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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 206 318
Rank change year-on-year +140 +112 -79
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,470 315 236
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 1.29% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.69% 3.77% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 220 153
10th Percentile £400 £395 £444
25th Percentile £463 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £540 £515 £600
% change year-on-year +4.79% -14.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 3 0
10th Percentile £52.75 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.25% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +86.25% - -

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 13,746 8,349 11,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.41% 34.26% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,618 5,376 7,328
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 736 362 842
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.01 £20.73 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.45 £83.32 £72.44
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £33.03 £35.50
% change year-on-year +28.08% -6.97% +59.51%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +120 835 £575 +10.97% 209
North of England +79 261 £538 +7.50% 108
North West +54 139 £550 +10.00% 66
Yorkshire +30 112 £540 -1.82% 25
Midlands +24 112 £500 - 23
South East +7 92 £455 +3.30% 74
West Midlands +16 88 £540 +5.47% 19
South West +46 87 £575 +35.29% 52
East of England +9 51 £525 +28.83% 14
East Midlands -14 23 £413 -17.50% 4
North East - 18 £450 - 18
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 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.79%) Apache
4 35 (2.38%) Confluence
5 18 (1.22%) SAS
6 17 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.61%) Camunda
8 9 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.41%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.20%) Appian
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 7 (0.48%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Quorum
3 4 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.068%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.068%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.068%) Endur
6 1 (0.068%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.068%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.068%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.068%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.068%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 827 (56.26%) AWS
2 659 (44.83%) Azure
3 323 (21.97%) GCP
4 253 (17.21%) Serverless
5 243 (16.53%) GitHub
6 153 (10.41%) GitHub Actions
7 151 (10.27%) Amazon S3
8 145 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 93 (6.33%) Power Platform
12 85 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
13 74 (5.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 74 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 69 (4.69%) OpenShift
16 68 (4.63%) Azure AKS
17 60 (4.08%) Snowflake
18 59 (4.01%) SaaS
19 56 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.51%) Firewall
2 56 (3.81%) DNS
3 44 (2.99%) Network Security
4 39 (2.65%) VPN
5 21 (1.43%) WAN
6 19 (1.29%) 5G
7 18 (1.22%) BGP
8 15 (1.02%) 4G
9 13 (0.88%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.88%) BIG-IP
9 13 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.88%) OSPF
10 12 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.68%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.68%) WLAN
12 8 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (0.48%) LTE
13 7 (0.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.10%) Power BI
4 73 (4.97%) Data Lake
5 61 (4.15%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (3.06%) Metadata
8 43 (2.93%) SQL Server
9 41 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (2.65%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.59%) Relational Database
12 31 (2.11%) BigQuery
13 28 (1.90%) Delta Lake
13 28 (1.90%) Redis
14 27 (1.84%) Big Data
15 25 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.16%) Mixpanel
18 16 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 189 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 150 (10.20%) GitLab
3 138 (9.39%) Git
4 80 (5.44%) JIRA
5 23 (1.56%) JUnit
6 19 (1.29%) MLflow
7 18 (1.22%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.02%) Selenium
9 14 (0.95%) Postman
10 12 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.75%) JMeter
12 10 (0.68%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.61%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.54%) Gradle
14 8 (0.54%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.48%) IntelliJ
15 7 (0.48%) Maven
16 5 (0.34%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
16 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 360 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 322 (21.90%) Finance
3 194 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 114 (7.76%) Banking
5 83 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (2.04%) Retail
9 26 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.70%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.16%) Legal
13 11 (0.75%) Front Office
13 11 (0.75%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.75%) Marketing
14 8 (0.54%) Military
15 6 (0.41%) Billing
15 6 (0.41%) Law
15 6 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 394 (26.80%) Architect
2 214 (14.56%) Senior
3 194 (13.20%) Developer
4 150 (10.20%) Lead
5 129 (8.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 125 (8.50%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
8 95 (6.46%) Software Engineer
9 90 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (4.63%) Cloud Architect
