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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 187 313
Rank change year-on-year +123 +126 -76
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,598 383 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 1.50% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.12% 4.33% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 265 164
10th Percentile £413 £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 £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% -5.51%
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 14,374 8,842 11,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.85% 34.67% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,944 5,654 7,319
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
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 £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.64% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 422 840
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.59 £12.23
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +54.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.15 £31.29 £35.65
% change year-on-year +34.73% -12.24% +58.44%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +100 896 £569 +8.33% 248
North of England +70 299 £538 +7.50% 76
North West +51 154 £550 +10.00% 49
Yorkshire +32 132 £539 +7.75% 21
Midlands +20 111 £525 +5.00% 32
South West +46 101 £560 +12.00% 31
South East +2 99 £492 +10.45% 91
West Midlands +18 90 £563 +11.26% 25
East of England +14 52 £550 +22.22% 8
North East - 21 £413 - 9
East Midlands -6 20 £425 -15.00% 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 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (2.63%) Confluence
4 40 (2.50%) Apache
5 19 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.13%) SAS
7 13 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.56%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.56%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.063%) Maya
5 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.31%) 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
5 2 (0.13%) Workfront
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 (55.13%) AWS
2 727 (45.49%) Azure
3 334 (20.90%) GCP
4 264 (16.52%) Serverless
5 261 (16.33%) GitHub
6 163 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 160 (10.01%) Azure DevOps
8 155 (9.70%) Amazon S3
9 144 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
12 91 (5.69%) Power Platform
13 85 (5.32%) Azure AKS
14 81 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
15 79 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 70 (4.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 70 (4.38%) SaaS
17 69 (4.32%) OpenShift
18 65 (4.07%) Snowflake
19 56 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.63%) Firewall
2 61 (3.82%) DNS
3 45 (2.82%) Network Security
4 41 (2.57%) VPN
5 27 (1.69%) WAN
6 24 (1.50%) BGP
7 22 (1.38%) 5G
8 19 (1.19%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.13%) 4G
10 17 (1.06%) OSPF
11 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.81%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.81%) LAN
12 13 (0.81%) MPLS
13 11 (0.69%) 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
1 125 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.44%) Power BI
4 69 (4.32%) Data Lake
5 60 (3.75%) DynamoDB
6 58 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 51 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 46 (2.88%) Metadata
8 46 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 42 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
11 35 (2.19%) Redis
12 29 (1.81%) Big Data
13 27 (1.69%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.50%) MySQL
17 19 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (12.27%) Jenkins
2 158 (9.89%) GitLab
3 157 (9.82%) Git
4 91 (5.69%) JIRA
5 24 (1.50%) JUnit
6 19 (1.19%) MLflow
7 18 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.94%) Postman
8 15 (0.94%) Selenium
9 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.75%) JMeter
10 9 (0.56%) Gradle
11 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.50%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.44%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.44%) Maven
13 6 (0.38%) Mockito
13 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 384 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 351 (21.96%) Finance
3 216 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 134 (8.39%) Banking
5 97 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.07%) Retail
10 31 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.31%) Legal
13 13 (0.81%) Front Office
13 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.75%) Marketing
15 11 (0.69%) Law
15 11 (0.69%) Military
16 7 (0.44%) Billing
16 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 416 (26.03%) Architect
2 236 (14.77%) Senior
3 225 (14.08%) Developer
4 169 (10.58%) Lead
5 152 (9.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 127 (7.95%) Data Engineer
7 110 (6.88%) Software Engineer
8 108 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
9 100 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 77 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.44%) Technical Architect
12 65 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
13 57 (3.57%) Java Developer
14 56 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
14 56 (3.50%) Java Engineer
15 53 (3.32%) Security Engineer
16 51 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
17 50 (3.13%) Senior Developer
18 48 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
19 42 (2.63%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (10.83%) REST
2 158 (9.89%) Kafka
3 139 (8.70%) React
4 135 (8.45%) Spring
5 124 (7.76%) .NET
6 122 (7.63%) Spring Boot
7 116 (7.26%) Node.js
8 113 (7.07%) RESTful
9 67 (4.19%) OAuth
10 66 (4.13%) OpenID
11 61 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (3.57%) AngularJS
13 54 (3.38%) PySpark
14 48 (3.00%) OAuth2
15 43 (2.69%) GraphQL
16 39 (2.44%) SAML
17 36 (2.25%) FastAPI
18 35 (2.19%) .NET Core
18 35 (2.19%) .NET Framework
19 33 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 215 (13.45%) Distributed Systems
2 81 (5.07%) Product Ownership
3 78 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 66 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 62 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 61 (3.82%) Security Posture
7 48 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.44%) Public Cloud
9 36 (2.25%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 31 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.88%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.69%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.50%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.38%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.38%) NHS
16 19 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
17 16 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
18 14 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.01%) Linux
2 55 (3.44%) Windows
3 35 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.94%) Unix
5 13 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.56%) VMS
6 9 (0.56%) 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
1 961 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 824 (51.56%) DevOps
3 566 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 464 (29.04%) Agile
5 407 (25.47%) Containerisation
6 404 (25.28%) Microservices
7 356 (22.28%) AI
8 331 (20.71%) Observability
9 281 (17.58%) Event-Driven
10 272 (17.02%) Software Engineering
11 270 (16.90%) Migration
12 232 (14.52%) Test Automation
13 230 (14.39%) Analytics
14 221 (13.83%) Roadmaps
15 200 (12.52%) Platform Engineering
15 200 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
16 181 (11.33%) Data Modelling
17 179 (11.20%) Data Engineering
18 176 (11.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 175 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 619 (38.74%) Python
2 359 (22.47%) Java
3 282 (17.65%) SQL
4 143 (8.95%) TypeScript
5 110 (6.88%) C#
6 102 (6.38%) Bash
7 93 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 78 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 64 (4.01%) Bicep
10 62 (3.88%) Go
11 26 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.94%) Scala
13 14 (0.88%) Ruby
14 13 (0.81%) Rust
15 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.63%) C++
17 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.44%) R
18 5 (0.31%) ActionScript
18 5 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 375 (23.47%) Security Cleared
2 323 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.32%) Degree
4 81 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 63 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 59 (3.69%) Azure Certification
7 43 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.50%) CISSP
9 39 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.75%) CISM
14 10 (0.63%) CCIE
15 9 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.44%) JNCIE
17 6 (0.38%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 79 (4.94%) QA
3 65 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (3.94%) GDPR
5 62 (3.88%) NIST
6 35 (2.19%) NCSC
7 29 (1.81%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.63%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.69%) WCAG
10 10 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.56%) 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
1 360 (22.53%) Docker
2 27 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.19%) vSphere
5 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.69%) 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%) etcd
8 1 (0.063%) Firmware
8 1 (0.063%) KVM
Systems Management
1 559 (34.98%) Kubernetes
2 530 (33.17%) Terraform
3 136 (8.51%) Ansible
4 120 (7.51%) Grafana
5 96 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.69%) Argo
7 23 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.25%) Istio
10 18 (1.13%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.88%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.88%) Puppet
12 9 (0.56%) 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
1 246 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.57%) Google
3 108 (6.76%) Databricks
4 76 (4.76%) Splunk
5 61 (3.82%) Oracle
6 44 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 42 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.44%) VMware
9 28 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.63%) CyberArk
11 25 (1.56%) SAP
12 19 (1.19%) F5
13 18 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (1.13%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.13%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.06%) Cisco
14 17 (1.06%) Salesforce
15 16 (1.00%) Informatica
15 16 (1.00%) Okta