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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 178 311
Rank change year-on-year +116 +133 -85
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,658 432 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 1.60% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.15% 4.61% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 294 159
10th Percentile £413 £397 £445
25th Percentile £463 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £575
% change year-on-year +6.14% -9.88% -9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 4 0
10th Percentile £63.75 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.24% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year +49.27% - -

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 14,872 9,378 11,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.18% 34.69% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,250 5,975 7,353
10th Percentile £313 £305 £285
25th Percentile £416 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 452 811
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.87 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +19.05%
75th Percentile £71.38 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.82 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.90 £36.05
% change year-on-year +42.25% -14.27% +31.07%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +92 925 £575 +9.52% 330
North of England +66 313 £538 +7.50% 109
North West +52 156 £550 +10.00% 67
Yorkshire +33 144 £529 +11.26% 33
Midlands +30 120 £527 +5.30% 35
South West +48 103 £560 +6.67% 55
South East +6 102 £500 +11.11% 95
West Midlands +15 99 £575 +13.64% 28
East of England +7 52 £550 +22.28% 12
North East -17 21 £413 - 10
East Midlands -5 19 £431 -13.75% 7
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 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 54 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (2.77%) Confluence
4 45 (2.71%) Apache
5 18 (1.09%) SAS
6 17 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.54%) Camunda
8 9 (0.54%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.30%) nginx
11 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.24%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.24%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.060%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.060%) Maya
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Quorum
4 4 (0.24%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.18%) Ripple
5 3 (0.18%) Workfront
6 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Endur
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.060%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.060%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.060%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.060%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 901 (54.34%) AWS
2 751 (45.30%) Azure
3 340 (20.51%) GCP
4 270 (16.28%) GitHub
5 267 (16.10%) Serverless
6 170 (10.25%) GitHub Actions
7 168 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
8 159 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 146 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 98 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
12 95 (5.73%) Power Platform
13 87 (5.25%) Azure AKS
14 81 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
15 80 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 74 (4.46%) SaaS
17 71 (4.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 68 (4.10%) Snowflake
19 67 (4.04%) OpenShift
20 59 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.49%) Firewall
2 57 (3.44%) DNS
3 45 (2.71%) Network Security
4 39 (2.35%) VPN
5 27 (1.63%) WAN
6 24 (1.45%) BGP
7 22 (1.33%) 5G
8 19 (1.15%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.09%) 4G
10 17 (1.03%) OSPF
11 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.78%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.78%) LAN
12 13 (0.78%) MPLS
13 11 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.60%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.60%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.91%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.58%) Power BI
4 71 (4.28%) Data Lake
5 58 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
6 56 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 55 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 51 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 50 (3.02%) Metadata
10 46 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (2.71%) MongoDB
12 42 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (2.05%) Big Data
14 31 (1.87%) Redis
15 29 (1.75%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 26 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (1.51%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.21%) MySQL
18 20 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (11.70%) Jenkins
2 170 (10.25%) Git
3 158 (9.53%) GitLab
4 94 (5.67%) JIRA
5 23 (1.39%) JUnit
6 20 (1.21%) MLflow
7 18 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 16 (0.97%) Postman
9 15 (0.90%) Selenium
10 13 (0.78%) JMeter
11 12 (0.72%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.60%) Bitbucket
12 10 (0.60%) Claude Code
13 9 (0.54%) Gradle
14 7 (0.42%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.42%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.42%) Maven
14 7 (0.42%) MSI
14 7 (0.42%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 406 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 362 (21.83%) Finance
3 224 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 140 (8.44%) Banking
5 107 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (2.17%) Retail
9 35 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.33%) Legal
13 15 (0.90%) Front Office
13 15 (0.90%) Law
14 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.72%) Marketing
15 12 (0.72%) Military
16 10 (0.60%) Billing
17 8 (0.48%) Retail Banking
18 7 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 423 (25.51%) Architect
2 253 (15.26%) Senior
3 226 (13.63%) Developer
4 177 (10.68%) Lead
