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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 206 311
Rank change year-on-year +138 +105 -72
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,385 290 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.32% 1.22% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.33% 3.55% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 203 153
10th Percentile £402 £396 £444
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £761 £725
UK median daily rate £549 £525 £581
% change year-on-year +4.63% -9.68% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 0
10th Percentile £48.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.25% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £96.50 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +75.00% - -

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 13,414 8,160 11,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.20% 34.32% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,443 5,332 7,352
10th Percentile £313 £300 £269
25th Percentile £413 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -2.73% -3.51%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 701 328 828
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.17
Median hourly rate £42.50 £34.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.25% -3.65% +60.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.40 £82.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £31.76 £34.11
% change year-on-year +29.09% -6.88% +55.02%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +124 780 £575 +9.52% 343
North of England +74 236 £548 +9.60% 143
North West +47 125 £558 +17.37% 93
Midlands +9 108 £500 - 36
Yorkshire +29 105 £539 -5.48% 31
South East +11 95 £475 +7.95% 74
West Midlands +12 85 £526 -5.44% 25
South West +41 84 £575 +35.29% 52
East of England +12 52 £525 +28.83% 11
East Midlands -18 22 £400 -20.00% 11
North East - 12 £475 - 20
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 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 43 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.96%) Apache
4 36 (2.60%) Confluence
5 16 (1.16%) SAS
6 13 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.65%) Camunda
9 7 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.43%) Apache Superset
11 4 (0.29%) nginx
12 3 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.22%) Appian
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Ethereum
13 2 (0.14%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.29%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.22%) LaTeX
2 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.072%) Maya
4 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.072%) Notion
4 1 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) Quorum
4 2 (0.14%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.072%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.072%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.072%) Endur
5 1 (0.072%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.072%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.072%) Ripple
5 1 (0.072%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.072%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.072%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.072%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 771 (55.67%) AWS
2 627 (45.27%) Azure
3 308 (22.24%) GCP
4 236 (17.04%) Serverless
5 225 (16.25%) GitHub
6 142 (10.25%) Amazon S3
7 141 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
9 128 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (6.28%) Power Platform
12 79 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (5.42%) Azure AKS
14 72 (5.20%) OpenShift
15 64 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
16 62 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 60 (4.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 54 (3.90%) SaaS
19 53 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (3.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.69%) Firewall
2 50 (3.61%) DNS
3 39 (2.82%) Network Security
4 36 (2.60%) VPN
5 19 (1.37%) WAN
6 16 (1.16%) 5G
6 16 (1.16%) BGP
7 13 (0.94%) 3GPP
7 13 (0.94%) 4G
8 11 (0.79%) OSPF
9 10 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.58%) BIG-IP
10 8 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.58%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.58%) WLAN
11 7 (0.51%) LAN
11 7 (0.51%) LTE
11 7 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 74 (5.34%) Data Lake
4 69 (4.98%) Power BI
5 57 (4.12%) DynamoDB
6 50 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
7 43 (3.10%) Metadata
8 42 (3.03%) SQL Server
9 40 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (2.53%) MongoDB
10 35 (2.53%) Relational Database
11 34 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (2.38%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.88%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.81%) Redis
15 23 (1.66%) Big Data
16 20 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.37%) Mixpanel
18 17 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
19 15 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 182 (13.14%) Jenkins
2 136 (9.82%) GitLab
3 132 (9.53%) Git
4 76 (5.49%) JIRA
5 22 (1.59%) JUnit
6 20 (1.44%) MLflow
7 18 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.01%) Postman
8 14 (1.01%) Selenium
9 11 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.79%) JMeter
10 9 (0.65%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.58%) Gradle
11 8 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.51%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.51%) Maven
13 5 (0.36%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 334 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 292 (21.08%) Finance
3 179 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 107 (7.73%) Banking
5 75 (5.42%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 28 (2.02%) Retail
9 24 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 20 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.16%) Legal
12 12 (0.87%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.79%) Front Office
14 10 (0.72%) Marketing
15 8 (0.58%) Billing
16 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.43%) Military
18 5 (0.36%) Games
18 5 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 380 (27.44%) Architect
