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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 191 300
Rank change year-on-year +125 +109 -68
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,544 358 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 1.44% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.99% 4.16% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 249 160
10th Percentile £402 £399 £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 £678
90th Percentile £738 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £550 £522 £600
% change year-on-year +5.45% -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 14,053 8,610 11,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.60% 34.62% 30.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,769 5,532 7,351
10th Percentile £313 £303 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.14% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 768 390 859
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.07 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.52 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £32.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year +37.16% -10.10% +58.55%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +106 860 £569 +8.33% 228
North of England +77 285 £534 +6.75% 86
North West +53 147 £554 +10.75% 55
Yorkshire +25 124 £538 -2.27% 23
Midlands +23 109 £500 - 20
South East +7 101 £464 +4.21% 81
South West +54 99 £560 +21.08% 42
West Midlands +10 85 £560 +9.38% 15
East of England +12 52 £537 +19.37% 9
East Midlands -4 23 £413 -17.50% 4
North East - 22 £425 - 9
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 61 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.66%) Confluence
4 40 (2.59%) Apache
5 19 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.17%) SAS
7 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.71%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.58%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.32%) nginx
12 4 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.26%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.26%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.58%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.19%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.32%) 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
3 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.065%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.065%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.065%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.065%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.065%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 864 (55.96%) AWS
2 700 (45.34%) Azure
3 334 (21.63%) GCP
4 260 (16.84%) Serverless
5 250 (16.19%) GitHub
6 158 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
7 155 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
8 154 (9.97%) Amazon S3
9 145 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 95 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (5.83%) Power Platform
13 79 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (4.99%) Azure AKS
15 76 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 69 (4.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 66 (4.27%) OpenShift
18 64 (4.15%) SaaS
19 63 (4.08%) Snowflake
20 57 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.44%) Firewall
2 57 (3.69%) DNS
3 45 (2.91%) Network Security
4 38 (2.46%) VPN
5 23 (1.49%) WAN
6 20 (1.30%) 5G
6 20 (1.30%) BGP
7 16 (1.04%) 4G
8 15 (0.97%) BIG-IP
8 15 (0.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.84%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.84%) OSPF
10 12 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.65%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.65%) WLAN
12 9 (0.58%) LAN
12 9 (0.58%) MPLS
13 8 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (6.41%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.66%) Data Lake
3 72 (4.66%) Power BI
4 62 (4.02%) DynamoDB
5 59 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 48 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 47 (3.04%) Metadata
8 43 (2.78%) MongoDB
9 41 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
9 41 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (2.20%) Redis
11 29 (1.88%) Big Data
12 28 (1.81%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.62%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.30%) MySQL
17 16 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 156 (10.10%) GitLab
3 148 (9.59%) Git
4 90 (5.83%) JIRA
5 23 (1.49%) JUnit
6 19 (1.23%) MLflow
7 18 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.97%) Selenium
9 14 (0.91%) Postman
10 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.71%) JMeter
12 9 (0.58%) Gradle
13 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.45%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.45%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.45%) Maven
15 6 (0.39%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 374 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 343 (22.22%) Finance
3 212 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 130 (8.42%) Banking
5 94 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (1.94%) Retail
10 26 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.23%) Legal
13 12 (0.78%) Front Office
13 12 (0.78%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.71%) Marketing
14 11 (0.71%) Military
15 10 (0.65%) Law
16 7 (0.45%) Billing
16 7 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 406 (26.30%) Architect
2 228 (14.77%) Senior
3 212 (13.73%) Developer
4 162 (10.49%) Lead
5 141 (9.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 124 (8.03%) Data Engineer
7 110 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 97 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
