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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 86 100
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 56 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.50% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.03% 1.75% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 5 4
10th Percentile - £329 £458
25th Percentile £500 £350 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +7.98%
75th Percentile £595 £473 £619
90th Percentile £724 £475 £675
England median daily rate £550 £500 £594
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.79% -8.65%

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 620 456 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.72% 37.25% 24.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 216 216
10th Percentile £185 £195 £178
25th Percentile £350 £391 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £563
90th Percentile £694 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 96 109
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.95 £14.03
25th Percentile £16.30 £24.14 £26.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £75.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +2 15 £550 +57.14% 3
Bedfordshire +3 9 £600 +33.33% 2
Essex -12 7 £505 +8.60% 1
Cambridgeshire - 3 £613 - 2
Suffolk - 2 £738 - 2
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 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 24 (42.86%) Azure
3 15 (26.79%) GitHub
4 14 (25.00%) GCP
5 10 (17.86%) Azure AKS
6 9 (16.07%) Serverless
7 8 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (8.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (8.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Functions
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (3.57%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (3.57%) Google Gemini
12 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) VPN
2 5 (8.93%) SNMP
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) Firewall
3 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.36%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.57%) Redis
3 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
4 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) Metadata
4 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) IntelliJ
2 6 (10.71%) JUnit
2 6 (10.71%) SonarQube
3 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.36%) GitLab
5 2 (3.57%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.79%) MLflow
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (1.79%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Architect
2 9 (16.07%) Designer
2 9 (16.07%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
4 7 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Developer
5 6 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Integration Architect
5 6 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.93%) Lead
7 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Technical Leader
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Python Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) Spring
1 14 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (14.29%) REST
3 7 (12.50%) Kafka
3 7 (12.50%) Node.js
4 6 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (8.93%) eBPF
5 5 (8.93%) React
6 4 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.14%) RESTful
7 3 (5.36%) Next.js
8 2 (3.57%) .NET
8 2 (3.57%) Celery
8 2 (3.57%) Django
8 2 (3.57%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.57%) JSON
8 2 (3.57%) JWT
8 2 (3.57%) OAuth
8 2 (3.57%) Vue
9 1 (1.79%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.93%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) IoT
5 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.79%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 29 (51.79%) DevOps
3 24 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (35.71%) Event-Driven
5 17 (30.36%) Microservices
6 15 (26.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 14 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (19.64%) Open Source
8 11 (19.64%) Roadmaps
9 10 (17.86%) Application Security
9 10 (17.86%) Code Quality
9 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 9 (16.07%) Observability
10 9 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (14.29%) Agile
11 8 (14.29%) AI
11 8 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.57%) Python
2 15 (26.79%) Java
3 6 (10.71%) Bash
4 3 (5.36%) Go
4 3 (5.36%) SQL
5 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.79%) CCIE
6 1 (1.79%) CCNP
6 1 (1.79%) CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) CFA
6 1 (1.79%) CISSP
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.57%) NIST
4 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.14%) Terraform
3 12 (21.43%) Ansible
4 6 (10.71%) Grafana
4 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Google
2 6 (10.71%) Checkmarx
3 5 (8.93%) Cribl.io
3 5 (8.93%) Dynatrace
3 5 (8.93%) Splunk
4 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.57%) VMware
6 1 (1.79%) Confluent
6 1 (1.79%) Databricks
6 1 (1.79%) Informatica
6 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (1.79%) Talend