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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 157 312
Rank change year-on-year +92 +155 -81
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,637 470 249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 1.71% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.02% 4.92% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 324 156
10th Percentile £413 £400 £445
25th Percentile £463 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £512 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -14.63% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £784 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £581
% change year-on-year +4.76% -9.68% -9.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 4 2
10th Percentile £64.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £77.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.24% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £86.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +49.27% -39.71% +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 14,861 9,561 11,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.11% 34.86% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,219 6,063 7,183
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 799 471 716
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.28
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -17.78% +10.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £61.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +46.53% -23.57% +12.14%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +83 905 £575 +4.55% 311
North of England +56 302 £550 +10.00% 107
North West +40 152 £563 +12.50% 70
Yorkshire +19 136 £533 +9.38% 25
Midlands +42 121 £545 +9.00% 30
South West +35 106 £560 +6.67% 56
South East +2 106 £505 +13.48% 96
West Midlands +18 101 £575 +13.64% 22
East of England +32 56 £550 +22.22% 5
North East -15 22 £413 - 13
East Midlands -6 18 £425 -15.00% 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 65 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 54 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (2.87%) Apache
4 45 (2.75%) Confluence
5 18 (1.10%) SAS
6 17 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.55%) Camunda
9 8 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.31%) CMS
11 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) nginx
12 4 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.24%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.24%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.55%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.061%) Maya
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.31%) 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
1 886 (54.12%) AWS
2 737 (45.02%) Azure
3 331 (20.22%) GCP
4 272 (16.62%) GitHub
5 253 (15.46%) Serverless
6 171 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 165 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (8.92%) Amazon S3
9 139 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
10 98 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
12 88 (5.38%) Power Platform
13 87 (5.31%) Azure AKS
14 79 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
15 76 (4.64%) SaaS
16 67 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 67 (4.09%) OpenShift
17 66 (4.03%) Snowflake
18 56 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.62%) Firewall
2 54 (3.30%) DNS
3 44 (2.69%) Network Security
4 33 (2.02%) VPN
5 25 (1.53%) WAN
6 22 (1.34%) 5G
6 22 (1.34%) BGP
7 19 (1.16%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.10%) 4G
9 15 (0.92%) OSPF
10 14 (0.86%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.79%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.79%) LAN
11 13 (0.79%) MPLS
12 11 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
13 10 (0.61%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.61%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.99%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 70 (4.28%) Power BI
5 58 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 55 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 53 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
8 50 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 47 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (2.81%) Metadata
11 45 (2.75%) MongoDB
12 38 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (2.14%) Big Data
14 31 (1.89%) Redis
15 28 (1.71%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (1.53%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.28%) MySQL
19 19 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 182 (11.12%) Jenkins
2 169 (10.32%) Git
3 149 (9.10%) GitLab
4 88 (5.38%) JIRA
5 21 (1.28%) JUnit
6 19 (1.16%) MLflow
7 18 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 14 (0.86%) Selenium
9 13 (0.79%) Claude Code
9 13 (0.79%) Postman
10 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.67%) JMeter
11 10 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.55%) Gradle
13 8 (0.49%) MSI
14 7 (0.43%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.43%) Maven
15 6 (0.37%) Cucumber
15 6 (0.37%) Mockito
15 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 400 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 357 (21.81%) Finance
3 223 (13.62%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.49%) Banking
5 109 (6.66%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
8 36 (2.20%) Retail
9 33 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.28%) Legal
13 17 (1.04%) Front Office
14 15 (0.92%) Law
15 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.73%) Military
17 10 (0.61%) Billing
18 9 (0.55%) Marketing
19 8 (0.49%) Retail Banking
20 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 412 (25.17%) Architect
2 259 (15.82%) Senior
3 224 (13.68%) Developer
4 175 (10.69%) Lead
5 154 (9.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 128 (7.82%) Data Engineer
