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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 92 302
Rank change year-on-year +35 +210 -67
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,810 791 231
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 2.82% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.38% 7.73% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 532 147
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £75.50 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.32% -39.71% +12.58%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.47% +12.58%

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 15,907 10,228 10,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.42% 36.40% 31.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,560 6,400 6,068
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -1.59%
75th Percentile £645 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 533 364
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.13 £15.94
25th Percentile £17.45 £18.82 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -44.44% +17.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.62 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% -42.11% +6.15%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +41 1,006 £575 +4.55% 1,738
North of England +31 369 £525 +5.00% 338
Yorkshire +13 176 £525 +5.00% 86
North West +24 165 £561 +13.16% 204
South East +4 121 £530 +17.78% 162
Midlands +4 120 £551 +4.86% 128
South West +30 114 £550 -8.33% 158
West Midlands +9 108 £575 +8.49% 76
North East -10 34 £425 -29.17% 48
East of England -20 33 £525 +4.48% 97
East Midlands -20 10 £425 -15.42% 52
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 68 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 56 (3.09%) Confluence
3 51 (2.82%) Apache
4 18 (0.99%) SAS
5 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.66%) CMS
7 9 (0.50%) Camunda
8 7 (0.39%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.33%) nginx
9 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.22%) Workfront
4 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Quorum
4 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.17%) Ripple
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
6 1 (0.055%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,018 (56.24%) AWS
2 787 (43.48%) Azure
3 429 (23.70%) GCP
4 287 (15.86%) GitHub
5 280 (15.47%) Serverless
6 189 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
7 174 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
8 161 (8.90%) Amazon S3
9 160 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
10 147 (8.12%) Amazon EKS
11 115 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 111 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
13 88 (4.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 83 (4.59%) SaaS
15 79 (4.36%) Snowflake
16 71 (3.92%) Power Platform
17 70 (3.87%) Azure AKS
18 69 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
19 68 (3.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 67 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.98%) Firewall
2 45 (2.49%) Network Security
3 34 (1.88%) DNS
4 29 (1.60%) VPN
5 28 (1.55%) BGP
6 26 (1.44%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (0.88%) HTTP
8 16 (0.88%) OSPF
9 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.77%) MPLS
10 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.66%) LAN
13 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.61%) VLAN
13 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.55%) WLAN
15 9 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.20%) Data Lake
3 76 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (3.98%) Relational Database
5 69 (3.81%) Metadata
6 67 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 63 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
7 63 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 60 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 55 (3.04%) Power BI
10 33 (1.82%) Redis
11 32 (1.77%) BigQuery
11 32 (1.77%) MySQL
12 31 (1.71%) Big Data
13 30 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
14 25 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
16 21 (1.16%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 204 (11.27%) Git
2 192 (10.61%) GitLab
3 183 (10.11%) Jenkins
4 88 (4.86%) JIRA
5 34 (1.88%) Claude Code
6 29 (1.60%) JUnit
7 23 (1.27%) SonarQube
8 22 (1.22%) Mockito
9 21 (1.16%) Maven
10 17 (0.94%) JMeter
11 15 (0.83%) Postman
12 13 (0.72%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.72%) Selenium
13 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.61%) MSI
15 10 (0.55%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.44%) Gatling
17 7 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (0.33%) Gradle
18 6 (0.33%) MLflow
General
1 477 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 421 (23.26%) Finance
3 247 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 179 (9.89%) Banking
5 175 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.65%) Retail
8 35 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 29 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
9 29 (1.60%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.27%) Front Office
11 20 (1.10%) Law
11 20 (1.10%) Military
12 19 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (0.94%) Marketing
14 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.83%) Financial Institution
16 14 (0.77%) Legal
17 11 (0.61%) Back Office
17 11 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 414 (22.87%) Architect
