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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 212 304
Rank change year-on-year +146 +92 -63
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,497 323 241
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 1.32% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.80% 3.82% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 224 157
10th Percentile £400 £397 £447
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 £750 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £545 £512 £600
% change year-on-year +6.39% -14.63% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £65.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £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 13,865 8,458 11,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.51% 34.50% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 5,459 7,367
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £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 £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 742 371 849
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -5.92% +60.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.95 £84.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.90% -5.57% +57.30%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +115 844 £575 +10.24% 189
North of England +82 266 £534 +6.75% 88
North West +55 139 £550 +10.00% 56
Yorkshire +36 115 £539 -2.05% 22
Midlands +21 112 £500 - 16
South East -4 97 £459 +3.15% 78
South West +52 94 £560 +31.76% 56
West Midlands +17 88 £540 -2.88% 14
East of England +18 52 £537 +31.82% 9
East Midlands -9 23 £413 -17.50% 2
North East - 20 £425 - 11
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 63 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 51 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.74%) Apache
4 38 (2.54%) Confluence
5 18 (1.20%) SAS
5 18 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.60%) Camunda
9 6 (0.40%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.20%) Appian
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.53%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Quorum
3 4 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.067%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.067%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 838 (55.98%) AWS
2 674 (45.02%) Azure
3 326 (21.78%) GCP
4 254 (16.97%) Serverless
5 242 (16.17%) GitHub
6 153 (10.22%) Amazon S3
6 153 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
7 147 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
9 108 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (6.15%) Power Platform
11 89 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 75 (5.01%) Amazon ECS
14 73 (4.88%) Azure AKS
14 73 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 66 (4.41%) OpenShift
16 61 (4.07%) Snowflake
17 58 (3.87%) SaaS
18 55 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.41%) Firewall
2 57 (3.81%) DNS
3 44 (2.94%) Network Security
4 38 (2.54%) VPN
5 22 (1.47%) WAN
6 19 (1.27%) 5G
6 19 (1.27%) BGP
7 15 (1.00%) 4G
8 14 (0.94%) BIG-IP
8 14 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.87%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.87%) OSPF
10 12 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.67%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.67%) WLAN
12 8 (0.53%) LAN
12 8 (0.53%) MPLS
12 8 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (6.28%) NoSQL
3 74 (4.94%) Power BI
4 73 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 60 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (3.07%) Metadata
8 44 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
8 44 (2.94%) SQL Server
9 41 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.67%) MongoDB
10 40 (2.67%) Relational Database
11 31 (2.07%) BigQuery
11 31 (2.07%) Redis
12 29 (1.94%) Big Data
13 28 (1.87%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (1.20%) MySQL
16 16 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 187 (12.49%) Jenkins
2 153 (10.22%) GitLab
3 144 (9.62%) Git
4 84 (5.61%) JIRA
5 23 (1.54%) JUnit
6 19 (1.27%) MLflow
7 16 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.00%) Selenium
9 14 (0.94%) Postman
10 12 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.73%) JMeter
12 9 (0.60%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.53%) Gradle
13 8 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.47%) Maven
15 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 365 (24.38%) Social Skills
2 324 (21.64%) Finance
3 199 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 117 (7.82%) Banking
5 91 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (2.14%) Retail
9 31 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.14%) Legal
13 11 (0.73%) Front Office
13 11 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.73%) Marketing
14 9 (0.60%) Law
14 9 (0.60%) Military
15 6 (0.40%) Aviation
15 6 (0.40%) Billing
15 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 395 (26.39%) Architect
2 217 (14.50%) Senior
3 199 (13.29%) Developer
4 155 (10.35%) Lead
5 135 (9.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (8.62%) Data Engineer
7 103 (6.88%) Solutions Architect
8 98 (6.55%) Software Engineer
9 97 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 74 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (4.21%) Technical Architect
13 55 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
14 50 (3.34%) Java Engineer
