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 17 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 86 112
Rank change year-on-year +17 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 31 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.23% 0.62% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.65% 2.47% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 7
10th Percentile £360 £364 £460
25th Percentile £425 £422 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -14.58% -3.52%
75th Percentile £580 £641 £675
90th Percentile £630 £763 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -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 466 365 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.45% 25.33% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 165 332
10th Percentile £206 £220 £182
25th Percentile £363 £313 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £546 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.73% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 46 79
10th Percentile £13.50 £28.13 £20.50
25th Percentile £18.61 £41.56 £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £61.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% +1.67% +47.31%
75th Percentile £71.75 £74.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.07 £90.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £29.27 £54.00 £46.03
% change year-on-year -45.80% +17.31% +78.69%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +22 21 £550 -4.35% 13
Bedfordshire -4 4 £531 -
Hertfordshire -5 3 £350 -53.33% 8
Essex +2 2 £485 +26.80%
Suffolk +5 1 £500 +17.65% 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 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (3.23%) CMS
1 1 (3.23%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 25 (80.65%) Azure
2 12 (38.71%) Azure AKS
3 11 (35.48%) PaaS
3 11 (35.48%) Serverless
4 10 (32.26%) Azure Functions
5 9 (29.03%) GitHub
5 9 (29.03%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (19.35%) AWS
8 2 (6.45%) GCP
9 1 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.23%) ChatGPT
9 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
9 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.23%) Big Data
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) JMeter
1 2 (6.45%) Postman
1 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) MSI
2 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Aviation
3 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (61.29%) .NET
2 12 (38.71%) RESTful
3 10 (32.26%) PyTorch
3 10 (32.26%) TensorFlow
4 9 (29.03%) Semantic Kernel
5 3 (9.68%) React
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
6 2 (6.45%) Pandas
6 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.23%) Django
7 1 (3.23%) Express.js
7 1 (3.23%) JSR 170
7 1 (3.23%) MediatR
7 1 (3.23%) Next.js
7 1 (3.23%) Node.js
7 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.23%) OSGi
7 1 (3.23%) REST
7 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) AI
2 19 (61.29%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (58.06%) Agile
4 17 (54.84%) Machine Learning
5 16 (51.61%) LLM
6 15 (48.39%) Prompt Engineering
6 15 (48.39%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 14 (45.16%) Test Automation
8 13 (41.94%) Data Privacy
9 12 (38.71%) CI/CD
10 11 (35.48%) API Management
11 10 (32.26%) DevOps
11 10 (32.26%) Scrum
11 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
12 9 (29.03%) Data Science
12 9 (29.03%) Deep Learning
13 8 (25.81%) API Design
13 8 (25.81%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (25.81%) Validation
14 7 (22.58%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) MCP
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) SANS
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (45.16%) EU AI Act
2 13 (41.94%) NIST
3 4 (12.90%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Istio
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (74.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (29.03%) Foundry
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe
3 1 (3.23%) Clearswift
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) OpenAI