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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 149 307
Rank change year-on-year +88 +158 -82
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,695 516 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.74% 1.88% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.22% 5.35% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 349 152
10th Percentile £408 £399 £446
25th Percentile £463 £420 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -14.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £678
90th Percentile £729 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £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 £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +48.29% -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 15,106 9,640 10,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.33% 35.03% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,321 6,093 6,845
10th Percentile £322 £306 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 860 478 589
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.38 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.76% -28.04% +9.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.40 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £29.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +49.02% -28.48% +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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +76 935 £575 +5.02% 612
North of England +53 323 £543 +8.69% 175
North West +35 155 £568 +13.50% 101
Yorkshire +22 151 £529 +5.80% 56
Midlands +39 121 £540 +8.00% 44
South West +37 111 £550 +18.92% 67
South East +1 107 £505 +12.22% 122
West Midlands +26 103 £563 +12.60% 30
East of England +28 56 £550 +20.22% 21
North East -19 25 £413 - 19
East Midlands -6 16 £425 -11.37% 14
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 67 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 58 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (2.89%) Confluence
4 47 (2.77%) Apache
5 20 (1.18%) SAS
6 17 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.53%) Camunda
9 8 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.35%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.29%) CMS
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.29%) 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 (0.53%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.059%) Maya
5 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.24%) Quorum
3 4 (0.24%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.18%) Ripple
4 3 (0.18%) Workfront
5 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.12%) Endur
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.059%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.059%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.059%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.059%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.059%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 918 (54.16%) AWS
2 759 (44.78%) Azure
3 357 (21.06%) GCP
4 287 (16.93%) GitHub
5 254 (14.99%) Serverless
6 180 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 173 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (8.20%) Amazon S3
8 139 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
9 110 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
10 95 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 90 (5.31%) Power Platform
12 87 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 87 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
13 85 (5.01%) Azure AKS
14 78 (4.60%) SaaS
15 69 (4.07%) Snowflake
16 66 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 60 (3.54%) OpenShift
18 57 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.60%) Firewall
2 55 (3.24%) DNS
3 44 (2.60%) Network Security
4 37 (2.18%) VPN
5 26 (1.53%) WAN
6 22 (1.30%) 5G
6 22 (1.30%) BGP
7 19 (1.12%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.06%) 4G
9 17 (1.00%) OSPF
10 15 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.77%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.77%) LAN
12 12 (0.71%) MPLS
12 12 (0.71%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.65%) VLAN
13 11 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.59%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (6.02%) NoSQL
3 73 (4.31%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.25%) Power BI
5 61 (3.60%) Relational Database
6 56 (3.30%) DynamoDB
7 55 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
8 52 (3.07%) Metadata
9 51 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
9 51 (3.01%) MongoDB
9 51 (3.01%) SQL Server
10 37 (2.18%) Big Data
11 36 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (2.12%) Redis
12 29 (1.71%) Delta Lake
13 28 (1.65%) BigQuery
14 26 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 26 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (1.47%) MySQL
16 17 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 182 (10.74%) Jenkins
2 174 (10.27%) Git
3 164 (9.68%) GitLab
4 87 (5.13%) JIRA
5 26 (1.53%) JUnit
6 20 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 16 (0.94%) MLflow
8 14 (0.83%) Claude Code
8 14 (0.83%) Selenium
9 13 (0.77%) JMeter
9 13 (0.77%) Postman
10 12 (0.71%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.59%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.59%) Mockito
12 9 (0.53%) MSI
13 7 (0.41%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.41%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.41%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.35%) Gradle
14 6 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 401 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 375 (22.12%) Finance
3 228 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 149 (8.79%) Banking
5 118 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (2.42%) Retail
8 37 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.24%) Legal
13 18 (1.06%) Front Office
14 16 (0.94%) Law
15 13 (0.77%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.71%) Marketing
16 12 (0.71%) Military
17 10 (0.59%) Billing
18 9 (0.53%) Local Government
