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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 205 315
Rank change year-on-year +139 +110 -77
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,500 334 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 1.36% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.79% 3.94% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 232 159
10th Percentile £400 £400 £449
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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £728
UK median daily rate £546 £522 £600
% change year-on-year +4.58% -13.07% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £65.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £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 13,903 8,469 11,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.56% 34.43% 30.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 5,462 7,333
10th Percentile £316 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 750 374 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.04 £20.73 £15.39
Median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.55 £83.82 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £33.05 £35.58
% change year-on-year +24.05% -7.10% +58.75%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +112 843 £575 +9.52% 247
North of England +75 270 £534 +6.75% 109
North West +53 142 £550 +10.00% 68
Yorkshire +28 116 £538 -5.70% 30
Midlands +28 112 £500 - 22
South East +5 96 £464 +4.21% 91
South West +52 94 £560 +31.76% 64
West Midlands +22 88 £540 -2.88% 18
East of England +12 52 £537 +19.37% 14
East Midlands -6 23 £413 -17.50% 4
North East - 20 £425 - 12
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 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.73%) Apache
4 38 (2.53%) Confluence
5 18 (1.20%) SAS
6 17 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.87%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.60%) Camunda
10 6 (0.40%) Apache Superset
11 4 (0.27%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.27%) nginx
12 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.13%) CMS
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.53%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.27%) Quorum
3 4 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.067%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.067%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 841 (56.07%) AWS
2 674 (44.93%) Azure
3 327 (21.80%) GCP
4 254 (16.93%) Serverless
5 242 (16.13%) GitHub
6 153 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 152 (10.13%) Amazon S3
8 147 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (9.47%) AWS Lambda
10 108 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (6.13%) Power Platform
12 89 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 75 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
15 73 (4.87%) Azure AKS
15 73 (4.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 66 (4.40%) OpenShift
17 61 (4.07%) Snowflake
18 58 (3.87%) SaaS
19 55 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.40%) Firewall
2 56 (3.73%) DNS
3 44 (2.93%) Network Security
4 37 (2.47%) VPN
5 22 (1.47%) WAN
6 19 (1.27%) 5G
6 19 (1.27%) BGP
7 15 (1.00%) 4G
8 14 (0.93%) BIG-IP
8 14 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.87%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.87%) OSPF
10 12 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.67%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.67%) WLAN
12 8 (0.53%) LAN
12 8 (0.53%) MPLS
12 8 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (6.27%) NoSQL
3 74 (4.93%) Power BI
4 73 (4.87%) Data Lake
5 60 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
7 46 (3.07%) Metadata
8 45 (3.00%) SQL Server
9 44 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
10 42 (2.80%) Relational Database
11 41 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
12 40 (2.67%) MongoDB
13 32 (2.13%) Redis
14 31 (2.07%) BigQuery
15 29 (1.93%) Big Data
16 28 (1.87%) Delta Lake
17 25 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 19 (1.27%) MySQL
19 18 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
20 16 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 187 (12.47%) Jenkins
2 154 (10.27%) GitLab
3 144 (9.60%) Git
4 84 (5.60%) JIRA
5 23 (1.53%) JUnit
6 19 (1.27%) MLflow
7 16 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.00%) Selenium
9 14 (0.93%) Postman
10 12 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.73%) JMeter
12 9 (0.60%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.53%) Gradle
13 8 (0.53%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.47%) Maven
15 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.33%) Mockito
15 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 364 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 326 (21.73%) Finance
3 198 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 119 (7.93%) Banking
5 93 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
8 32 (2.13%) Retail
9 31 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.07%) Legal
13 11 (0.73%) Front Office
13 11 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.73%) Marketing
14 10 (0.67%) Law
15 9 (0.60%) Military
16 7 (0.47%) Billing
17 6 (0.40%) Aviation
17 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 394 (26.27%) Architect
2 219 (14.60%) Senior
3 201 (13.40%) Developer
4 157 (10.47%) Lead
5 135 (9.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 128 (8.53%) Data Engineer
7 102 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
8 99 (6.60%) Software Engineer
9 97 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 73 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.47%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (4.20%) Technical Architect
