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 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 70 100
Rank change year-on-year +4 +30 +13
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 45 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.11% 1.06% 0.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.56% 2.33% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 7 3
10th Percentile - £315 -
25th Percentile £500 £318 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +57.12% -39.13% +9.94%
75th Percentile £597 £563 £650
90th Percentile £611 £650 £688
England median daily rate £539 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.30% -4.17% -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 595 429 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.95% 45.54% 28.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 241 275
10th Percentile £190 £225 £179
25th Percentile £325 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £550
90th Percentile £681 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 75 125
10th Percentile £14.90 £16.95 £13.12
25th Percentile £16.35 £29.89 £17.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.91% +20.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £84.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £36.48 £28.25
% change year-on-year +24.62% +29.13% +25.56%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 - 16 £513 - 4
Bedfordshire 0 11 £600 - 1
Essex -7 7 £505 +58.71% 4
Cambridgeshire - 6 £575 - 6
Hertfordshire -22 5 £549 -15.49% 6
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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) AWS
2 18 (40.00%) Azure
3 16 (35.56%) GCP
4 14 (31.11%) GitHub
5 9 (20.00%) Serverless
6 8 (17.78%) Azure AKS
7 6 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
9 3 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (2.22%) Boomi
11 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (2.22%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
1 6 (13.33%) IntelliJ
1 6 (13.33%) JUnit
1 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
2 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) MLflow
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Architect
2 7 (15.56%) Senior
3 6 (13.33%) Designer
3 6 (13.33%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Designer
4 5 (11.11%) Integration Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.67%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) GCP Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) Spring
1 13 (28.89%) Spring Boot
2 5 (11.11%) Kafka
2 5 (11.11%) Node.js
3 4 (8.89%) REST
3 4 (8.89%) RESTful
4 3 (6.67%) .NET
4 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.44%) JSON
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Avro
6 1 (2.22%) Blazor
6 1 (2.22%) Express.js
6 1 (2.22%) Next.js
6 1 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.22%) React
6 1 (2.22%) Spring MVC
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Security
6 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.22%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (46.67%) DevOps
4 14 (31.11%) Event-Driven
4 14 (31.11%) Microservices
5 12 (26.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (24.44%) Translating Business Requirements
7 9 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (17.78%) Application Security
8 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
9 7 (15.56%) Cloud Security
9 7 (15.56%) Code Quality
9 7 (15.56%) Open Source
9 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
9 7 (15.56%) Zero Trust
10 6 (13.33%) AI
10 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
10 6 (13.33%) ERP
10 6 (13.33%) Security Testing
10 6 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Java
2 9 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Go
3 3 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
4 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.89%) CFA
2 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.44%) CCSP
5 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.22%) CCIE
5 1 (2.22%) CCNP
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (11.11%) NIST
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Terraform
3 5 (11.11%) Ansible
3 5 (11.11%) Argo
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (17.78%) Google
2 6 (13.33%) Checkmarx
2 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 3 (6.67%) Ariba
4 3 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) Splunk
5 2 (4.44%) VMware
6 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.22%) Confluent
6 1 (2.22%) Databricks
6 1 (2.22%) Foundry
6 1 (2.22%) Informatica
6 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.22%) Talend