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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 79 91
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +14
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 51 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.20% 0.78% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.60% 2.35% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 7 3
10th Percentile £463 £410 £420
25th Percentile £500 £454 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.96% +3.89% -14.53%
75th Percentile £569 £504 £531
90th Percentile £730 £655 £580
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 671 426 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.89% 33.02% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 192 148
10th Percentile £168 £190 £196
25th Percentile £325 £363 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £574 £614 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 90 53
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.81 £30.00
25th Percentile £16.75 £29.13 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.89 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £73.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £87.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.16%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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
Norfolk - 19 £513 - 5
Hertfordshire -2 17 £550 +57.14% 13
Essex -13 7 £505 +8.02% 1
Bedfordshire +9 4 £525 +16.67% 3
Cambridgeshire -1 2 £345 -59.41% 21
Suffolk -12 2 £738 +47.60% 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:

Cloud Services
1 27 (52.94%) AWS
2 19 (37.25%) Azure
3 15 (29.41%) GitHub
4 14 (27.45%) GCP
5 8 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.73%) Serverless
7 5 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (9.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (7.84%) Azure AKS
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.92%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) VPN
2 5 (9.80%) SNMP
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) Firewall
3 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.88%) Couchbase
2 3 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Redis
3 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.96%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Metadata
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Git
2 6 (11.76%) IntelliJ
2 6 (11.76%) JUnit
2 6 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.92%) Claude Code
3 2 (3.92%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Banking
3 5 (9.80%) Retail
4 1 (1.96%) Agriculture
4 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 9 (17.65%) Designer
4 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Designer
5 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Integration Architect
6 6 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Consultant
8 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Consultant
9 3 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
9 3 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) GCP Software Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (37.25%) Terraform
2 10 (19.61%) Spring
2 10 (19.61%) Spring Boot
3 8 (15.69%) Kafka
4 7 (13.73%) Node.js
4 7 (13.73%) REST
5 6 (11.76%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (9.80%) eBPF
6 5 (9.80%) React
7 3 (5.88%) RESTful
8 2 (3.92%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.92%) Celery
8 2 (3.92%) Django
8 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.92%) JSON
8 2 (3.92%) Next.js
8 2 (3.92%) OAuth
8 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.92%) RxJava
8 2 (3.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.80%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) CI/CD
2 24 (47.06%) DevOps
3 20 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (35.29%) Event-Driven
5 15 (29.41%) Microservices
6 12 (23.53%) Agile
6 12 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 12 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 11 (21.57%) Open Source
7 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
8 10 (19.61%) Observability
8 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (19.61%) Translating Business Requirements
9 9 (17.65%) Application Security
9 9 (17.65%) Code Quality
10 8 (15.69%) Security Testing
11 7 (13.73%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (13.73%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) Java
3 6 (11.76%) Bash
4 3 (5.88%) Go
4 3 (5.88%) SQL
5 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) CCIE
5 1 (1.96%) CCNP
5 1 (1.96%) CCSP
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) NIST
4 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (23.53%) Ansible
3 6 (11.76%) Grafana
3 6 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 5 (9.80%) Argo
5 1 (1.96%) Istio
5 1 (1.96%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Google
2 6 (11.76%) Checkmarx
3 5 (9.80%) Cribl.io
3 5 (9.80%) Dynatrace
3 5 (9.80%) Splunk
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Confluent
5 1 (1.96%) Databricks
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Talend