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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 108 323
Rank change year-on-year +51 +215 -91
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,817 711 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 2.55% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.47% 7.09% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 477 135
10th Percentile £406 £400 £438
25th Percentile £463 £425 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 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% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -26.47% +8.97%

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 15,840 10,035 10,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.04% 36.03% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,560 6,297 6,196
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.35% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 514 396
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.48 £15.28
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.17
Median hourly rate £36.75 £30.93 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -46.07% +25.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £74.63 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.27 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.12% -41.46% +12.36%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +45 997 £575 +4.55% 1,601
North of England +37 365 £525 +5.00% 343
Yorkshire +21 183 £525 +5.00% 82
North West +19 158 £560 +12.90% 227
Midlands +17 128 £533 +2.20% 98
South East +1 117 £500 +14.29% 175
West Midlands +25 113 £551 +3.87% 68
South West +29 112 £550 +10.00% 159
East of England +3 50 £525 +12.90% 67
North East -15 32 £413 -31.25% 34
East Midlands -9 13 £414 -17.71% 30
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 71 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.03%) Confluence
4 49 (2.70%) Apache
5 23 (1.27%) SAS
6 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 11 (0.61%) Camunda
9 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.39%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.22%) Workfront
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.17%) Quorum
6 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
6 3 (0.17%) Ripple
7 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Endur
8 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.055%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (56.58%) AWS
2 804 (44.25%) Azure
3 417 (22.95%) GCP
4 296 (16.29%) GitHub
5 279 (15.35%) Serverless
6 192 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
7 172 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
8 163 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
9 157 (8.64%) Amazon S3
10 137 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
11 116 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 106 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
13 93 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 85 (4.68%) SaaS
15 83 (4.57%) Snowflake
16 70 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
16 70 (3.85%) Azure AKS
16 70 (3.85%) Power Platform
17 67 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
18 66 (3.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.74%) Firewall
2 44 (2.42%) Network Security
3 33 (1.82%) DNS
4 31 (1.71%) VPN
5 28 (1.54%) BGP
6 26 (1.43%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (0.99%) HTTP
9 16 (0.88%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.77%) MPLS
11 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
14 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.39%) NoSQL
3 79 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (4.29%) Data Lake
5 75 (4.13%) Relational Database
6 71 (3.91%) Metadata
7 68 (3.74%) MongoDB
8 62 (3.41%) DynamoDB
9 60 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
9 60 (3.30%) SQL Server
10 57 (3.14%) Power BI
11 33 (1.82%) MySQL
11 33 (1.82%) Redis
12 31 (1.71%) Big Data
12 31 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 30 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (1.27%) Delta Lake
16 22 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 204 (11.23%) Git
2 185 (10.18%) GitLab
3 170 (9.36%) Jenkins
4 89 (4.90%) JIRA
5 34 (1.87%) JUnit
6 33 (1.82%) Claude Code
7 26 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.27%) Mockito
9 22 (1.21%) Maven
10 16 (0.88%) JMeter
11 14 (0.77%) Postman
12 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.66%) Selenium
13 11 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.61%) MSI
14 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.39%) Gatling
15 7 (0.39%) MLflow
16 6 (0.33%) Gradle
16 6 (0.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 470 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 412 (22.67%) Finance
3 238 (13.10%) Public Sector
4 182 (10.02%) Banking
5 172 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 49 (2.70%) Retail
7 35 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.27%) Front Office
11 20 (1.10%) Law
11 20 (1.10%) Military
12 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
12 18 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 17 (0.94%) Legal
14 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.83%) Marketing
16 10 (0.55%) Investment Banking
