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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 210 311
Rank change year-on-year +143 +101 -69
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,430 297 235
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.43% 1.24% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.59% 3.62% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 210 154
10th Percentile £402 £394 £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 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £544 £515 £600
% change year-on-year +5.61% -14.11% -6.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 0
10th Percentile £49.63 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £75.25 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +88.13% - -
75th Percentile £93.13 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £95.75 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £75.25 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +88.13% - -

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 13,499 8,211 11,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.37% 34.30% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,479 5,331 7,332
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £411 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -3.18% -3.42%
75th Percentile £636 £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 714 345 838
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.95 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.64 £15.28
Median hourly rate £43.96 £34.50 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -3.70% +59.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.38
90th Percentile £87.05 £83.76 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.03 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.99% -5.64% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +117 808 £575 +9.52% 425
North of England +69 251 £538 +7.50% 161
North West +52 135 £550 +10.00% 101
Midlands +30 110 £500 - 37
Yorkshire +26 108 £543 -1.27% 39
South East +6 92 £464 +5.40% 90
West Midlands +15 86 £533 +4.15% 30
South West +40 83 £575 +35.29% 71
East of England +10 51 £525 +28.83% 21
East Midlands -13 23 £413 -17.50% 7
North East - 16 £463 - 22
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 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.87%) Apache
4 36 (2.52%) Confluence
5 17 (1.19%) 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
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.070%) Maya
4 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
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
3 4 (0.28%) 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
1 806 (56.36%) AWS
2 650 (45.45%) Azure
3 319 (22.31%) GCP
4 250 (17.48%) Serverless
5 234 (16.36%) GitHub
6 149 (10.42%) Amazon S3
7 145 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
8 142 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
9 138 (9.65%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (6.43%) Power Platform
12 84 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
13 73 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 73 (5.10%) Azure AKS
14 69 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (4.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 68 (4.76%) OpenShift
16 58 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
17 57 (3.99%) Snowflake
18 56 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.38%) Firewall
2 53 (3.71%) DNS
3 44 (3.08%) Network Security
4 38 (2.66%) VPN
5 20 (1.40%) WAN
6 17 (1.19%) BGP
7 16 (1.12%) 5G
8 13 (0.91%) 3GPP
8 13 (0.91%) 4G
9 12 (0.84%) OSPF
10 11 (0.77%) BIG-IP
10 11 (0.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 11 (0.77%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.63%) VXLAN
11 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.63%) WLAN
12 8 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
13 7 (0.49%) LTE
13 7 (0.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.29%) NoSQL
3 74 (5.17%) Power BI
4 72 (5.03%) Data Lake
5 61 (4.27%) DynamoDB
6 55 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.15%) Metadata
8 44 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
9 41 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.80%) SQL Server
11 37 (2.59%) MongoDB
12 36 (2.52%) Relational Database
13 31 (2.17%) BigQuery
14 27 (1.89%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.82%) Redis
16 25 (1.75%) Big Data
17 24 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
19 17 (1.19%) Mixpanel
20 16 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 184 (12.87%) Jenkins
2 142 (9.93%) GitLab
3 136 (9.51%) Git
4 80 (5.59%) 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
1 352 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 309 (21.61%) Finance
3 187 (13.08%) Public Sector
4 110 (7.69%) Banking
5 79 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.03%) Retail
9 25 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.54%) Financial Institution
11 21 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.19%) 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%) Law
17 5 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 390 (27.27%) Architect
2 205 (14.34%) Senior
3 188 (13.15%) Developer
4 145 (10.14%) Lead
5 123 (8.60%) Data Engineer
5 123 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 101 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
7 90 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 87 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 69 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
10 65 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
11 63 (4.41%) Technical Architect
12 57 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
13 49 (3.43%) Security Engineer
14 46 (3.22%) Java Engineer
15 45 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
16 44 (3.08%) Java Developer
16 44 (3.08%) Senior Developer
17 41 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
18 39 (2.73%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (9.79%) Kafka
2 126 (8.81%) REST
3 123 (8.60%) React
4 121 (8.46%) Spring
5 120 (8.39%) Node.js
6 109 (7.62%) Spring Boot
7 104 (7.27%) .NET
8 85 (5.94%) RESTful
9 62 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
10 60 (4.20%) AngularJS
11 59 (4.13%) OpenID
12 56 (3.92%) OAuth
13 54 (3.78%) PySpark
14 41 (2.87%) OAuth2
15 40 (2.80%) GraphQL
16 36 (2.52%) SAML
17 28 (1.96%) FastAPI
17 28 (1.96%) Playwright
18 27 (1.89%) Vue
19 26 (1.82%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 171 (11.96%) Distributed Systems
2 66 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 64 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 50 (3.50%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.15%) Security Posture
7 39 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (2.59%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.82%) 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 14 (0.98%) Low-Code
18 12 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 88 (6.15%) Linux
2 43 (3.01%) Windows
3 32 (2.24%) 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
1 860 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 742 (51.89%) DevOps
3 510 (35.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 405 (28.32%) Agile
5 360 (25.17%) Containerisation
6 354 (24.76%) Microservices
7 297 (20.77%) AI
8 287 (20.07%) Observability
9 242 (16.92%) Migration
10 235 (16.43%) Software Engineering
11 223 (15.59%) Event-Driven
12 211 (14.76%) Analytics
13 198 (13.85%) Test Automation
14 195 (13.64%) Roadmaps
15 177 (12.38%) Data Modelling
16 169 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
17 163 (11.40%) Data Engineering
18 161 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
19 157 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
20 150 (10.49%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 523 (36.57%) Python
2 314 (21.96%) Java
3 272 (19.02%) SQL
4 116 (8.11%) TypeScript
5 95 (6.64%) Bash
6 88 (6.15%) C#
7 74 (5.17%) JavaScript
8 70 (4.90%) PowerShell
9 53 (3.71%) Bicep
10 49 (3.43%) Go
11 16 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.12%) Scala
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
1 333 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 288 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 80 (5.59%) Degree
4 68 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 59 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 48 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.38%) CISSP
10 25 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.05%) 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%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.73%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.62%) GDPR
3 64 (4.48%) QA
4 61 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 59 (4.13%) NIST
6 24 (1.68%) NCSC
6 24 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.33%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.70%) ISO 20022
8 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.63%) GRC
9 9 (0.63%) HIPAA
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%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 321 (22.45%) Docker
2 32 (2.24%) 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 11 (0.77%) 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
1 492 (34.41%) Kubernetes
2 469 (32.80%) Terraform
3 113 (7.90%) Ansible
4 112 (7.83%) Grafana
5 92 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 43 (3.01%) Argo
7 26 (1.82%) Istio
8 18 (1.26%) vCenter Server
9 17 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.77%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.70%) Puppet
13 8 (0.56%) linkerd
14 5 (0.35%) Kibana
14 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.28%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.28%) Cilium
15 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
15 4 (0.28%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 209 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 126 (8.81%) Google
3 115 (8.04%) Databricks
4 73 (5.10%) Splunk
5 56 (3.92%) Oracle
6 46 (3.22%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.87%) VMware
8 34 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.10%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.75%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.68%) SAP
12 23 (1.61%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.26%) Pure Storage
14 15 (1.05%) Cisco
14 15 (1.05%) Informatica
15 14 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.98%) Okta
16 13 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.91%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.77%) IBM