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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 260 259
Rank change year-on-year +175 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 907 278 367
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 0.89% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.13% 2.82% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 174 222
10th Percentile £400 £429 £451
25th Percentile £450 £483 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £61.15 £61.93 £36.76
25th Percentile £63.63 £71.94 £45.88
Median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £51.94
Median % change year-on-year - +63.65% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £92.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £100.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £51.94
% change year-on-year - +63.65% -

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 11,163 9,846 12,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.30% 31.63% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,008 5,874 8,422
10th Percentile £285 £300 £270
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.86% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 315 459
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.75 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.47% -3.37% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £75.21 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £35.13 £44.25
% change year-on-year -23.13% -20.62% +26.43%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +160 518 £550 -8.33% 189
North of England +57 164 £500 - 46
Yorkshire +33 97 £500 - 12
Midlands +34 67 £525 -20.45% 26
South East +24 65 £485 -4.90% 117
North West +19 61 £492 -0.20% 31
West Midlands +6 50 £534 -19.18% 18
South West +31 43 £648 +23.43% 52
East of England +5 31 £541 -5.98% 19
East Midlands +5 17 £449 -22.00% 8
North East -1 6 £600 +9.09% 3
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 35 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.31%) Confluence
4 14 (1.54%) Apache
5 12 (1.32%) nginx
6 9 (0.99%) SAS
7 8 (0.88%) CMS
7 8 (0.88%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.33%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.33%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.33%) Mule
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) JBoss
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.44%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.55%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.44%) Maximo
3 4 (0.44%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Finacle
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 495 (54.58%) AWS
2 390 (43.00%) Azure
3 262 (28.89%) GCP
4 193 (21.28%) Serverless
5 170 (18.74%) GitHub
6 102 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
7 94 (10.36%) Amazon S3
7 94 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
9 67 (7.39%) Azure AKS
10 65 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (6.73%) SaaS
12 51 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
13 44 (4.85%) Entra ID
14 42 (4.63%) OpenShift
15 41 (4.52%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (4.52%) PaaS
16 36 (3.97%) Azure Functions
16 36 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 35 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.08%) Firewall
2 22 (2.43%) Network Security
3 19 (2.09%) WAN
4 14 (1.54%) VPN
5 11 (1.21%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.10%) MPLS
7 9 (0.99%) BGP
7 9 (0.99%) DNS
8 8 (0.88%) LAN
9 6 (0.66%) SSL
10 4 (0.44%) Broadband
10 4 (0.44%) HTTP
10 4 (0.44%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.33%) NaaS
11 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.33%) VLAN
11 3 (0.33%) VSAN
12 2 (0.22%) 5G
12 2 (0.22%) NAS
12 2 (0.22%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.61%) NoSQL
3 36 (3.97%) BigQuery
4 33 (3.64%) DynamoDB
5 32 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 31 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 30 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 25 (2.76%) Data Lake
11 24 (2.65%) MySQL
12 20 (2.21%) Metadata
13 19 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 17 (1.87%) Power BI
14 17 (1.87%) Redis
15 16 (1.76%) Big Data
15 16 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
17 12 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
18 11 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 150 (16.54%) Jenkins
2 110 (12.13%) Git
3 91 (10.03%) GitLab
4 54 (5.95%) JIRA
5 38 (4.19%) Liquibase
6 17 (1.87%) CircleCI
6 17 (1.87%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.54%) MLflow
8 12 (1.32%) Gradle
9 11 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.21%) Maven
9 11 (1.21%) Selenium
10 10 (1.10%) JUnit
11 9 (0.99%) JMeter
11 9 (0.99%) Mockito
12 8 (0.88%) Snyk
12 8 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (0.77%) Gatling
14 5 (0.55%) Mocha
14 5 (0.55%) Postman
General
1 289 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 180 (19.85%) Finance
3 106 (11.69%) Banking
4 104 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 53 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.53%) Financial Institution
7 27 (2.98%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 18 (1.98%) Front Office
11 17 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.54%) Publishing
13 12 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.32%) Marketing
13 12 (1.32%) Retail
14 9 (0.99%) Legal
15 8 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.77%) Aviation
16 7 (0.77%) Billing
16 7 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (23.59%) Architect
2 162 (17.86%) Developer
