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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 225 316
Rank change year-on-year +155 +91 -62
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,310 278 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 1.14% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.02% 3.34% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 198 149
10th Percentile £400 £400 £428
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 2 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £66.13 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.26% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £39.88 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £38.75 -
% change year-on-year +80.65% - -

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 13,080 8,328 11,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.23% 34.16% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,289 5,450 7,459
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 660 330 821
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.25 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £33.96 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.42% +7.79% +40.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.69 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.46% +7.76% +34.13%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +125 731 £575 - 266
North of England +85 229 £545 -0.91% 103
North West +46 116 £558 +11.50% 59
Midlands +24 109 £500 +8.93% 45
Yorkshire +40 107 £533 -15.22% 28
South East +13 96 £472 -17.96% 93
West Midlands +16 80 £527 +2.83% 21
South West +21 70 £575 +35.29% 55
East of England -4 52 £549 +34.80% 24
East Midlands -10 29 £425 -1.28% 24
North East -9 10 £518 -5.91% 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 59 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.05%) Confluence
3 39 (2.98%) Apache
4 34 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.07%) SAS
6 12 (0.92%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.69%) Camunda
9 6 (0.46%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.23%) Appian
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.076%) JBoss
12 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.23%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.076%) Maya
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.076%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.076%) Notion
4 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.076%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.076%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.076%) Quorum
5 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.076%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.076%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.076%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 726 (55.42%) AWS
2 609 (46.49%) Azure
3 288 (21.98%) GCP
4 230 (17.56%) GitHub
5 221 (16.87%) Serverless
6 141 (10.76%) Amazon S3
6 141 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
7 139 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
8 119 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (8.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 83 (6.34%) Power Platform
11 82 (6.26%) Azure AKS
12 74 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (5.27%) OpenShift
15 60 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 50 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 49 (3.74%) SaaS
17 49 (3.74%) Snowflake
18 47 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.27%) Firewall
2 51 (3.89%) DNS
3 36 (2.75%) Network Security
3 36 (2.75%) VPN
4 15 (1.15%) 5G
4 15 (1.15%) WAN
5 13 (0.99%) 3GPP
6 12 (0.92%) 4G
7 11 (0.84%) BGP
8 7 (0.53%) LTE
8 7 (0.53%) OSPF
8 7 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.46%) HTTP
9 6 (0.46%) LAN
9 6 (0.46%) MPLS
9 6 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.38%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 70 (5.34%) Data Lake
4 64 (4.89%) Power BI
5 52 (3.97%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.44%) Metadata
8 42 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 38 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (2.67%) MongoDB
11 32 (2.44%) BigQuery
12 31 (2.37%) Relational Database
13 25 (1.91%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.91%) Redis
14 24 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (1.60%) Big Data
16 20 (1.53%) Mixpanel
17 18 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (1.22%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 188 (14.35%) Jenkins
2 135 (10.31%) Git
3 121 (9.24%) GitLab
4 72 (5.50%) JIRA
5 22 (1.68%) JUnit
6 21 (1.60%) MLflow
7 19 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.76%) Selenium
10 9 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.69%) Postman
11 8 (0.61%) Gradle
11 8 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.53%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.53%) JMeter
13 6 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.46%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.46%) Maven
13 6 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 321 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 266 (20.31%) Finance
3 170 (12.98%) Public Sector
4 100 (7.63%) Banking
5 67 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.21%) Retail
9 24 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.30%) Legal
12 15 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.92%) Front Office
14 11 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.69%) Marketing
16 7 (0.53%) Billing
16 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.38%) Aviation
18 5 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 366 (27.94%) Architect
2 184 (14.05%) Senior
3 174 (13.28%) Developer
4 134 (10.23%) Lead
5 107 (8.17%) Data Engineer
5 107 (8.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 99 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
