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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 164 311
Rank change year-on-year +100 +147 -78
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,640 468 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 1.72% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.04% 4.93% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 322 156
10th Percentile £413 £400 £445
25th Percentile £463 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £512 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -14.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £786 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -8.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 4 2
10th Percentile £64.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.24% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £86.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +49.27% -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 14,857 9,496 10,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.13% 34.85% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,216 6,009 7,116
10th Percentile £317 £306 £300
25th Percentile £421 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £652 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 472 687
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.85 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% -20.36% +3.57%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.98 £80.00 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +46.53% -22.08% +10.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +79 908 £575 +4.55% 475
North of England +62 305 £550 +10.00% 142
North West +42 155 £560 +12.00% 86
Yorkshire +19 135 £538 +10.26% 45
Midlands +37 120 £540 +8.00% 45
South East -3 105 £503 +12.92% 112
South West +34 104 £555 +11.00% 65
West Midlands +26 100 £575 +13.64% 32
East of England +26 56 £550 +22.22% 9
North East -20 23 £400 - 12
East Midlands -5 18 £425 -15.00% 13
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 65 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 54 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (2.87%) Apache
4 45 (2.74%) Confluence
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 17 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.67%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.55%) Camunda
9 8 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.30%) CMS
11 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.30%) 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 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.061%) Maya
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.30%) 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%) 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
7 1 (0.061%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 893 (54.45%) AWS
2 736 (44.88%) Azure
3 338 (20.61%) GCP
4 271 (16.52%) GitHub
5 253 (15.43%) Serverless
6 170 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
7 165 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (8.90%) Amazon S3
9 141 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
11 98 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 88 (5.37%) Power Platform
13 87 (5.30%) Azure AKS
14 82 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
15 81 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 75 (4.57%) SaaS
17 68 (4.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 67 (4.09%) OpenShift
19 66 (4.02%) Snowflake
20 58 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.61%) Firewall
2 56 (3.41%) DNS
3 45 (2.74%) Network Security
4 35 (2.13%) VPN
5 22 (1.34%) 5G
5 22 (1.34%) BGP
5 22 (1.34%) WAN
6 19 (1.16%) BIG-IP
6 19 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 18 (1.10%) 4G
8 17 (1.04%) OSPF
9 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.79%) 3GPP
11 12 (0.73%) VXLAN
12 11 (0.67%) MPLS
12 11 (0.67%) VLAN
12 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.61%) LAN
13 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 10 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (5.91%) NoSQL
3 70 (4.27%) Data Lake
3 70 (4.27%) Power BI
4 58 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 55 (3.35%) DynamoDB
6 53 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 47 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (2.80%) Metadata
9 46 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 37 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (2.13%) Big Data
12 30 (1.83%) Redis
13 28 (1.71%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (1.52%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.28%) MySQL
17 19 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 179 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 167 (10.18%) Git
3 152 (9.27%) GitLab
4 88 (5.37%) JIRA
5 21 (1.28%) JUnit
6 18 (1.10%) MLflow
6 18 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 14 (0.85%) Selenium
8 13 (0.79%) Claude Code
8 13 (0.79%) Postman
9 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.67%) JMeter
10 9 (0.55%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.55%) Gradle
11 8 (0.49%) MSI
12 7 (0.43%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.43%) Maven
13 6 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.37%) Mockito
13 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 361 (22.01%) Finance
3 223 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.48%) Banking
5 109 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
8 37 (2.26%) Retail
9 34 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.28%) Legal
13 17 (1.04%) Front Office
14 15 (0.91%) Law
15 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.73%) Military
17 10 (0.61%) Billing
