28.95%) Model Context Protocol
3 11 (28.95%) PyTorch
3 11 (28.95%) TensorFlow
4 10 (26.32%) Semantic Kernel
5 6 (15.79%) Spring
5 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 2 (5.26%) Pandas
6 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.26%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.63%) Blazor
7 1 (2.63%) eBPF
7 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.63%) Next.js
7 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) AI
2 21 (55.26%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (47.37%) Machine Learning
4 17 (44.74%) Agile
5 16 (42.11%) LLM
5 16 (42.11%) Prompt Engineering
5 16 (42.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 15 (39.47%) CI/CD
6 15 (39.47%) DevOps
6 15 (39.47%) Test Automation
7 14 (36.84%) Data Privacy
8 12 (31.58%) API Management
9 11 (28.95%) Prototyping
9 11 (28.95%) Software Engineering
10 10 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (26.32%) Deep Learning
10 10 (26.32%) Microservices
10 10 (26.32%) Scrum
11 9 (23.68%) API Design
11 9 (23.68%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 6 (15.79%) Degree
3 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (10.53%) CFA
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.63%) CCSP
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (42.11%) NIST
2 15 (39.47%) EU AI Act
3 4 (10.53%) QA
4 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (5.26%) HIPAA
5 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (26.32%) Foundry
3 3 (7.89%) Ariba
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint