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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 99 304
Rank change year-on-year +43 +205 -76
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,824 748 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 2.67% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.41% 7.35% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 502 143
10th Percentile £413 £400 £428
25th Percentile £463 £431 £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 £738 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -39.71% +12.58%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +20.80% -26.47% +12.58%

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 15,979 10,178 10,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.35% 36.32% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,607 6,378 6,094
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £645 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £771 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £531
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.98% -3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,157 523 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.15 £15.62
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -47.69% +24.19%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year +33.93% -43.72% +10.56%

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 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 3 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 3 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 +47 1,011 £575 +4.55% 1,751
North of England +29 368 £525 +5.00% 422
Yorkshire +18 178 £525 +5.00% 99
North West +26 164 £560 +13.82% 255
Midlands +6 122 £550 +4.81% 177
South East +8 117 £525 +16.67% 244
South West +25 114 £550 -2.22% 223
West Midlands +17 110 £575 +8.49% 104
East of England -1 45 £549 +8.77% 112
North East -15 34 £425 -29.17% 69
East Midlands -18 10 £425 -15.42% 73
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 67 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.07%) Apache Spark
2 56 (3.07%) Confluence
3 50 (2.74%) Apache
4 18 (0.99%) SAS
5 15 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.66%) CMS
7 9 (0.49%) Camunda
7 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.33%) nginx
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.16%) IIS
11 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 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
Business Applications
1 9 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
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 1,034 (56.69%) AWS
2 799 (43.80%) Azure
3 429 (23.52%) GCP
4 293 (16.06%) GitHub
5 283 (15.52%) Serverless
6 190 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 173 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
8 164 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
9 161 (8.83%) Amazon S3
10 147 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
11 117 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 107 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
13 91 (4.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 84 (4.61%) SaaS
15 81 (4.44%) Snowflake
16 71 (3.89%) Azure AKS
17 69 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (3.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 68 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
18 68 (3.73%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.84%) Firewall
2 46 (2.52%) Network Security
3 33 (1.81%) DNS
4 31 (1.70%) VPN
5 28 (1.54%) BGP
6 26 (1.43%) WAN
7 19 (1.04%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (0.93%) HTTP
9 16 (0.88%) OSPF
10 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.77%) MPLS
11 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
14 11 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.60%) VLAN
14 11 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (5.10%) NoSQL
3 77 (4.22%) Data Lake
3 77 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 70 (3.84%) Metadata
6 69 (3.78%) MongoDB
7 62 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
8 61 (3.34%) DynamoDB
9 59 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 55 (3.02%) Power BI
11 33 (1.81%) MySQL
12 32 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 32 (1.75%) Redis
13 30 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
13 30 (1.64%) Big Data
14 24 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 206 (11.29%) Git
2 192 (10.53%) GitLab
3 177 (9.70%) Jenkins
4 91 (4.99%) JIRA
5 34 (1.86%) Claude Code
6 32 (1.75%) JUnit
7 27 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 22 (1.21%) Maven
8 22 (1.21%) Mockito
9 17 (0.93%) JMeter
10 15 (0.82%) Postman
11 14 (0.77%) Selenium
12 13 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.71%) Cucumber
13 11 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.60%) MSI
14 8 (0.44%) Gatling
15 7 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
16 6 (0.33%) MLflow
16 6 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 478 (26.21%) Social Skills
2 420 (23.03%) Finance
3 249 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 190 (10.42%) Banking
5 175 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (2.69%) Retail
8 34 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (1.37%) Front Office
12 21 (1.15%) Military
13 20 (1.10%) Law
14 19 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (0.88%) Marketing
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.82%) Legal
