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 14 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 85 93
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 50 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.30% 0.55% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.12% 1.58% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 5 4
10th Percentile £463 £390 £424
25th Percentile £500 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -9.27% -3.30%
75th Percentile £569 £476 £619
90th Percentile £734 £491 £675
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -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 616 443 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.36% 35.08% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 202 169
10th Percentile £168 £195 £178
25th Percentile £350 £379 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 96 69
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.95 £24.80
25th Percentile £16.28 £26.29 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £74.00 £76.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £43.53 £31.50 £48.00
% change year-on-year +38.21% -34.39% +12.28%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 - 20 £513 - 3
Hertfordshire +3 16 £550 +57.14% 11
Essex -15 7 £505 +8.31% 3
Bedfordshire +7 3 £600 +33.33% 4
Suffolk -11 2 £738 +47.60%
Cambridgeshire - 2 £345 - 13
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 26 (52.00%) AWS
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
3 15 (30.00%) GitHub
4 14 (28.00%) GCP
5 9 (18.00%) Serverless
6 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 5 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Functions
9 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) VPN
2 5 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.00%) MySQL
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) Couchbase
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Redis
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) Metadata
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 6 (12.00%) IntelliJ
2 6 (12.00%) JUnit
2 6 (12.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.00%) Claude Code
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (18.00%) Finance
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Banking
2 5 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (2.00%) Agriculture
3 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Architect
2 9 (18.00%) Designer
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
3 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Designer
4 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) GCP Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Integration Architect
5 6 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (12.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Consultant
7 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (6.00%) GCP DevOps
8 3 (6.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) GCP Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead
8 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Spring
1 10 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (14.00%) Kafka
2 7 (14.00%) Node.js
2 7 (14.00%) REST
3 6 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (10.00%) eBPF
4 5 (10.00%) React
5 3 (6.00%) RESTful
6 2 (4.00%) AWS CDK
6 2 (4.00%) Celery
6 2 (4.00%) Django
6 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.00%) JSON
6 2 (4.00%) JWT
6 2 (4.00%) Next.js
6 2 (4.00%) OAuth
6 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.00%) RxJava
6 2 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.00%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (50.00%) DevOps
3 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (34.00%) Event-Driven
5 13 (26.00%) Microservices
6 11 (22.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (22.00%) Open Source
6 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
6 11 (22.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 10 (20.00%) Observability
7 10 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 10 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (18.00%) Agile
8 9 (18.00%) Application Security
8 9 (18.00%) Code Quality
9 8 (16.00%) Security Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Java
3 6 (12.00%) Bash
4 3 (6.00%) Go
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CCIE
5 1 (2.00%) CCNP
5 1 (2.00%) CCSP
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
2 3 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) Terraform
2 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (24.00%) Ansible
4 6 (12.00%) Grafana
4 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (10.00%) Argo
6 1 (2.00%) Istio
6 1 (2.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Google
2 6 (12.00%) Checkmarx
3 5 (10.00%) Cribl.io
3 5 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Confluent
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Talend