10 76 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.34%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (4.08%) Technical Architect
13 57 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 55 (3.56%) Java Engineer
15 51 (3.30%) Java Developer
15 51 (3.30%) Security Engineer
16 48 (3.11%) Senior Developer
17 46 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
18 45 (2.91%) Platform Engineer
19 42 (2.72%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (10.30%) REST
2 158 (10.23%) Kafka
3 135 (8.74%) React
4 128 (8.29%) Spring
5 117 (7.58%) Spring Boot
6 116 (7.51%) Node.js
7 113 (7.32%) .NET
8 108 (6.99%) RESTful
9 65 (4.21%) OAuth
10 64 (4.15%) OpenID
11 57 (3.69%) OpenTelemetry
12 56 (3.63%) AngularJS
13 53 (3.43%) PySpark
14 47 (3.04%) OAuth2
15 39 (2.53%) SAML
16 38 (2.46%) GraphQL
17 37 (2.40%) FastAPI
18 31 (2.01%) .NET Core
18 31 (2.01%) .NET Framework
18 31 (2.01%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 208 (13.47%) Distributed Systems
2 75 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
4 61 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 51 (3.30%) Security Posture
6 46 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (2.59%) Public Cloud
8 33 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 31 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 26 (1.68%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.62%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.42%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.30%) NHS
16 19 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.96%) Linux
2 54 (3.50%) Windows
3 33 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.97%) Unix
5 11 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.58%) VMS
6 9 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Android
8 4 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.065%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (59.91%) CI/CD
2 798 (51.68%) DevOps
3 549 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 453 (29.34%) Agile
5 395 (25.58%) Microservices
6 392 (25.39%) Containerisation
7 330 (21.37%) AI
8 311 (20.14%) Observability
9 267 (17.29%) Event-Driven
10 262 (16.97%) Software Engineering
11 256 (16.58%) Migration
12 226 (14.64%) Analytics
13 217 (14.05%) Test Automation
14 213 (13.80%) Roadmaps
15 192 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
16 182 (11.79%) Data Modelling
17 180 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
18 171 (11.08%) Data Engineering
19 170 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
20 169 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 598 (38.73%) Python
2 346 (22.41%) Java
3 275 (17.81%) SQL
4 135 (8.74%) TypeScript
5 102 (6.61%) C#
6 101 (6.54%) Bash
7 90 (5.83%) JavaScript
8 78 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 60 (3.89%) Go
10 59 (3.82%) Bicep
11 25 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.97%) Scala
13 12 (0.78%) Ruby
13 12 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.71%) Rust
15 9 (0.58%) C++
16 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.45%) R
17 6 (0.39%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 364 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 316 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 80 (5.18%) AWS Certification
4 79 (5.12%) Degree
5 57 (3.69%) Azure Certification
5 57 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.59%) CISSP
6 40 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.84%) CISM
12 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.52%) CCIE
15 7 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.45%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.25%) Data Quality
2 72 (4.66%) QA
3 65 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.02%) NIST
5 61 (3.95%) GDPR
6 31 (2.01%) NCSC
7 28 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.71%) GRC
9 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.71%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.71%) WCAG
10 10 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.45%) SEPA
14 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.39%) PSD2
15 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 348 (22.54%) Docker
2 30 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.36%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.30%) vSphere
5 17 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.26%) Snort
8 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.13%) IAG
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) SRDF
10 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) KVM
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 539 (34.91%) Kubernetes
2 511 (33.10%) Terraform
3 129 (8.35%) Ansible
4 119 (7.71%) Grafana
5 97 (6.28%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.78%) Argo
7 21 (1.36%) Istio
7 21 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 21 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.17%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.91%) Puppet
10 9 (0.58%) linkerd
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
12 4 (0.26%) Cilium
12 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
12 4 (0.26%) Kubeflow
12 4 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 227 (14.70%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.48%) Google
3 113 (7.32%) Databricks
4 76 (4.92%) Splunk
5 60 (3.89%) Oracle
6 44 (2.85%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.66%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.53%) VMware
9 38 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.81%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.68%) CyberArk
11 26 (1.68%) SAP
12 18 (1.17%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (1.04%) Okta
14 16 (1.04%) Salesforce
15 15 (0.97%) F5
15 15 (0.97%) Informatica
16 14 (0.91%) Cisco
16 14 (0.91%) Palo Alto