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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 224 318
Rank change year-on-year +155 +94 -60
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,314 285 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 1.17% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.04% 3.42% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 927 202 149
10th Percentile £400 £400 £428
25th Percentile £463 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.13 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £74.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.25% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 -
90th Percentile £102.50 £75.60 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +75.00% - -

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 13,091 8,331 11,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.21% 34.15% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,293 5,458 7,458
10th Percentile £306 £300 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -0.32% -3.93%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 332 821
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.68 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.36 £15.17
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.23% +9.52% +40.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.81 £61.30
90th Percentile £87.85 £84.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.46% +7.76% +34.13%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +130 732 £575 - 250
North of England +79 229 £545 +9.00% 130
North West +40 116 £558 +11.50% 66
Midlands +21 109 £500 - 68
Yorkshire +32 107 £533 -15.22% 42
South East +18 97 £469 -18.52% 135
West Midlands +17 80 £527 +2.83% 27
South West +26 71 £575 +35.29% 74
East of England +7 52 £549 +34.80% 57
East Midlands -9 29 £425 -15.00% 41
North East -10 10 £518 -5.91% 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 60 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 40 (3.04%) Confluence
3 39 (2.97%) Apache
4 34 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.07%) SAS
6 12 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.84%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.68%) Camunda
9 6 (0.46%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.23%) Appian
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.15%) CMS
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.076%) JBoss
12 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.30%) CPLEX
2 3 (0.23%) LaTeX
2 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.076%) Maya
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.076%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.076%) Notion
4 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.076%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.076%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.076%) Quorum
5 1 (0.076%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.076%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.076%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.076%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 729 (55.48%) AWS
2 613 (46.65%) Azure
3 290 (22.07%) GCP
4 232 (17.66%) GitHub
5 222 (16.89%) Serverless
6 142 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 142 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
7 141 (10.73%) Amazon S3
8 119 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
9 113 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 84 (6.39%) Power Platform
11 82 (6.24%) Azure AKS
12 74 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (5.25%) OpenShift
15 60 (4.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 50 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 49 (3.73%) Snowflake
18 47 (3.58%) Azure Data Factory
18 47 (3.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.25%) Firewall
2 51 (3.88%) DNS
3 36 (2.74%) Network Security
3 36 (2.74%) VPN
4 15 (1.14%) 5G
4 15 (1.14%) WAN
5 13 (0.99%) 3GPP
6 12 (0.91%) 4G
7 11 (0.84%) BGP
8 7 (0.53%) LTE
8 7 (0.53%) OSPF
8 7 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.46%) HTTP
9 6 (0.46%) LAN
9 6 (0.46%) MPLS
9 6 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.38%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 4 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 70 (5.33%) Data Lake
4 65 (4.95%) Power BI
5 53 (4.03%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.42%) Metadata
8 42 (3.20%) SQL Server
9 38 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
9 38 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 32 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 32 (2.44%) Relational Database
12 25 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 25 (1.90%) Redis
13 24 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 21 (1.60%) Big Data
15 20 (1.52%) Mixpanel
16 18 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 16 (1.22%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 188 (14.31%) Jenkins
2 136 (10.35%) Git
3 121 (9.21%) GitLab
4 72 (5.48%) JIRA
5 22 (1.67%) JUnit
6 21 (1.60%) MLflow
7 19 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 11 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.84%) Postman
9 10 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.76%) Selenium
10 9 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.68%) JMeter
11 8 (0.61%) Gradle
11 8 (0.61%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.53%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.46%) Liquibase
13 6 (0.46%) Maven
13 6 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 322 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 269 (20.47%) Finance
3 169 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 100 (7.61%) Banking
5 67 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.21%) Retail
9 24 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.29%) Legal
12 15 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.91%) Front Office
14 11 (0.84%) Investment Banking
15 10 (0.76%) Marketing
16 7 (0.53%) Billing
16 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.38%) Aviation
18 5 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 364 (27.70%) Architect
2 185 (14.08%) Senior
3 176 (13.39%) Developer
4 134 (10.20%) Lead
5 109 (8.30%) Data Engineer
