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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 181 309
Rank change year-on-year +117 +128 -90
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,589 381 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 1.51% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.12% 4.34% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 264 164
10th Percentile £407 £400 £456
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 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £594
% change year-on-year +7.32% -13.68% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 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 14,285 8,780 11,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.86% 34.75% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,900 5,626 7,328
10th Percentile £313 £305 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £816
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 413 843
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -12.00% +61.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £81.01 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.10 £31.04 £36.50
% change year-on-year +38.86% -14.96% +62.22%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +105 893 £563 +7.14% 251
North of England +72 296 £538 +7.50% 86
North West +46 152 £558 +11.50% 56
Yorkshire +37 130 £539 +7.75% 23
Midlands +16 109 £520 +4.00% 32
South West +41 100 £560 +12.00% 36
South East +8 99 £492 +10.45% 90
West Midlands +9 86 £575 +13.64% 24
East of England +11 51 £550 +22.15% 9
East Midlands -1 22 £425 -15.00% 8
North East - 22 £425 - 10
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 60 (3.78%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.58%) Confluence
4 40 (2.52%) Apache
5 20 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.13%) SAS
7 13 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.57%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.31%) nginx
12 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.19%) CMS
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.57%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.13%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.063%) Maya
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Quorum
3 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
4 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
5 2 (0.13%) Workfront
6 1 (0.063%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.063%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.063%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.063%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.063%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.063%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 880 (55.38%) AWS
2 723 (45.50%) Azure
3 336 (21.15%) GCP
4 262 (16.49%) Serverless
5 261 (16.43%) GitHub
6 164 (10.32%) GitHub Actions
7 160 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
8 155 (9.75%) Amazon S3
9 143 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (5.66%) Power Platform
13 85 (5.35%) Azure AKS
14 80 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
15 78 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 70 (4.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 70 (4.41%) SaaS
17 69 (4.34%) OpenShift
18 65 (4.09%) Snowflake
19 55 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.66%) Firewall
2 61 (3.84%) DNS
3 45 (2.83%) Network Security
4 41 (2.58%) VPN
5 27 (1.70%) WAN
6 24 (1.51%) BGP
7 22 (1.38%) 5G
8 19 (1.20%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.13%) 4G
10 17 (1.07%) OSPF
11 16 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.82%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.82%) LAN
12 13 (0.82%) MPLS
13 11 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.63%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.63%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (6.36%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.47%) Power BI
4 69 (4.34%) Data Lake
5 61 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 58 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (3.21%) Relational Database
7 51 (3.21%) SQL Server
8 46 (2.89%) Metadata
9 45 (2.83%) MongoDB
10 42 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (2.27%) Redis
13 29 (1.83%) Big Data
14 28 (1.76%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.57%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
18 23 (1.45%) MySQL
19 19 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 157 (9.88%) GitLab
3 155 (9.75%) Git
4 91 (5.73%) JIRA
5 24 (1.51%) JUnit
6 19 (1.20%) MLflow
7 18 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.94%) Postman
8 15 (0.94%) Selenium
9 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.76%) JMeter
10 9 (0.57%) Gradle
11 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.50%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.44%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.44%) Maven
12 7 (0.44%) Visual Studio
13 6 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 384 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 350 (22.03%) Finance
3 217 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 134 (8.43%) Banking
5 96 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (2.08%) Retail
9 31 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.26%) Legal
12 13 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.76%) Front Office
13 12 (0.76%) Marketing
14 11 (0.69%) Law
14 11 (0.69%) Military
15 7 (0.44%) Billing
15 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 416 (26.18%) Architect
2 235 (14.79%) Senior
3 222 (13.97%) Developer
4 169 (10.64%) Lead
5 151 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 129 (8.12%) Data Engineer
7 108 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (6.73%) Software Engineer
9 100 (6.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 76 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.47%) Technical Architect