2 315 (17.40%) Senior
3 293 (16.19%) Developer
4 174 (9.61%) Lead
5 147 (8.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 140 (7.73%) Data Engineer
7 129 (7.13%) Software Engineer
8 122 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
9 111 (6.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 99 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
11 79 (4.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 76 (4.20%) Java Developer
13 67 (3.70%) Java Engineer
14 61 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
14 61 (3.37%) Security Engineer
14 61 (3.37%) Senior Developer
15 58 (3.20%) Technical Architect
16 54 (2.98%) Cloud Architect
16 54 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
17 51 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 577 (31.88%) Terraform
2 284 (15.69%) REST
3 232 (12.82%) Kafka
4 182 (10.06%) Spring
5 179 (9.89%) RESTful
6 177 (9.78%) Spring Boot
7 143 (7.90%) React
8 127 (7.02%) .NET
9 112 (6.19%) Node.js
10 101 (5.58%) OAuth
11 70 (3.87%) OpenID
12 62 (3.43%) OAuth2
13 61 (3.37%) AngularJS
14 54 (2.98%) FastAPI
15 53 (2.93%) .NET Core
16 51 (2.82%) PySpark
17 49 (2.71%) LangChain
18 47 (2.60%) GraphQL
19 46 (2.54%) SAML
19 46 (2.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 262 (14.48%) Distributed Systems
2 129 (7.13%) Product Ownership
3 100 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
4 90 (4.97%) AI Agents
4 90 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
5 82 (4.53%) Onboarding
6 60 (3.31%) Security Posture
7 54 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 48 (2.65%) Public Cloud
9 39 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 30 (1.66%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
14 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.33%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.22%) PKI
16 21 (1.16%) NHS
16 21 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
17 19 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 117 (6.46%) Linux
2 75 (4.14%) Windows
3 42 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (1.44%) Unix
5 15 (0.83%) VMS
6 14 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.055%) AIX
11 1 (0.055%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.055%) Solaris
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (60.83%) CI/CD
2 883 (48.78%) DevOps
3 646 (35.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 625 (34.53%) Agile
5 516 (28.51%) Microservices
6 459 (25.36%) AI
7 446 (24.64%) Containerisation
8 440 (24.31%) Observability
9 433 (23.92%) Software Engineering
10 430 (23.76%) Event-Driven
11 340 (18.78%) Test Automation
12 311 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
13 306 (16.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 284 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
15 280 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 271 (14.97%) Technical Leadership
17 268 (14.81%) Migration
18 267 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
19 244 (13.48%) Analytics
20 243 (13.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 712 (39.34%) Python
2 437 (24.14%) Java
3 287 (15.86%) SQL
4 199 (10.99%) TypeScript
5 128 (7.07%) C#
5 128 (7.07%) JavaScript
6 123 (6.80%) Bash
7 99 (5.47%) PowerShell
8 67 (3.70%) Go
9 65 (3.59%) Bicep
10 26 (1.44%) Scala
11 25 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 20 (1.10%) C++
13 18 (0.99%) Rust
14 12 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.50%) Ruby
16 8 (0.44%) Korn
16 8 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 462 (25.52%) Security Cleared
2 376 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 106 (5.86%) AWS Certification
4 102 (5.64%) DV Cleared
5 93 (5.14%) Degree
6 75 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.20%) CISSP
8 54 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.07%) QA
2 119 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.54%) NIST
6 44 (2.43%) GDPR
7 38 (2.10%) NCSC
8 18 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.94%) WCAG
10 14 (0.77%) GRC
11 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.39%) SEPA
15 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.33%) HL7
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 416 (22.98%) Docker
2 29 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
6 8 (0.44%) vSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.055%) NFS
10 1 (0.055%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 653 (36.08%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.85%) Ansible
3 111 (6.13%) Grafana
4 87 (4.81%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.77%) Argo
6 29 (1.60%) Istio
7 28 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 8 (0.44%) Cilium
10 8 (0.44%) linkerd
11 6 (0.33%) Control-M
11 6 (0.33%) Kibana
12 5 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.22%) Bosun
13 4 (0.22%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) QRadar
14 2 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 278 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 205 (11.33%) Google
3 117 (6.46%) Databricks
4 70 (3.87%) Oracle
5 57 (3.15%) Splunk
6 51 (2.82%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 41 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 38 (2.10%) Red Hat
10 34 (1.88%) VMware
11 27 (1.49%) Informatica
12 24 (1.33%) SAP
13 22 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.16%) F5
15 20 (1.10%) Okta
15 20 (1.10%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.05%) Cisco
16 19 (1.05%) IBM
17 18 (0.99%) Foundry
18 16 (0.88%) CyberArk