5 157 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 138 (8.32%) Data Engineer
7 115 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (6.51%) Software Engineer
9 101 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
10 80 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
11 73 (4.40%) Technical Architect
12 60 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.50%) Java Developer
14 55 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
14 55 (3.32%) Java Engineer
15 53 (3.20%) Security Engineer
16 52 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
17 51 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
18 50 (3.02%) Senior Developer
19 46 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (10.92%) REST
2 164 (9.89%) Kafka
3 146 (8.81%) React
4 135 (8.14%) Spring
5 127 (7.66%) .NET
6 122 (7.36%) Node.js
7 121 (7.30%) Spring Boot
8 118 (7.12%) RESTful
9 66 (3.98%) OAuth
10 63 (3.80%) OpenID
11 60 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
12 58 (3.50%) PySpark
13 56 (3.38%) AngularJS
14 46 (2.77%) OAuth2
15 45 (2.71%) GraphQL
16 39 (2.35%) .NET Core
16 39 (2.35%) .NET Framework
17 37 (2.23%) SAML
18 35 (2.11%) FastAPI
19 34 (2.05%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 224 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 97 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
3 86 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 63 (3.80%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.17%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.51%) NHS
13 24 (1.45%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (6.03%) Linux
2 59 (3.56%) Windows
3 36 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (1.03%) Unix
5 13 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.54%) VMS
6 9 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.36%) Android
8 4 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.18%) Solaris
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.12%) CentOS
10 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.060%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 996 (60.07%) CI/CD
2 853 (51.45%) DevOps
3 589 (35.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 486 (29.31%) Agile
5 427 (25.75%) Containerisation
6 419 (25.27%) Microservices
7 377 (22.74%) AI
8 347 (20.93%) Observability
9 298 (17.97%) Event-Driven
10 286 (17.25%) Software Engineering
11 277 (16.71%) Migration
12 256 (15.44%) Test Automation
13 245 (14.78%) Analytics
14 229 (13.81%) Roadmaps
15 212 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
16 210 (12.67%) Platform Engineering
17 193 (11.64%) Data Modelling
18 190 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
19 188 (11.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 187 (11.28%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 647 (39.02%) Python
2 369 (22.26%) Java
3 291 (17.55%) SQL
4 156 (9.41%) TypeScript
5 114 (6.88%) C#
6 106 (6.39%) Bash
7 98 (5.91%) JavaScript
8 82 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 71 (4.28%) Go
10 69 (4.16%) Bicep
11 24 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.09%) Scala
13 17 (1.03%) Rust
14 16 (0.97%) Ruby
15 12 (0.72%) C++
15 12 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.54%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.30%) ActionScript
18 5 (0.30%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 397 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 343 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.31%) Degree
4 83 (5.01%) AWS Certification
5 70 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 62 (3.74%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (2.59%) CISSP
9 29 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.78%) CISM
14 12 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.60%) CCIE
16 9 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 8 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.67%) Data Quality
2 88 (5.31%) QA
3 65 (3.92%) GDPR
4 62 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (3.62%) NIST
6 39 (2.35%) NCSC
7 32 (1.93%) Accessibility
8 22 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.78%) WCAG
10 11 (0.66%) GRC
10 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.42%) SEPA
14 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.36%) PSD2
15 5 (0.30%) HL7
15 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 374 (22.56%) Docker
2 25 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.21%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.15%) vSphere
6 10 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.36%) IAG
9 4 (0.24%) Snort
9 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.12%) NFS
10 2 (0.12%) SRDF
11 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.060%) etcd
11 1 (0.060%) KVM
11 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 576 (34.74%) Kubernetes
2 546 (32.93%) Terraform
3 139 (8.38%) Ansible
4 125 (7.54%) Grafana
5 98 (5.91%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.77%) Argo
7 23 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.27%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.21%) Istio
10 18 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.97%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.84%) Puppet
13 9 (0.54%) linkerd
14 4 (0.24%) Cilium
14 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.24%) Kibana
14 4 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.24%) Nagios
15 3 (0.18%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 264 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.50%) Google
3 116 (7.00%) Databricks
4 75 (4.52%) Splunk
5 64 (3.86%) Oracle
6 45 (2.71%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.59%) Red Hat
9 37 (2.23%) VMware
10 29 (1.75%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.57%) SAP
12 23 (1.39%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.15%) F5
14 18 (1.09%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.09%) Pure Storage
14 18 (1.09%) Salesforce
15 17 (1.03%) Cisco
15 17 (1.03%) Informatica
16 16 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
16 16 (0.97%) Okta