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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 116 324
Rank change year-on-year +60 +208 -87
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,798 671 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 2.42% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.42% 6.73% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,261 452 141
10th Percentile £410 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £434 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £749 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +21.60% -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 15,749 9,968 10,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.92% 35.90% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,539 6,260 6,229
10th Percentile £325 £300 £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 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,055 499 418
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.50 £14.89
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +47 977 £575 +4.55% 1,684
North of England +30 362 £550 +10.00% 377
Yorkshire +17 182 £525 +5.00% 87
North West +26 158 £560 +12.00% 247
Midlands +23 131 £533 +2.20% 130
South East +6 118 £505 +18.82% 190
South West +34 114 £550 +4.76% 160
West Midlands +20 113 £555 +4.76% 81
East of England +10 49 £525 +12.30% 83
North East -12 30 £400 - 43
East Midlands -2 16 £402 -20.00% 49
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 69 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (3.17%) Confluence
3 56 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 45 (2.50%) Apache
5 23 (1.28%) SAS
6 16 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.67%) CMS
8 10 (0.56%) Camunda
9 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.33%) nginx
12 5 (0.28%) Apache Superset
13 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
13 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
14 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.17%) Quorum
4 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
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%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.056%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.056%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,015 (56.45%) AWS
2 794 (44.16%) Azure
3 411 (22.86%) GCP
4 298 (16.57%) GitHub
5 272 (15.13%) Serverless
6 192 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
7 165 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
8 162 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
9 150 (8.34%) Amazon S3
10 129 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 100 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
13 92 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 82 (4.56%) SaaS
15 81 (4.51%) Snowflake
16 73 (4.06%) Azure AKS
17 69 (3.84%) Power Platform
18 66 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
18 66 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (3.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.84%) Firewall
2 42 (2.34%) Network Security
3 39 (2.17%) DNS
4 34 (1.89%) VPN
5 28 (1.56%) BGP
6 26 (1.45%) WAN
7 19 (1.06%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (0.95%) HTTP
9 16 (0.89%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.78%) MPLS
11 14 (0.78%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.67%) LAN
14 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.56%) WLAN
16 9 (0.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.45%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 75 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 68 (3.78%) Metadata
7 66 (3.67%) MongoDB
8 61 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 60 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 59 (3.28%) DynamoDB
10 59 (3.28%) Power BI
11 34 (1.89%) Big Data
12 32 (1.78%) MySQL
13 31 (1.72%) Redis
14 29 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (1.61%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (1.28%) Delta Lake
17 22 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 204 (11.35%) Git
2 186 (10.34%) GitLab
3 177 (9.84%) Jenkins
4 90 (5.01%) JIRA
5 32 (1.78%) JUnit
6 30 (1.67%) Claude Code
6 30 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 22 (1.22%) Mockito
8 21 (1.17%) Maven
9 15 (0.83%) JMeter
10 13 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 13 (0.72%) Postman
10 13 (0.72%) Selenium
11 11 (0.61%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.61%) MSI
12 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.39%) Gatling
13 6 (0.33%) Gradle
13 6 (0.33%) MLflow
13 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 472 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 394 (21.91%) Finance
3 239 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 172 (9.57%) Banking
5 164 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (2.61%) Retail
8 36 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.17%) Front Office
11 21 (1.17%) Legal
12 19 (1.06%) Law
12 19 (1.06%) Military
13 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.83%) Marketing
15 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.56%) Back Office
16 10 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 430 (23.92%) Architect
2 318 (17.69%) Senior
3 294 (16.35%) Developer
4 168 (9.34%) Lead
5 150 (8.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 136 (7.56%) Data Engineer
7 130 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
8 123 (6.84%) Software Engineer
9 107 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 88 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 79 (4.39%) Java Developer
12 71 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