6 107 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 97 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
8 79 (6.01%) Software Engineer
9 75 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 59 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
11 56 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
12 55 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
13 51 (3.88%) Technical Architect
14 44 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
15 43 (3.27%) Java Engineer
16 40 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 38 (2.89%) Data Architect
17 38 (2.89%) Security Engineer
18 37 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
18 37 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.67%) Kafka
2 122 (9.28%) Node.js
3 117 (8.90%) REST
4 116 (8.83%) React
4 116 (8.83%) Spring
5 104 (7.91%) Spring Boot
6 100 (7.61%) .NET
7 81 (6.16%) RESTful
8 67 (5.10%) OpenTelemetry
9 61 (4.64%) AngularJS
10 51 (3.88%) OpenID
11 47 (3.58%) OAuth
12 46 (3.50%) GraphQL
13 41 (3.12%) PySpark
14 36 (2.74%) Playwright
15 33 (2.51%) OAuth2
16 29 (2.21%) SAML
17 28 (2.13%) LangChain
18 26 (1.98%) Vue
19 25 (1.90%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 142 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
2 65 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
3 58 (4.41%) Product Ownership
4 55 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 48 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.66%) Public Cloud
6 35 (2.66%) Security Posture
7 32 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 26 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.60%) Data Centre
12 19 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.29%) Mobile App
15 14 (1.07%) NHS
16 13 (0.99%) Data Structures
17 12 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
17 12 (0.91%) Low-Code
18 11 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 80 (6.09%) Linux
2 29 (2.21%) Windows
3 17 (1.29%) Unix
4 14 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (0.53%) VMS
6 4 (0.30%) Android
6 4 (0.30%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.15%) Solaris
8 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 691 (52.59%) DevOps
3 454 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 394 (29.98%) Agile
5 341 (25.95%) Containerisation
6 330 (25.11%) Microservices
7 267 (20.32%) AI
8 242 (18.42%) Observability
9 217 (16.51%) Migration
10 216 (16.44%) Software Engineering
11 202 (15.37%) Analytics
12 189 (14.38%) Event-Driven
13 184 (14.00%) Test Automation
14 176 (13.39%) Roadmaps
15 170 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
16 165 (12.56%) Data Modelling
17 157 (11.95%) Data Engineering
18 154 (11.72%) Machine Learning
19 148 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
20 133 (10.12%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 458 (34.86%) Python
2 273 (20.78%) Java
3 260 (19.79%) SQL
4 115 (8.75%) TypeScript
5 93 (7.08%) C#
6 80 (6.09%) Bash
7 74 (5.63%) JavaScript
8 53 (4.03%) Bicep
9 49 (3.73%) PowerShell
10 46 (3.50%) Go
11 17 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.14%) Scala
13 12 (0.91%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.84%) Ruby
15 8 (0.61%) R
16 7 (0.53%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.46%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.38%) Korn
19 4 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
20 3 (0.23%) Rust
Qualifications
1 309 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 263 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.78%) Degree
4 63 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 59 (4.49%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 36 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 33 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.90%) CISSP
11 24 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.07%) CISM
13 14 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.61%) CCIE
14 8 (0.61%) OCP
14 8 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.46%) CCNP
15 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.46%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.86%) Data Quality
2 66 (5.02%) GDPR
3 59 (4.49%) QA
4 58 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 58 (4.41%) NIST
5 24 (1.83%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.67%) NCSC
7 17 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.61%) SEPA
9 8 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.46%) PSD2
12 5 (0.38%) WCAG
13 4 (0.30%) PMO
13 4 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 313 (23.82%) Docker
2 37 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.05%) VMware NSX
4 21 (1.60%) vSphere
5 17 (1.29%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.30%) Snort
9 2 (0.15%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.076%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.076%) etcd
10 1 (0.076%) Firmware
10 1 (0.076%) IAG
10 1 (0.076%) NFS
10 1 (0.076%) SRDF
10 1 (0.076%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 448 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 417 (31.74%) Terraform
3 111 (8.45%) Grafana
4 97 (7.38%) Ansible
5 86 (6.54%) Prometheus
6 41 (3.12%) Argo
7 26 (1.98%) Istio
8 19 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 16 (1.22%) Puppet
10 11 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.76%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.53%) linkerd
13 6 (0.46%) Kibana
14 5 (0.38%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.30%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.30%) CSIRT
15 4 (0.30%) Kubeflow
16 3 (0.23%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 203 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 119 (9.06%) Databricks
3 104 (7.91%) Google
4 68 (5.18%) Splunk
5 52 (3.96%) VMware
6 47 (3.58%) Oracle
7 41 (3.12%) Red Hat
8 31 (2.36%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.98%) CyberArk
10 24 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 24 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 23 (1.75%) Cisco
11 23 (1.75%) SAP
12 19 (1.45%) Pure Storage
13 16 (1.22%) Informatica
14 12 (0.91%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.84%) IBM
15 11 (0.84%) Talend
16 10 (0.76%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.68%) Palo Alto