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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 157 310
Rank change year-on-year +95 +153 -86
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,663 491 242
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.69% 1.78% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% 5.10% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,163 332 152
10th Percentile £409 £396 £446
25th Percentile £463 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £678
90th Percentile £731 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 2
10th Percentile £64.00 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £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 £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +48.29% -39.71% +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 14,966 9,624 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.25% 34.86% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,284 6,081 6,944
10th Percentile £318 £305 £300
25th Percentile £421 £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 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 482 623
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.48 £12.40
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.72 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.34% -27.28% +11.23%
75th Percentile £71.00 £60.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £86.71 £80.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +12.68%

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 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 27 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 27 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 +80 914 £575 +5.02% 535
North of England +57 312 £538 +7.50% 173
North West +40 158 £559 +11.75% 104
Yorkshire +24 138 £529 +8.51% 50
Midlands +36 119 £540 +8.00% 41
South West +36 110 £560 +21.08% 57
South East -3 110 £505 +12.22% 117
West Midlands +31 101 £563 +12.60% 29
East of England +29 56 £550 +20.22% 17
North East -17 24 £413 - 19
East Midlands -7 16 £425 -15.00% 12
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 66 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 52 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (2.83%) Confluence
4 46 (2.77%) Apache
5 20 (1.20%) SAS
6 17 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.48%) Camunda
8 8 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.30%) nginx
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 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.060%) Maya
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
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%) NetSuite
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
Cloud Services
1 907 (54.54%) AWS
2 746 (44.86%) Azure
3 347 (20.87%) GCP
4 276 (16.60%) GitHub
5 253 (15.21%) Serverless
6 170 (10.22%) GitHub Actions
7 168 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (8.36%) Amazon S3
8 139 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
10 96 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 88 (5.29%) Power Platform
12 86 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 85 (5.11%) Azure AKS
14 84 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
15 76 (4.57%) SaaS
16 68 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 64 (3.85%) Snowflake
18 60 (3.61%) OpenShift
19 58 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.71%) Firewall
2 56 (3.37%) DNS
3 44 (2.65%) Network Security
4 36 (2.16%) VPN
5 26 (1.56%) WAN
6 22 (1.32%) 5G
6 22 (1.32%) BGP
7 19 (1.14%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.08%) 4G
9 17 (1.02%) OSPF
10 15 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.78%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.78%) LAN
12 12 (0.72%) MPLS
12 12 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.66%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.66%) VLAN
13 11 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.33%) Data Lake
4 70 (4.21%) Power BI
5 61 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 55 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 52 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 51 (3.07%) MongoDB
9 50 (3.01%) Metadata
9 50 (3.01%) SQL Server
10 49 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (2.16%) Big Data
12 34 (2.04%) Redis
13 29 (1.74%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.62%) BigQuery
15 26 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.44%) MySQL
17 18 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 179 (10.76%) Jenkins
2 170 (10.22%) Git
3 159 (9.56%) GitLab
4 86 (5.17%) JIRA
5 23 (1.38%) JUnit
6 18 (1.08%) MLflow
6 18 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 14 (0.84%) Claude Code
7 14 (0.84%) Selenium
8 13 (0.78%) Postman
9 12 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.66%) JMeter
11 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.54%) MSI
12 8 (0.48%) Mockito
13 7 (0.42%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.36%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.36%) Gradle
14 6 (0.36%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 395 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 361 (21.71%) Finance
3 229 (13.77%) Public Sector
4 146 (8.78%) Banking
5 111 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 40 (2.41%) Retail
8 38 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.26%) Legal
13 18 (1.08%) Front Office
14 16 (0.96%) Law
15 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.72%) Military
17 10 (0.60%) Marketing
18 9 (0.54%) Billing
18 9 (0.54%) Local Government
19 8 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 411 (24.71%) Architect
2 268 (16.12%) Senior
3 232 (13.95%) Developer
4 178 (10.70%) Lead
5 155 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 126 (7.58%) Data Engineer
