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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 91 103
Rank change year-on-year +11 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 10 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.78% 0.33% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.39% 1.49% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £410 £420 £490
25th Percentile £454 £431 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £527
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -14.53% -15.34%
75th Percentile £504 £531 £656
90th Percentile £655 £580 £675
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -3.85%

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 419 335 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.56% 22.19% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 149 340
10th Percentile £190 £197 £200
25th Percentile £363 £290 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 51 63
10th Percentile £16.94 £30.00 £21.05
25th Percentile £30.05 £46.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.63 £66.88
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £73.00
England median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.37% +25.00% +76.46%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +6 3 £350 - 6
Essex 0 3 £468 +3.89% 9
Cambridgeshire +4 2 £850 +47.83% 9
Suffolk +4 1 £500 +17.65% 3
Bedfordshire - 1 £450 - 4
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) ChatGPT
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) MSI
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Agriculture
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Packager
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Django
3 1 (10.00%) Express.js
3 1 (10.00%) JSR 170
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) MediatR
3 1 (10.00%) MERN Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Next.js
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) OSGi
3 1 (10.00%) SAML
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) LLM
6 1 (10.00%) Natural Language Understanding
6 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SANS
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Istio
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Clearswift
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) OpenAI