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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 199 318
Rank change year-on-year +133 +119 -93
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,551 360 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 1.45% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.99% 4.17% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 251 157
10th Percentile £404 £400 £457
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +90.00% - -

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 14,118 8,638 11,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.68% 34.69% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,812 5,547 7,340
10th Percentile £313 £304 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 775 391 860
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.23
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.15 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.81 £35.50
% change year-on-year +30.16% -7.58% +57.88%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +110 863 £575 +9.52% 222
North of England +69 287 £538 +7.50% 89
North West +48 149 £558 +11.50% 57
Yorkshire +28 124 £538 -2.27% 26
Midlands +19 109 £500 - 22
South East +8 101 £475 +6.74% 85
South West +48 100 £560 +21.08% 43
West Midlands +10 85 £562 +9.67% 16
East of England +7 52 £537 +19.37% 8
East Midlands -4 23 £413 -17.50% 5
North East - 22 £425 - 7
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 62 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.64%) Apache
3 41 (2.64%) Confluence
4 19 (1.23%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.16%) SAS
6 14 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 11 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.58%) Camunda
9 6 (0.39%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.32%) nginx
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.26%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.26%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.58%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.19%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.064%) Maya
5 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.26%) Quorum
3 4 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.064%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.064%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.064%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.064%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.064%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 873 (56.29%) AWS
2 705 (45.45%) Azure
3 335 (21.60%) GCP
4 261 (16.83%) Serverless
5 252 (16.25%) GitHub
6 159 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
7 155 (9.99%) Amazon S3
8 154 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
9 146 (9.41%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (5.80%) Power Platform
13 79 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (4.96%) Azure AKS
15 70 (4.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 66 (4.26%) OpenShift
16 66 (4.26%) SaaS
17 63 (4.06%) Snowflake
18 57 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 87 (5.61%) Firewall
2 59 (3.80%) DNS
3 46 (2.97%) Network Security
4 40 (2.58%) VPN
5 25 (1.61%) WAN
6 22 (1.42%) BGP
7 20 (1.29%) 5G
8 17 (1.10%) BIG-IP
8 17 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 16 (1.03%) 4G
10 15 (0.97%) OSPF
11 14 (0.90%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.84%) 3GPP
13 11 (0.71%) LAN
13 11 (0.71%) MPLS
13 11 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.64%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.64%) WLAN
15 8 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.64%) Power BI
4 71 (4.58%) Data Lake
5 62 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 59 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (3.16%) SQL Server
8 48 (3.09%) Relational Database
9 47 (3.03%) Metadata
10 43 (2.77%) MongoDB
11 42 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
11 42 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (2.19%) Redis
13 29 (1.87%) Big Data
14 28 (1.81%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.61%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (1.29%) MySQL
18 16 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 195 (12.57%) Jenkins
2 158 (10.19%) GitLab
3 150 (9.67%) Git
4 91 (5.87%) JIRA
5 23 (1.48%) JUnit
6 19 (1.23%) MLflow
7 18 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.97%) Selenium
9 14 (0.90%) Postman
10 12 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.71%) JMeter
12 9 (0.58%) Gradle
13 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.45%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.45%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.45%) Maven
15 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 374 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 345 (22.24%) Finance
3 214 (13.80%) Public Sector
4 130 (8.38%) Banking
5 94 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (1.93%) Retail
10 27 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.23%) Legal
13 12 (0.77%) Front Office
13 12 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.77%) Military
14 11 (0.71%) Marketing
15 10 (0.64%) Law
16 7 (0.45%) Billing
16 7 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 412 (26.56%) Architect
2 229 (14.76%) Senior
3 212 (13.67%) Developer
4 164 (10.57%) Lead
5 142 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 110 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (6.83%) Software Engineer
9 98 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
10 77 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
11 66 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
12 65 (4.19%) Technical Architect
13 55 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
13 55 (3.55%) Java Engineer
14 52 (3.35%) Security Engineer