15 49 (3.27%) Security Engineer
16 48 (3.21%) Java Developer
17 46 (3.07%) Senior Developer
18 45 (3.01%) GCP Engineer
19 44 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
20 43 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (9.95%) Kafka
2 147 (9.82%) REST
3 130 (8.68%) React
4 127 (8.48%) Spring
5 121 (8.08%) Node.js
6 116 (7.75%) Spring Boot
7 108 (7.21%) .NET
8 96 (6.41%) RESTful
9 63 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
10 61 (4.07%) AngularJS
10 61 (4.07%) OAuth
10 61 (4.07%) OpenID
11 56 (3.74%) PySpark
12 43 (2.87%) OAuth2
13 39 (2.61%) SAML
14 38 (2.54%) GraphQL
15 33 (2.20%) FastAPI
16 29 (1.94%) Vue
17 28 (1.87%) LangChain
17 28 (1.87%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 188 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
2 71 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
3 70 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 55 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 49 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 43 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.61%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 30 (2.00%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.80%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.60%) Management Information System
14 23 (1.54%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.40%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
17 18 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (1.14%) NHS
19 14 (0.94%) Low-Code
20 12 (0.80%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (5.81%) Linux
2 50 (3.34%) Windows
3 32 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (0.94%) Unix
5 11 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.60%) VMS
6 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.40%) Android
8 4 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.067%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (60.05%) CI/CD
2 774 (51.70%) DevOps
3 542 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 426 (28.46%) Agile
5 382 (25.52%) Containerisation
6 377 (25.18%) Microservices
7 321 (21.44%) AI
8 307 (20.51%) Observability
9 253 (16.90%) Software Engineering
10 249 (16.63%) Migration
11 242 (16.17%) Event-Driven
12 223 (14.90%) Analytics
13 208 (13.89%) Test Automation
14 199 (13.29%) Roadmaps
15 183 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
16 181 (12.09%) Data Modelling
17 175 (11.69%) Data Engineering
18 171 (11.42%) Data Pipeline
19 170 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
20 165 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 578 (38.61%) Python
2 329 (21.98%) Java
3 274 (18.30%) SQL
4 125 (8.35%) TypeScript
5 99 (6.61%) Bash
6 93 (6.21%) C#
7 82 (5.48%) JavaScript
8 76 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 55 (3.67%) Bicep
10 54 (3.61%) Go
11 21 (1.40%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.07%) Scala
13 12 (0.80%) Ruby
13 12 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.67%) Rust
15 7 (0.47%) C++
15 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.47%) R
16 6 (0.40%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 355 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 310 (20.71%) SC Cleared
3 78 (5.21%) AWS Certification
4 76 (5.08%) Degree
5 56 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.40%) CISSP
9 30 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.94%) CISM
13 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.53%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.47%) CCIE
16 6 (0.40%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.40%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.54%) Data Quality
2 67 (4.48%) QA
3 64 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (4.21%) NIST
5 61 (4.07%) GDPR
6 29 (1.94%) NCSC
7 25 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.73%) GRC
8 11 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.60%) WCAG
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) SEPA
12 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 337 (22.51%) Docker
2 31 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.34%) vSphere
4 17 (1.14%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.27%) Snort
7 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) SRDF
9 1 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.067%) etcd
9 1 (0.067%) Firmware
9 1 (0.067%) IAG
9 1 (0.067%) KVM
Systems Management
1 520 (34.74%) Kubernetes
2 497 (33.20%) Terraform
3 122 (8.15%) Ansible
4 120 (8.02%) Grafana
5 97 (6.48%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.21%) Argo
7 26 (1.74%) Istio
8 20 (1.34%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.94%) Puppet
11 9 (0.60%) linkerd
12 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.27%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.27%) Cilium
13 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.27%) Kibana
13 4 (0.27%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 220 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.75%) Google
3 115 (7.68%) Databricks
4 79 (5.28%) Splunk
5 58 (3.87%) Oracle
6 43 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.67%) Dynatrace
7 40 (2.67%) VMware
8 35 (2.34%) ServiceNow
9 26 (1.74%) CyberArk
9 26 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.60%) SAP
11 18 (1.20%) Pure Storage
12 17 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.00%) Informatica
13 15 (1.00%) Okta
13 15 (1.00%) Salesforce
14 14 (0.94%) Cisco
14 14 (0.94%) F5
14 14 (0.94%) Palo Alto