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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 134 308
Rank change year-on-year +79 +174 -69
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,771 583 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 2.11% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.53% 5.96% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 398 147
10th Percentile £413 £400 £434
25th Percentile £463 £424 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £662 £675
90th Percentile £733 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £75.25 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.83% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +19.20% -26.47% +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 15,362 9,774 10,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.60% 35.43% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 6,154 6,623
10th Percentile £325 £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 £687
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 499 523
10th Percentile £14.89 £15.45 £12.55
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £31.36 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.74% -33.98% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.96 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +42.24% -34.44% +10.86%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +63 967 £568 +3.18% 726
North of England +37 345 £550 +10.00% 182
North West +27 167 £574 +14.70% 107
Yorkshire +23 158 £550 +10.00% 56
Midlands +42 125 £525 +5.00% 56
South West +36 119 £550 +14.29% 83
South East -1 118 £505 +12.22% 112
West Midlands +24 104 £551 +8.10% 31
East of England +16 50 £525 +12.90% 28
North East -11 28 £413 - 19
East Midlands -4 19 £425 -15.00% 25
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 65 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 61 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (2.88%) Confluence
4 45 (2.54%) Apache
5 22 (1.24%) SAS
6 15 (0.85%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.68%) Camunda
8 11 (0.62%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.34%) CMS
11 5 (0.28%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.28%) nginx
12 4 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.23%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.45%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.23%) Quorum
3 4 (0.23%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.17%) Ripple
4 3 (0.17%) Workfront
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.056%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.056%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 979 (55.28%) AWS
2 807 (45.57%) Azure
3 389 (21.96%) GCP
4 300 (16.94%) GitHub
5 271 (15.30%) Serverless
6 195 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
7 184 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
8 153 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
9 141 (7.96%) Amazon S3
10 123 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
11 97 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
13 87 (4.91%) Azure AKS
13 87 (4.91%) Power Platform
14 81 (4.57%) SaaS
15 79 (4.46%) Snowflake
16 67 (3.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 64 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
18 60 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.14%) Firewall
2 48 (2.71%) Network Security
3 46 (2.60%) DNS
4 38 (2.15%) VPN
5 28 (1.58%) WAN
6 27 (1.52%) BGP
7 20 (1.13%) 5G
8 19 (1.07%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 16 (0.90%) 4G
9 16 (0.90%) OSPF
10 15 (0.85%) MPLS
10 15 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.73%) LAN
11 13 (0.73%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.68%) 3GPP
12 12 (0.68%) HTTP
12 12 (0.68%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.62%) VLAN
13 11 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 108 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.23%) Data Lake
4 71 (4.01%) Power BI
5 66 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 65 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 63 (3.56%) Metadata
8 59 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 58 (3.27%) SQL Server
10 56 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 55 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
12 37 (2.09%) Big Data
13 36 (2.03%) Redis
14 34 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (1.69%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 27 (1.52%) MySQL
18 26 (1.47%) BigQuery
19 24 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
20 17 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 195 (11.01%) Git
2 175 (9.88%) GitLab
2 175 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 89 (5.03%) JIRA
4 27 (1.52%) JUnit
5 21 (1.19%) Claude Code
5 21 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 17 (0.96%) JMeter
7 15 (0.85%) Postman
8 14 (0.79%) Selenium
9 12 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.68%) Mockito
10 11 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.62%) MSI
11 10 (0.56%) MLflow
12 8 (0.45%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.40%) Gatling
13 7 (0.40%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.40%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 431 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 378 (21.34%) Finance
3 231 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 154 (8.70%) Banking
5 140 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.54%) Retail
7 44 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 36 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.30%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.24%) Legal
13 20 (1.13%) Front Office
14 17 (0.96%) Law
15 15 (0.85%) Marketing
16 14 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 14 (0.79%) Military
17 11 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.56%) Billing
18 10 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 433 (24.45%) Architect
2 298 (16.83%) Senior
3 260 (14.68%) Developer
4 176 (9.94%) Lead
