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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 92 308
Rank change year-on-year +35 +216 -86
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,832 796 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.94% 2.85% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.39% 7.83% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 535 149
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 3
10th Percentile £59.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.34% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 16,083 10,168 9,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.55% 36.43% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,657 6,365 5,965
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £644 £644 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £820
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £530
% change year-on-year +1.45% -2.36% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,192 534 352
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.78 £16.73
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.51 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £29.50 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -44.08% +14.23%
75th Percentile £67.55 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.62 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.91% -40.45% +2.38%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +40 1,023 £575 +4.55% 1,324
North of England +24 369 £527 +5.30% 291
Yorkshire +9 176 £525 +5.00% 80
North West +18 165 £563 +13.41% 173
Midlands +8 126 £525 - 92
South East +1 122 £530 +17.78% 153
South West +26 115 £550 -8.33% 116
West Midlands +9 114 £551 +3.87% 55
North East -11 34 £425 -29.17% 38
East of England -20 31 £525 +1.33% 91
East Midlands -13 10 £425 -15.42% 37
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 68 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (3.17%) Confluence
3 57 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 51 (2.78%) Apache
5 25 (1.36%) SAS
6 15 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 9 (0.49%) Camunda
9 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.33%) nginx
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.16%) IIS
12 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.38%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
5 3 (0.16%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Quorum
5 3 (0.16%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.16%) Ripple
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,029 (56.17%) AWS
2 793 (43.29%) Azure
3 428 (23.36%) GCP
4 291 (15.88%) GitHub
5 287 (15.67%) Serverless
6 192 (10.48%) GitHub Actions
7 179 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
8 166 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 163 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
10 150 (8.19%) Amazon EKS
11 118 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 115 (6.28%) Amazon ECS
13 90 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 84 (4.59%) SaaS
15 80 (4.37%) Snowflake
16 72 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (3.93%) Power Platform
17 71 (3.88%) Azure AKS
18 68 (3.71%) Entra ID
19 67 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.93%) Firewall
2 45 (2.46%) Network Security
3 34 (1.86%) DNS
4 29 (1.58%) VPN
5 28 (1.53%) BGP
6 26 (1.42%) WAN
7 19 (1.04%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (0.87%) HTTP
8 16 (0.87%) OSPF
9 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
10 14 (0.76%) MPLS
10 14 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.71%) VXLAN
12 12 (0.66%) LAN
13 11 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
13 11 (0.60%) VLAN
13 11 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.55%) WLAN
15 9 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (5.19%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.09%) Data Lake
3 75 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (3.98%) Relational Database
5 69 (3.77%) Metadata
5 69 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 66 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
7 64 (3.49%) DynamoDB
8 61 (3.33%) SQL Server
9 56 (3.06%) Power BI
10 33 (1.80%) MySQL
10 33 (1.80%) Redis
11 32 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 31 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (1.69%) Big Data
13 25 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.20%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.04%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 211 (11.52%) Git
2 191 (10.43%) GitLab
2 191 (10.43%) Jenkins
3 89 (4.86%) JIRA
4 36 (1.97%) Claude Code
5 30 (1.64%) JUnit
6 24 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.26%) Mockito
8 22 (1.20%) Maven
9 17 (0.93%) JMeter
10 15 (0.82%) Postman
11 14 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 13 (0.71%) Selenium
13 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.60%) MSI
15 10 (0.55%) Cypress.io
16 9 (0.49%) Gradle
17 8 (0.44%) Gatling
17 8 (0.44%) MLflow
18 7 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 481 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 428 (23.36%) Finance
3 247 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 182 (9.93%) Banking
5 175 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
6 52 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.62%) Retail
8 35 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 30 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.31%) Front Office
12 20 (1.09%) Law
12 20 (1.09%) Military
13 19 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (0.93%) Marketing
15 16 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.76%) Legal
18 11 (0.60%) Back Office
18 11 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 419 (22.87%) Architect
2 317 (17.30%) Senior
3 296 (16.16%) Developer
4 176 (9.61%) Lead
5 149 (8.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 148 (8.08%) Data Engineer
