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 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 192 308
Rank change year-on-year +127 +116 -76
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,524 349 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 1.41% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.90% 4.08% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 243 160
10th Percentile £400 £400 £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 £644 £678
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £546 £522 £600
% change year-on-year +4.68% -13.07% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £86.88 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +90.00% - -

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 13,976 8,556 11,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 34.58% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,715 5,503 7,300
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.31%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 763 385 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.20 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £33.03 £35.50
% change year-on-year +28.39% -6.97% +57.88%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +110 855 £569 +8.33% 365
North of England +74 278 £530 +6.00% 124
North West +50 145 £550 +10.00% 82
Yorkshire +29 119 £539 -2.05% 31
Midlands +27 110 £500 - 37
South West +53 98 £560 +31.76% 58
South East +10 98 £469 +5.28% 101
West Midlands +20 86 £560 +0.72% 26
East of England +13 52 £537 +19.37% 14
East Midlands -7 23 £413 -17.50% 10
North East - 22 £425 - 12
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 63 (4.13%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (2.76%) Apache
4 40 (2.62%) Confluence
5 18 (1.18%) SAS
6 17 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.92%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.59%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Apache Superset
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.26%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.26%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) nginx
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.52%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.066%) Maya
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.26%) Quorum
3 4 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.066%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.066%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.066%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.066%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.066%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 848 (55.64%) AWS
2 687 (45.08%) Azure
3 332 (21.78%) GCP
4 254 (16.67%) Serverless
5 248 (16.27%) GitHub
6 157 (10.30%) GitHub Actions
7 152 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
8 151 (9.91%) Amazon S3
9 141 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (5.97%) Power Platform
12 77 (5.05%) Azure AKS
13 76 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 76 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
14 73 (4.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 66 (4.33%) OpenShift
16 61 (4.00%) Snowflake
17 59 (3.87%) SaaS
18 55 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.38%) Firewall
2 56 (3.67%) DNS
3 44 (2.89%) Network Security
4 37 (2.43%) VPN
5 23 (1.51%) WAN
6 20 (1.31%) 5G
6 20 (1.31%) BGP
7 16 (1.05%) 4G
8 14 (0.92%) BIG-IP
8 14 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.85%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.85%) OSPF
10 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.66%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.66%) WLAN
12 9 (0.59%) LAN
12 9 (0.59%) MPLS
13 8 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 73 (4.79%) Power BI
4 72 (4.72%) Data Lake
5 60 (3.94%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 45 (2.95%) Metadata
9 43 (2.82%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
11 41 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (2.69%) MongoDB
12 33 (2.17%) Redis
13 31 (2.03%) BigQuery
14 28 (1.84%) Big Data
14 28 (1.84%) Delta Lake
15 25 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 20 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.31%) MySQL
17 16 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 193 (12.66%) Jenkins
2 157 (10.30%) GitLab
3 148 (9.71%) Git
4 87 (5.71%) JIRA
5 23 (1.51%) JUnit
6 19 (1.25%) MLflow
7 17 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.98%) Selenium
9 14 (0.92%) Postman
10 12 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.72%) JMeter
12 9 (0.59%) Gradle
13 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.46%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.46%) Maven
15 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.33%) MSI
15 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 370 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 333 (21.85%) Finance
3 204 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 125 (8.20%) Banking
5 92 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (2.23%) Retail
9 26 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 18 (1.18%) Legal
12 12 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.72%) Front Office
13 11 (0.72%) Marketing
14 10 (0.66%) Law
15 9 (0.59%) Military
16 7 (0.46%) Billing
17 6 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 400 (26.25%) Architect
2 225 (14.76%) Senior
3 207 (13.58%) Developer
4 159 (10.43%) Lead
5 140 (9.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 106 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
8 101 (6.63%) Software Engineer
9 99 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 74 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.40%) Cloud Architect
