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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 169 314
Rank change year-on-year +106 +145 -90
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,643 429 256
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 1.59% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.09% 4.59% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 293 162
10th Percentile £413 £396 £446
25th Percentile £463 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £675
90th Percentile £749 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £581
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.68% -8.46%
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 14,813 9,351 11,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.13% 34.66% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,201 5,957 7,394
10th Percentile £313 £305 £284
25th Percentile £415 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.62% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 796 450 818
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £18.88 £15.45
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +19.05%
75th Percentile £71.13 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.73 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.81% -13.94% +30.99%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +87 921 £575 +9.52% 454
North of England +66 312 £534 +6.75% 144
North West +52 154 £550 +10.00% 93
Yorkshire +35 145 £529 +11.37% 38
Midlands +22 118 £525 +5.00% 45
South West +43 103 £560 +6.67% 195
South East +7 98 £503 +11.67% 95
West Midlands +16 97 £575 +13.64% 37
East of England +15 51 £550 +22.22% 12
North East -12 21 £413 - 14
East Midlands -4 19 £431 -13.75% 8
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 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 53 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.74%) Confluence
4 44 (2.68%) Apache
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 17 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.55%) Camunda
8 9 (0.55%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.55%) 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 (0.061%) LaTeX
6 1 (0.061%) Maya
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.061%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.061%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.061%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.061%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.061%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 894 (54.41%) AWS
2 744 (45.28%) Azure
3 336 (20.45%) GCP
4 268 (16.31%) GitHub
4 268 (16.31%) Serverless
5 168 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
6 166 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
7 161 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 148 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (6.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 99 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (5.78%) Power Platform
12 87 (5.30%) Azure AKS
13 82 (4.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 82 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (4.50%) SaaS
15 71 (4.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 68 (4.14%) Snowflake
17 67 (4.08%) OpenShift
18 60 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.54%) Firewall
2 58 (3.53%) DNS
3 45 (2.74%) Network Security
4 39 (2.37%) VPN
5 27 (1.64%) WAN
6 24 (1.46%) BGP
7 22 (1.34%) 5G
8 19 (1.16%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.10%) 4G
10 17 (1.03%) OSPF
11 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.79%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.79%) LAN
12 13 (0.79%) MPLS
13 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.61%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.96%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.63%) Power BI
4 71 (4.32%) Data Lake
5 59 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (3.47%) DynamoDB
7 54 (3.29%) Relational Database
8 51 (3.10%) SQL Server
9 50 (3.04%) Metadata
10 45 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 44 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 42 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (1.95%) Big Data
13 32 (1.95%) Redis
14 29 (1.77%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.46%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.28%) MySQL
18 20 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 166 (10.10%) Git
3 159 (9.68%) GitLab
4 94 (5.72%) JIRA
5 23 (1.40%) JUnit
6 20 (1.22%) MLflow
7 18 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 16 (0.97%) Postman
8 16 (0.97%) Selenium
9 13 (0.79%) JMeter
10 12 (0.73%) Cypress.io
11 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.55%) Gradle
13 8 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.49%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.43%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.43%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.43%) Maven
14 7 (0.43%) MSI
15 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 399 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 362 (22.03%) Finance
3 220 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.46%) Banking
5 104 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (2.07%) Retail
9 32 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 22 (1.34%) Legal
12 15 (0.91%) Front Office
13 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.79%) Law
14 12 (0.73%) Marketing
14 12 (0.73%) Military
15 10 (0.61%) Billing
16 8 (0.49%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 424 (25.81%) Architect
2 247 (15.03%) Senior
3 225 (13.69%) Developer
4 173 (10.53%) Lead
5 157 (9.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 137 (8.34%) Data Engineer
