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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 217 316
Rank change year-on-year +151 +99 -79
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,425 301 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 1.24% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.54% 3.62% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,022 212 154
10th Percentile £402 £396 £445
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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £543 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.51% -12.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 0
10th Percentile £48.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.25% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £96.50 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +86.25% - -

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 13,517 8,311 11,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.32% 34.28% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 5,394 7,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £635 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 707 347 835
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.82 £15.32
Median hourly rate £42.30 £34.34 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +23.18% -3.67% +58.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £83.28 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.21% -5.71% +59.09%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +117 800 £575 +9.52% 491
North of England +76 250 £530 +6.00% 171
North West +45 133 £550 +10.00% 105
Midlands +36 110 £500 - 37
Yorkshire +28 108 £533 -3.05% 43
South East +7 94 £475 +7.95% 126
West Midlands +18 86 £527 +2.83% 27
South West +43 85 £575 +35.29% 83
East of England +8 52 £525 +28.83% 38
East Midlands -13 23 £413 -17.50% 10
North East - 15 £463 - 24
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 64 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (2.95%) Apache
4 36 (2.53%) Confluence
5 16 (1.12%) SAS
6 14 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.63%) Camunda
8 9 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.28%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.28%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.21%) Appian
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.28%) CPLEX
1 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.21%) LaTeX
2 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.070%) Maya
4 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.070%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.28%) Quorum
3 4 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.21%) Ripple
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.070%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.070%) Endur
6 1 (0.070%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.070%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.070%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.070%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.070%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 804 (56.42%) AWS
2 648 (45.47%) Azure
3 322 (22.60%) GCP
4 245 (17.19%) Serverless
5 234 (16.42%) GitHub
6 147 (10.32%) Amazon S3
7 145 (10.18%) GitHub Actions
8 142 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
9 133 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 87 (6.11%) Power Platform
12 85 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
13 73 (5.12%) Azure AKS
14 72 (5.05%) OpenShift
15 71 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 70 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
17 69 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 58 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
19 57 (4.00%) Snowflake
20 56 (3.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (5.26%) Firewall
2 52 (3.65%) DNS
3 43 (3.02%) Network Security
4 38 (2.67%) VPN
5 19 (1.33%) WAN
6 16 (1.12%) 5G
6 16 (1.12%) BGP
7 13 (0.91%) 3GPP
7 13 (0.91%) 4G
8 11 (0.77%) OSPF
9 10 (0.70%) BIG-IP
9 10 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 10 (0.70%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.56%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.56%) WLAN
11 7 (0.49%) LAN
11 7 (0.49%) MPLS
11 7 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 73 (5.12%) Data Lake
4 70 (4.91%) Power BI
5 61 (4.28%) DynamoDB
6 56 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 44 (3.09%) Metadata
8 42 (2.95%) SQL Server
9 41 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (2.53%) MongoDB
11 36 (2.53%) Relational Database
12 32 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 27 (1.89%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.82%) Redis
15 25 (1.75%) Big Data
16 20 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (1.26%) Mixpanel
19 16 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 186 (13.05%) Jenkins
2 140 (9.82%) GitLab
3 134 (9.40%) Git
4 78 (5.47%) JIRA
5 23 (1.61%) JUnit
6 19 (1.33%) MLflow
7 18 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.05%) Selenium
9 14 (0.98%) Postman
10 11 (0.77%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.77%) JMeter
11 10 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.56%) Gradle
13 8 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.49%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.49%) Maven
15 5 (0.35%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 347 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 307 (21.54%) Finance
3 184 (12.91%) Public Sector
4 112 (7.86%) Banking
5 80 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.04%) Retail
9 25 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.12%) Legal
13 12 (0.84%) Front Office
13 12 (0.84%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.70%) Marketing
15 7 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.42%) Billing
16 6 (0.42%) Military
17 5 (0.35%) Aviation
17 5 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 389 (27.30%) Architect
2 202 (14.18%) Senior
3 189 (13.26%) Developer
4 144 (10.11%) Lead
