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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 201 303
Rank change year-on-year +136 +102 -78
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,519 342 247
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 1.38% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.88% 4.01% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 239 160
10th Percentile £402 £400 £455
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 £678
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £550 £518 £600
% change year-on-year +6.14% -13.64% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +90.00% - -

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 13,957 8,527 11,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.57% 34.53% 30.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,710 5,491 7,300
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 755 381 852
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.64 £15.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.46 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +28.79% -7.04% +57.88%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +103 859 £575 +9.52% 413
North of England +71 274 £530 +6.00% 118
North West +51 143 £550 +10.00% 77
Yorkshire +28 118 £539 -2.05% 28
Midlands +26 110 £500 - 30
South East +9 97 £469 +5.28% 95
South West +49 95 £560 +31.76% 77
West Midlands +15 86 £560 +0.72% 23
East of England +8 52 £537 +19.37% 17
East Midlands -10 23 £413 -17.50% 7
North East - 21 £425 - 14
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 63 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.70%) Apache
4 38 (2.50%) Confluence
5 18 (1.18%) SAS
6 17 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.86%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.66%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.59%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Apache Superset
11 4 (0.26%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.26%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.26%) nginx
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.13%) Appian
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.53%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.066%) Maya
5 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.26%) Quorum
3 4 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.066%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.066%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.066%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.066%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.066%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.066%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 848 (55.83%) AWS
2 679 (44.70%) Azure
3 332 (21.86%) GCP
4 257 (16.92%) Serverless
5 246 (16.19%) GitHub
6 157 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 154 (10.14%) Amazon S3
8 148 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
10 108 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 93 (6.12%) Power Platform
12 92 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
13 77 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 76 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
15 75 (4.94%) Azure AKS
16 74 (4.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 65 (4.28%) OpenShift
18 61 (4.02%) Snowflake
19 60 (3.95%) SaaS
20 56 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.40%) Firewall
2 56 (3.69%) DNS
3 45 (2.96%) Network Security
4 37 (2.44%) VPN
5 22 (1.45%) WAN
6 20 (1.32%) 5G
7 19 (1.25%) BGP
8 16 (1.05%) 4G
9 14 (0.92%) BIG-IP
9 14 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 13 (0.86%) 3GPP
10 13 (0.86%) OSPF
11 12 (0.79%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (0.66%) VXLAN
12 10 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.66%) WLAN
13 8 (0.53%) LAN
13 8 (0.53%) MPLS
13 8 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.94%) Power BI
4 73 (4.81%) Data Lake
5 60 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (3.03%) Metadata
8 45 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
8 45 (2.96%) SQL Server
9 42 (2.76%) Relational Database
10 41 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
10 41 (2.70%) MongoDB
11 33 (2.17%) Redis
12 31 (2.04%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.91%) Big Data
14 28 (1.84%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.25%) MySQL
17 18 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 192 (12.64%) Jenkins
2 157 (10.34%) GitLab
3 146 (9.61%) Git
4 85 (5.60%) JIRA
5 23 (1.51%) JUnit
6 19 (1.25%) MLflow
7 17 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.99%) Selenium
9 14 (0.92%) Postman
10 12 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.72%) JMeter
12 8 (0.53%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.53%) Gradle
12 8 (0.53%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.46%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.46%) Maven
14 5 (0.33%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 367 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 335 (22.05%) Finance
3 201 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 123 (8.10%) Banking
5 91 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.24%) Retail
9 31 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.18%) Legal
13 12 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.72%) Front Office
14 11 (0.72%) Marketing
15 10 (0.66%) Law
16 9 (0.59%) Military
17 7 (0.46%) Billing
18 6 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 399 (26.27%) Architect
2 222 (14.61%) Senior
3 203 (13.36%) Developer
4 157 (10.34%) Lead
5 140 (9.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 128 (8.43%) Data Engineer
7 104 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
8 100 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 99 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 74 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (4.15%) Technical Architect
