Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Native
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 118 328
Rank change year-on-year +61 +210 -93
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,775 661 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 2.38% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.40% 6.63% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 446 142
10th Percentile £413 £400 £426
25th Percentile £463 £431 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £73.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.44% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -26.47% +8.97%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,566 9,976 10,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.70% 35.95% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,426 6,272 6,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 497 431
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.49 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% -42.65% +20.74%
75th Percentile £69.50 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +46 961 £575 +4.55% 1,235
North of England +34 361 £550 +10.00% 247
Yorkshire +25 176 £527 +5.30% 69
North West +20 164 £560 +12.00% 151
Midlands +29 128 £540 +5.52% 63
South East +12 119 £505 +18.82% 145
South West +25 111 £550 +10.00% 117
West Midlands +26 110 £560 +5.66% 40
East of England +18 49 £525 +12.30% 44
North East -13 29 £400 - 27
East Midlands -10 16 £402 -19.60% 23
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 67 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (3.21%) Confluence
3 56 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 45 (2.54%) Apache
5 22 (1.24%) SAS
6 16 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.62%) CMS
8 10 (0.56%) Camunda
9 9 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.34%) nginx
12 5 (0.28%) Apache Superset
13 4 (0.23%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.45%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.17%) Quorum
4 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.17%) Ripple
4 3 (0.17%) Workfront
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.056%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.056%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 998 (56.23%) AWS
2 787 (44.34%) Azure
3 400 (22.54%) GCP
4 294 (16.56%) GitHub
5 266 (14.99%) Serverless
6 192 (10.82%) GitHub Actions
7 164 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
8 160 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
9 146 (8.23%) Amazon S3
10 128 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
11 107 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 95 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
14 82 (4.62%) SaaS
15 80 (4.51%) Snowflake
16 72 (4.06%) Azure AKS
17 70 (3.94%) Power Platform
18 65 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
18 65 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.06%) Firewall
2 45 (2.54%) Network Security
3 39 (2.20%) DNS
4 34 (1.92%) VPN
5 28 (1.58%) BGP
6 26 (1.46%) WAN
7 19 (1.07%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (0.90%) HTTP
8 16 (0.90%) OSPF
9 15 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.79%) MPLS
11 13 (0.73%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.73%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.68%) LAN
13 11 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.62%) VLAN
13 11 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.56%) 5G
14 10 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.39%) Relational Database
4 75 (4.23%) Data Lake
4 75 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
5 67 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 64 (3.61%) Metadata
7 60 (3.38%) Power BI
7 60 (3.38%) SQL Server
8 58 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
9 57 (3.21%) DynamoDB
10 34 (1.92%) Big Data
11 32 (1.80%) MySQL
12 30 (1.69%) Redis
13 29 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.35%) Delta Lake
17 22 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (0.90%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 197 (11.10%) Git
2 183 (10.31%) GitLab
3 174 (9.80%) Jenkins
4 89 (5.01%) JIRA
5 32 (1.80%) JUnit
6 30 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.63%) Claude Code
8 22 (1.24%) Mockito
9 19 (1.07%) Maven
10 17 (0.96%) JMeter
11 15 (0.85%) Postman
11 15 (0.85%) Selenium
12 13 (0.73%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.68%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.62%) MSI
15 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.39%) Gatling
15 7 (0.39%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.34%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 463 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 384 (21.63%) Finance
3 237 (13.35%) Public Sector
4 170 (9.58%) Banking
5 159 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (2.59%) Retail
8 35 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.18%) Front Office
11 21 (1.18%) Legal
12 19 (1.07%) Law
12 19 (1.07%) Military
13 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (0.79%) Marketing
15 14 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.56%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 431 (24.28%) Architect
2 312 (17.58%) Senior
3 290 (16.34%) Developer
4 163 (9.18%) Lead
5 150 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 133 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 128 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
8 121 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 106 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 88 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.34%) Java Developer
