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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 174 322
Rank change year-on-year +112 +148 -95
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,631 427 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 1.60% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% 4.61% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 291 160
10th Percentile £413 £395 £455
25th Percentile £463 £413 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £588
% change year-on-year +6.14% -11.80% -7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 4 0
10th Percentile £63.75 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.24% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year +49.27% - -

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 14,687 9,257 11,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.04% 34.70% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,125 5,903 7,342
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 784 441 819
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.90 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71.13 £59.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +41.81% -14.00% +31.07%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 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
London +90 911 £575 +9.52% 304
North of England +66 313 £534 +6.75% 109
North West +45 155 £550 +10.00% 72
Yorkshire +36 145 £529 +11.37% 30
Midlands +22 117 £525 +5.00% 37
South West +43 102 £560 +6.67% 49
South East -3 97 £503 +11.67% 88
West Midlands +19 96 £575 +13.64% 27
East of England +12 51 £550 +22.22% 17
North East -17 21 £413 - 8
East Midlands -4 19 £431 -13.75% 10
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 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 52 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.76%) Confluence
4 43 (2.64%) Apache
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 17 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.55%) Camunda
8 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.31%) nginx
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.25%) CMS
11 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.55%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.061%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.061%) Maya
5 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.25%) Quorum
4 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.18%) Ripple
5 3 (0.18%) Workfront
6 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Endur
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.061%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.061%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.061%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.061%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.061%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 889 (54.51%) AWS
2 737 (45.19%) Azure
3 337 (20.66%) GCP
4 267 (16.37%) Serverless
5 264 (16.19%) GitHub
6 166 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
7 164 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
8 160 (9.81%) Amazon S3
9 147 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (6.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
12 94 (5.76%) Power Platform
13 86 (5.27%) Azure AKS
14 81 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 72 (4.41%) SaaS
17 71 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 68 (4.17%) OpenShift
18 68 (4.17%) Snowflake
19 59 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.58%) Firewall
2 58 (3.56%) DNS
3 44 (2.70%) Network Security
4 40 (2.45%) VPN
5 27 (1.66%) WAN
6 24 (1.47%) BGP
7 22 (1.35%) 5G
8 19 (1.16%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.10%) 4G
10 17 (1.04%) OSPF
11 16 (0.98%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.80%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.80%) LAN
12 13 (0.80%) MPLS
13 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.61%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.01%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.60%) Power BI
4 69 (4.23%) Data Lake
5 59 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (3.49%) DynamoDB
7 54 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 51 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 49 (3.00%) Metadata
10 45 (2.76%) MongoDB
11 43 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
12 42 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (1.96%) Big Data
14 31 (1.90%) Redis
15 29 (1.78%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
18 24 (1.47%) BigQuery
19 21 (1.29%) MySQL
20 20 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (12.02%) Jenkins
2 164 (10.06%) Git
3 159 (9.75%) GitLab
4 94 (5.76%) JIRA
5 23 (1.41%) JUnit
6 20 (1.23%) MLflow
7 18 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 16 (0.98%) Postman
8 16 (0.98%) Selenium
9 13 (0.80%) JMeter
10 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.55%) Gradle
13 8 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.49%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.43%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.43%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.43%) Maven
14 7 (0.43%) MSI
15 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 397 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 361 (22.13%) Finance
3 220 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.52%) Banking
5 102 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.08%) Retail
9 33 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.35%) Legal
13 15 (0.92%) Front Office
14 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.74%) Marketing
15 12 (0.74%) Military
16 11 (0.67%) Law
17 10 (0.61%) Billing
18 8 (0.49%) Retail Banking
19 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 424 (26.00%) Architect
2 245 (15.02%) Senior
3 225 (13.80%) Developer
4 173 (10.61%) Lead
5 155 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 136 (8.34%) Data Engineer