19 8 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 423 (24.96%) Architect
2 277 (16.34%) Senior
3 240 (14.16%) Developer
4 182 (10.74%) Lead
5 155 (9.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 127 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 124 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
8 118 (6.96%) Software Engineer
9 107 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 81 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (4.01%) Technical Architect
12 63 (3.72%) Java Developer
13 62 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
14 60 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
15 58 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
16 57 (3.36%) Java Engineer
17 56 (3.30%) Senior Developer
18 54 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
18 54 (3.19%) Security Engineer
19 51 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (12.21%) REST
2 171 (10.09%) Kafka
3 151 (8.91%) Spring
4 146 (8.61%) React
5 136 (8.02%) Spring Boot
6 131 (7.73%) .NET
7 129 (7.61%) RESTful
8 125 (7.37%) Node.js
9 74 (4.37%) OAuth
10 65 (3.83%) AngularJS
11 58 (3.42%) PySpark
12 57 (3.36%) OpenTelemetry
13 55 (3.24%) OpenID
14 50 (2.95%) OAuth2
15 45 (2.65%) .NET Framework
16 42 (2.48%) .NET Core
16 42 (2.48%) GraphQL
17 41 (2.42%) FastAPI
18 38 (2.24%) LangChain
19 35 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 251 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 103 (6.08%) Legacy Systems
3 100 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.83%) Security Posture
5 64 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 62 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 53 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 45 (2.65%) AI Agents
9 34 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 28 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.47%) NHS
14 20 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.00%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 108 (6.37%) Linux
2 70 (4.13%) Windows
3 44 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.24%) Unix
5 13 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.41%) VMS
8 6 (0.35%) Android
9 5 (0.29%) 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 (0.059%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (59.76%) CI/CD
2 857 (50.56%) DevOps
3 607 (35.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 519 (30.62%) Agile
5 443 (26.14%) Microservices
6 421 (24.84%) Containerisation
7 390 (23.01%) AI
8 387 (22.83%) Observability
9 334 (19.71%) Software Engineering
10 326 (19.23%) Event-Driven
11 279 (16.46%) Test Automation
12 272 (16.05%) Migration
13 240 (14.16%) Analytics
14 237 (13.98%) Platform Engineering
15 229 (13.51%) Roadmaps
16 214 (12.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 214 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
17 210 (12.39%) Technical Leadership
18 209 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
19 205 (12.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 658 (38.82%) Python
2 395 (23.30%) Java
3 294 (17.35%) SQL
4 161 (9.50%) TypeScript
5 118 (6.96%) Bash
6 117 (6.90%) C#
7 106 (6.25%) JavaScript
8 93 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 76 (4.48%) Bicep
10 66 (3.89%) Go
11 22 (1.30%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.06%) Rust
13 16 (0.94%) C++
13 16 (0.94%) Ruby
14 15 (0.88%) Scala
15 10 (0.59%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.41%) Korn
17 7 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 408 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 348 (20.53%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.19%) AWS Certification
3 88 (5.19%) Degree
4 79 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 66 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 46 (2.71%) CISSP
7 44 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.77%) CISM
14 9 (0.53%) CCIE
15 8 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.47%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 95 (5.60%) QA
3 63 (3.72%) GDPR
4 49 (2.89%) NIST
5 48 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.71%) NCSC
8 20 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.06%) WCAG
10 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.59%) GRC
12 9 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.41%) HL7
15 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.29%) SEPA
17 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 384 (22.65%) Docker
2 24 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.06%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.00%) vSphere
6 9 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.47%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.41%) IAG
9 3 (0.18%) Snort
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.12%) NFS
10 2 (0.12%) SRDF
11 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.059%) etcd
11 1 (0.059%) Firmware
11 1 (0.059%) KVM
11 1 (0.059%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 580 (34.22%) Kubernetes
2 556 (32.80%) Terraform
3 140 (8.26%) Ansible
4 120 (7.08%) Grafana
5 93 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.71%) Argo
7 26 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.12%) Istio
10 16 (0.94%) Puppet
10 16 (0.94%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.88%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.47%) linkerd
13 4 (0.24%) Cilium
14 3 (0.18%) Bosun
14 3 (0.18%) Control-M
14 3 (0.18%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.18%) Kibana
14 3 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 263 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 156 (9.20%) Google
3 106 (6.25%) Databricks
4 67 (3.95%) Oracle
5 59 (3.48%) Splunk
6 48 (2.83%) Red Hat
7 47 (2.77%) Dynatrace
8 42 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.01%) OpenAI
9 34 (2.01%) VMware
10 25 (1.47%) SAP
11 22 (1.30%) Informatica
12 21 (1.24%) F5
13 20 (1.18%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.12%) Cisco
14 19 (1.12%) IBM
15 16 (0.94%) Pure Storage
16 15 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.88%) Salesforce
17 14 (0.83%) Foundry