5 151 (8.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 132 (7.45%) Data Engineer
7 124 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 117 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 111 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 86 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
11 69 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 68 (3.84%) Security Engineer
13 66 (3.73%) Technical Architect
14 65 (3.67%) Java Developer
15 62 (3.50%) Full-Stack Developer
16 60 (3.39%) Java Engineer
16 60 (3.39%) Senior Developer
17 58 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 57 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
19 56 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (12.87%) REST
2 183 (10.33%) Kafka
3 160 (9.03%) Spring
4 149 (8.41%) React
4 149 (8.41%) RESTful
5 148 (8.36%) Spring Boot
6 135 (7.62%) .NET
7 120 (6.78%) Node.js
8 81 (4.57%) OAuth
9 63 (3.56%) AngularJS
10 62 (3.50%) OpenID
11 56 (3.16%) PySpark
12 54 (3.05%) OAuth2
13 51 (2.88%) .NET Core
14 50 (2.82%) .NET Framework
15 49 (2.77%) OpenTelemetry
16 46 (2.60%) GraphQL
17 44 (2.48%) FastAPI
18 40 (2.26%) LangChain
19 34 (1.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 258 (14.57%) Distributed Systems
2 109 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 104 (5.87%) Legacy Systems
4 76 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 69 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 62 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 61 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 53 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 35 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 33 (1.86%) Data Centre
12 32 (1.81%) Management Information System
13 26 (1.47%) NHS
14 23 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
15 22 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 21 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
18 17 (0.96%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.66%) Linux
2 75 (4.23%) Windows
3 47 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (1.36%) Unix
5 13 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.51%) VMS
8 7 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.056%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (59.97%) CI/CD
2 891 (50.31%) DevOps
3 636 (35.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 567 (32.02%) Agile
5 469 (26.48%) Microservices
6 438 (24.73%) Containerisation
7 411 (23.21%) AI
8 406 (22.92%) Observability
9 365 (20.61%) Software Engineering
10 357 (20.16%) Event-Driven
11 301 (17.00%) Test Automation
12 282 (15.92%) Migration
13 254 (14.34%) Platform Engineering
14 246 (13.89%) Analytics
15 241 (13.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 239 (13.50%) Roadmaps
17 235 (13.27%) Technical Leadership
18 228 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 228 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
19 224 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 680 (38.40%) Python
2 413 (23.32%) Java
3 300 (16.94%) SQL
4 169 (9.54%) TypeScript
5 126 (7.11%) Bash
5 126 (7.11%) C#
6 116 (6.55%) JavaScript
7 100 (5.65%) PowerShell
8 80 (4.52%) Bicep
9 62 (3.50%) Go
10 23 (1.30%) Kotlin
11 21 (1.19%) Scala
12 19 (1.07%) C++
12 19 (1.07%) Rust
13 15 (0.85%) Ruby
14 9 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.40%) Korn
16 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
16 5 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 434 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 360 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 91 (5.14%) AWS Certification
3 91 (5.14%) DV Cleared
4 89 (5.03%) Degree
5 72 (4.07%) Azure Certification
6 53 (2.99%) CISSP
7 43 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.96%) CISM
13 12 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (0.51%) CCIE
15 9 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.45%) OSCP
17 7 (0.40%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (6.38%) QA
2 103 (5.82%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.56%) GDPR
4 54 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (2.99%) NIST
6 44 (2.48%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.86%) NCSC
8 20 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.07%) WCAG
10 11 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.51%) GRC
11 9 (0.51%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.45%) HL7
12 8 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.34%) SEPA
13 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 405 (22.87%) Docker
2 27 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.56%) IAG
5 10 (0.56%) vSphere
6 9 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.056%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.056%) etcd
10 1 (0.056%) Firmware
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 614 (34.67%) Kubernetes
2 571 (32.24%) Terraform
3 141 (7.96%) Ansible
4 113 (6.38%) Grafana
5 89 (5.03%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.15%) Argo
7 32 (1.81%) Istio
8 30 (1.69%) Progress Chef
9 21 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.90%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.90%) Puppet
11 12 (0.68%) linkerd
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 8 (0.45%) Cilium
14 3 (0.17%) Bosun
14 3 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.17%) Packer
15 2 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
15 2 (0.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 287 (16.21%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.94%) Google
3 110 (6.21%) Databricks
4 74 (4.18%) Oracle
5 51 (2.88%) Splunk
6 50 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.54%) Red Hat
7 45 (2.54%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.09%) OpenAI
9 28 (1.58%) SAP
10 27 (1.52%) Informatica
10 27 (1.52%) VMware
11 23 (1.30%) Cisco
12 21 (1.19%) F5
12 21 (1.19%) IBM
13 19 (1.07%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.02%) Foundry
15 17 (0.96%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.85%) Okta