18 9 (0.55%) Marketing
19 8 (0.49%) Retail Banking
20 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 411 (25.06%) Architect
2 262 (15.98%) Senior
3 222 (13.54%) Developer
4 175 (10.67%) Lead
5 154 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 127 (7.74%) Data Engineer
7 123 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 111 (6.77%) Software Engineer
9 104 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 81 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
11 70 (4.27%) Technical Architect
12 57 (3.48%) Java Developer
13 55 (3.35%) Java Engineer
13 55 (3.35%) Security Engineer
14 53 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
14 53 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
14 53 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
15 52 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
15 52 (3.17%) Senior Developer
16 47 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (11.34%) REST
2 162 (9.88%) Kafka
3 149 (9.09%) React
4 138 (8.41%) Spring
5 129 (7.87%) .NET
6 124 (7.56%) Spring Boot
7 121 (7.38%) Node.js
8 113 (6.89%) RESTful
9 67 (4.09%) OAuth
10 60 (3.66%) AngularJS
10 60 (3.66%) OpenTelemetry
11 56 (3.41%) OpenID
11 56 (3.41%) PySpark
12 46 (2.80%) OAuth2
13 45 (2.74%) GraphQL
14 42 (2.56%) .NET Framework
15 40 (2.44%) .NET Core
16 38 (2.32%) FastAPI
17 35 (2.13%) LangChain
18 34 (2.07%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 237 (14.45%) Distributed Systems
2 98 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
3 90 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 68 (4.15%) Security Posture
5 61 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 60 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 56 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 28 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.52%) NHS
13 24 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.98%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.46%) Linux
2 66 (4.02%) Windows
3 43 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.16%) Unix
5 13 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.49%) VMS
8 7 (0.43%) Android
9 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.061%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 975 (59.45%) CI/CD
2 830 (50.61%) DevOps
3 586 (35.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 491 (29.94%) Agile
5 417 (25.43%) Microservices
6 410 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 379 (23.11%) AI
8 354 (21.59%) Observability
9 301 (18.35%) Software Engineering
10 299 (18.23%) Event-Driven
11 271 (16.52%) Migration
12 259 (15.79%) Test Automation
13 235 (14.33%) Analytics
14 225 (13.72%) Roadmaps
15 215 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
16 199 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
17 195 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 191 (11.65%) Data Modelling
18 191 (11.65%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 190 (11.59%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 635 (38.72%) Python
2 366 (22.32%) Java
3 285 (17.38%) SQL
4 158 (9.63%) TypeScript
5 113 (6.89%) Bash
5 113 (6.89%) C#
6 101 (6.16%) JavaScript
7 88 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 74 (4.51%) Bicep
9 68 (4.15%) Go
10 23 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.04%) Rust
12 16 (0.98%) Ruby
13 13 (0.79%) C++
13 13 (0.79%) Scala
14 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.37%) R
17 5 (0.30%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 395 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 338 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.37%) Degree
4 86 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 71 (4.33%) DV Cleared
6 66 (4.02%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.87%) CISSP
8 43 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.85%) CISM
15 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.55%) CCIE
17 7 (0.43%) CCNP
17 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 87 (5.30%) QA
3 67 (4.09%) GDPR
4 59 (3.60%) NIST
5 58 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 35 (2.13%) NCSC
8 24 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.98%) WCAG
10 12 (0.73%) GRC
11 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 8 (0.49%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.43%) HL7
15 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 367 (22.38%) Docker
2 23 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.16%) vSphere
5 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.43%) IAG
7 4 (0.24%) Snort
8 3 (0.18%) 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 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 539 (32.87%) Terraform
3 139 (8.48%) Ansible
4 124 (7.56%) Grafana
5 96 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.80%) Argo
7 24 (1.46%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.16%) Istio
10 18 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.91%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.85%) Puppet
13 9 (0.55%) linkerd
14 4 (0.24%) Cilium
14 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.24%) Nagios
15 3 (0.18%) Kibana
15 3 (0.18%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 264 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 142 (8.66%) Google
3 103 (6.28%) Databricks
4 71 (4.33%) Splunk
5 65 (3.96%) Oracle
6 47 (2.87%) Dynatrace
6 47 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.13%) VMware
9 31 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.46%) SAP
11 21 (1.28%) F5
12 20 (1.22%) Palo Alto
13 19 (1.16%) Cisco
13 19 (1.16%) Informatica
14 18 (1.10%) CyberArk
14 18 (1.10%) Pure Storage
15 17 (1.04%) IBM
16 15 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.91%) Salesforce