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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 180 313
Rank change year-on-year +116 +133 -83
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,608 408 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 1.56% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.12% 4.49% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 281 163
10th Percentile £408 £395 £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 £506 £594
% change year-on-year +8.64% -14.74% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 0
10th Percentile £58.38 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year +48.29% - -

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 14,462 9,081 11,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.93% 34.80% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,975 5,799 7,386
10th Percentile £313 £305 £281
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 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 788 432 832
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.59 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.95 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -12.15% +57.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.90 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +40.32% -14.00% +60.20%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +97 897 £575 +9.52% 374
North of England +66 305 £538 +7.50% 129
North West +49 156 £550 +10.00% 87
Yorkshire +28 136 £539 +13.42% 32
Midlands +23 114 £525 +5.00% 44
South West +49 102 £560 +6.67% 60
South East +5 98 £500 +12.36% 111
West Midlands +17 92 £575 +13.64% 31
East of England +16 51 £550 +22.22% 12
North East -17 21 £413 - 13
East Midlands -4 20 £425 -15.00% 13
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 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.80%) Confluence
4 40 (2.49%) Apache
5 19 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.12%) SAS
7 13 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.56%) Camunda
8 9 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.31%) nginx
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.25%) CMS
11 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.56%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.062%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.062%) Maya
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) 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
5 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.12%) Endur
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.12%) Workfront
6 1 (0.062%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.062%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.062%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.062%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.062%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 878 (54.60%) AWS
2 732 (45.52%) Azure
3 333 (20.71%) GCP
4 264 (16.42%) GitHub
4 264 (16.42%) Serverless
5 166 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
6 163 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
7 155 (9.64%) Amazon S3
8 143 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 105 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 94 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
11 92 (5.72%) Power Platform
12 85 (5.29%) Azure AKS
13 79 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 71 (4.42%) SaaS
16 68 (4.23%) OpenShift
17 67 (4.17%) Snowflake
18 56 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 93 (5.78%) Firewall
2 58 (3.61%) DNS
3 45 (2.80%) Network Security
4 41 (2.55%) VPN
5 27 (1.68%) WAN
6 24 (1.49%) BGP
7 22 (1.37%) 5G
8 19 (1.18%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.12%) 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 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.62%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.09%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.48%) Power BI
4 69 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 58 (3.61%) DynamoDB
6 54 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 50 (3.11%) SQL Server
9 46 (2.86%) Metadata
10 45 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 43 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (2.49%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (1.99%) Redis
14 30 (1.87%) Big Data
15 29 (1.80%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
18 24 (1.49%) BigQuery
19 21 (1.31%) MySQL
20 20 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (12.25%) Jenkins
2 162 (10.07%) Git
3 157 (9.76%) GitLab
4 95 (5.91%) JIRA
5 24 (1.49%) JUnit
6 20 (1.24%) MLflow
7 18 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.00%) Postman
8 16 (1.00%) Selenium
9 13 (0.81%) JMeter
10 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.56%) Gradle
12 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.50%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.44%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.44%) Maven
13 7 (0.44%) MSI
14 6 (0.37%) Mockito
General
1 387 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 352 (21.89%) Finance
3 218 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 137 (8.52%) Banking
5 100 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
7 34 (2.11%) Retail
8 33 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 21 (1.31%) Legal
12 13 (0.81%) Front Office
12 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.75%) Marketing
14 11 (0.68%) Law
14 11 (0.68%) Military
15 8 (0.50%) Billing
16 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 419 (26.06%) Architect
2 239 (14.86%) Senior
3 225 (13.99%) Developer
4 172 (10.70%) Lead
5 154 (9.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 130 (8.08%) Data Engineer
7 113 (7.03%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 102 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
10 75 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.42%) Technical Architect
