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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 103 317
Rank change year-on-year +46 +214 -81
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,810 720 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.91% 2.61% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.45% 7.23% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 484 136
10th Percentile £407 £400 £431
25th Percentile £463 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +16.80% -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 15,814 9,959 10,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.14% 36.14% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,545 6,247 6,064
10th Percentile £325 £300 £295
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
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 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.20% -3.49% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 509 380
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £15.61
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.82 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £74.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +29.31% -42.00% +11.73%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +42 994 £575 +4.55% 1,341
North of England +26 365 £525 +5.00% 304
Yorkshire +21 182 £525 +5.00% 76
North West +22 158 £560 +12.90% 194
Midlands +22 127 £540 +3.50% 100
South East +2 117 £500 +11.11% 131
West Midlands +24 114 £551 +3.87% 64
South West +22 112 £550 - 155
East of England +4 45 £525 +12.90% 64
North East -11 33 £425 -29.17% 34
East Midlands -17 11 £425 -15.42% 36
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 70 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.04%) Confluence
4 49 (2.71%) Apache
5 21 (1.16%) SAS
6 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 10 (0.55%) Camunda
9 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.39%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Appian
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) Quorum
5 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.17%) Ripple
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,030 (56.91%) AWS
2 795 (43.92%) Azure
3 418 (23.09%) GCP
4 293 (16.19%) GitHub
5 277 (15.30%) Serverless
6 190 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
7 172 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
8 164 (9.06%) Azure DevOps
9 158 (8.73%) Amazon S3
10 139 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
11 116 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 106 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
13 91 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 84 (4.64%) SaaS
15 81 (4.48%) Snowflake
16 70 (3.87%) Azure AKS
17 69 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
18 67 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
18 67 (3.70%) Power Platform
19 66 (3.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.76%) Firewall
2 44 (2.43%) Network Security
3 33 (1.82%) DNS
4 31 (1.71%) VPN
5 28 (1.55%) BGP
6 26 (1.44%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (0.99%) HTTP
9 16 (0.88%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.77%) MPLS
11 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
14 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (8.29%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (5.30%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (4.25%) Data Lake
5 74 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.81%) Metadata
7 66 (3.65%) MongoDB
8 60 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 60 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 58 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 55 (3.04%) Power BI
11 31 (1.71%) BigQuery
11 31 (1.71%) MySQL
11 31 (1.71%) Redis
12 30 (1.66%) Big Data
13 29 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
14 23 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (1.27%) Delta Lake
15 22 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 206 (11.38%) Git
2 190 (10.50%) GitLab
3 173 (9.56%) Jenkins
4 89 (4.92%) JIRA
5 34 (1.88%) JUnit
6 33 (1.82%) Claude Code
7 25 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.27%) Mockito
9 22 (1.22%) Maven
10 17 (0.94%) JMeter
11 15 (0.83%) Postman
12 13 (0.72%) Selenium
13 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.61%) MSI
15 10 (0.55%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.44%) Gatling
17 6 (0.33%) Gradle
17 6 (0.33%) MLflow
17 6 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 467 (25.80%) Social Skills
2 414 (22.87%) Finance
3 242 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 187 (10.33%) Banking
5 171 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.65%) Retail
8 36 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.27%) Front Office
12 20 (1.10%) Military
13 19 (1.05%) Law
14 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 18 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (0.88%) Legal
15 16 (0.88%) Marketing
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.55%) Local Government
16 10 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 417 (23.04%) Architect
2 328 (18.12%) Senior
3 300 (16.57%) Developer
4 168 (9.28%) Lead
5 148 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 137 (7.57%) Data Engineer
7 125 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
8 122 (6.74%) Software Engineer
9 110 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 96 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.25%) Java Developer
12 76 (4.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 67 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
14 65 (3.59%) Security Engineer
15 64 (3.54%) Senior Developer
16 63 (3.48%) Java Engineer
17 60 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
18 59 (3.26%) Technical Architect
19 55 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
20 51 (2.82%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 587 (32.43%) Terraform
2 273 (15.08%) REST
3 222 (12.27%) Kafka
4 181 (10.00%) Spring
5 176 (9.72%) Spring Boot
6 175 (9.67%) RESTful
7 149 (8.23%) React
8 132 (7.29%) .NET
9 117 (6.46%) Node.js
10 100 (5.52%) OAuth
11 69 (3.81%) OpenID
12 60 (3.31%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.31%) OAuth2
13 53 (2.93%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.87%) FastAPI
15 48 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 48 (2.65%) PySpark
16 46 (2.54%) LangChain
16 46 (2.54%) SAML
17 45 (2.49%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 263 (14.53%) Distributed Systems
2 123 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 91 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
4 90 (4.97%) Enterprise Software
5 85 (4.70%) AI Agents
6 81 (4.48%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.20%) Security Posture
8 55 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 45 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.71%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.38%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.22%) NHS
18 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
19 19 (1.05%) PKI
20 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 116 (6.41%) Linux
2 70 (3.87%) Windows
3 41 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.10%) Unix
5 14 (0.77%) VMS
6 12 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.055%) AIX
11 1 (0.055%) Solaris
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,104 (60.99%) CI/CD
2 876 (48.40%) DevOps
3 656 (36.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 604 (33.37%) Agile
5 507 (28.01%) Microservices
6 464 (25.64%) AI
7 441 (24.36%) Containerisation
8 425 (23.48%) Event-Driven
8 425 (23.48%) Observability
9 424 (23.43%) Software Engineering
10 339 (18.73%) Test Automation
11 308 (17.02%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 290 (16.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 289 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
14 276 (15.25%) Migration
15 270 (14.92%) Technical Leadership
16 263 (14.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 256 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
18 248 (13.70%) Roadmaps
19 245 (13.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 699 (38.62%) Python
2 437 (24.14%) Java
3 283 (15.64%) SQL
4 192 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.18%) C#
6 125 (6.91%) JavaScript
7 116 (6.41%) Bash
8 97 (5.36%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.81%) Bicep
10 68 (3.76%) Go
11 24 (1.33%) Scala
12 23 (1.27%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.10%) C++
14 19 (1.05%) Rust
15 9 (0.50%) Ruby
15 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.44%) Korn
17 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 457 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 373 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 105 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 102 (5.64%) AWS Certification
5 91 (5.03%) Degree
6 75 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 57 (3.15%) CISSP
8 51 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.50%) CCSP
17 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.02%) QA
2 117 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (2.71%) NIST
5 46 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.54%) GDPR
6 34 (1.88%) NCSC
7 17 (0.94%) WCAG
8 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.77%) GRC
10 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
14 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 416 (22.98%) Docker
2 27 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 644 (35.58%) Kubernetes
2 140 (7.73%) Ansible
3 109 (6.02%) Grafana
4 89 (4.92%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.93%) Argo
6 28 (1.55%) Istio
6 28 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.77%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 6 (0.33%) Kibana
12 5 (0.28%) Control-M
13 4 (0.22%) Bosun
13 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.22%) Packer
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 284 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 194 (10.72%) Google
3 113 (6.24%) Databricks
4 70 (3.87%) Oracle
5 57 (3.15%) Splunk
6 48 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.38%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.66%) VMware
11 27 (1.49%) Informatica
12 24 (1.33%) SAP
13 22 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.16%) Cisco
14 21 (1.16%) F5
14 21 (1.16%) Okta
15 20 (1.10%) IBM
16 19 (1.05%) Palo Alto
17 17 (0.94%) Foundry
18 16 (0.88%) Salesforce