7 121 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
8 109 (6.66%) Software Engineer
9 103 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 79 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
11 70 (4.28%) Technical Architect
12 57 (3.48%) Java Developer
13 53 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
13 53 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
13 53 (3.24%) Security Engineer
14 52 (3.18%) Cloud Architect
14 52 (3.18%) Java Engineer
14 52 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
14 52 (3.18%) Senior Developer
15 47 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (11.42%) REST
2 160 (9.77%) Kafka
3 150 (9.16%) React
4 136 (8.31%) Spring
5 130 (7.94%) .NET
6 122 (7.45%) Spring Boot
7 121 (7.39%) Node.js
8 115 (7.03%) RESTful
9 67 (4.09%) OAuth
10 60 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 59 (3.60%) AngularJS
11 59 (3.60%) OpenID
12 56 (3.42%) PySpark
13 47 (2.87%) OAuth2
14 45 (2.75%) GraphQL
15 42 (2.57%) .NET Framework
16 41 (2.50%) .NET Core
17 38 (2.32%) FastAPI
18 35 (2.14%) LangChain
19 34 (2.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 234 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 98 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
3 89 (5.44%) Product Ownership
4 66 (4.03%) Security Posture
5 63 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 62 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 56 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (2.08%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.08%) Public Cloud
10 34 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.53%) NHS
13 24 (1.47%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (0.92%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.41%) Linux
2 65 (3.97%) Windows
3 41 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.16%) Unix
5 13 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.55%) VMS
6 9 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.43%) Android
8 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.18%) Solaris
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.061%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 974 (59.50%) CI/CD
2 833 (50.89%) DevOps
3 584 (35.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 488 (29.81%) Agile
5 415 (25.35%) Microservices
6 413 (25.23%) Containerisation
7 379 (23.15%) AI
8 354 (21.62%) Observability
9 298 (18.20%) Event-Driven
9 298 (18.20%) Software Engineering
10 270 (16.49%) Migration
11 258 (15.76%) Test Automation
12 236 (14.42%) Analytics
13 227 (13.87%) Roadmaps
14 213 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
15 198 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
16 194 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 192 (11.73%) Data Modelling
18 190 (11.61%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 189 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 636 (38.85%) Python
2 363 (22.17%) Java
3 288 (17.59%) SQL
4 158 (9.65%) TypeScript
5 114 (6.96%) C#
6 110 (6.72%) Bash
7 101 (6.17%) JavaScript
8 86 (5.25%) PowerShell
9 71 (4.34%) Bicep
10 70 (4.28%) Go
11 23 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.04%) Rust
13 16 (0.98%) Ruby
14 13 (0.79%) C++
14 13 (0.79%) Scala
15 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.37%) R
18 5 (0.31%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 399 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 342 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.38%) Degree
4 84 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 72 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 64 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.75%) CISSP
7 45 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 14 (0.86%) CISM
14 12 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.61%) CCIE
16 9 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.43%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 84 (5.13%) QA
3 66 (4.03%) GDPR
4 60 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (3.67%) NIST
5 37 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 37 (2.26%) NCSC
6 23 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 16 (0.98%) WCAG
8 12 (0.73%) GRC
9 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.49%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.43%) HL7
13 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.31%) SEPA
15 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 366 (22.36%) Docker
2 24 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 19 (1.16%) vSphere
6 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.43%) IAG
8 4 (0.24%) Snort
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.061%) Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) KVM
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.061%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 565 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 536 (32.74%) Terraform
3 140 (8.55%) Ansible
4 126 (7.70%) Grafana
5 97 (5.93%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.81%) Argo
7 23 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (1.16%) Istio
10 18 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.92%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.86%) 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
1 265 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 139 (8.49%) Google
3 105 (6.41%) Databricks
4 73 (4.46%) Splunk
5 64 (3.91%) Oracle
6 46 (2.81%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.75%) Red Hat
8 41 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.20%) VMware
10 29 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.47%) SAP
12 20 (1.22%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.16%) F5
14 18 (1.10%) Cisco
14 18 (1.10%) Informatica
14 18 (1.10%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.10%) Pure Storage
15 16 (0.98%) IBM
16 15 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.92%) Salesforce