12 64 (4.35%) Technical Architect
13 54 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
14 50 (3.40%) Security Engineer
15 49 (3.33%) Java Engineer
16 46 (3.13%) Java Developer
17 45 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
18 44 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
18 44 (2.99%) Senior Developer
19 40 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (10.00%) Kafka
2 134 (9.12%) REST
3 127 (8.64%) React
4 125 (8.50%) Spring
5 122 (8.30%) Node.js
6 114 (7.76%) Spring Boot
7 105 (7.14%) .NET
8 89 (6.05%) RESTful
9 64 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
10 62 (4.22%) AngularJS
11 59 (4.01%) OpenID
12 57 (3.88%) OAuth
13 56 (3.81%) PySpark
14 42 (2.86%) OAuth2
15 40 (2.72%) GraphQL
16 36 (2.45%) SAML
17 32 (2.18%) FastAPI
18 28 (1.90%) Playwright
19 27 (1.84%) Next.js
19 27 (1.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 182 (12.38%) Distributed Systems
2 68 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
3 65 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 52 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 41 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 30 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.84%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.84%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.43%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.43%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.09%) NHS
17 14 (0.95%) Low-Code
18 13 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.65%) Linux
2 43 (2.93%) Windows
3 30 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.88%) Unix
5 9 (0.61%) VMS
5 9 (0.61%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.34%) Android
8 4 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.068%) AIX
11 1 (0.068%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (60.34%) CI/CD
2 760 (51.70%) DevOps
3 528 (35.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 416 (28.30%) Agile
5 369 (25.10%) Containerisation
6 368 (25.03%) Microservices
7 314 (21.36%) AI
8 301 (20.48%) Observability
9 249 (16.94%) Migration
10 244 (16.60%) Software Engineering
11 235 (15.99%) Event-Driven
12 219 (14.90%) Analytics
13 205 (13.95%) Test Automation
14 198 (13.47%) Roadmaps
15 179 (12.18%) Data Modelling
16 175 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
17 171 (11.63%) Data Engineering
18 165 (11.22%) Data Pipeline
19 161 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
20 160 (10.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 547 (37.21%) Python
2 328 (22.31%) Java
3 272 (18.50%) SQL
4 122 (8.30%) TypeScript
5 95 (6.46%) Bash
6 89 (6.05%) C#
7 77 (5.24%) JavaScript
8 71 (4.83%) PowerShell
9 53 (3.61%) Bicep
10 51 (3.47%) Go
11 20 (1.36%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.09%) Scala
13 13 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.82%) Ruby
15 9 (0.61%) Rust
16 7 (0.48%) C++
16 7 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.48%) R
17 6 (0.41%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 342 (23.27%) Security Cleared
2 297 (20.20%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.17%) Degree
4 70 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 58 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 51 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.38%) CISSP
10 26 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.88%) CISM
14 8 (0.54%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.41%) CCIE
16 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.41%) OCP
16 6 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.49%) QA
3 64 (4.35%) GDPR
4 63 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 61 (4.15%) NIST
6 24 (1.63%) NCSC
6 24 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 21 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.75%) GRC
9 10 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.48%) SEPA
12 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.41%) WCAG
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) PSD2
13 4 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 328 (22.31%) Docker
2 32 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.43%) vSphere
4 20 (1.36%) Active Directory
5 18 (1.22%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.02%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.27%) Snort
8 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) etcd
10 1 (0.068%) Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) IAG
10 1 (0.068%) KVM
10 1 (0.068%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 509 (34.63%) Kubernetes
2 482 (32.79%) Terraform
3 117 (7.96%) Grafana
4 116 (7.89%) Ansible
5 97 (6.60%) Prometheus
6 46 (3.13%) Argo
7 26 (1.77%) Istio
8 19 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.22%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.88%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.68%) Puppet
13 8 (0.54%) linkerd
14 5 (0.34%) Kibana
14 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.27%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.27%) Cilium
15 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
15 4 (0.27%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 213 (14.49%) Microsoft
2 128 (8.71%) Google
3 115 (7.82%) Databricks
4 74 (5.03%) Splunk
5 57 (3.88%) Oracle
6 46 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.79%) VMware
8 36 (2.45%) Dynatrace
9 31 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.70%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.70%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.63%) SAP
12 18 (1.22%) Pure Storage
13 15 (1.02%) Cisco
13 15 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (1.02%) Informatica
14 14 (0.95%) Okta
14 14 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.95%) Salesforce
15 13 (0.88%) Arista