7 78 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 75 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 59 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (4.27%) Cloud Architect
11 54 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
12 52 (3.97%) Technical Architect
13 44 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 43 (3.28%) Java Engineer
15 39 (2.98%) Senior Developer
16 38 (2.90%) Data Architect
16 38 (2.90%) Security Engineer
17 37 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
18 36 (2.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (9.62%) Kafka
2 125 (9.54%) Node.js
3 118 (9.01%) REST
4 115 (8.78%) React
4 115 (8.78%) Spring
5 103 (7.86%) Spring Boot
6 101 (7.71%) .NET
7 81 (6.18%) RESTful
8 68 (5.19%) OpenTelemetry
9 60 (4.58%) AngularJS
10 51 (3.89%) OpenID
11 49 (3.74%) GraphQL
12 48 (3.66%) OAuth
13 41 (3.13%) PySpark
14 39 (2.98%) Playwright
15 33 (2.52%) OAuth2
16 29 (2.21%) SAML
17 28 (2.14%) LangChain
18 26 (1.98%) YAML
19 25 (1.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
2 65 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
3 57 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 55 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 48 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.67%) Public Cloud
6 35 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 32 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.76%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.07%) NHS
15 12 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (0.92%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (6.11%) Linux
2 29 (2.21%) Windows
3 17 (1.30%) Unix
4 14 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.53%) VMS
6 4 (0.31%) Android
6 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) Solaris
8 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (60.76%) CI/CD
2 688 (52.52%) DevOps
3 451 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 395 (30.15%) Agile
5 336 (25.65%) Containerisation
6 330 (25.19%) Microservices
7 265 (20.23%) AI
8 240 (18.32%) Observability
9 217 (16.56%) Migration
10 216 (16.49%) Software Engineering
11 200 (15.27%) Analytics
12 188 (14.35%) Event-Driven
13 182 (13.89%) Test Automation
14 177 (13.51%) Roadmaps
15 171 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
16 163 (12.44%) Data Modelling
17 156 (11.91%) Data Engineering
18 154 (11.76%) Machine Learning
19 147 (11.22%) Data Pipeline
20 135 (10.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 450 (34.35%) Python
2 271 (20.69%) Java
3 258 (19.69%) SQL
4 117 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 92 (7.02%) C#
6 78 (5.95%) Bash
7 72 (5.50%) JavaScript
8 53 (4.05%) Bicep
9 47 (3.59%) PowerShell
10 46 (3.51%) Go
11 17 (1.30%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.15%) Scala
13 12 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.84%) Ruby
15 8 (0.61%) R
16 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.46%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.38%) Korn
19 4 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
20 3 (0.23%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 306 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 260 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 75 (5.73%) Degree
4 63 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 58 (4.43%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.83%) CISSP
11 15 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.07%) CISM
12 14 (1.07%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.61%) CCIE
13 8 (0.61%) OCP
13 8 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.46%) CCNP
14 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 66 (5.04%) GDPR
3 59 (4.50%) QA
4 57 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 57 (4.35%) NIST
5 24 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.68%) NCSC
7 17 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.69%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.61%) SEPA
9 8 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.46%) PSD2
12 5 (0.38%) WCAG
13 4 (0.31%) PMO
13 4 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 314 (23.97%) Docker
2 37 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.06%) VMware NSX
4 21 (1.60%) vSphere
5 17 (1.30%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.31%) Snort
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.076%) etcd
10 1 (0.076%) Firmware
10 1 (0.076%) IAG
10 1 (0.076%) NFS
10 1 (0.076%) SRDF
10 1 (0.076%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 448 (34.20%) Kubernetes
2 415 (31.68%) Terraform
3 110 (8.40%) Grafana
4 95 (7.25%) Ansible
5 85 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 41 (3.13%) Argo
7 26 (1.98%) Istio
8 19 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.22%) Puppet
10 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.76%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.53%) linkerd
13 6 (0.46%) Kibana
14 5 (0.38%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.31%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.31%) CSIRT
15 4 (0.31%) Kubeflow
16 3 (0.23%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 202 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 119 (9.08%) Databricks
3 103 (7.86%) Google
4 68 (5.19%) Splunk
5 52 (3.97%) VMware
6 48 (3.66%) Oracle
7 41 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 31 (2.37%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.98%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.83%) SAP
10 24 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 23 (1.76%) Cisco
12 19 (1.45%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.30%) Informatica
14 12 (0.92%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.84%) IBM
15 11 (0.84%) Talend
16 10 (0.76%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.69%) Palo Alto