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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 134 318
Rank change year-on-year +75 +184 -88
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,746 586 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 2.11% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.40% 5.95% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 398 147
10th Percentile £413 £400 £434
25th Percentile £463 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £72.25 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -26.47% +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 15,313 9,854 10,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.51% 35.45% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,390 6,209 6,628
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £682
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 498 528
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.48 £12.68
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £31.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -34.36% +11.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +10.86%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +60 955 £560 +2.28% 188
North of England +40 338 £550 +10.00% 120
North West +34 163 £565 +13.00% 65
Yorkshire +25 155 £544 +8.75% 42
South West +37 119 £550 +14.29% 55
Midlands +36 119 £526 +5.15% 23
South East +5 117 £505 +12.22% 87
West Midlands +26 101 £551 +8.10% 12
East of England +23 50 £525 +12.90% 7
North East -15 28 £413 - 13
East Midlands -8 16 £425 -15.00% 11
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 64 (3.67%) Apache Spark
2 60 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (2.92%) Confluence
4 46 (2.63%) Apache
5 22 (1.26%) SAS
6 15 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.63%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.57%) Camunda
9 8 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.34%) CMS
11 5 (0.29%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.29%) nginx
12 4 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.46%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.057%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.34%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.23%) Quorum
3 4 (0.23%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.17%) Ripple
4 3 (0.17%) Workfront
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.057%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.057%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.057%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.057%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.057%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 955 (54.70%) AWS
2 792 (45.36%) Azure
3 379 (21.71%) GCP
4 296 (16.95%) GitHub
5 263 (15.06%) Serverless
6 191 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
7 182 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
8 147 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
9 140 (8.02%) Amazon S3
10 117 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
11 96 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 94 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 94 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
13 88 (5.04%) Power Platform
14 85 (4.87%) Azure AKS
15 79 (4.52%) SaaS
16 75 (4.30%) Snowflake
17 65 (3.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 59 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
18 59 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.21%) Firewall
2 48 (2.75%) Network Security
3 46 (2.63%) DNS
4 37 (2.12%) VPN
5 28 (1.60%) WAN
6 26 (1.49%) BGP
7 21 (1.20%) 5G
8 19 (1.09%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 17 (0.97%) 4G
10 16 (0.92%) OSPF
11 15 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 14 (0.80%) MPLS
13 13 (0.74%) 3GPP
13 13 (0.74%) LAN
13 13 (0.74%) VXLAN
14 12 (0.69%) HTTP
14 12 (0.69%) TCP/IP
15 11 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (6.07%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.12%) Power BI
5 64 (3.67%) Relational Database
6 63 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
7 60 (3.44%) Metadata
8 55 (3.15%) MongoDB
9 54 (3.09%) DynamoDB
10 53 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
10 53 (3.04%) SQL Server
11 37 (2.12%) Big Data
12 34 (1.95%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (1.95%) Redis
13 31 (1.78%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.55%) MySQL
16 26 (1.49%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 192 (11.00%) Git
2 174 (9.97%) GitLab
2 174 (9.97%) Jenkins
3 88 (5.04%) JIRA
4 27 (1.55%) JUnit
5 21 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 20 (1.15%) Claude Code
7 16 (0.92%) JMeter
8 14 (0.80%) Postman
9 13 (0.74%) Selenium
10 12 (0.69%) Mockito
11 11 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 11 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.63%) MLflow
11 11 (0.63%) MSI
12 7 (0.40%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.40%) Gatling
12 7 (0.40%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.40%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 421 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 375 (21.48%) Finance
3 229 (13.12%) Public Sector
4 153 (8.76%) Banking
5 135 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
6 44 (2.52%) Retail
7 38 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.32%) Financial Institution
11 22 (1.26%) Legal
12 20 (1.15%) Front Office
13 17 (0.97%) Law
14 15 (0.86%) Marketing
15 14 (0.80%) Investment Banking
16 13 (0.74%) Military
17 11 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.57%) Billing
18 10 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 427 (24.46%) Architect
2 293 (16.78%) Senior
3 257 (14.72%) Developer
4 175 (10.02%) Lead
5 152 (8.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 131 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 122 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 109 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 84 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 70 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
