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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 223 303
Rank change year-on-year +149 +80 -35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,278 272 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 1.11% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.84% 3.24% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 191 165
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 0
10th Percentile £46.38 - -
25th Percentile £66.19 £55.25 -
Median hourly rate £72.25 £55.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.18% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £55.75 -
90th Percentile £102.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £55.50 -
% change year-on-year +23.42% - -

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 12,991 8,392 11,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.58% 34.13% 30.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,252 5,485 7,542
10th Percentile £304 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 660 324 821
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.46 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.25 £15.16
Median hourly rate £45.46 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.73% +20.18% +26.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £83.82 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £32.28 £28.25
% change year-on-year +40.85% +14.25% +25.56%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +127 727 £575 - 175
North of England +77 217 £538 -2.27% 78
North West +40 106 £554 +0.68% 53
Yorkshire +31 104 £525 -16.53% 16
Midlands +27 101 £488 +6.21% 28
South East +5 98 £459 -20.13% 79
West Midlands +11 72 £533 +4.15% 16
South West +12 61 £575 +24.32% 34
East of England -1 48 £550 +57.14% 15
East Midlands -10 29 £425 -1.28% 11
North East -10 9 £518 -5.91% 9
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 59 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.29%) Confluence
3 38 (2.97%) Apache
4 36 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.94%) SAS
6 11 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.78%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.70%) nginx
9 8 (0.63%) Camunda
10 6 (0.47%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.23%) Appian
11 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.16%) CMS
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.078%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.23%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.078%) Maya
4 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.078%) Notion
4 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.078%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.078%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.078%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.078%) Quorum
5 1 (0.078%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.078%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.078%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.078%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 704 (55.09%) AWS
2 589 (46.09%) Azure
3 280 (21.91%) GCP
4 221 (17.29%) GitHub
5 219 (17.14%) Serverless
6 141 (11.03%) Amazon S3
7 136 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
8 135 (10.56%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 117 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (6.57%) Azure AKS
12 73 (5.71%) Power Platform
13 71 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
15 69 (5.40%) OpenShift
16 56 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 48 (3.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 47 (3.68%) Snowflake
19 46 (3.60%) SaaS
20 44 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.16%) Firewall
2 49 (3.83%) DNS
3 38 (2.97%) Network Security
3 38 (2.97%) VPN
4 15 (1.17%) 5G
5 13 (1.02%) 3GPP
5 13 (1.02%) WAN
6 12 (0.94%) 4G
7 8 (0.63%) MPLS
8 7 (0.55%) LTE
9 6 (0.47%) BGP
9 6 (0.47%) HTTP
9 6 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.47%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.39%) LAN
10 5 (0.39%) NaaS
10 5 (0.39%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.96%) NoSQL
2 87 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (5.24%) Data Lake
4 55 (4.30%) Power BI
5 48 (3.76%) DynamoDB
6 46 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.52%) Metadata
8 39 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (2.97%) SQL Server
10 35 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (2.74%) MongoDB
11 33 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 29 (2.27%) Relational Database
13 26 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (1.96%) Delta Lake
15 24 (1.88%) Redis
16 21 (1.64%) Mixpanel
17 20 (1.56%) Big Data
18 19 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
19 17 (1.33%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 184 (14.40%) Jenkins
2 139 (10.88%) Git
3 109 (8.53%) GitLab
4 74 (5.79%) JIRA
5 22 (1.72%) JUnit
6 21 (1.64%) MLflow
7 19 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.86%) Selenium
9 10 (0.78%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.63%) Liquibase
11 8 (0.63%) Postman
11 8 (0.63%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.47%) Gradle
12 6 (0.47%) IntelliJ
12 6 (0.47%) JMeter
12 6 (0.47%) Maven
12 6 (0.47%) Mockito
13 5 (0.39%) Artifactory
General
1 321 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 254 (19.87%) Finance
3 173 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 96 (7.51%) Banking
5 64 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.27%) Retail
9 23 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.25%) Legal
12 15 (1.17%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.02%) Front Office
14 12 (0.94%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.63%) Marketing
16 7 (0.55%) Aviation
16 7 (0.55%) Billing
16 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 362 (28.33%) Architect
2 174 (13.62%) Senior
3 170 (13.30%) Developer
4 130 (10.17%) Lead
5 102 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 99 (7.75%) Data Engineer