17 12 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 422 (23.14%) Architect
2 326 (17.87%) Senior
3 292 (16.01%) Developer
4 170 (9.32%) Lead
5 156 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 140 (7.68%) Data Engineer
7 129 (7.07%) Software Engineer
8 123 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 100 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 76 (4.17%) Java Developer
13 66 (3.62%) Java Engineer
14 63 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
14 63 (3.45%) Security Engineer
15 59 (3.23%) Senior Developer
16 58 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
17 57 (3.13%) Technical Architect
18 56 (3.07%) Cloud Architect
19 53 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 586 (32.13%) Terraform
2 278 (15.24%) REST
3 229 (12.55%) Kafka
4 179 (9.81%) Spring
5 177 (9.70%) RESTful
6 174 (9.54%) Spring Boot
7 148 (8.11%) React
8 131 (7.18%) .NET
9 114 (6.25%) Node.js
10 99 (5.43%) OAuth
11 69 (3.78%) OpenID
12 62 (3.40%) AngularJS
13 60 (3.29%) OAuth2
14 54 (2.96%) .NET Core
15 53 (2.91%) FastAPI
16 49 (2.69%) PySpark
17 46 (2.52%) .NET Framework
17 46 (2.52%) LangChain
18 45 (2.47%) SAML
18 45 (2.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 263 (14.42%) Distributed Systems
2 125 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 94 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
4 93 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 88 (4.82%) AI Agents
6 82 (4.50%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 55 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 49 (2.69%) Public Cloud
10 38 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 30 (1.64%) Management Information System
13 28 (1.54%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.43%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
16 22 (1.21%) NHS
17 21 (1.15%) PKI
18 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
19 17 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 119 (6.52%) Linux
2 74 (4.06%) Windows
3 43 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.37%) Unix
5 15 (0.82%) VMS
6 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.27%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.055%) AIX
11 1 (0.055%) Solaris
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,107 (60.69%) CI/CD
2 884 (48.46%) DevOps
3 658 (36.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 621 (34.05%) Agile
5 510 (27.96%) Microservices
6 471 (25.82%) AI
7 439 (24.07%) Containerisation
8 436 (23.90%) Software Engineering
9 434 (23.79%) Observability
10 433 (23.74%) Event-Driven
11 341 (18.70%) Test Automation
12 311 (17.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 300 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 289 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
15 275 (15.08%) Migration
16 273 (14.97%) Continuous Improvement
17 271 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
18 262 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
19 250 (13.71%) Analytics
20 247 (13.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 706 (38.71%) Python
2 438 (24.01%) Java
3 287 (15.73%) SQL
4 195 (10.69%) TypeScript
5 131 (7.18%) C#
6 126 (6.91%) JavaScript
7 123 (6.74%) Bash
8 97 (5.32%) PowerShell
9 67 (3.67%) Bicep
9 67 (3.67%) Go
10 25 (1.37%) Scala
11 24 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 20 (1.10%) C++
13 18 (0.99%) Rust
14 12 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.44%) Korn
15 8 (0.44%) Ruby
16 7 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.38%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 461 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 373 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 107 (5.87%) AWS Certification
4 104 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 94 (5.15%) Degree
6 75 (4.11%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.18%) CISSP
8 54 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.21%) 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
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (7.02%) QA
2 119 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 49 (2.69%) NIST
6 46 (2.52%) GDPR
7 37 (2.03%) NCSC
8 18 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.93%) WCAG
10 14 (0.77%) GRC
11 11 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.38%) SEPA
15 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.33%) HL7
16 5 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 417 (22.86%) Docker
2 27 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
6 9 (0.49%) vSphere
7 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 648 (35.53%) Kubernetes
2 146 (8.00%) Ansible
3 114 (6.25%) Grafana
4 91 (4.99%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.92%) Argo
6 29 (1.59%) Istio
7 28 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.88%) Puppet
10 15 (0.82%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.49%) Cilium
11 9 (0.49%) linkerd
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
1 281 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 202 (11.07%) Google
3 117 (6.41%) Databricks
4 69 (3.78%) Oracle
5 58 (3.18%) Splunk
6 48 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 44 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.14%) Red Hat
9 30 (1.64%) VMware
10 28 (1.54%) Informatica
11 25 (1.37%) SAP
12 22 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (1.15%) Cisco
13 21 (1.15%) F5
14 20 (1.10%) Okta
14 20 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.04%) IBM
16 17 (0.93%) Foundry
17 15 (0.82%) Salesforce