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 13 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 68 105
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 +9
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 44 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.09% 1.07% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.35% 2.32% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 3
10th Percentile £485 £315 -
25th Percentile £500 £318 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £468 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.75% -18.70% +10.90%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £650
90th Percentile £600 £690 £688
England median daily rate £538 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -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 599 431 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.51% 46.10% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 243 283
10th Percentile £185 £225 £190
25th Percentile £318 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £572 £619 £552
90th Percentile £681 £688 £650
England median daily rate £513 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -6.35% -0.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 76 126
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.95 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.35 £30.34 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.29% +21.36% -15.71%
75th Percentile £67.88 £84.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year +29.89% +25.00% +24.44%

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 13 April 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 13 April 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
Norfolk - 15 £519 - 6
Bedfordshire +2 11 £600 - 3
Cambridgeshire +11 10 £563 -19.61% 6
Essex -8 6 £535 +68.14% 7
Hertfordshire -23 2 £475 -26.92% 7
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 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) Azure
2 18 (40.91%) AWS
3 13 (29.55%) GCP
4 12 (27.27%) GitHub
5 9 (20.45%) Azure AKS
5 9 (20.45%) Serverless
6 6 (13.64%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.82%) PaaS
9 2 (4.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 1 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Git
1 6 (13.64%) IntelliJ
1 6 (13.64%) JUnit
1 6 (13.64%) SonarQube
2 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.82%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) MLflow
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Architect
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Designer
2 5 (11.36%) Developer
2 5 (11.36%) GCP Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Integration Architect
2 5 (11.36%) Senior
2 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Designer
3 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Lead
3 4 (9.09%) Technical Leader
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) GCP Software Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) Spring
1 13 (29.55%) Spring Boot
2 7 (15.91%) .NET
3 6 (13.64%) RESTful
4 5 (11.36%) Kafka
5 4 (9.09%) Node.js
5 4 (9.09%) REST
6 3 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (4.55%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (4.55%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.55%) JSON
7 2 (4.55%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (4.55%) PyTorch
7 2 (4.55%) Semantic Kernel
7 2 (4.55%) TensorFlow
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.27%) Blazor
8 1 (2.27%) eBPF
8 1 (2.27%) Next.js
8 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.27%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 19 (43.18%) DevOps
2 19 (43.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (31.82%) Event-Driven
4 13 (29.55%) Microservices
5 12 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 10 (22.73%) AI
6 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
6 10 (22.73%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.18%) Application Security
9 7 (15.91%) Cloud Security
9 7 (15.91%) Code Quality
9 7 (15.91%) Open Source
9 7 (15.91%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.91%) Security Testing
10 6 (13.64%) Agile
10 6 (13.64%) BDD
10 6 (13.64%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Java
2 12 (27.27%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) Go
4 2 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.09%) CFA
2 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.55%) CCSP
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CCIE
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
5 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) NIST
2 6 (13.64%) QA
3 5 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (9.09%) GDPR
4 4 (9.09%) PCI DSS
5 3 (6.82%) EU AI Act
6 2 (4.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
3 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (2.27%) Grafana
4 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) Google
3 6 (13.64%) Checkmarx
4 4 (9.09%) Oracle
5 3 (6.82%) Ariba
5 3 (6.82%) SAP
6 2 (4.55%) Foundry
6 2 (4.55%) Splunk
7 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.27%) Confluent
7 1 (2.27%) Informatica
7 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.27%) Talend