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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 75 105
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 +30
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 33 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.06% 0.80% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.26% 2.30% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 3
10th Percentile £389 £374 £420
25th Percentile £453 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £586 £700 -
90th Percentile £633 £800 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -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 527 391 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.94% 34.57% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 184 305
10th Percentile £212 £252 £200
25th Percentile £347 £347 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £628 £603 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 50 87
10th Percentile £12.97 £29.90 £19.20
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.25 £42.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £66.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.58% +11.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.13 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -21.62% -14.78% +28.98%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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
Cambridgeshire +16 24 £550 -13.73% 74
Bedfordshire -2 5 £531 - 82
Hertfordshire -18 2 - - 117
Suffolk +6 1 £500 +17.65% 33
Essex -3 1 £505 +32.03% 102
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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (78.79%) Azure
2 13 (39.39%) Azure AKS
3 12 (36.36%) PaaS
3 12 (36.36%) Serverless
4 10 (30.30%) Azure Functions
4 10 (30.30%) GitHub
4 10 (30.30%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (24.24%) AWS
6 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (9.09%) GCP
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.03%) Big Data
1 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JMeter
1 2 (6.06%) Postman
1 2 (6.06%) Selenium
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Aviation
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.12%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.06%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (60.61%) .NET
2 13 (39.39%) RESTful
3 11 (33.33%) PyTorch
3 11 (33.33%) TensorFlow
4 10 (30.30%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.06%) Pandas
5 2 (6.06%) React
5 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.03%) Django
6 1 (3.03%) eBPF
6 1 (3.03%) Express.js
6 1 (3.03%) JWT
6 1 (3.03%) MediatR
6 1 (3.03%) MERN Stack
6 1 (3.03%) Node.js
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) AI
2 20 (60.61%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (57.58%) Agile
4 17 (51.52%) Machine Learning
5 16 (48.48%) LLM
5 16 (48.48%) Prompt Engineering
5 16 (48.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 15 (45.45%) Test Automation
7 14 (42.42%) Data Privacy
8 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
9 12 (36.36%) API Management
10 11 (33.33%) DevOps
10 11 (33.33%) Software Engineering
11 10 (30.30%) Deep Learning
11 10 (30.30%) Scrum
12 9 (27.27%) API Design
12 9 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (27.27%) Data Science
12 9 (27.27%) Prototyping
13 8 (24.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 2 (6.06%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Bicep
3 1 (3.03%) C#
3 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) MCP
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CFA
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CCSP
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (48.48%) NIST
2 15 (45.45%) EU AI Act
3 4 (12.12%) QA
4 2 (6.06%) HIPAA
4 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) Foundry
3 2 (6.06%) Ariba
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
3 2 (6.06%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.03%) Clearswift
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks