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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 124 324
Rank change year-on-year +68 +200 -88
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,805 638 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 2.31% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.53% 6.43% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 434 141
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £426 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £736 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £63.25 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £73.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.44% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £86.25 £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 15,658 9,926 10,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.81% 35.97% 30.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,529 6,257 6,243
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £677
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 491 439
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.34
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £22.45
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.31 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £77.50 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +27.50% -39.39% +12.70%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +57 982 £574 +4.32% 1,503
North of England +35 357 £550 +10.00% 272
Yorkshire +28 176 £527 +5.30% 80
North West +23 160 £560 +12.00% 167
Midlands +27 132 £526 +2.74% 100
South East +12 121 £503 +18.24% 146
South West +31 115 £550 +10.00% 164
West Midlands +30 113 £551 +5.01% 55
East of England +19 52 £519 +10.96% 59
North East -19 29 £400 - 25
East Midlands -6 17 £414 -17.71% 45
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 69 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.05%) Confluence
4 50 (2.77%) Apache
5 21 (1.16%) SAS
6 16 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.61%) Camunda
7 11 (0.61%) CMS
8 10 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.28%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.44%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.17%) Quorum
5 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.17%) Ripple
5 3 (0.17%) Workfront
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.055%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,010 (55.96%) AWS
2 809 (44.82%) Azure
3 403 (22.33%) GCP
4 310 (17.17%) GitHub
5 279 (15.46%) Serverless
6 201 (11.14%) GitHub Actions
7 177 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
8 167 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
9 151 (8.37%) Amazon S3
10 130 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 103 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
13 97 (5.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 83 (4.60%) SaaS
15 81 (4.49%) Snowflake
16 77 (4.27%) Azure AKS
17 75 (4.16%) Power Platform
18 65 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
18 65 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
18 65 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.21%) Firewall
2 50 (2.77%) Network Security
3 42 (2.33%) DNS
4 35 (1.94%) VPN
5 28 (1.55%) BGP
6 27 (1.50%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.00%) HTTP
9 16 (0.89%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.78%) MPLS
12 13 (0.72%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) 5G
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (5.82%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.21%) Data Lake
4 75 (4.16%) Relational Database
5 69 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
6 68 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 65 (3.60%) Metadata
8 64 (3.55%) Power BI
9 61 (3.38%) SQL Server
10 58 (3.21%) DynamoDB
11 57 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
12 35 (1.94%) Big Data
13 33 (1.83%) Redis
14 31 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (1.72%) MySQL
15 30 (1.66%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
18 24 (1.33%) BigQuery
19 16 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 202 (11.19%) Git
2 182 (10.08%) GitLab
3 176 (9.75%) Jenkins
4 88 (4.88%) JIRA
5 32 (1.77%) JUnit
6 29 (1.61%) Claude Code
6 29 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 20 (1.11%) Mockito
8 17 (0.94%) JMeter
8 17 (0.94%) Maven
9 15 (0.83%) Postman
9 15 (0.83%) Selenium
10 13 (0.72%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.61%) MSI
13 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.39%) Gatling
13 7 (0.39%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.39%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 469 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 383 (21.22%) Finance
3 239 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 167 (9.25%) Banking
5 161 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
7 44 (2.44%) Retail
8 36 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.27%) Legal
11 21 (1.16%) Front Office
12 19 (1.05%) Military
13 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.00%) Law
14 15 (0.83%) Marketing
15 14 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.61%) Billing
18 10 (0.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 447 (24.76%) Architect
2 310 (17.17%) Senior
3 286 (15.84%) Developer
4 167 (9.25%) Lead
5 152 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 141 (7.81%) Data Engineer
7 128 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
8 123 (6.81%) Software Engineer
9 107 (5.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 89 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 74 (4.10%) Java Developer
12 72 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