5 122 (8.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 121 (8.49%) Data Engineer
7 102 (7.16%) Solutions Architect
8 90 (6.32%) Software Engineer
9 87 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 69 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
11 65 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
12 62 (4.35%) Technical Architect
13 57 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
14 49 (3.44%) Security Engineer
15 46 (3.23%) Java Engineer
16 45 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
16 45 (3.16%) Java Developer
17 44 (3.09%) Senior Developer
18 42 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
19 37 (2.60%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (9.89%) Kafka
2 126 (8.84%) REST
3 123 (8.63%) React
4 122 (8.56%) Spring
5 120 (8.42%) Node.js
6 110 (7.72%) Spring Boot
7 102 (7.16%) .NET
8 85 (5.96%) RESTful
9 62 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
10 60 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 59 (4.14%) OpenID
12 56 (3.93%) OAuth
13 50 (3.51%) PySpark
14 42 (2.95%) GraphQL
15 41 (2.88%) OAuth2
16 35 (2.46%) SAML
17 30 (2.11%) Playwright
18 28 (1.96%) FastAPI
19 27 (1.89%) Vue
20 26 (1.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 169 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
2 66 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 49 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.16%) Security Posture
7 39 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.60%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 25 (1.75%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.68%) AI Agents
13 22 (1.54%) Management Information System
14 21 (1.47%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.12%) NHS
16 16 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
17 15 (1.05%) Low-Code
18 12 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 91 (6.39%) Linux
2 43 (3.02%) Windows
3 32 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.91%) Unix
5 9 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.49%) VMS
8 5 (0.35%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.070%) AIX
12 1 (0.070%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (59.79%) CI/CD
2 740 (51.93%) DevOps
3 505 (35.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 408 (28.63%) Agile
5 365 (25.61%) Containerisation
6 357 (25.05%) Microservices
7 293 (20.56%) AI
8 285 (20.00%) Observability
9 240 (16.84%) Migration
10 239 (16.77%) Software Engineering
11 219 (15.37%) Event-Driven
12 210 (14.74%) Analytics
13 195 (13.68%) Test Automation
14 194 (13.61%) Roadmaps
15 172 (12.07%) Data Modelling
16 170 (11.93%) Problem-Solving
17 159 (11.16%) Data Engineering
18 157 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
19 154 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
20 150 (10.53%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 518 (36.35%) Python
2 313 (21.96%) Java
3 270 (18.95%) SQL
4 119 (8.35%) TypeScript
5 96 (6.74%) Bash
6 87 (6.11%) C#
7 75 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 70 (4.91%) PowerShell
9 53 (3.72%) Bicep
10 49 (3.44%) Go
11 16 (1.12%) Scala
12 15 (1.05%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.84%) Ruby
14 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.49%) C++
15 7 (0.49%) R
15 7 (0.49%) Rust
16 6 (0.42%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 326 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 284 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.75%) Degree
4 66 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 59 (4.14%) Azure Certification
6 48 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.39%) CISSP
10 25 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.91%) CISM
14 9 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.56%) OCP
15 8 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.42%) CCIE
17 6 (0.42%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.61%) Data Quality
2 67 (4.70%) GDPR
3 63 (4.42%) QA
4 62 (4.35%) NIST
5 61 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.68%) NCSC
6 24 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 10 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.63%) GRC
10 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.49%) SEPA
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) WCAG
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) PMO
12 4 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 324 (22.74%) Docker
2 32 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.47%) vSphere
4 19 (1.33%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.26%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.28%) Snort
8 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 1 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.070%) etcd
10 1 (0.070%) Firmware
10 1 (0.070%) IAG
10 1 (0.070%) KVM
10 1 (0.070%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 496 (34.81%) Kubernetes
2 467 (32.77%) Terraform
3 114 (8.00%) Ansible
4 113 (7.93%) Grafana
5 93 (6.53%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.02%) Argo
7 26 (1.82%) Istio
8 18 (1.26%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.77%) Kustomize
10 11 (0.77%) Puppet
11 8 (0.56%) linkerd
12 5 (0.35%) Kibana
12 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.28%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.28%) Cilium
13 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.28%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 210 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 126 (8.84%) Google
3 116 (8.14%) Databricks
4 74 (5.19%) Splunk
5 56 (3.93%) Oracle
6 47 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.88%) VMware
8 35 (2.46%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.75%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.68%) SAP
12 23 (1.61%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.26%) Pure Storage
14 14 (0.98%) Cisco
14 14 (0.98%) Okta
15 13 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 12 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
16 12 (0.84%) Informatica
16 12 (0.84%) Palo Alto
17 11 (0.77%) IBM