3 142 (15.66%) Senior
4 79 (8.71%) Lead
5 65 (7.17%) Software Engineer
6 62 (6.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
8 51 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 41 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.41%) Java Developer
12 34 (3.75%) Senior Developer
13 31 (3.42%) Consultant
14 26 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (2.87%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
15 25 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
16 24 (2.65%) Backend Developer
16 24 (2.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (14.11%) REST
2 118 (13.01%) RESTful
3 102 (11.25%) Node.js
4 81 (8.93%) .NET
5 76 (8.38%) Kafka
6 75 (8.27%) React
7 74 (8.16%) Spring
8 66 (7.28%) Spring Boot
9 58 (6.39%) GraphQL
10 46 (5.07%) AngularJS
11 44 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
12 41 (4.52%) OAuth
13 36 (3.97%) Playwright
14 28 (3.09%) YAML
15 26 (2.87%) FastAPI
15 26 (2.87%) HTML
16 25 (2.76%) Vitest
17 23 (2.54%) .NET Core
17 23 (2.54%) OAuth2
17 23 (2.54%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
2 52 (5.73%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.07%) Public Cloud
4 42 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (2.98%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.65%) Security Posture
9 20 (2.21%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.87%) Fixed Income
11 17 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.54%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.54%) Genomics
14 12 (1.32%) Derivative
14 12 (1.32%) Life Science
15 11 (1.21%) NHS
16 10 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.47%) Linux
2 14 (1.54%) Unix
2 14 (1.54%) Windows
3 13 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.55%) VMS
6 3 (0.33%) CentOS
6 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.33%) Solaris
6 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) Android
7 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (58.32%) CI/CD
2 479 (52.81%) DevOps
3 376 (41.46%) Agile
4 305 (33.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 258 (28.45%) Containerisation
6 250 (27.56%) Microservices
7 184 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
8 179 (19.74%) Software Engineering
9 161 (17.75%) AI
10 147 (16.21%) Test Automation
11 125 (13.78%) Machine Learning
12 114 (12.57%) Roadmaps
13 113 (12.46%) Migration
14 105 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
15 104 (11.47%) Mentoring
16 99 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
17 98 (10.80%) Observability
18 95 (10.47%) Event-Driven
19 86 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
19 86 (9.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 334 (36.82%) Python
2 175 (19.29%) Java
3 166 (18.30%) SQL
4 94 (10.36%) TypeScript
5 73 (8.05%) Go
6 62 (6.84%) JavaScript
7 51 (5.62%) C#
8 42 (4.63%) Bash
9 41 (4.52%) Bicep
10 34 (3.75%) PowerShell
11 9 (0.99%) Ruby
12 8 (0.88%) Scala
12 8 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.66%) VBA
14 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.55%) R
15 3 (0.33%) C
15 3 (0.33%) PHP
15 3 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 173 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 137 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.03%) Degree
4 57 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (5.95%) AWS Certification
6 45 (4.96%) Master's Degree
7 39 (4.30%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.87%) CISSP
10 25 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 19 (2.09%) DV Cleared
13 15 (1.65%) CISM
14 14 (1.54%) MCP
15 13 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (1.43%) PhD
16 12 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (1.32%) CCIE
17 9 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (0.99%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.62%) NIST
1 51 (5.62%) QA
2 48 (5.29%) GDPR
3 46 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.09%) EU AI Act
6 16 (1.76%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.76%) PSD2
7 11 (1.21%) ISO 20022
8 10 (1.10%) SEPA
9 9 (0.99%) NCSC
10 5 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.55%) MiFID
11 4 (0.44%) SLA
11 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.33%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 306 (33.74%) Docker
2 28 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.32%) vSphere
5 10 (1.10%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 343 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 296 (32.64%) Terraform
3 91 (10.03%) Prometheus
4 89 (9.81%) Grafana
5 80 (8.82%) Ansible
6 35 (3.86%) Argo
7 21 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.98%) Kibana
9 14 (1.54%) Puppet
10 10 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
10 10 (1.10%) logstash
11 8 (0.88%) Kubeflow
11 8 (0.88%) Kustomize
11 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.77%) Istio
13 6 (0.66%) SCCM
14 5 (0.55%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.55%) Packer
15 4 (0.44%) Consul
15 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 153 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 91 (10.03%) Google
3 53 (5.84%) Databricks
4 47 (5.18%) Splunk
5 42 (4.63%) Oracle
6 33 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 29 (3.20%) VMware
8 23 (2.54%) Cisco
9 18 (1.98%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.54%) Foundry
12 12 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.21%) Solace
14 10 (1.10%) IBM
14 10 (1.10%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.99%) CyberArk
15 9 (0.99%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.99%) Informatica
16 8 (0.88%) Alibaba
16 8 (0.88%) F5