12 62 (4.07%) Technical Architect
13 56 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
14 54 (3.54%) Java Engineer
15 51 (3.35%) Java Developer
15 51 (3.35%) Security Engineer
16 48 (3.15%) Senior Developer
17 45 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
18 44 (2.89%) GCP Engineer
19 42 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (10.17%) Kafka
2 153 (10.04%) REST
3 133 (8.73%) Spring
4 132 (8.66%) React
5 122 (8.01%) Spring Boot
6 120 (7.87%) Node.js
7 109 (7.15%) .NET
8 103 (6.76%) RESTful
9 63 (4.13%) OAuth
10 62 (4.07%) OpenID
10 62 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
11 59 (3.87%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.54%) PySpark
13 45 (2.95%) OAuth2
14 39 (2.56%) SAML
15 36 (2.36%) GraphQL
16 33 (2.17%) FastAPI
17 29 (1.90%) .NET Core
17 29 (1.90%) .NET Framework
17 29 (1.90%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 200 (13.12%) Distributed Systems
2 73 (4.79%) Legacy Systems
3 72 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 59 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 50 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 43 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 32 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 30 (1.97%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.77%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.64%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.57%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.44%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.12%) NHS
18 14 (0.92%) Low-Code
19 13 (0.85%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 91 (5.97%) Linux
2 53 (3.48%) Windows
3 33 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.98%) Unix
5 11 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.59%) VMS
6 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Android
8 4 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.066%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 914 (59.97%) CI/CD
2 787 (51.64%) DevOps
3 550 (36.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 436 (28.61%) Agile
5 388 (25.46%) Containerisation
6 385 (25.26%) Microservices
7 326 (21.39%) AI
8 314 (20.60%) Observability
9 258 (16.93%) Software Engineering
10 255 (16.73%) Event-Driven
11 253 (16.60%) Migration
12 223 (14.63%) Analytics
13 213 (13.98%) Test Automation
14 209 (13.71%) Roadmaps
15 188 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
16 183 (12.01%) Data Modelling
17 177 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
18 171 (11.22%) Data Engineering
19 167 (10.96%) Data Pipeline
20 166 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 589 (38.65%) Python
2 341 (22.38%) Java
3 276 (18.11%) SQL
4 128 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 99 (6.50%) Bash
6 97 (6.36%) C#
7 85 (5.58%) JavaScript
8 77 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 59 (3.87%) Bicep
10 57 (3.74%) Go
11 25 (1.64%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.98%) Scala
13 12 (0.79%) Ruby
13 12 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.72%) Rust
15 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.46%) C++
16 7 (0.46%) R
17 6 (0.39%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 358 (23.49%) Security Cleared
2 312 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.18%) AWS Certification
4 77 (5.05%) Degree
5 57 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 54 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.49%) CISSP
9 30 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.85%) CISM
13 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.52%) CCIE
16 7 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.46%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.46%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 68 (4.46%) QA
3 64 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (4.00%) GDPR
4 61 (4.00%) NIST
5 31 (2.03%) NCSC
6 28 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.71%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.72%) GRC
8 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.72%) WCAG
9 10 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.46%) SEPA
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.26%) PMO
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 347 (22.77%) Docker
2 30 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.31%) vSphere
4 17 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Snort
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) SRDF
9 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) etcd
9 1 (0.066%) Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) IAG
9 1 (0.066%) KVM
Systems Management
1 534 (35.04%) Kubernetes
2 509 (33.40%) Terraform
3 126 (8.27%) Ansible
4 118 (7.74%) Grafana
5 96 (6.30%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.15%) Argo
7 26 (1.71%) Istio
8 21 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.18%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.92%) Puppet
11 9 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.26%) Cilium
13 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
13 4 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 222 (14.57%) Microsoft
2 136 (8.92%) Google
3 113 (7.41%) Databricks
4 76 (4.99%) Splunk
5 60 (3.94%) Oracle
6 44 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.62%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.56%) VMware
9 36 (2.36%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.84%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.64%) CyberArk
11 25 (1.64%) SAP
12 18 (1.18%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (1.05%) Okta
15 15 (0.98%) Informatica
15 15 (0.98%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.92%) Cisco
16 14 (0.92%) F5
16 14 (0.92%) Palo Alto