13 55 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
14 52 (3.42%) Java Engineer
15 51 (3.36%) Security Engineer
16 50 (3.29%) Java Developer
17 47 (3.09%) Senior Developer
18 45 (2.96%) GCP Engineer
18 45 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
19 43 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (10.01%) Kafka
2 149 (9.81%) REST
3 129 (8.49%) React
3 129 (8.49%) Spring
4 122 (8.03%) Node.js
5 118 (7.77%) Spring Boot
6 106 (6.98%) .NET
7 98 (6.45%) RESTful
8 63 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
9 62 (4.08%) OAuth
10 61 (4.02%) OpenID
11 59 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 56 (3.69%) PySpark
13 44 (2.90%) OAuth2
14 38 (2.50%) GraphQL
14 38 (2.50%) SAML
15 33 (2.17%) FastAPI
16 29 (1.91%) LangChain
17 28 (1.84%) Next.js
17 28 (1.84%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 194 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
2 71 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
2 71 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 56 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 50 (3.29%) Security Posture
6 42 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (2.57%) Public Cloud
8 30 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 29 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.78%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.45%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.12%) NHS
17 14 (0.92%) Low-Code
18 13 (0.86%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 91 (5.99%) Linux
2 51 (3.36%) Windows
3 33 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.99%) Unix
5 11 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.59%) VMS
6 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Android
8 4 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.066%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (59.97%) CI/CD
2 781 (51.42%) DevOps
3 548 (36.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 431 (28.37%) Agile
5 386 (25.41%) Containerisation
6 377 (24.82%) Microservices
7 326 (21.46%) AI
8 311 (20.47%) Observability
9 256 (16.85%) Software Engineering
10 253 (16.66%) Migration
11 248 (16.33%) Event-Driven
12 224 (14.75%) Analytics
13 211 (13.89%) Test Automation
14 207 (13.63%) Roadmaps
15 186 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
16 183 (12.05%) Data Modelling
17 176 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
18 175 (11.52%) Data Engineering
19 170 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
20 164 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 587 (38.64%) Python
2 335 (22.05%) Java
3 275 (18.10%) SQL
4 126 (8.29%) TypeScript
5 98 (6.45%) Bash
6 93 (6.12%) C#
7 82 (5.40%) JavaScript
8 76 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 56 (3.69%) Bicep
10 55 (3.62%) Go
11 23 (1.51%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.05%) Scala
13 12 (0.79%) Ruby
13 12 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.72%) Rust
15 7 (0.46%) C++
15 7 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.46%) R
16 6 (0.39%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 357 (23.50%) Security Cleared
2 312 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.20%) AWS Certification
4 77 (5.07%) Degree
5 57 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 53 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.50%) CISSP
9 30 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.86%) CISM
13 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.46%) CCIE
15 7 (0.46%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.39%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 68 (4.48%) QA
3 65 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.08%) NIST
5 61 (4.02%) GDPR
6 28 (1.84%) NCSC
7 26 (1.71%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.65%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.72%) GRC
9 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 10 (0.66%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.59%) WCAG
12 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.46%) SEPA
13 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.26%) PMO
14 4 (0.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 341 (22.45%) Docker
2 30 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.32%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.32%) vSphere
4 17 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Snort
7 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.13%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) SRDF
9 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) etcd
9 1 (0.066%) Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) IAG
9 1 (0.066%) KVM
Systems Management
1 528 (34.76%) Kubernetes
2 506 (33.31%) Terraform
3 124 (8.16%) Ansible
4 120 (7.90%) Grafana
5 97 (6.39%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.23%) Argo
7 26 (1.71%) Istio
8 21 (1.38%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.18%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.92%) Puppet
11 9 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.26%) Cilium
13 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
13 4 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 219 (14.42%) Microsoft
2 136 (8.95%) Google
3 114 (7.50%) Databricks
4 78 (5.13%) Splunk
5 59 (3.88%) Oracle
6 44 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 39 (2.57%) Dynatrace
7 39 (2.57%) VMware
8 36 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 27 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 25 (1.65%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.65%) SAP
11 18 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (1.18%) Pure Storage
12 15 (0.99%) Informatica
12 15 (0.99%) Okta
12 15 (0.99%) Salesforce
13 14 (0.92%) Cisco
13 14 (0.92%) F5
13 14 (0.92%) Palo Alto