13 69 (3.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 65 (3.62%) Senior Developer
15 64 (3.56%) Technical Architect
16 62 (3.45%) Java Engineer
16 62 (3.45%) Security Engineer
17 61 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
18 58 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
19 53 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 580 (32.26%) Terraform
2 266 (14.79%) REST
3 216 (12.01%) Kafka
4 181 (10.07%) Spring
5 176 (9.79%) Spring Boot
6 164 (9.12%) RESTful
7 150 (8.34%) React
8 138 (7.68%) .NET
9 121 (6.73%) Node.js
10 87 (4.84%) OAuth
11 65 (3.62%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.34%) OpenID
13 53 (2.95%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.89%) OAuth2
15 49 (2.73%) .NET Framework
15 49 (2.73%) FastAPI
16 48 (2.67%) PySpark
17 44 (2.45%) GraphQL
18 41 (2.28%) LangChain
18 41 (2.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 267 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
2 118 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 90 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
4 87 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (4.34%) AI Agents
6 71 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 61 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 57 (3.17%) Security Posture
9 45 (2.50%) Public Cloud
10 36 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 32 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.61%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
15 24 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 23 (1.28%) NHS
17 20 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
18 17 (0.95%) Algorithms
18 17 (0.95%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.28%) Linux
2 71 (3.95%) Windows
3 42 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.11%) Unix
5 12 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.61%) VMS
6 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.33%) Android
8 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) Solaris
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,093 (60.79%) CI/CD
2 874 (48.61%) DevOps
3 657 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 593 (32.98%) Agile
5 508 (28.25%) Microservices
6 448 (24.92%) Containerisation
7 443 (24.64%) AI
8 424 (23.58%) Observability
9 417 (23.19%) Software Engineering
10 415 (23.08%) Event-Driven
11 322 (17.91%) Test Automation
12 296 (16.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 282 (15.68%) Platform Engineering
14 277 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 275 (15.29%) Migration
16 264 (14.68%) Technical Leadership
17 253 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
18 247 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
19 244 (13.57%) Roadmaps
20 239 (13.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 689 (38.32%) Python
2 439 (24.42%) Java
3 278 (15.46%) SQL
4 187 (10.40%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.23%) C#
6 125 (6.95%) JavaScript
7 123 (6.84%) Bash
8 99 (5.51%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.84%) Bicep
10 59 (3.28%) Go
11 25 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 23 (1.28%) Scala
13 21 (1.17%) Rust
14 19 (1.06%) C++
15 13 (0.72%) Ruby
16 7 (0.39%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.39%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 458 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 374 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.62%) DV Cleared
4 91 (5.06%) AWS Certification
4 91 (5.06%) Degree
5 73 (4.06%) Azure Certification
6 51 (2.84%) CISSP
7 49 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.95%) CISM
12 17 (0.95%) Master's Degree
13 13 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.56%) OSCP
14 10 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 10 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (6.95%) QA
2 112 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.67%) NIST
5 46 (2.56%) GDPR
6 44 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.67%) NCSC
8 18 (1.00%) WCAG
9 17 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.72%) GRC
11 11 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.56%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.39%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.33%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
14 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.28%) PSD2
16 3 (0.17%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 422 (23.47%) Docker
2 26 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) IAG
4 11 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) vSphere
6 9 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) SRDF
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.056%) KVM
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 639 (35.54%) Kubernetes
2 144 (8.01%) Ansible
3 115 (6.40%) Grafana
4 90 (5.01%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.17%) Argo
6 29 (1.61%) Istio
7 27 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.22%) Bosun
12 4 (0.22%) Control-M
12 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
12 4 (0.22%) Kibana
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 275 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 183 (10.18%) Google
3 114 (6.34%) Databricks
4 74 (4.12%) Oracle
5 55 (3.06%) Splunk
6 48 (2.67%) Dynatrace
7 41 (2.28%) Red Hat
8 40 (2.22%) OpenAI
8 40 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.67%) VMware
10 28 (1.56%) Informatica
11 26 (1.45%) SAP
12 23 (1.28%) Cisco
13 21 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (1.17%) F5
13 21 (1.17%) Palo Alto
14 20 (1.11%) IBM
15 16 (0.89%) Foundry
15 16 (0.89%) Okta
16 15 (0.83%) Salesforce