12 61 (3.79%) Cloud Architect
13 57 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
13 57 (3.54%) Java Developer
14 55 (3.42%) Java Engineer
15 52 (3.23%) Security Engineer
16 51 (3.17%) Senior Developer
17 50 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
18 49 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
19 43 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (10.70%) REST
2 158 (9.83%) Kafka
3 138 (8.58%) React
4 132 (8.21%) Spring
5 125 (7.77%) .NET
6 119 (7.40%) Node.js
6 119 (7.40%) Spring Boot
7 112 (6.97%) RESTful
8 63 (3.92%) OAuth
8 63 (3.92%) OpenID
9 59 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 55 (3.42%) AngularJS
10 55 (3.42%) PySpark
11 44 (2.74%) OAuth2
12 43 (2.67%) GraphQL
13 39 (2.43%) SAML
14 37 (2.30%) .NET Framework
15 36 (2.24%) .NET Core
16 35 (2.18%) FastAPI
17 33 (2.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.25%) Distributed Systems
2 82 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 81 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.86%) Security Posture
6 47 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.36%) Public Cloud
8 36 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.11%) Virtual Team
10 33 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.87%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.74%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.49%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.37%) NHS
15 21 (1.31%) Mobile App
16 19 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
17 16 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
18 14 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (6.16%) Linux
2 57 (3.54%) Windows
3 36 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.00%) Unix
5 13 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.62%) VMS
7 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.37%) Android
9 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.19%) Solaris
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.062%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 967 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 828 (51.49%) DevOps
3 572 (35.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 468 (29.10%) Agile
5 411 (25.56%) Containerisation
6 402 (25.00%) Microservices
7 362 (22.51%) AI
8 334 (20.77%) Observability
9 282 (17.54%) Event-Driven
10 272 (16.92%) Migration
11 271 (16.85%) Software Engineering
12 239 (14.86%) Test Automation
13 232 (14.43%) Analytics
14 219 (13.62%) Roadmaps
15 205 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
16 202 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
17 183 (11.38%) Data Modelling
18 181 (11.26%) Data Engineering
19 177 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
20 175 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 625 (38.87%) Python
2 359 (22.33%) Java
3 280 (17.41%) SQL
4 148 (9.20%) TypeScript
5 110 (6.84%) C#
6 104 (6.47%) Bash
7 96 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 80 (4.98%) PowerShell
9 68 (4.23%) Bicep
10 65 (4.04%) Go
11 26 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.00%) Scala
13 14 (0.87%) Ruby
13 14 (0.87%) Rust
14 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.68%) C++
16 7 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.31%) Cypher
17 5 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 378 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 325 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.29%) Degree
4 80 (4.98%) AWS Certification
5 62 (3.86%) DV Cleared
6 60 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 43 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.55%) CISSP
9 40 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.75%) CISM
15 10 (0.62%) CCIE
16 9 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.44%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.85%) QA
3 64 (3.98%) GDPR
3 64 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (3.73%) NIST
5 37 (2.30%) NCSC
6 30 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.75%) WCAG
9 11 (0.68%) GRC
9 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.44%) SEPA
13 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.37%) PSD2
14 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 360 (22.39%) Docker
2 26 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.24%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.18%) vSphere
5 11 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) IAG
8 4 (0.25%) Snort
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) etcd
10 1 (0.062%) Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) KVM
10 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 559 (34.76%) Kubernetes
2 534 (33.21%) Terraform
3 139 (8.64%) Ansible
4 123 (7.65%) Grafana
5 96 (5.97%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.80%) Argo
7 23 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (1.12%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.93%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.87%) Puppet
13 9 (0.56%) linkerd
14 4 (0.25%) Cilium
14 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.25%) Kibana
14 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.25%) Nagios
15 3 (0.19%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 251 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 138 (8.58%) Google
3 112 (6.97%) Databricks
4 76 (4.73%) Splunk
5 62 (3.86%) Oracle
6 44 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.67%) Dynatrace
7 43 (2.67%) Red Hat
8 38 (2.36%) VMware
9 28 (1.74%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.62%) SAP
11 25 (1.55%) CyberArk
12 19 (1.18%) F5
13 18 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.12%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.12%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.06%) Cisco
14 17 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (1.06%) Informatica
15 16 (1.00%) Okta