12 65 (4.09%) Cloud Architect
13 56 (3.52%) Java Developer
13 56 (3.52%) Java Engineer
14 55 (3.46%) Azure Engineer
15 53 (3.34%) Security Engineer
16 49 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
16 49 (3.08%) Senior Developer
17 47 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
18 41 (2.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (10.76%) REST
2 159 (10.01%) Kafka
3 139 (8.75%) React
4 133 (8.37%) Spring
5 123 (7.74%) .NET
6 120 (7.55%) Spring Boot
7 117 (7.36%) Node.js
8 111 (6.99%) RESTful
9 68 (4.28%) OAuth
10 66 (4.15%) OpenID
11 59 (3.71%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (3.59%) AngularJS
13 54 (3.40%) PySpark
14 48 (3.02%) OAuth2
15 41 (2.58%) GraphQL
16 40 (2.52%) SAML
17 36 (2.27%) FastAPI
18 34 (2.14%) .NET Core
18 34 (2.14%) .NET Framework
18 34 (2.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
2 80 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 78 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 66 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 61 (3.84%) Onboarding
6 60 (3.78%) Security Posture
7 46 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.45%) Public Cloud
9 36 (2.27%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.83%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.70%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.38%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.38%) NHS
16 20 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
18 15 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
19 14 (0.88%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.04%) Linux
2 55 (3.46%) Windows
3 35 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.94%) Unix
5 13 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.57%) VMS
6 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.38%) Android
8 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.063%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (60.16%) CI/CD
2 823 (51.79%) DevOps
3 562 (35.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 465 (29.26%) Agile
5 405 (25.49%) Containerisation
6 403 (25.36%) Microservices
7 349 (21.96%) AI
8 323 (20.33%) Observability
9 279 (17.56%) Event-Driven
10 270 (16.99%) Migration
11 267 (16.80%) Software Engineering
12 230 (14.47%) Analytics
12 230 (14.47%) Test Automation
13 220 (13.85%) Roadmaps
14 197 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
15 195 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
16 182 (11.45%) Data Modelling
17 178 (11.20%) Data Engineering
18 175 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
19 174 (10.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 614 (38.64%) Python
2 356 (22.40%) Java
3 280 (17.62%) SQL
4 140 (8.81%) TypeScript
5 109 (6.86%) C#
6 100 (6.29%) Bash
7 92 (5.79%) JavaScript
8 77 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 64 (4.03%) Bicep
10 61 (3.84%) Go
11 25 (1.57%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.01%) Scala
13 13 (0.82%) Ruby
14 12 (0.76%) Rust
14 12 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.63%) C++
16 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.44%) R
17 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 375 (23.60%) Security Cleared
2 323 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.35%) Degree
4 81 (5.10%) AWS Certification
5 63 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 58 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 42 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.52%) CISSP
9 39 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 12 (0.76%) CISM
12 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.63%) CCIE
14 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.44%) JNCIE
16 6 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.85%) QA
3 65 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 63 (3.96%) GDPR
5 62 (3.90%) NIST
6 36 (2.27%) NCSC
7 28 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.64%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.69%) WCAG
10 10 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.63%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.44%) SEPA
13 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.38%) PSD2
14 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 358 (22.53%) Docker
2 27 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.20%) vSphere
5 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) IAG
6 4 (0.25%) Snort
6 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) SRDF
8 1 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.063%) Firmware
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.063%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 556 (34.99%) Kubernetes
2 526 (33.10%) Terraform
3 135 (8.50%) Ansible
4 119 (7.49%) Grafana
5 95 (5.98%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.71%) Argo
7 23 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.26%) Istio
10 18 (1.13%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.88%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.88%) Puppet
12 9 (0.57%) linkerd
13 4 (0.25%) Cilium
13 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.25%) Kibana
13 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.25%) Nagios
14 3 (0.19%) AirWatch
14 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 241 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.62%) Google
3 112 (7.05%) Databricks
4 75 (4.72%) Splunk
5 61 (3.84%) Oracle
6 44 (2.77%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 41 (2.58%) Dynatrace
9 39 (2.45%) VMware
10 29 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.64%) CyberArk
12 25 (1.57%) SAP
13 19 (1.20%) F5
14 18 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
14 18 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.13%) Pure Storage
15 17 (1.07%) Cisco
15 17 (1.07%) Salesforce
16 16 (1.01%) Informatica
16 16 (1.01%) Okta