7 115 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (6.51%) Software Engineer
9 101 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 79 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 73 (4.44%) Technical Architect
12 61 (3.71%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.53%) Java Developer
14 55 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
14 55 (3.35%) Java Engineer
15 52 (3.16%) Security Engineer
16 51 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
17 49 (2.98%) Senior Developer
18 46 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (10.96%) REST
2 165 (10.04%) Kafka
3 142 (8.64%) React
4 135 (8.22%) Spring
5 126 (7.67%) .NET
6 122 (7.43%) Spring Boot
7 120 (7.30%) Node.js
8 117 (7.12%) RESTful
9 65 (3.96%) OAuth
10 63 (3.83%) OpenID
11 61 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 56 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 56 (3.41%) PySpark
13 46 (2.80%) OAuth2
14 45 (2.74%) GraphQL
15 39 (2.37%) .NET Core
15 39 (2.37%) .NET Framework
16 37 (2.25%) SAML
17 35 (2.13%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.07%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 222 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
2 95 (5.78%) Legacy Systems
3 84 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 63 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 62 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 50 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.19%) Virtual Team
9 35 (2.13%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.95%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.77%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.52%) NHS
14 24 (1.46%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.03%) Mobile App
17 16 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
18 14 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.15%) Linux
2 59 (3.59%) Windows
3 36 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (1.03%) Unix
5 13 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.55%) VMS
6 9 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.061%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 988 (60.13%) CI/CD
2 845 (51.43%) DevOps
3 585 (35.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 474 (28.85%) Agile
5 420 (25.56%) Containerisation
6 412 (25.08%) Microservices
7 373 (22.70%) AI
8 342 (20.82%) Observability
9 295 (17.95%) Event-Driven
10 278 (16.92%) Software Engineering
11 274 (16.68%) Migration
12 250 (15.22%) Test Automation
13 243 (14.79%) Analytics
14 229 (13.94%) Roadmaps
15 210 (12.78%) Platform Engineering
16 207 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
17 193 (11.75%) Data Modelling
18 187 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
19 186 (11.32%) Data Engineering
20 184 (11.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 642 (39.07%) Python
2 367 (22.34%) Java
3 290 (17.65%) SQL
4 153 (9.31%) TypeScript
5 114 (6.94%) C#
6 106 (6.45%) Bash
7 97 (5.90%) JavaScript
8 82 (4.99%) PowerShell
9 71 (4.32%) Go
10 69 (4.20%) Bicep
11 24 (1.46%) Kotlin
12 18 (1.10%) Scala
13 16 (0.97%) Ruby
13 16 (0.97%) Rust
14 12 (0.73%) C++
14 12 (0.73%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.30%) Cypher
17 5 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 390 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 336 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 87 (5.30%) Degree
4 81 (4.93%) AWS Certification
5 68 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 61 (3.71%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (2.56%) CISSP
9 40 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 16 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.79%) CISM
15 11 (0.67%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.61%) CCIE
17 9 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 8 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 7 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 82 (4.99%) QA
3 65 (3.96%) GDPR
4 63 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (3.65%) NIST
6 38 (2.31%) NCSC
7 31 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.79%) WCAG
10 11 (0.67%) GRC
10 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.43%) SEPA
14 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.37%) PSD2
15 5 (0.30%) HL7
15 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 367 (22.34%) Docker
2 25 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.16%) vSphere
6 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.061%) etcd
11 1 (0.061%) Firmware
11 1 (0.061%) KVM
11 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 568 (34.57%) Kubernetes
2 543 (33.05%) Terraform
3 139 (8.46%) Ansible
4 125 (7.61%) Grafana
5 98 (5.96%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.80%) Argo
7 23 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.22%) Istio
10 18 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.97%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.85%) Puppet
13 9 (0.55%) 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
1 262 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 141 (8.58%) Google
3 114 (6.94%) Databricks
4 75 (4.56%) Splunk
5 64 (3.90%) Oracle
6 45 (2.74%) Dynatrace
6 45 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.62%) Red Hat
8 37 (2.25%) VMware
9 29 (1.77%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.58%) SAP
11 23 (1.40%) CyberArk
12 19 (1.16%) F5
13 18 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.10%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.10%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.03%) Cisco
14 17 (1.03%) Informatica
15 16 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (0.97%) Okta