13 67 (3.71%) Technical Architect
14 64 (3.55%) Java Engineer
15 63 (3.49%) Senior Developer
16 61 (3.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 60 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
18 59 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
19 57 (3.16%) Security Engineer
20 54 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 580 (32.13%) Terraform
2 257 (14.24%) REST
3 210 (11.63%) Kafka
4 180 (9.97%) Spring
5 170 (9.42%) Spring Boot
6 158 (8.75%) RESTful
7 149 (8.25%) React
8 135 (7.48%) .NET
9 117 (6.48%) Node.js
10 82 (4.54%) OAuth
11 69 (3.82%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.32%) OpenID
13 53 (2.94%) PySpark
14 51 (2.83%) OAuth2
15 50 (2.77%) .NET Core
16 49 (2.71%) FastAPI
17 48 (2.66%) .NET Framework
18 43 (2.38%) GraphQL
19 40 (2.22%) LangChain
19 40 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 265 (14.68%) Distributed Systems
2 116 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 97 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 85 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 70 (3.88%) AI Agents
6 64 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 63 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 60 (3.32%) Security Posture
9 45 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.83%) Virtual Team
12 32 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 30 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.39%) NHS
15 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.27%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
18 21 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
19 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
19 17 (0.94%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.32%) Linux
2 72 (3.99%) Windows
3 42 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.39%) Unix
5 12 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.61%) VMS
6 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.39%) Android
8 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
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 1,086 (60.17%) CI/CD
2 889 (49.25%) DevOps
3 655 (36.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 591 (32.74%) Agile
5 502 (27.81%) Microservices
6 441 (24.43%) Containerisation
7 430 (23.82%) AI
7 430 (23.82%) Observability
8 408 (22.60%) Software Engineering
9 407 (22.55%) Event-Driven
10 314 (17.40%) Test Automation
11 282 (15.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 281 (15.57%) Migration
13 279 (15.46%) Platform Engineering
14 263 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
15 254 (14.07%) Technical Leadership
16 252 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
17 241 (13.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 240 (13.30%) Analytics
19 238 (13.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 694 (38.45%) Python
2 438 (24.27%) Java
3 291 (16.12%) SQL
4 176 (9.75%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.20%) C#
6 125 (6.93%) Bash
7 122 (6.76%) JavaScript
8 99 (5.48%) PowerShell
9 77 (4.27%) Bicep
10 58 (3.21%) Go
11 25 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 24 (1.33%) Scala
13 20 (1.11%) Rust
14 19 (1.05%) C++
15 15 (0.83%) Ruby
16 11 (0.61%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.33%) Korn
19 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 457 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 372 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.60%) DV Cleared
4 90 (4.99%) AWS Certification
5 88 (4.88%) Degree
6 69 (3.82%) Azure Certification
7 52 (2.88%) CISSP
8 45 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 15 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
17 9 (0.50%) CCIE
17 9 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.76%) QA
2 111 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.16%) GDPR
4 53 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (2.94%) NIST
5 44 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.83%) NCSC
7 19 (1.05%) WCAG
8 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.55%) GRC
10 10 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.44%) HL7
12 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 6 (0.33%) SEPA
12 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.22%) PSD2
14 4 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 416 (23.05%) Docker
2 28 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) IAG
4 11 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 9 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) SRDF
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.055%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.055%) etcd
9 1 (0.055%) Firmware
9 1 (0.055%) KVM
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 639 (35.40%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.87%) Ansible
3 114 (6.32%) Grafana
4 90 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.16%) Argo
6 30 (1.66%) Istio
7 27 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 8 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.22%) Control-M
12 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.17%) Bosun
13 3 (0.17%) Kibana
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 284 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.75%) Google
3 122 (6.76%) Databricks
4 76 (4.21%) Oracle
5 55 (3.05%) Splunk
6 49 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 41 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.11%) OpenAI
9 30 (1.66%) Informatica
9 30 (1.66%) VMware
10 27 (1.50%) SAP
11 24 (1.33%) Cisco
12 21 (1.16%) F5
13 20 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
14 19 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.00%) Foundry
15 18 (1.00%) IBM
16 16 (0.89%) Salesforce
17 15 (0.83%) Okta