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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 204 312
Rank change year-on-year +139 +108 -74
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,475 320 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 1.31% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.76% 3.80% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 223 153
10th Percentile £401 £400 £444
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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £545 £518 £600
% change year-on-year +5.18% -13.64% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 3 0
10th Percentile £53.13 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £75.25 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.13% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £75.25 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +88.13% - -

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 13,704 8,429 11,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.44% 34.45% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,581 5,444 7,379
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 369 848
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £85.65 £82.68 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -5.71% +56.70%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +107 835 £575 +9.52% 208
North of England +76 259 £538 +7.50% 110
North West +49 137 £550 +10.00% 69
Yorkshire +31 112 £540 -1.82% 26
Midlands +22 112 £500 - 22
South East 0 96 £464 +5.40% 78
South West +53 90 £568 +33.53% 52
West Midlands +21 88 £540 -2.88% 18
East of England +15 51 £525 +28.83% 15
East Midlands -14 23 £413 -17.50% 4
North East - 18 £450 - 16
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 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.78%) Apache
4 38 (2.58%) Confluence
5 18 (1.22%) SAS
5 18 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.95%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.61%) Camunda
7 9 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.41%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.27%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.20%) Appian
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.47%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Quorum
3 4 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.068%) Endur
5 1 (0.068%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.068%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.068%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.068%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.068%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 827 (56.07%) AWS
2 664 (45.02%) Azure
3 322 (21.83%) GCP
4 253 (17.15%) Serverless
5 241 (16.34%) GitHub
6 153 (10.37%) Amazon S3
6 153 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
7 147 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 93 (6.31%) Power Platform
11 88 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 75 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 69 (4.68%) Azure AKS
16 66 (4.47%) OpenShift
17 61 (4.14%) Snowflake
18 57 (3.86%) SaaS
19 55 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.42%) Firewall
2 55 (3.73%) DNS
3 43 (2.92%) Network Security
4 38 (2.58%) VPN
5 22 (1.49%) WAN
6 19 (1.29%) 5G
6 19 (1.29%) BGP
7 15 (1.02%) 4G
8 13 (0.88%) 3GPP
8 13 (0.88%) BIG-IP
8 13 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (0.88%) OSPF
9 12 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.68%) VXLAN
10 10 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.68%) WLAN
11 8 (0.54%) LAN
11 8 (0.54%) MPLS
11 8 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (6.24%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.08%) Power BI
4 73 (4.95%) Data Lake
5 61 (4.14%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (3.05%) Metadata
8 43 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 41 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
10 38 (2.58%) MongoDB
11 37 (2.51%) Relational Database
12 32 (2.17%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.90%) Big Data
13 28 (1.90%) Delta Lake
13 28 (1.90%) Redis
14 25 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (1.15%) Mixpanel
17 16 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 185 (12.54%) Jenkins
2 150 (10.17%) GitLab
3 140 (9.49%) Git
4 82 (5.56%) JIRA
5 23 (1.56%) JUnit
6 19 (1.29%) MLflow
7 16 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.02%) Selenium
9 14 (0.95%) Postman
10 12 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.75%) JMeter
12 9 (0.61%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.54%) Gradle
13 8 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.47%) Maven
15 5 (0.34%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 362 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 320 (21.69%) Finance
3 197 (13.36%) Public Sector
4 115 (7.80%) Banking
5 88 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (2.03%) Retail
9 25 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.15%) Legal
12 11 (0.75%) Front Office
12 11 (0.75%) Investment Banking
12 11 (0.75%) Marketing
13 9 (0.61%) Military
14 8 (0.54%) Law
15 6 (0.41%) Billing
15 6 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 393 (26.64%) Architect
2 215 (14.58%) Senior
3 195 (13.22%) Developer
4 151 (10.24%) Lead
5 131 (8.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 127 (8.61%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
8 96 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 95 (6.44%) Software Engineer
10 73 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.54%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (4.27%) Technical Architect