13 55 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
14 51 (3.40%) Java Engineer
15 50 (3.33%) Security Engineer
16 49 (3.27%) Java Developer
17 47 (3.13%) Senior Developer
18 45 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
19 44 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
20 43 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (10.07%) Kafka
2 148 (9.87%) REST
3 129 (8.60%) React
4 127 (8.47%) Spring
5 121 (8.07%) Node.js
6 116 (7.73%) Spring Boot
7 107 (7.13%) .NET
8 97 (6.47%) RESTful
9 63 (4.20%) OpenTelemetry
10 61 (4.07%) OAuth
11 60 (4.00%) AngularJS
11 60 (4.00%) OpenID
12 56 (3.73%) PySpark
13 43 (2.87%) OAuth2
14 38 (2.53%) GraphQL
14 38 (2.53%) SAML
15 33 (2.20%) FastAPI
16 29 (1.93%) LangChain
17 28 (1.87%) Next.js
17 28 (1.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 191 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
2 71 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
3 70 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 55 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 49 (3.27%) Security Posture
7 45 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 30 (2.00%) Data Centre
9 30 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 28 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.80%) AI Agents
12 24 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.40%) Mobile App
14 19 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 18 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.13%) NHS
17 14 (0.93%) Low-Code
18 13 (0.87%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.87%) Linux
2 50 (3.33%) Windows
3 32 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (1.00%) Unix
5 11 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.60%) VMS
6 9 (0.60%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.40%) Android
8 4 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.067%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 901 (60.07%) CI/CD
2 774 (51.60%) DevOps
3 540 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 424 (28.27%) Agile
5 383 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 379 (25.27%) Microservices
7 321 (21.40%) AI
8 309 (20.60%) Observability
9 254 (16.93%) Software Engineering
10 250 (16.67%) Migration
11 244 (16.27%) Event-Driven
12 222 (14.80%) Analytics
13 209 (13.93%) Test Automation
14 200 (13.33%) Roadmaps
15 184 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
16 181 (12.07%) Data Modelling
17 174 (11.60%) Data Engineering
18 171 (11.40%) Platform Engineering
19 170 (11.33%) Data Pipeline
20 164 (10.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 581 (38.73%) Python
2 332 (22.13%) Java
3 274 (18.27%) SQL
4 126 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 99 (6.60%) Bash
6 93 (6.20%) C#
7 82 (5.47%) JavaScript
8 77 (5.13%) PowerShell
9 55 (3.67%) Bicep
10 54 (3.60%) Go
11 23 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.07%) Scala
13 12 (0.80%) Ruby
13 12 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.73%) Rust
15 7 (0.47%) C++
15 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.47%) R
16 6 (0.40%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 353 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 308 (20.53%) SC Cleared
3 77 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 75 (5.00%) Degree
5 54 (3.60%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.40%) CISSP
9 30 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.93%) CISM
13 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.47%) CCIE
17 6 (0.40%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.40%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 67 (4.47%) QA
3 63 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.13%) NIST
5 61 (4.07%) GDPR
6 28 (1.87%) NCSC
7 25 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.67%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.73%) GRC
8 11 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.60%) WCAG
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) SEPA
12 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 340 (22.67%) Docker
2 30 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.33%) vSphere
4 17 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 14 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.27%) Snort
7 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.067%) etcd
9 1 (0.067%) IAG
9 1 (0.067%) KVM
9 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 522 (34.80%) Kubernetes
2 497 (33.13%) Terraform
3 122 (8.13%) Ansible
4 121 (8.07%) Grafana
5 98 (6.53%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.20%) Argo
7 26 (1.73%) Istio
8 20 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.93%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.93%) Puppet
11 9 (0.60%) linkerd
12 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.27%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.27%) Cilium
13 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.27%) Kibana
13 4 (0.27%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 219 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.73%) Google
3 114 (7.60%) Databricks
4 80 (5.33%) Splunk
5 59 (3.93%) Oracle
6 43 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.80%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.60%) VMware
9 36 (2.40%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.80%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.67%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.60%) SAP
13 18 (1.20%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.00%) Informatica
15 15 (1.00%) Okta
15 15 (1.00%) Salesforce
16 14 (0.93%) Cisco
16 14 (0.93%) F5
16 14 (0.93%) Palo Alto