2 191 (13.79%) Senior
3 184 (13.29%) Developer
4 142 (10.25%) Lead
5 122 (8.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 118 (8.52%) Data Engineer
7 100 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
8 88 (6.35%) Software Engineer
9 80 (5.78%) Cloud Engineer
10 65 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
11 57 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
11 57 (4.12%) Technical Architect
12 45 (3.25%) GCP Engineer
12 45 (3.25%) Java Engineer
13 44 (3.18%) Java Developer
13 44 (3.18%) Senior Developer
14 43 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
15 42 (3.03%) Security Engineer
16 37 (2.67%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (10.18%) Kafka
2 122 (8.81%) REST
3 121 (8.74%) React
4 117 (8.45%) Node.js
4 117 (8.45%) Spring
5 105 (7.58%) Spring Boot
6 103 (7.44%) .NET
7 85 (6.14%) RESTful
8 64 (4.62%) OpenTelemetry
9 60 (4.33%) AngularJS
10 56 (4.04%) OpenID
11 53 (3.83%) OAuth
12 48 (3.47%) PySpark
13 43 (3.10%) GraphQL
14 38 (2.74%) OAuth2
15 33 (2.38%) SAML
16 29 (2.09%) Playwright
17 27 (1.95%) LangChain
18 26 (1.88%) Next.js
18 26 (1.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 161 (11.62%) Distributed Systems
2 64 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 62 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 57 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 48 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
7 35 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 34 (2.45%) Security Posture
9 29 (2.09%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.59%) Data Centre
13 21 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 20 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.16%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.16%) NHS
16 15 (1.08%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.01%) Management Information System
18 12 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.85%) Linux
2 33 (2.38%) Windows
3 19 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (1.01%) Unix
5 8 (0.58%) VMS
6 6 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.36%) Android
8 4 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.22%) Solaris
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.072%) AIX
10 1 (0.072%) CentOS
10 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (59.42%) CI/CD
2 710 (51.26%) DevOps
3 485 (35.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (28.52%) Agile
5 353 (25.49%) Containerisation
6 352 (25.42%) Microservices
7 288 (20.79%) AI
8 267 (19.28%) Observability
9 235 (16.97%) Software Engineering
10 230 (16.61%) Migration
11 210 (15.16%) Event-Driven
12 200 (14.44%) Analytics
13 190 (13.72%) Test Automation
14 183 (13.21%) Roadmaps
15 169 (12.20%) Data Modelling
16 165 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
17 156 (11.26%) Data Engineering
18 151 (10.90%) Data Pipeline
19 144 (10.40%) Machine Learning
20 143 (10.32%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 488 (35.23%) Python
2 299 (21.59%) Java
3 262 (18.92%) SQL
4 115 (8.30%) TypeScript
5 89 (6.43%) C#
6 82 (5.92%) Bash
7 74 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 54 (3.90%) PowerShell
9 50 (3.61%) Go
10 48 (3.47%) Bicep
11 16 (1.16%) Scala
11 16 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 11 (0.79%) Ruby
14 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.51%) C++
15 7 (0.51%) R
15 7 (0.51%) Rust
16 6 (0.43%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 318 (22.96%) Security Cleared
2 277 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.42%) Degree
4 56 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 52 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 48 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (1.66%) CISSP
10 23 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.79%) CISM
13 10 (0.72%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.58%) OCP
14 8 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.43%) CCIE
15 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.36%) CCSP
16 5 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.77%) GDPR
3 60 (4.33%) QA
4 59 (4.26%) NIST
5 58 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.73%) NCSC
6 24 (1.73%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 10 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.51%) GRC
10 7 (0.51%) SEPA
11 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.43%) WCAG
12 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 310 (22.38%) Docker
2 31 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.44%) vSphere
4 19 (1.37%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.16%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.29%) Snort
9 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.072%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.072%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.072%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.072%) etcd
11 1 (0.072%) Firmware
11 1 (0.072%) IAG
11 1 (0.072%) KVM
11 1 (0.072%) NFS
11 1 (0.072%) SRDF
11 1 (0.072%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 479 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 444 (32.06%) Terraform
3 113 (8.16%) Grafana
4 106 (7.65%) Ansible
5 92 (6.64%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.03%) Argo
7 26 (1.88%) Istio
8 17 (1.23%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.87%) Puppet
11 11 (0.79%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.65%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.58%) linkerd
14 6 (0.43%) Kibana
15 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.29%) AirWatch
16 4 (0.29%) Cilium
16 4 (0.29%) CSIRT
16 4 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 204 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 114 (8.23%) Databricks
2 114 (8.23%) Google
3 71 (5.13%) Splunk
4 52 (3.75%) Oracle
5 40 (2.89%) Red Hat
5 40 (2.89%) VMware
6 32 (2.31%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.81%) CyberArk
9 24 (1.73%) SAP
10 22 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.23%) Pure Storage
12 14 (1.01%) Cisco
12 14 (1.01%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.87%) Informatica
13 12 (0.87%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.79%) IBM
15 10 (0.72%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.72%) Okta