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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 70 85
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 33 25 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.38% 1.86% 0.47%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.62% 5.56% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 5
10th Percentile £448 £375 £354
25th Percentile £500 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +11.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £564 £558 £613
90th Percentile £779 £584 £770
England median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%

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 714 450 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 29.76% 33.46% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 196 169
10th Percentile £171 £213 £219
25th Percentile £300 £379 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £628 £575
90th Percentile £694 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 102 47
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.50 £28.50
25th Percentile £16.75 £18.87 £43.13
Median hourly rate £63.00 £42.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.24% -31.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £74.00 £72.25 £74.38
90th Percentile £83.00 £83.51 £89.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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
Hertfordshire -7 15 £550 +57.14% 18
Norfolk - 7 £513 - 7
Bedfordshire 0 4 £525 -1.18% 5
Cambridgeshire -8 3 £345 -37.27% 60
Suffolk -19 2 £738 +47.60%
Essex -17 1 £505 +4.12% 3
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 20 (60.61%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub
3 5 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (15.15%) Serverless
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (12.12%) Azure AKS
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (6.06%) Anthropic Claude
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.06%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) SNMP
2 3 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Couchbase
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Claude Code
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Retail
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Agriculture
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Architect
2 8 (24.24%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Designer
4 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Designer
5 4 (12.12%) Consultant
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Integration Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) eBPF
3 5 (15.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (15.15%) React
4 4 (12.12%) REST
4 4 (12.12%) RESTful
5 3 (9.09%) Node.js
5 3 (9.09%) Spring
5 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
6 2 (6.06%) Celery
6 2 (6.06%) Django
6 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
6 2 (6.06%) gRPC
6 2 (6.06%) JWT
6 2 (6.06%) Next.js
6 2 (6.06%) OAuth
6 2 (6.06%) RxJava
6 2 (6.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
1 16 (48.48%) DevOps
2 15 (45.45%) Event-Driven
2 15 (45.45%) Microservices
3 12 (36.36%) Agile
3 12 (36.36%) Roadmaps
4 11 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 10 (30.30%) Observability
6 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (24.24%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (18.18%) ITSM
9 6 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 5 (15.15%) AIOps
10 5 (15.15%) Dashboard Development
10 5 (15.15%) Secrets Management
10 5 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
3 5 (15.15%) Grafana
3 5 (15.15%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) Argo
5 1 (3.03%) Istio
5 1 (3.03%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Cribl.io
1 5 (15.15%) Dynatrace
1 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Databricks
3 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow