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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 186 320
Rank change year-on-year +123 +134 -91
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,581 373 251
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 1.49% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.10% 4.28% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 259 163
10th Percentile £407 £400 £456
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 £675
90th Percentile £746 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +90.00% - -

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 14,245 8,718 11,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.81% 34.73% 30.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,889 5,602 7,324
10th Percentile £313 £303 £276
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.57%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £801
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 782 400 852
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.16
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -8.42% +64.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.23 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% -10.97% +60.11%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +102 883 £569 +8.33% 152
North of England +71 294 £538 +7.50% 75
North West +54 152 £558 +11.50% 50
Yorkshire +27 128 £538 +7.50% 21
Midlands +19 110 £515 +3.00% 22
South East +5 101 £483 +8.54% 76
South West +37 100 £560 +21.08% 36
West Midlands +13 86 £575 +12.30% 17
East of England +12 51 £550 +22.15% 6
East Midlands -4 23 £413 -17.50% 5
North East - 22 £425 - 7
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 60 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.59%) Confluence
4 40 (2.53%) Apache
5 20 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.14%) SAS
7 13 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.57%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.32%) nginx
12 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.19%) CMS
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.57%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.13%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.063%) Maya
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Quorum
3 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
4 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.063%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.063%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.063%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.063%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.063%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 881 (55.72%) AWS
2 720 (45.54%) Azure
3 338 (21.38%) GCP
4 260 (16.45%) GitHub
4 260 (16.45%) Serverless
5 164 (10.37%) GitHub Actions
6 156 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
7 155 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 143 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
9 106 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 96 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (5.69%) Power Platform
12 81 (5.12%) Azure AKS
13 79 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (4.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 69 (4.36%) OpenShift
16 69 (4.36%) SaaS
17 65 (4.11%) Snowflake
18 55 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.76%) Firewall
2 61 (3.86%) DNS
3 47 (2.97%) Network Security
4 41 (2.59%) VPN
5 27 (1.71%) WAN
6 24 (1.52%) BGP
7 22 (1.39%) 5G
8 19 (1.20%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.14%) 4G
10 17 (1.08%) OSPF
11 16 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.82%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.82%) LAN
12 13 (0.82%) MPLS
13 11 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.63%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.63%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (6.26%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.49%) Power BI
4 70 (4.43%) Data Lake
5 62 (3.92%) DynamoDB
6 58 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (3.16%) Relational Database
7 50 (3.16%) SQL Server
8 46 (2.91%) Metadata
9 44 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 42 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
12 37 (2.34%) Redis
13 29 (1.83%) Big Data
14 28 (1.77%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.58%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.45%) MySQL
18 17 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 198 (12.52%) Jenkins
2 157 (9.93%) GitLab
3 153 (9.68%) Git
4 91 (5.76%) JIRA
5 24 (1.52%) JUnit
6 19 (1.20%) MLflow
7 18 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.95%) Selenium
9 14 (0.89%) Postman
10 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.70%) JMeter
12 9 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.57%) Gradle
13 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.44%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.44%) Maven
15 6 (0.38%) Mockito
15 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 380 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 351 (22.20%) Finance
3 216 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 134 (8.48%) Banking
5 95 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (2.09%) Retail
9 31 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.27%) Legal
12 13 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.76%) Front Office
13 12 (0.76%) Marketing
14 11 (0.70%) Law
14 11 (0.70%) Military
15 7 (0.44%) Billing
15 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 416 (26.31%) Architect
2 235 (14.86%) Senior
3 217 (13.73%) Developer
4 169 (10.69%) Lead
5 150 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (8.16%) Data Engineer
7 108 (6.83%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (6.77%) Software Engineer
9 102 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 76 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 70 (4.43%) Technical Architect
12 66 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
13 56 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (3.54%) Java Engineer