15 51 (3.29%) Java Developer
16 48 (3.09%) Senior Developer
17 47 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
18 46 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
19 42 (2.71%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (10.32%) REST
2 158 (10.19%) Kafka
3 136 (8.77%) React
4 128 (8.25%) Spring
5 117 (7.54%) Spring Boot
6 116 (7.48%) Node.js
7 114 (7.35%) .NET
8 108 (6.96%) RESTful
9 65 (4.19%) OAuth
10 64 (4.13%) OpenID
11 57 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
12 56 (3.61%) AngularJS
13 54 (3.48%) PySpark
14 47 (3.03%) OAuth2
15 40 (2.58%) SAML
16 38 (2.45%) FastAPI
16 38 (2.45%) GraphQL
17 32 (2.06%) .NET Core
17 32 (2.06%) .NET Framework
18 31 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 208 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
2 76 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (4.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 61 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 54 (3.48%) Security Posture
7 46 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.19%) Data Centre
10 31 (2.00%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.81%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.74%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.55%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.42%) Mobile App
16 20 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (1.29%) NHS
17 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
18 14 (0.90%) Algorithms
18 14 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.93%) Linux
2 54 (3.48%) Windows
3 33 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.97%) Unix
5 11 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.58%) VMS
6 9 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Android
8 4 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (59.83%) CI/CD
2 800 (51.58%) DevOps
3 551 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 456 (29.40%) Agile
5 397 (25.60%) Microservices
6 391 (25.21%) Containerisation
7 333 (21.47%) AI
8 311 (20.05%) Observability
9 268 (17.28%) Event-Driven
10 262 (16.89%) Software Engineering
11 258 (16.63%) Migration
12 224 (14.44%) Analytics
13 218 (14.06%) Roadmaps
13 218 (14.06%) Test Automation
14 193 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
15 183 (11.80%) Platform Engineering
16 181 (11.67%) Data Modelling
17 173 (11.15%) Data Pipeline
18 172 (11.09%) Data Engineering
19 168 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 600 (38.68%) Python
2 346 (22.31%) Java
3 276 (17.79%) SQL
4 136 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 103 (6.64%) C#
6 100 (6.45%) Bash
7 91 (5.87%) JavaScript
8 76 (4.90%) PowerShell
9 60 (3.87%) Go
10 58 (3.74%) Bicep
11 25 (1.61%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.97%) Scala
13 12 (0.77%) Ruby
13 12 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.71%) Rust
15 9 (0.58%) C++
16 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.45%) R
17 6 (0.39%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.32%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 369 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 319 (20.57%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.29%) AWS Certification
4 80 (5.16%) Degree
5 60 (3.87%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 40 (2.58%) CISSP
7 40 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.77%) CISM
13 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.58%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.52%) CCIE
16 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.45%) JNCIE
17 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.71%) QA
3 64 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.00%) NIST
5 60 (3.87%) GDPR
6 33 (2.13%) NCSC
7 27 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.71%) GRC
9 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.71%) WCAG
10 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.45%) SEPA
14 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.39%) PSD2
15 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 347 (22.37%) Docker
2 31 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.29%) vSphere
4 19 (1.23%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 10 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Snort
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) IAG
9 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) SRDF
10 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.064%) etcd
10 1 (0.064%) Firmware
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 542 (34.95%) Kubernetes
2 512 (33.01%) Terraform
3 131 (8.45%) Ansible
4 119 (7.67%) Grafana
5 97 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.77%) Argo
7 22 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.35%) Istio
8 21 (1.35%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.16%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.90%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.90%) Puppet
11 9 (0.58%) linkerd
12 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.26%) Cilium
12 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
12 4 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 230 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 132 (8.51%) Google
3 113 (7.29%) Databricks
4 75 (4.84%) Splunk
5 60 (3.87%) Oracle
6 44 (2.84%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.64%) Dynatrace
7 41 (2.64%) VMware
8 39 (2.51%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.81%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.68%) CyberArk
11 25 (1.61%) SAP
12 19 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (1.16%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.10%) F5
15 16 (1.03%) Cisco
15 16 (1.03%) Informatica
15 16 (1.03%) Okta
15 16 (1.03%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.03%) Salesforce