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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 79 114
Rank change year-on-year +10 +35 +1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 30 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.07% 0.77% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.10% 2.77% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 6
10th Percentile £385 £374 £450
25th Percentile £438 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% -11.56%
75th Percentile £580 £700 £656
90th Percentile £637 £800 £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 492 361 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.00% 27.62% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 164 345
10th Percentile £190 £234 £198
25th Percentile £363 £323 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £709 £659 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 43 83
10th Percentile £12.97 £27.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £15.56 £37.50 £42.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.45% -4.62% +59.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.71 £44.50
% change year-on-year -40.06% +4.97% +64.94%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +18 22 £550 -13.73% 12
Bedfordshire -6 4 £531 - 8
Hertfordshire -10 2 - - 16
Suffolk +6 1 £500 +17.65% 2
Essex -2 1 £505 +32.03%
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (80.00%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) Azure AKS
3 12 (40.00%) PaaS
4 11 (36.67%) Serverless
5 10 (33.33%) Azure Functions
5 10 (33.33%) GitHub
5 10 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (16.67%) AWS
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.33%) GCP
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.33%) Big Data
1 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JMeter
1 2 (6.67%) Postman
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (10.00%) Aviation
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Agriculture
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.67%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.33%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (66.67%) .NET
2 13 (43.33%) RESTful
3 11 (36.67%) PyTorch
3 11 (36.67%) TensorFlow
4 10 (33.33%) Semantic Kernel
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.67%) Pandas
5 2 (6.67%) React
5 2 (6.67%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.33%) Django
6 1 (3.33%) Express.js
6 1 (3.33%) MediatR
6 1 (3.33%) MERN Stack
6 1 (3.33%) Node.js
6 1 (3.33%) OAuth
6 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (3.33%) SAML
6 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) AI
2 20 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (63.33%) Agile
4 17 (56.67%) LLM
4 17 (56.67%) Machine Learning
5 16 (53.33%) Prompt Engineering
5 16 (53.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 15 (50.00%) Test Automation
7 14 (46.67%) Data Privacy
8 12 (40.00%) API Management
9 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
9 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
10 10 (33.33%) Deep Learning
10 10 (33.33%) Scrum
11 9 (30.00%) API Design
11 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (30.00%) Data Science
11 9 (30.00%) DevOps
12 8 (26.67%) Validation
13 7 (23.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) MCP
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SANS
4 1 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (50.00%) EU AI Act
2 14 (46.67%) NIST
3 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Istio
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (33.33%) Foundry
3 1 (3.33%) Clearswift
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks