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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 169 301
Rank change year-on-year +105 +132 -69
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,635 451 252
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 1.66% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.01% 4.76% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 310 155
10th Percentile £413 £400 £443
25th Percentile £463 £413 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £730
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £77.25 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.73% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £86.88 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +50.24% -39.71% +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 14,847 9,465 11,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.17% 34.82% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,228 5,997 7,278
10th Percentile £318 £305 £289
25th Percentile £420 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 801 468 782
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.01 £18.87 £15.62
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.01% -17.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.56 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.81 £36.50
% change year-on-year +42.70% -15.60% +15.87%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +86 905 £575 +6.48% 305
North of England +57 306 £547 +9.35% 103
North West +42 155 £558 +11.50% 73
Yorkshire +23 138 £529 +11.37% 21
Midlands +27 121 £540 +8.00% 30
South West +46 104 £560 +12.00% 60
South East +6 104 £505 +13.48% 103
West Midlands +27 101 £575 +13.64% 23
East of England +25 55 £550 +22.22% 4
North East -18 21 £413 - 10
East Midlands -4 18 £425 -15.00% 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 66 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 54 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (2.94%) Apache
4 46 (2.81%) Confluence
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 16 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.55%) Camunda
9 8 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) nginx
12 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.24%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.24%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.55%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Maya
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Quorum
4 4 (0.24%) 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%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.061%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.061%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 887 (54.25%) AWS
2 732 (44.77%) Azure
3 330 (20.18%) GCP
4 268 (16.39%) GitHub
5 255 (15.60%) Serverless
6 169 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 166 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
8 153 (9.36%) Amazon S3
9 142 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 91 (5.57%) Power Platform
13 86 (5.26%) Azure AKS
14 82 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 79 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
16 77 (4.71%) SaaS
17 69 (4.22%) OpenShift
18 67 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 65 (3.98%) Snowflake
20 60 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.63%) Firewall
2 56 (3.43%) DNS
3 44 (2.69%) Network Security
4 35 (2.14%) VPN
5 27 (1.65%) 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 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.99%) NoSQL
3 73 (4.46%) Power BI
4 72 (4.40%) Data Lake
5 57 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
5 57 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 55 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 51 (3.12%) SQL Server
8 47 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (2.87%) Metadata
9 44 (2.69%) MongoDB
10 40 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (2.14%) Big Data
12 31 (1.90%) Redis
13 28 (1.71%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 26 (1.59%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.28%) MySQL
17 20 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 189 (11.56%) Jenkins
2 170 (10.40%) Git
3 153 (9.36%) GitLab
4 90 (5.50%) JIRA
5 22 (1.35%) JUnit
6 19 (1.16%) MLflow
7 18 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.92%) Selenium
9 13 (0.80%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.80%) Postman
10 12 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.67%) JMeter
12 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.55%) Gradle
14 8 (0.49%) MSI
15 7 (0.43%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.43%) IntelliJ
15 7 (0.43%) Maven
15 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 401 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 359 (21.96%) Finance
3 223 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 140 (8.56%) Banking
5 109 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (2.20%) Retail
9 33 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.28%) Legal
13 16 (0.98%) Front Office
14 15 (0.92%) Law
15 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.73%) Military
17 10 (0.61%) Billing
17 10 (0.61%) Marketing
18 8 (0.49%) Retail Banking
19 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 415 (25.38%) Architect
2 256 (15.66%) Senior
3 223 (13.64%) Developer
4 177 (10.83%) Lead
5 154 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (7.89%) Data Engineer
7 119 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (6.67%) Software Engineer