13 55 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
14 49 (3.32%) Java Engineer
14 49 (3.32%) Security Engineer
15 46 (3.12%) Java Developer
16 45 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
16 45 (3.05%) Senior Developer
17 43 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
17 43 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (9.97%) Kafka
2 141 (9.56%) REST
3 126 (8.54%) React
4 125 (8.47%) Spring
5 120 (8.14%) Node.js
6 114 (7.73%) Spring Boot
7 105 (7.12%) .NET
8 93 (6.31%) RESTful
9 63 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
10 61 (4.14%) AngularJS
11 60 (4.07%) OpenID
12 58 (3.93%) OAuth
13 56 (3.80%) PySpark
14 42 (2.85%) OAuth2
15 38 (2.58%) GraphQL
15 38 (2.58%) SAML
16 32 (2.17%) FastAPI
17 27 (1.83%) LangChain
17 27 (1.83%) Next.js
17 27 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 185 (12.54%) Distributed Systems
2 70 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
3 68 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 54 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 41 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.58%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 29 (1.97%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.83%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.42%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.08%) NHS
17 14 (0.95%) Low-Code
18 12 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.69%) Linux
2 49 (3.32%) Windows
3 29 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.88%) Unix
5 9 (0.61%) VMS
6 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.34%) Android
8 4 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.068%) AIX
11 1 (0.068%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 759 (51.46%) DevOps
3 536 (36.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 419 (28.41%) Agile
5 374 (25.36%) Containerisation
5 374 (25.36%) Microservices
6 319 (21.63%) AI
7 306 (20.75%) Observability
8 247 (16.75%) Migration
8 247 (16.75%) Software Engineering
9 237 (16.07%) Event-Driven
10 220 (14.92%) Analytics
11 205 (13.90%) Test Automation
12 199 (13.49%) Roadmaps
13 180 (12.20%) Data Modelling
14 175 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
15 172 (11.66%) Data Engineering
16 169 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
17 166 (11.25%) Platform Engineering
18 161 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 562 (38.10%) Python
2 327 (22.17%) Java
3 272 (18.44%) SQL
4 124 (8.41%) TypeScript
5 98 (6.64%) Bash
6 92 (6.24%) C#
7 81 (5.49%) JavaScript
8 74 (5.02%) PowerShell
9 55 (3.73%) Bicep
10 52 (3.53%) Go
11 20 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.08%) Scala
13 12 (0.81%) Ruby
13 12 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.61%) Rust
15 7 (0.47%) C++
15 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.47%) R
16 6 (0.41%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 349 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 304 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 75 (5.08%) Degree
5 54 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.53%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.37%) CISSP
10 29 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.88%) CISM
14 9 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.54%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.47%) CCIE
17 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.41%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 64 (4.34%) QA
3 62 (4.20%) GDPR
3 62 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (4.14%) NIST
5 29 (1.97%) NCSC
6 25 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.75%) GRC
9 10 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.61%) WCAG
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) SEPA
12 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) PMO
13 4 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 329 (22.31%) Docker
2 32 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.42%) vSphere
4 19 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 18 (1.22%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.27%) Snort
8 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) etcd
10 1 (0.068%) Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) IAG
10 1 (0.068%) KVM
10 1 (0.068%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 511 (34.64%) Kubernetes
2 489 (33.15%) Terraform
3 118 (8.00%) Ansible
3 118 (8.00%) Grafana
4 96 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 46 (3.12%) Argo
6 26 (1.76%) Istio
7 20 (1.36%) Progress Chef
7 20 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.22%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.95%) Puppet
10 13 (0.88%) Kustomize
11 8 (0.54%) linkerd
12 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.27%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.27%) Cilium
13 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.27%) Kibana
13 4 (0.27%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 217 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 129 (8.75%) Google
3 115 (7.80%) Databricks
4 76 (5.15%) Splunk
5 56 (3.80%) Oracle
6 44 (2.98%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.78%) VMware
8 38 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 33 (2.24%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.69%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.63%) SAP
12 18 (1.22%) Pure Storage
13 15 (1.02%) Cisco
13 15 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.02%) Informatica
13 15 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 14 (0.95%) Okta
14 14 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.88%) Arista