12 72 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 66 (3.72%) Senior Developer
14 64 (3.61%) Technical Architect
15 62 (3.49%) Java Engineer
16 61 (3.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 58 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
17 58 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
18 57 (3.21%) Security Engineer
19 52 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 576 (32.45%) Terraform
2 260 (14.65%) REST
3 213 (12.00%) Kafka
4 177 (9.97%) Spring
5 172 (9.69%) Spring Boot
6 161 (9.07%) RESTful
7 147 (8.28%) React
8 139 (7.83%) .NET
9 117 (6.59%) Node.js
10 83 (4.68%) OAuth
11 65 (3.66%) AngularJS
12 58 (3.27%) OpenID
13 53 (2.99%) .NET Core
14 50 (2.82%) OAuth2
15 49 (2.76%) .NET Framework
16 48 (2.70%) FastAPI
16 48 (2.70%) PySpark
17 43 (2.42%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.20%) LangChain
18 39 (2.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (14.76%) Distributed Systems
2 117 (6.59%) Product Ownership
3 91 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 87 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (4.06%) AI Agents
6 63 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 61 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 55 (3.10%) Security Posture
9 45 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 31 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 24 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 23 (1.30%) NHS
15 22 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.96%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.20%) Linux
2 71 (4.00%) Windows
3 42 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.13%) Unix
5 12 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.62%) VMS
6 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.34%) Android
8 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) Solaris
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (60.45%) CI/CD
2 869 (48.96%) DevOps
3 647 (36.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 582 (32.79%) Agile
5 501 (28.23%) Microservices
6 445 (25.07%) Containerisation
7 429 (24.17%) AI
8 416 (23.44%) Observability
9 407 (22.93%) Event-Driven
10 406 (22.87%) Software Engineering
11 318 (17.92%) Test Automation
12 288 (16.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 278 (15.66%) Platform Engineering
14 272 (15.32%) Migration
15 271 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
16 256 (14.42%) Technical Leadership
17 249 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
18 240 (13.52%) Roadmaps
19 238 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 233 (13.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 675 (38.03%) Python
2 436 (24.56%) Java
3 273 (15.38%) SQL
4 180 (10.14%) TypeScript
5 128 (7.21%) C#
6 125 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 122 (6.87%) Bash
8 98 (5.52%) PowerShell
9 73 (4.11%) Bicep
10 57 (3.21%) Go
11 24 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 22 (1.24%) Scala
13 20 (1.13%) Rust
14 18 (1.01%) C++
15 13 (0.73%) Ruby
16 7 (0.39%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.39%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 452 (25.46%) Security Cleared
2 370 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.63%) DV Cleared
4 89 (5.01%) Degree
5 88 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 71 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 48 (2.70%) CISSP
8 47 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.90%) Master's Degree
14 15 (0.85%) CISM
15 12 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.56%) OSCP
16 10 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 8 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (6.99%) QA
2 106 (5.97%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.93%) NIST
4 50 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.70%) GDPR
6 43 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.86%) NCSC
8 19 (1.07%) WCAG
9 16 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.56%) GRC
11 10 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) HL7
13 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.28%) PSD2
15 3 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 417 (23.49%) Docker
2 27 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.62%) IAG
5 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.51%) vSphere
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) SRDF
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.056%) KVM
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 631 (35.55%) Kubernetes
2 142 (8.00%) Ansible
3 113 (6.37%) Grafana
4 89 (5.01%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.20%) Argo
6 30 (1.69%) Istio
7 27 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.85%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.85%) Puppet
10 9 (0.51%) Cilium
10 9 (0.51%) linkerd
11 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.23%) Control-M
12 4 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.17%) Bosun
13 3 (0.17%) Kibana
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 270 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 178 (10.03%) Google
3 113 (6.37%) Databricks
4 73 (4.11%) Oracle
5 53 (2.99%) Splunk
6 49 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 40 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 39 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 37 (2.08%) OpenAI
10 29 (1.63%) VMware
11 28 (1.58%) Informatica
12 26 (1.46%) SAP
13 23 (1.30%) Cisco
14 21 (1.18%) F5
15 20 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
16 19 (1.07%) IBM
16 19 (1.07%) Palo Alto
17 16 (0.90%) Foundry
18 15 (0.85%) Okta
18 15 (0.85%) Salesforce