9 104 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 80 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.34%) Technical Architect
12 57 (3.49%) Java Developer
13 54 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
15 52 (3.18%) Java Engineer
15 52 (3.18%) Security Engineer
16 51 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.12%) Platform Engineer
17 50 (3.06%) Senior Developer
18 45 (2.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (11.50%) REST
2 162 (9.91%) Kafka
3 150 (9.17%) React
4 135 (8.26%) Spring
5 127 (7.77%) .NET
6 124 (7.58%) Node.js
7 121 (7.40%) Spring Boot
8 114 (6.97%) RESTful
9 64 (3.91%) OAuth
10 60 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 59 (3.61%) OpenID
12 57 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 56 (3.43%) PySpark
14 46 (2.81%) GraphQL
15 44 (2.69%) OAuth2
16 41 (2.51%) .NET Core
16 41 (2.51%) .NET Framework
17 37 (2.26%) FastAPI
18 35 (2.14%) LangChain
18 35 (2.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.07%) Distributed Systems
2 98 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
3 87 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 64 (3.91%) Security Posture
6 62 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 51 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.47%) NHS
13 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (0.92%) Mobile App
16 14 (0.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 104 (6.36%) Linux
2 64 (3.91%) Windows
3 40 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (1.10%) Unix
5 13 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.55%) VMS
6 9 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Solaris
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.061%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 976 (59.69%) CI/CD
2 835 (51.07%) DevOps
3 588 (35.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 487 (29.79%) Agile
5 416 (25.44%) Microservices
6 414 (25.32%) Containerisation
7 377 (23.06%) AI
8 350 (21.41%) Observability
9 299 (18.29%) Event-Driven
10 293 (17.92%) Software Engineering
11 270 (16.51%) Migration
12 256 (15.66%) Test Automation
13 238 (14.56%) Analytics
14 226 (13.82%) Roadmaps
15 209 (12.78%) Platform Engineering
16 201 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
17 193 (11.80%) Data Modelling
18 191 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
18 191 (11.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 190 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 638 (39.02%) Python
2 364 (22.26%) Java
3 288 (17.61%) SQL
4 159 (9.72%) TypeScript
5 111 (6.79%) C#
6 109 (6.67%) Bash
7 100 (6.12%) JavaScript
8 85 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 70 (4.28%) Bicep
10 69 (4.22%) Go
11 23 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.04%) Rust
13 16 (0.98%) Ruby
14 15 (0.92%) Scala
15 12 (0.73%) C++
16 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.61%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.31%) ActionScript
18 5 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 398 (24.34%) Security Cleared
2 342 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 87 (5.32%) Degree
4 86 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 71 (4.34%) DV Cleared
6 63 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (2.69%) CISSP
9 41 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.86%) CISM
15 12 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.61%) CCIE
17 9 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.43%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.87%) Data Quality
2 83 (5.08%) QA
3 63 (3.85%) GDPR
4 60 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (3.67%) NIST
5 39 (2.39%) NCSC
6 35 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.92%) WCAG
9 11 (0.67%) GRC
9 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.31%) HL7
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 5 (0.31%) SEPA
13 4 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 368 (22.51%) Docker
2 24 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.16%) vSphere
6 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.43%) IAG
8 4 (0.24%) Snort
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
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%) Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) KVM
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 566 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 540 (33.03%) Terraform
3 138 (8.44%) Ansible
4 126 (7.71%) Grafana
5 98 (5.99%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.81%) Argo
7 22 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.16%) Istio
9 18 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.86%) Puppet
12 9 (0.55%) linkerd
13 4 (0.24%) Cilium
13 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.24%) Kibana
13 4 (0.24%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.24%) Nagios
14 3 (0.18%) Packer
15 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 265 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.56%) Google
3 109 (6.67%) Databricks
4 74 (4.53%) Splunk
5 63 (3.85%) Oracle
6 46 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 42 (2.57%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.20%) VMware
10 29 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.59%) SAP
12 22 (1.35%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.16%) F5
14 18 (1.10%) Informatica
14 18 (1.10%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.10%) Pure Storage
15 17 (1.04%) Cisco
16 16 (0.98%) IBM
17 15 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
17 15 (0.92%) Salesforce