16 10 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 421 (23.17%) Architect
2 325 (17.89%) Senior
3 303 (16.68%) Developer
4 170 (9.36%) Lead
5 144 (7.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 138 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 128 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
8 123 (6.77%) Software Engineer
9 109 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
11 76 (4.18%) Java Developer
12 73 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 67 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
14 66 (3.63%) Senior Developer
15 64 (3.52%) Security Engineer
16 63 (3.47%) Java Engineer
17 61 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
18 60 (3.30%) Technical Architect
19 55 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
20 53 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 586 (32.25%) Terraform
2 277 (15.24%) REST
3 227 (12.49%) Kafka
4 183 (10.07%) Spring
5 178 (9.80%) Spring Boot
6 173 (9.52%) RESTful
7 151 (8.31%) React
8 136 (7.48%) .NET
9 122 (6.71%) Node.js
10 98 (5.39%) OAuth
11 68 (3.74%) OpenID
12 60 (3.30%) AngularJS
13 59 (3.25%) OAuth2
14 53 (2.92%) .NET Core
15 52 (2.86%) FastAPI
16 49 (2.70%) .NET Framework
16 49 (2.70%) PySpark
17 47 (2.59%) GraphQL
18 46 (2.53%) LangChain
18 46 (2.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 266 (14.64%) Distributed Systems
2 122 (6.71%) Product Ownership
3 90 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
3 90 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
4 85 (4.68%) AI Agents
5 77 (4.24%) Onboarding
6 58 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 55 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 37 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 25 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
13 22 (1.21%) NHS
14 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.05%) PKI
16 17 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.27%) Linux
2 71 (3.91%) Windows
3 41 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.05%) Unix
5 14 (0.77%) VMS
6 12 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.33%) 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 1,108 (60.98%) CI/CD
2 876 (48.21%) DevOps
3 656 (36.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 605 (33.30%) Agile
5 511 (28.12%) Microservices
6 467 (25.70%) AI
7 442 (24.33%) Containerisation
8 433 (23.83%) Event-Driven
9 430 (23.67%) Observability
10 421 (23.17%) Software Engineering
11 339 (18.66%) Test Automation
12 314 (17.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 287 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 285 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
15 279 (15.35%) Migration
16 273 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
17 258 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
18 257 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
19 249 (13.70%) Analytics
20 246 (13.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 698 (38.41%) Python
2 436 (24.00%) Java
3 284 (15.63%) SQL
4 193 (10.62%) TypeScript
5 134 (7.37%) C#
6 128 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 116 (6.38%) Bash
8 98 (5.39%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.80%) Bicep
10 66 (3.63%) Go
11 24 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.32%) Scala
12 20 (1.10%) C++
12 20 (1.10%) Rust
13 10 (0.55%) Ruby
14 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.44%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 455 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 370 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 103 (5.67%) DV Cleared
4 100 (5.50%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.12%) Degree
6 75 (4.13%) Azure Certification
7 57 (3.14%) CISSP
8 52 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (6.93%) QA
2 120 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (2.70%) GDPR
5 48 (2.64%) NIST
6 46 (2.53%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.82%) NCSC
8 18 (0.99%) WCAG
9 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.77%) GRC
11 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.39%) SEPA
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.33%) HL7
16 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.28%) PSD2
17 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 417 (22.95%) Docker
2 27 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) IAG
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 642 (35.33%) Kubernetes
2 139 (7.65%) Ansible
3 108 (5.94%) Grafana
4 87 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.87%) Argo
6 28 (1.54%) Istio
6 28 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.77%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 6 (0.33%) Kibana
12 5 (0.28%) Control-M
13 4 (0.22%) Bosun
13 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 288 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 191 (10.51%) Google
3 117 (6.44%) Databricks
4 73 (4.02%) Oracle
5 55 (3.03%) Splunk
6 49 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.20%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.65%) VMware
11 28 (1.54%) Informatica
12 26 (1.43%) SAP
13 22 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.16%) Cisco
14 21 (1.16%) F5
14 21 (1.16%) IBM
14 21 (1.16%) Okta
15 19 (1.05%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.99%) Foundry
17 16 (0.88%) Salesforce