7 120 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (6.92%) Software Engineer
9 106 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 85 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
11 69 (4.15%) Technical Architect
12 62 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
13 61 (3.67%) Java Developer
14 57 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
15 54 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
15 54 (3.25%) Java Engineer
15 54 (3.25%) Security Engineer
15 54 (3.25%) Senior Developer
16 52 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
17 50 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (12.21%) REST
2 170 (10.22%) Kafka
3 147 (8.84%) React
4 146 (8.78%) Spring
5 131 (7.88%) Spring Boot
6 130 (7.82%) .NET
7 125 (7.52%) RESTful
8 123 (7.40%) Node.js
9 71 (4.27%) OAuth
10 61 (3.67%) AngularJS
11 59 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (3.43%) PySpark
13 51 (3.07%) OpenID
14 47 (2.83%) OAuth2
15 43 (2.59%) .NET Framework
15 43 (2.59%) GraphQL
16 41 (2.47%) .NET Core
16 41 (2.47%) FastAPI
17 38 (2.29%) LangChain
18 35 (2.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 249 (14.97%) Distributed Systems
2 100 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
3 95 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 65 (3.91%) Security Posture
5 64 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 60 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (3.31%) Onboarding
8 42 (2.53%) AI Agents
9 34 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.62%) NHS
12 25 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.02%) Algorithms
17 14 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.43%) Linux
2 69 (4.15%) Windows
3 44 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.14%) Unix
5 13 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.48%) VMS
8 6 (0.36%) Android
9 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.060%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 989 (59.47%) CI/CD
2 843 (50.69%) DevOps
3 595 (35.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 505 (30.37%) Agile
5 432 (25.98%) Microservices
6 426 (25.62%) Containerisation
7 384 (23.09%) AI
8 369 (22.19%) Observability
9 325 (19.54%) Software Engineering
10 314 (18.88%) Event-Driven
11 274 (16.48%) Migration
12 269 (16.18%) Test Automation
13 238 (14.31%) Analytics
14 227 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
15 225 (13.53%) Roadmaps
16 209 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
17 204 (12.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 199 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 199 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
19 196 (11.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 645 (38.79%) Python
2 380 (22.85%) Java
3 290 (17.44%) SQL
4 162 (9.74%) TypeScript
5 118 (7.10%) Bash
6 113 (6.79%) C#
7 105 (6.31%) JavaScript
8 90 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 76 (4.57%) Bicep
10 67 (4.03%) Go
11 22 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.02%) Rust
13 16 (0.96%) Ruby
14 14 (0.84%) C++
15 13 (0.78%) Scala
16 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.36%) R
19 5 (0.30%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 398 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 339 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 89 (5.35%) Degree
4 87 (5.23%) AWS Certification
5 77 (4.63%) DV Cleared
6 66 (3.97%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.77%) CISSP
8 44 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.78%) CISM
15 10 (0.60%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.54%) CCIE
17 8 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.42%) CCNP
18 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 92 (5.53%) QA
3 63 (3.79%) GDPR
4 50 (3.01%) NIST
5 48 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.41%) Accessibility
7 30 (1.80%) NCSC
8 21 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.08%) WCAG
10 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.60%) GRC
12 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.42%) HL7
15 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.36%) SEPA
15 6 (0.36%) SOC 2
16 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 383 (23.03%) Docker
2 23 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.20%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.14%) vSphere
5 9 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.42%) IAG
7 4 (0.24%) Snort
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.060%) etcd
10 1 (0.060%) Firmware
10 1 (0.060%) KVM
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 577 (34.70%) Kubernetes
2 549 (33.01%) Terraform
3 142 (8.54%) Ansible
4 123 (7.40%) Grafana
5 96 (5.77%) Prometheus
6 47 (2.83%) Argo
7 26 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.08%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.02%) Istio
11 16 (0.96%) Puppet
12 15 (0.90%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.54%) linkerd
14 4 (0.24%) Cilium
14 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 3 (0.18%) Bosun
15 3 (0.18%) Kibana
15 3 (0.18%) Nagios
15 3 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 261 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 148 (8.90%) Google
3 103 (6.19%) Databricks
4 67 (4.03%) Oracle
5 63 (3.79%) Splunk
6 48 (2.89%) Dynatrace
7 47 (2.83%) Red Hat
8 40 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.16%) VMware
10 34 (2.04%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.50%) SAP
12 21 (1.26%) F5
12 21 (1.26%) Informatica
13 20 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.14%) Cisco
14 19 (1.14%) IBM
15 18 (1.08%) Pure Storage
16 15 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.90%) Salesforce
17 14 (0.84%) Foundry