7 96 (7.51%) Solutions Architect
8 76 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 75 (5.87%) Software Engineer
10 59 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
11 56 (4.38%) Cloud Architect
12 54 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 50 (3.91%) Technical Architect
14 41 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
15 38 (2.97%) Java Engineer
16 37 (2.90%) Security Engineer
16 37 (2.90%) Senior Developer
17 36 (2.82%) AWS Architect
17 36 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
17 36 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (9.78%) Node.js
2 121 (9.47%) Kafka
3 112 (8.76%) REST
4 109 (8.53%) React
5 107 (8.37%) Spring
6 95 (7.43%) .NET
6 95 (7.43%) Spring Boot
7 77 (6.03%) RESTful
8 68 (5.32%) OpenTelemetry
9 58 (4.54%) AngularJS
10 52 (4.07%) GraphQL
11 48 (3.76%) OpenID
12 46 (3.60%) OAuth
13 42 (3.29%) Playwright
14 38 (2.97%) PySpark
15 31 (2.43%) OAuth2
16 28 (2.19%) LangChain
16 28 (2.19%) SAML
16 28 (2.19%) YAML
17 25 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 138 (10.80%) Distributed Systems
2 61 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
3 55 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 46 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.90%) Public Cloud
7 36 (2.82%) Security Posture
8 34 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.35%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.72%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 17 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 16 (1.25%) Data Centre
15 14 (1.10%) NHS
16 12 (0.94%) Data Structures
16 12 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
16 12 (0.94%) SCADA
17 11 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.81%) Linux
2 28 (2.19%) Windows
3 19 (1.49%) Unix
4 14 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.55%) VMS
6 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.23%) Android
8 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.16%) Solaris
8 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (60.33%) CI/CD
2 659 (51.56%) DevOps
3 444 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (30.52%) Agile
5 330 (25.82%) Containerisation
6 321 (25.12%) Microservices
7 262 (20.50%) AI
8 232 (18.15%) Observability
9 214 (16.74%) Software Engineering
10 209 (16.35%) Migration
11 197 (15.41%) Analytics
12 179 (14.01%) Event-Driven
13 175 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
13 175 (13.69%) Roadmaps
13 175 (13.69%) Test Automation
14 157 (12.28%) Data Modelling
15 156 (12.21%) Machine Learning
16 153 (11.97%) Data Engineering
17 139 (10.88%) Data Pipeline
18 135 (10.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 434 (33.96%) Python
2 260 (20.34%) Java
3 255 (19.95%) SQL
4 108 (8.45%) TypeScript
5 87 (6.81%) C#
6 75 (5.87%) Bash
7 65 (5.09%) JavaScript
8 52 (4.07%) Bicep
9 46 (3.60%) Go
10 44 (3.44%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 13 (1.02%) Scala
13 11 (0.86%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.78%) Ruby
15 7 (0.55%) R
16 6 (0.47%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.39%) Korn
18 4 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
19 3 (0.23%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 299 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 255 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.03%) Degree
4 67 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 60 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 42 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 34 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (1.96%) CISSP
11 17 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 15 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.10%) CISM
14 8 (0.63%) CCIE
14 8 (0.63%) OCP
14 8 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.55%) PhD
16 6 (0.47%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.79%) Data Quality
2 69 (5.40%) GDPR
3 59 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (4.62%) QA
4 57 (4.46%) NIST
5 25 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.80%) NCSC
7 13 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.55%) PSD2
10 7 (0.55%) SLA
11 6 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.47%) SEPA
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) GRC
12 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 319 (24.96%) Docker
2 39 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.11%) VMware NSX
4 22 (1.72%) vSphere
5 16 (1.25%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.31%) Snort
9 2 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.078%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.078%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.078%) etcd
10 1 (0.078%) Firmware
10 1 (0.078%) IAG
10 1 (0.078%) NFS
10 1 (0.078%) SRDF
10 1 (0.078%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 443 (34.66%) Kubernetes
2 409 (32.00%) Terraform
3 106 (8.29%) Grafana
4 86 (6.73%) Ansible
5 83 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 42 (3.29%) Argo
7 26 (2.03%) Istio
8 19 (1.49%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.25%) Puppet
10 10 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.55%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.55%) linkerd
12 6 (0.47%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.39%) Kibana
13 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.39%) Packer
14 4 (0.31%) AirWatch
14 4 (0.31%) Consul
14 4 (0.31%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 201 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 117 (9.15%) Databricks
3 103 (8.06%) Google
4 68 (5.32%) Splunk
5 54 (4.23%) VMware
6 45 (3.52%) Oracle
7 41 (3.21%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.19%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.03%) Cisco
10 25 (1.96%) CyberArk
11 23 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 23 (1.80%) ServiceNow
12 20 (1.56%) SAP
13 19 (1.49%) Pure Storage
14 15 (1.17%) Informatica
15 11 (0.86%) IBM
15 11 (0.86%) Salesforce
16 10 (0.78%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.70%) Checkmarx
17 9 (0.70%) Foundry