7 128 (6.99%) Software Engineer
8 127 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
9 110 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 99 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
11 80 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 77 (4.20%) Java Developer
13 68 (3.71%) Java Engineer
14 62 (3.38%) Security Engineer
14 62 (3.38%) Senior Developer
15 61 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
16 58 (3.17%) Technical Architect
17 57 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
18 54 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
19 51 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 583 (31.82%) Terraform
2 285 (15.56%) REST
3 234 (12.77%) Kafka
4 186 (10.15%) Spring
5 182 (9.93%) RESTful
6 181 (9.88%) Spring Boot
7 142 (7.75%) React
8 129 (7.04%) .NET
9 112 (6.11%) Node.js
10 101 (5.51%) OAuth
11 70 (3.82%) OpenID
12 62 (3.38%) OAuth2
13 61 (3.33%) AngularJS
14 54 (2.95%) FastAPI
15 53 (2.89%) .NET Core
16 51 (2.78%) PySpark
17 49 (2.67%) GraphQL
17 49 (2.67%) LangChain
18 47 (2.57%) SOAP
19 46 (2.51%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 268 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
2 130 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 101 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
4 94 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
5 93 (5.08%) AI Agents
6 83 (4.53%) Onboarding
7 60 (3.28%) Security Posture
8 54 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 48 (2.62%) Public Cloud
10 42 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 30 (1.64%) Management Information System
13 27 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
14 26 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (1.31%) Virtual Team
17 22 (1.20%) PKI
18 21 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
18 21 (1.15%) NHS
18 21 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.44%) Linux
2 78 (4.26%) Windows
3 42 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (1.58%) Unix
5 15 (0.82%) VMS
6 14 (0.76%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.33%) Android
9 5 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.055%) macOS
12 1 (0.055%) Solaris
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (60.86%) CI/CD
2 901 (49.18%) DevOps
3 650 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 636 (34.72%) Agile
5 522 (28.49%) Microservices
6 467 (25.49%) AI
7 458 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 443 (24.18%) Observability
9 436 (23.80%) Software Engineering
10 433 (23.64%) Event-Driven
11 342 (18.67%) Test Automation
12 314 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 308 (16.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 286 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
15 285 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 280 (15.28%) Migration
17 275 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
18 269 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
19 249 (13.59%) Roadmaps
20 245 (13.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 723 (39.47%) Python
2 441 (24.07%) Java
3 297 (16.21%) SQL
4 201 (10.97%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.10%) C#
6 128 (6.99%) JavaScript
7 123 (6.71%) Bash
8 100 (5.46%) PowerShell
9 67 (3.66%) Go
10 65 (3.55%) Bicep
11 28 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 26 (1.42%) Scala
13 20 (1.09%) C++
14 18 (0.98%) Rust
15 13 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.49%) Ruby
17 8 (0.44%) Korn
17 8 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.38%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 468 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 382 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 115 (6.28%) AWS Certification
4 103 (5.62%) DV Cleared
5 98 (5.35%) Degree
6 76 (4.15%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.17%) CISSP
8 56 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 47 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.04%) CISM
14 17 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (6.99%) QA
2 126 (6.88%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 51 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 51 (2.78%) GDPR
5 46 (2.51%) NIST
6 38 (2.07%) NCSC
7 20 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.93%) WCAG
9 14 (0.76%) GRC
10 11 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 11 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.38%) SEPA
14 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 427 (23.31%) Docker
2 29 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
6 8 (0.44%) vSphere
7 6 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.055%) NFS
10 1 (0.055%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 666 (36.35%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.75%) Ansible
3 111 (6.06%) Grafana
4 86 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.75%) Argo
6 29 (1.58%) Istio
7 28 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.82%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.82%) Puppet
10 8 (0.44%) linkerd
11 7 (0.38%) Cilium
12 6 (0.33%) Control-M
12 6 (0.33%) Kibana
13 5 (0.27%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.22%) Bosun
14 4 (0.22%) Packer
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) QRadar
15 2 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 280 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 204 (11.14%) Google
3 119 (6.50%) Databricks
4 70 (3.82%) Oracle
5 57 (3.11%) Splunk
6 51 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.46%) OpenAI
8 40 (2.18%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 34 (1.86%) VMware
11 27 (1.47%) Informatica
12 24 (1.31%) SAP
13 23 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.15%) F5
15 20 (1.09%) Okta
15 20 (1.09%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.04%) Cisco
16 19 (1.04%) Denodo
16 19 (1.04%) IBM
17 18 (0.98%) Foundry