12 66 (3.78%) Technical Architect
13 65 (3.72%) Java Developer
13 65 (3.72%) Security Engineer
14 61 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
15 60 (3.44%) Senior Developer
16 58 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
16 58 (3.32%) Java Engineer
17 56 (3.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 56 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (12.83%) REST
2 176 (10.08%) Kafka
3 156 (8.93%) Spring
4 147 (8.42%) React
5 144 (8.25%) Spring Boot
6 142 (8.13%) RESTful
7 132 (7.56%) .NET
8 121 (6.93%) Node.js
9 78 (4.47%) OAuth
10 63 (3.61%) AngularJS
11 58 (3.32%) OpenID
12 55 (3.15%) PySpark
13 52 (2.98%) OAuth2
14 49 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
15 48 (2.75%) .NET Core
15 48 (2.75%) .NET Framework
16 44 (2.52%) FastAPI
16 44 (2.52%) GraphQL
17 37 (2.12%) LangChain
18 33 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 248 (14.20%) Distributed Systems
2 106 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 104 (5.96%) Legacy Systems
4 71 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.89%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 61 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 50 (2.86%) AI Agents
8 35 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.89%) Data Centre
10 31 (1.78%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.72%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.49%) NHS
13 22 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
14 21 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
16 16 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.59%) Linux
2 73 (4.18%) Windows
3 45 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (1.37%) Unix
5 13 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.52%) VMS
8 7 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.11%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.057%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (59.51%) CI/CD
2 879 (50.34%) DevOps
3 630 (36.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (31.96%) Agile
5 456 (26.12%) Microservices
6 431 (24.68%) Containerisation
7 404 (23.14%) AI
8 397 (22.74%) Observability
9 352 (20.16%) Software Engineering
10 343 (19.64%) Event-Driven
11 297 (17.01%) Test Automation
12 279 (15.98%) Migration
13 254 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
14 241 (13.80%) Analytics
15 234 (13.40%) Roadmaps
16 229 (13.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 229 (13.12%) Technical Leadership
17 226 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
18 222 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
19 220 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 670 (38.37%) Python
2 405 (23.20%) Java
3 295 (16.90%) SQL
4 166 (9.51%) TypeScript
5 123 (7.04%) Bash
5 123 (7.04%) C#
6 116 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 98 (5.61%) PowerShell
8 78 (4.47%) Bicep
9 61 (3.49%) Go
10 20 (1.15%) Kotlin
10 20 (1.15%) Scala
11 18 (1.03%) C++
11 18 (1.03%) Rust
12 15 (0.86%) Ruby
13 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.40%) Korn
15 5 (0.29%) ActionScript
15 5 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 428 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 358 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.04%) AWS Certification
4 87 (4.98%) Degree
4 87 (4.98%) DV Cleared
5 70 (4.01%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.98%) CISSP
7 42 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.97%) CISM
13 11 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 9 (0.52%) CCIE
15 9 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.46%) OSCP
17 7 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (6.36%) QA
2 100 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.67%) GDPR
4 54 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 53 (3.04%) NIST
6 43 (2.46%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.89%) NCSC
8 21 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.09%) WCAG
10 11 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.52%) GRC
11 9 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.46%) HL7
12 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.34%) SEPA
13 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 392 (22.45%) Docker
2 26 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.57%) vSphere
6 9 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.52%) IAG
7 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.057%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) etcd
10 1 (0.057%) Firmware
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.057%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 600 (34.36%) Kubernetes
2 566 (32.42%) Terraform
3 139 (7.96%) Ansible
4 111 (6.36%) Grafana
5 89 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 38 (2.18%) Argo
7 29 (1.66%) Istio
8 28 (1.60%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.92%) Puppet
11 12 (0.69%) linkerd
12 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) Cilium
14 3 (0.17%) Bosun
14 3 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.17%) Packer
15 2 (0.11%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
15 2 (0.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 280 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 171 (9.79%) Google
3 108 (6.19%) Databricks
4 72 (4.12%) Oracle
5 51 (2.92%) Splunk
6 48 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 43 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 43 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 34 (1.95%) OpenAI
9 27 (1.55%) Informatica
9 27 (1.55%) SAP
9 27 (1.55%) VMware
10 23 (1.32%) Cisco
11 21 (1.20%) F5
11 21 (1.20%) IBM
12 19 (1.09%) Palo Alto
13 16 (0.92%) Foundry
13 16 (0.92%) Salesforce
14 15 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.86%) Okta