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 30 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 66 100
Rank change year-on-year 0 +34 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 42 13 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.10% 1.33% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.23% 3.00% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 5
10th Percentile £413 £315 -
25th Percentile £500 £321 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +7.98%
75th Percentile £588 - £588
90th Percentile £614 £775 £663
England median daily rate £536 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -8.77% -2.08% -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 581 433 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.05% 44.32% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 246 298
10th Percentile £185 £225 £187
25th Percentile £315 £397 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £681 £700 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 75 126
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.95 £13.18
25th Percentile £16.17 £32.89 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £88.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £44.50 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.99% +25.45% +22.22%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +19 20 £551 -21.36% 4
Bedfordshire +1 13 £575 -
Norfolk - 7 £513 - 5
Essex -8 2 £500 +57.14% 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 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (64.29%) Azure
2 16 (38.10%) AWS
3 15 (35.71%) Azure AKS
4 13 (30.95%) Serverless
5 11 (26.19%) GitHub
6 10 (23.81%) PaaS
7 8 (19.05%) Azure Functions
8 7 (16.67%) GCP
8 7 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.38%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.38%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.38%) Metadata
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) IntelliJ
3 2 (4.76%) JUnit
3 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.38%) MLflow
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Aviation
2 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Architect
2 9 (21.43%) Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) Lead
6 4 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Technical Leader
7 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Designer
7 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Designer
8 2 (4.76%) Integration Architect
8 2 (4.76%) QA Leader
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) .NET
2 13 (30.95%) RESTful
3 9 (21.43%) Spring
3 9 (21.43%) Spring Boot
4 8 (19.05%) A2A Protocol
4 8 (19.05%) Model Context Protocol
4 8 (19.05%) PyTorch
4 8 (19.05%) TensorFlow
5 7 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
6 5 (11.90%) Kafka
7 4 (9.52%) REST
8 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.76%) JSON
10 1 (2.38%) Blazor
10 1 (2.38%) eBPF
10 1 (2.38%) Next.js
10 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.38%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) AI
2 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (42.86%) DevOps
3 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (30.95%) Agile
4 13 (30.95%) Machine Learning
5 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (28.57%) Microservices
6 11 (26.19%) Data Privacy
6 11 (26.19%) Event-Driven
6 11 (26.19%) LLM
6 11 (26.19%) Prompt Engineering
6 11 (26.19%) Prototyping
6 11 (26.19%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 10 (23.81%) Software Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 9 (21.43%) API Management
8 9 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Java
3 2 (4.76%) Go
3 2 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 6 (14.29%) Degree
3 5 (11.90%) AWS Certification
3 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (9.52%) CFA
5 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.38%) CCIE
7 1 (2.38%) CCNP
7 1 (2.38%) CCSP
7 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) NIST
2 10 (23.81%) EU AI Act
3 5 (11.90%) QA
4 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (9.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (7.14%) GDPR
6 2 (4.76%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Foundry
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Ariba
4 3 (7.14%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) Checkmarx
5 2 (4.76%) Splunk
6 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.38%) Confluent
6 1 (2.38%) Informatica
6 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.38%) Talend