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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 173 317
Rank change year-on-year +109 +144 -84
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,606 415 254
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 1.58% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.09% 4.53% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 286 162
10th Percentile £410 £398 £455
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £588
% change year-on-year +7.32% -12.77% -7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 0
10th Percentile £58.38 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year +48.29% - -

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 14,476 9,159 11,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.92% 34.77% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,979 5,852 7,380
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
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 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 434 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +47.06%
75th Percentile £70.41 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.70 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.90 £36.27
% change year-on-year +42.25% -14.80% +53.40%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +98 897 £575 +9.52% 374
North of England +68 306 £538 +7.50% 129
North West +51 156 £550 +10.00% 87
Yorkshire +27 137 £539 +13.42% 32
Midlands +23 113 £525 +5.00% 44
South West +46 102 £560 +6.67% 60
South East +6 97 £500 +12.36% 111
West Midlands +14 92 £575 +13.64% 31
East of England +9 51 £550 +22.22% 12
North East -15 21 £413 - 13
East Midlands -6 19 £431 -13.75% 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 60 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 51 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.80%) Confluence
4 40 (2.49%) Apache
5 19 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.12%) SAS
7 13 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.56%) Camunda
8 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.062%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.062%) Maya
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Quorum
3 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
4 3 (0.19%) Workfront
5 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.12%) Endur
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.062%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.062%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.062%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.062%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.062%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 876 (54.55%) AWS
2 728 (45.33%) Azure
3 330 (20.55%) GCP
4 262 (16.31%) GitHub
4 262 (16.31%) Serverless
5 163 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
5 163 (10.15%) GitHub Actions
6 155 (9.65%) Amazon S3
7 142 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
8 105 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 95 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
10 92 (5.73%) Power Platform
11 85 (5.29%) Azure AKS
12 80 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
13 78 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (4.48%) SaaS
15 71 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 68 (4.23%) OpenShift
17 67 (4.17%) Snowflake
18 56 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.67%) Firewall
2 57 (3.55%) DNS
3 43 (2.68%) Network Security
4 40 (2.49%) VPN
5 27 (1.68%) WAN
6 24 (1.49%) BGP
7 22 (1.37%) 5G
8 19 (1.18%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.12%) 4G
10 17 (1.06%) OSPF
11 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.81%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.81%) LAN
12 13 (0.81%) MPLS
13 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.62%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.48%) Power BI
4 69 (4.30%) Data Lake
5 57 (3.55%) DynamoDB
6 54 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 52 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 51 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 46 (2.86%) Metadata
10 45 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 43 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (1.93%) Redis
14 30 (1.87%) Big Data
15 29 (1.81%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
17 24 (1.49%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.31%) MySQL
19 20 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 195 (12.14%) Jenkins
2 162 (10.09%) Git
3 156 (9.71%) GitLab
4 94 (5.85%) JIRA
5 23 (1.43%) JUnit
6 20 (1.25%) MLflow
7 18 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.00%) Postman
8 16 (1.00%) Selenium
9 13 (0.81%) JMeter
10 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.56%) Gradle
12 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.50%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.44%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.44%) Maven
13 7 (0.44%) MSI
13 7 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 387 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 352 (21.92%) Finance
3 216 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.66%) Banking
5 100 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.12%) Retail
9 33 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.31%) Legal
13 13 (0.81%) Front Office
13 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.75%) Marketing
15 11 (0.68%) Law
15 11 (0.68%) Military
16 9 (0.56%) Billing
17 8 (0.50%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 419 (26.09%) Architect
2 239 (14.88%) Senior
3 225 (14.01%) Developer
4 171 (10.65%) Lead
5 153 (9.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 130 (8.09%) Data Engineer
7 114 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 100 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 75 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.42%) Technical Architect
12 61 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
13 57 (3.55%) Java Developer
14 55 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
14 55 (3.42%) Java Engineer
15 52 (3.24%) Security Engineer
16 51 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.18%) Senior Developer
17 49 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
18 43 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (10.83%) REST
2 158 (9.84%) Kafka
3 139 (8.66%) React
4 133 (8.28%) Spring
5 126 (7.85%) .NET
6 120 (7.47%) Spring Boot
7 118 (7.35%) Node.js
8 112 (6.97%) RESTful
9 63 (3.92%) OAuth
9 63 (3.92%) OpenID
10 59 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 55 (3.42%) AngularJS
11 55 (3.42%) PySpark
12 44 (2.74%) OAuth2
13 43 (2.68%) GraphQL
14 39 (2.43%) SAML
15 38 (2.37%) .NET Framework
16 37 (2.30%) .NET Core
17 35 (2.18%) FastAPI
18 33 (2.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 212 (13.20%) Distributed Systems
2 82 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
3 81 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.86%) Security Posture
6 48 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.24%) Public Cloud
8 35 (2.18%) Virtual Team
9 33 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 28 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.37%) NHS
14 21 (1.31%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (6.16%) Linux
2 57 (3.55%) Windows
3 36 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.00%) Unix
5 13 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.56%) VMS
6 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.37%) Android
8 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.12%) CentOS
10 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.062%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 966 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 827 (51.49%) DevOps
3 568 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 465 (28.95%) Agile
5 409 (25.47%) Containerisation
6 402 (25.03%) Microservices
7 364 (22.67%) AI
8 333 (20.73%) Observability
9 283 (17.62%) Event-Driven
10 271 (16.87%) Software Engineering
11 269 (16.75%) Migration
12 238 (14.82%) Test Automation
13 234 (14.57%) Analytics
14 220 (13.70%) Roadmaps
15 205 (12.76%) Platform Engineering
16 201 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
17 182 (11.33%) Data Engineering
17 182 (11.33%) Data Modelling
18 177 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
19 175 (10.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 624 (38.85%) Python
2 359 (22.35%) Java
3 281 (17.50%) SQL
4 148 (9.22%) TypeScript
5 111 (6.91%) C#
6 104 (6.48%) Bash
7 95 (5.92%) JavaScript
8 80 (4.98%) PowerShell
9 68 (4.23%) Bicep
10 65 (4.05%) Go
11 26 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.00%) Scala
13 14 (0.87%) Ruby
13 14 (0.87%) Rust
14 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.68%) C++
16 7 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.31%) Cypher
17 5 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 376 (23.41%) Security Cleared
2 323 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.29%) Degree
4 80 (4.98%) AWS Certification
5 62 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 59 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 43 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.55%) CISSP
9 39 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.75%) CISM
15 10 (0.62%) CCIE
16 9 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.44%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.86%) QA
3 66 (4.11%) GDPR
4 64 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (3.74%) NIST
6 37 (2.30%) NCSC
7 30 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.75%) WCAG
10 11 (0.68%) GRC
10 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.44%) SEPA
14 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.37%) PSD2
15 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 4 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 360 (22.42%) Docker
2 25 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.18%) vSphere
5 10 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) etcd
10 1 (0.062%) Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) KVM
10 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 556 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 530 (33.00%) Terraform
3 137 (8.53%) Ansible
4 123 (7.66%) Grafana
5 96 (5.98%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.80%) Argo
7 23 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.25%) Istio
10 18 (1.12%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.93%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.87%) Puppet
13 9 (0.56%) 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 (0.19%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 250 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.53%) Google
3 111 (6.91%) Databricks
4 76 (4.73%) Splunk
5 62 (3.86%) Oracle
6 44 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 43 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 37 (2.30%) VMware
9 28 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.62%) SAP
11 25 (1.56%) CyberArk
12 19 (1.18%) F5
13 18 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.12%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.06%) Cisco
14 17 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (1.06%) Informatica
15 16 (1.00%) Okta