7 115 (7.05%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (6.56%) Software Engineer
9 100 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 79 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
11 72 (4.41%) Technical Architect
12 61 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.56%) Java Developer
14 55 (3.37%) Java Engineer
15 54 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
16 51 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.13%) Security Engineer
17 50 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
17 50 (3.07%) Senior Developer
18 45 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (10.85%) REST
2 163 (9.99%) Kafka
3 141 (8.65%) React
4 134 (8.22%) Spring
5 125 (7.66%) .NET
6 121 (7.42%) Spring Boot
7 118 (7.23%) Node.js
8 115 (7.05%) RESTful
9 64 (3.92%) OAuth
9 64 (3.92%) OpenID
10 60 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 55 (3.37%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.37%) PySpark
12 45 (2.76%) OAuth2
13 43 (2.64%) GraphQL
14 39 (2.39%) .NET Core
14 39 (2.39%) .NET Framework
15 38 (2.33%) SAML
16 35 (2.15%) FastAPI
17 34 (2.08%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 218 (13.37%) Distributed Systems
2 88 (5.40%) Legacy Systems
3 83 (5.09%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.21%) Public Cloud
7 36 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 34 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 32 (1.96%) AI Agents
10 28 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 25 (1.53%) NHS
12 24 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.10%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.19%) Linux
2 58 (3.56%) Windows
3 36 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (1.04%) Unix
5 13 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.55%) VMS
6 9 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.37%) Android
8 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.18%) Solaris
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.12%) CentOS
10 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 984 (60.33%) CI/CD
2 837 (51.32%) DevOps
3 580 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 471 (28.88%) Agile
5 418 (25.63%) Containerisation
6 408 (25.02%) Microservices
7 370 (22.69%) AI
8 338 (20.72%) Observability
9 291 (17.84%) Event-Driven
10 276 (16.92%) Software Engineering
11 273 (16.74%) Migration
12 248 (15.21%) Test Automation
13 239 (14.65%) Analytics
14 226 (13.86%) Roadmaps
15 208 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
16 205 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
17 189 (11.59%) Data Modelling
18 186 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
19 185 (11.34%) Data Engineering
20 182 (11.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 636 (38.99%) Python
2 364 (22.32%) Java
3 287 (17.60%) SQL
4 151 (9.26%) TypeScript
5 112 (6.87%) C#
6 105 (6.44%) Bash
7 97 (5.95%) JavaScript
8 81 (4.97%) PowerShell
9 70 (4.29%) Go
10 68 (4.17%) Bicep
11 24 (1.47%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.10%) Scala
13 15 (0.92%) Rust
14 14 (0.86%) Ruby
15 12 (0.74%) C++
15 12 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.31%) ActionScript
18 5 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 382 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 328 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 87 (5.33%) Degree
4 80 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 62 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 60 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.51%) CISSP
9 40 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.74%) CISM
15 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.61%) CCIE
17 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
18 7 (0.43%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.84%) QA
3 65 (3.99%) GDPR
4 64 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (3.74%) NIST
6 37 (2.27%) NCSC
7 31 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.41%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.80%) WCAG
10 11 (0.67%) GRC
10 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.43%) SEPA
14 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.37%) PSD2
15 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.31%) HL7
15 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 364 (22.32%) Docker
2 25 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.23%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.16%) vSphere
5 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) IAG
8 4 (0.25%) Snort
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) etcd
10 1 (0.061%) KVM
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 564 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 538 (32.99%) Terraform
3 137 (8.40%) Ansible
4 124 (7.60%) Grafana
5 97 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.82%) Argo
7 23 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.23%) Istio
10 18 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.98%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.86%) Puppet
13 9 (0.55%) linkerd
14 4 (0.25%) Cilium
14 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.25%) Kibana
14 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.25%) Nagios
15 3 (0.18%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 255 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.65%) Google
3 114 (6.99%) Databricks
4 76 (4.66%) Splunk
5 62 (3.80%) Oracle
6 44 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 44 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.64%) Red Hat
8 37 (2.27%) VMware
9 29 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.59%) SAP
11 24 (1.47%) CyberArk
12 19 (1.16%) F5
13 18 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.10%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.04%) Cisco
14 17 (1.04%) Informatica
15 16 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.98%) Okta