14 54 (3.42%) Java Developer
15 53 (3.35%) Security Engineer
16 49 (3.10%) Senior Developer
17 47 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
18 46 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
19 41 (2.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.56%) REST
2 159 (10.06%) Kafka
3 137 (8.67%) React
4 131 (8.29%) Spring
5 119 (7.53%) Spring Boot
6 118 (7.46%) .NET
7 117 (7.40%) Node.js
8 109 (6.89%) RESTful
9 68 (4.30%) OAuth
10 65 (4.11%) OpenID
11 59 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 54 (3.42%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.42%) PySpark
13 48 (3.04%) OAuth2
14 40 (2.53%) SAML
15 38 (2.40%) GraphQL
16 36 (2.28%) FastAPI
17 33 (2.09%) Vue
18 32 (2.02%) .NET Core
18 32 (2.02%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 214 (13.54%) Distributed Systems
2 79 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 76 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 65 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 62 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 60 (3.80%) Security Posture
7 45 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 36 (2.28%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.02%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.83%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.71%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.52%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.39%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.33%) NHS
17 20 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
19 14 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
19 14 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.07%) Linux
2 55 (3.48%) Windows
3 35 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.95%) Unix
5 13 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.57%) VMS
6 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.38%) Android
8 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.063%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 951 (60.15%) CI/CD
2 816 (51.61%) DevOps
3 559 (35.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 463 (29.29%) Agile
5 401 (25.36%) Containerisation
6 400 (25.30%) Microservices
7 345 (21.82%) AI
8 322 (20.37%) Observability
9 276 (17.46%) Event-Driven
10 268 (16.95%) Migration
11 267 (16.89%) Software Engineering
12 228 (14.42%) Test Automation
13 225 (14.23%) Analytics
14 218 (13.79%) Roadmaps
15 196 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
16 194 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
17 183 (11.57%) Data Modelling
18 177 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
19 176 (11.13%) Data Engineering
20 173 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 614 (38.84%) Python
2 355 (22.45%) Java
3 279 (17.65%) SQL
4 137 (8.67%) TypeScript
5 105 (6.64%) C#
6 100 (6.33%) Bash
7 92 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 77 (4.87%) PowerShell
9 61 (3.86%) Go
10 60 (3.80%) Bicep
11 25 (1.58%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.01%) Scala
13 13 (0.82%) Ruby
14 12 (0.76%) Rust
14 12 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.63%) C++
16 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.44%) R
17 5 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 374 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 322 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.19%) Degree
4 81 (5.12%) AWS Certification
5 62 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.61%) Azure Certification
7 40 (2.53%) CISSP
7 40 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
11 19 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.76%) CISM
13 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.63%) CCIE
15 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.57%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.44%) JNCIE
17 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.12%) Data Quality
2 76 (4.81%) QA
3 65 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (3.92%) NIST
5 61 (3.86%) GDPR
6 36 (2.28%) NCSC
7 27 (1.71%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.64%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.70%) GRC
9 11 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.70%) WCAG
10 10 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.44%) SEPA
13 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.38%) PSD2
14 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 351 (22.20%) Docker
2 28 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.20%) vSphere
5 12 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) IAG
6 4 (0.25%) Snort
6 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) SRDF
8 1 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.063%) Firmware
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.063%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 551 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 523 (33.08%) Terraform
3 137 (8.67%) Ansible
4 118 (7.46%) Grafana
5 95 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.72%) Argo
7 23 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.27%) Istio
10 18 (1.14%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.89%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.89%) Puppet
12 9 (0.57%) linkerd
13 4 (0.25%) Cilium
13 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.25%) Kibana
13 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.25%) Nagios
14 3 (0.19%) AirWatch
14 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 237 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.67%) Google
3 113 (7.15%) Databricks
4 75 (4.74%) Splunk
5 61 (3.86%) Oracle
6 44 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.59%) Dynatrace
9 40 (2.53%) VMware
10 29 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.64%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.45%) SAP
13 19 (1.20%) F5
14 18 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
14 18 (1.14%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.14%) Pure Storage
15 17 (1.08%) Cisco
15 17 (1.08%) Salesforce
16 16 (1.01%) Informatica
16 16 (1.01%) Okta