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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 188 312
Rank change year-on-year +125 +124 -86
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,564 363 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 1.45% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.04% 4.18% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 253 162
10th Percentile £405 £400 £458
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 £745 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
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 14,172 8,674 11,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.71% 34.73% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,852 5,567 7,306
10th Percentile £313 £303 £279
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 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 777 397 853
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.17
25th Percentile £21.15 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -7.16% +62.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.24 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.10 £82.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year +32.61% -10.10% +58.55%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +104 868 £569 +8.33% 273
North of England +74 290 £538 +7.50% 82
North West +51 150 £558 +11.50% 53
Yorkshire +35 126 £538 -2.27% 24
Midlands +29 112 £505 +1.00% 32
South West +46 101 £560 +21.08% 44
South East +12 100 £475 +6.74% 89
West Midlands +15 88 £575 +12.30% 24
East of England +14 53 £549 +22.07% 10
East Midlands -4 23 £413 -17.50% 7
North East - 22 £425 - 7
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 61 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.62%) Confluence
4 40 (2.56%) Apache
5 19 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.15%) SAS
7 13 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.58%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.32%) nginx
12 4 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.26%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.26%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.58%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.19%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.064%) Maya
5 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.26%) Quorum
3 4 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.064%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.064%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.064%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.064%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.064%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 876 (56.01%) AWS
2 712 (45.52%) Azure
3 333 (21.29%) GCP
4 259 (16.56%) Serverless
5 254 (16.24%) GitHub
6 160 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
7 155 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
8 152 (9.72%) Amazon S3
9 144 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (5.69%) Power Platform
13 79 (5.05%) Azure AKS
14 77 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 66 (4.22%) OpenShift
16 66 (4.22%) SaaS
17 64 (4.09%) Snowflake
18 55 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 87 (5.56%) Firewall
2 58 (3.71%) DNS
3 46 (2.94%) Network Security
4 39 (2.49%) VPN
5 25 (1.60%) WAN
6 22 (1.41%) BGP
7 21 (1.34%) 5G
8 17 (1.09%) 4G
8 17 (1.09%) BIG-IP
8 17 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 15 (0.96%) OSPF
10 14 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.83%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.70%) LAN
12 11 (0.70%) MPLS
12 11 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (0.64%) VXLAN
13 10 (0.64%) WLAN
14 8 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (6.39%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.54%) Data Lake
3 71 (4.54%) Power BI
4 62 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 57 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 50 (3.20%) Relational Database
7 49 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 46 (2.94%) Metadata
9 43 (2.75%) MongoDB
10 42 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
11 41 (2.62%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (2.30%) Redis
13 28 (1.79%) Big Data
13 28 (1.79%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.53%) BigQuery
16 23 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
16 23 (1.47%) MySQL
17 17 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (12.53%) Jenkins
2 157 (10.04%) GitLab
3 151 (9.65%) Git
4 91 (5.82%) JIRA
5 23 (1.47%) JUnit
6 19 (1.21%) MLflow
7 18 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.96%) Selenium
9 14 (0.90%) Postman
10 12 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.70%) JMeter
12 9 (0.58%) Gradle
13 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.51%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.45%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.45%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.45%) Maven
15 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 377 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 348 (22.25%) Finance
3 212 (13.55%) Public Sector
4 132 (8.44%) Banking
5 95 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.11%) Retail
10 28 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 20 (1.28%) Legal
13 13 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.77%) Front Office
15 11 (0.70%) Marketing
15 11 (0.70%) Military
16 10 (0.64%) Law
17 7 (0.45%) Billing
17 7 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 414 (26.47%) Architect
2 232 (14.83%) Senior
3 210 (13.43%) Developer
4 164 (10.49%) Lead
5 148 (9.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 126 (8.06%) Data Engineer
7 111 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
8 106 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 98 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 75 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 66 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
12 65 (4.16%) Technical Architect
13 56 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (3.58%) Java Engineer
14 52 (3.32%) Security Engineer
15 51 (3.26%) Java Developer
16 48 (3.07%) Senior Developer
17 47 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
18 46 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
19 40 (2.56%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (10.36%) REST
2 159 (10.17%) Kafka
3 136 (8.70%) React
4 128 (8.18%) Spring
5 117 (7.48%) Spring Boot
6 116 (7.42%) Node.js
7 115 (7.35%) .NET
8 108 (6.91%) RESTful
9 67 (4.28%) OAuth
10 64 (4.09%) OpenID
11 59 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
12 54 (3.45%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.45%) PySpark
13 47 (3.01%) OAuth2
14 40 (2.56%) SAML
15 38 (2.43%) GraphQL
16 36 (2.30%) FastAPI
17 33 (2.11%) Vue
18 32 (2.05%) .NET Core
18 32 (2.05%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 211 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
2 77 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 74 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 61 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 60 (3.84%) Security Posture
7 46 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (2.56%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 31 (1.98%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.79%) AI Agents
13 27 (1.73%) Management Information System
14 24 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.41%) Mobile App
16 21 (1.34%) NHS
17 20 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
19 15 (0.96%) Algorithms
20 14 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 94 (6.01%) Linux
2 54 (3.45%) Windows
3 35 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.96%) Unix
5 13 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.58%) VMS
6 9 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.38%) Android
8 4 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.26%) 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 (0.064%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (59.97%) CI/CD
2 811 (51.85%) DevOps
3 552 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 456 (29.16%) Agile
5 400 (25.58%) Microservices
6 396 (25.32%) Containerisation
7 338 (21.61%) AI
8 320 (20.46%) Observability
9 272 (17.39%) Event-Driven
10 265 (16.94%) Software Engineering
11 262 (16.75%) Migration
12 224 (14.32%) Test Automation
13 223 (14.26%) Analytics
14 218 (13.94%) Roadmaps
15 194 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
16 190 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
17 183 (11.70%) Data Modelling
18 178 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
19 173 (11.06%) Data Engineering
20 170 (10.87%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 605 (38.68%) Python
2 349 (22.31%) Java
3 279 (17.84%) SQL
4 137 (8.76%) TypeScript
5 103 (6.59%) C#
6 100 (6.39%) Bash
7 91 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 77 (4.92%) PowerShell
9 61 (3.90%) Go
10 59 (3.77%) Bicep
11 25 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.96%) Scala
13 12 (0.77%) Ruby
13 12 (0.77%) Rust
13 12 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.64%) C++
15 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.45%) R
16 6 (0.38%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 368 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 318 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.24%) AWS Certification
4 80 (5.12%) Degree
5 57 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 57 (3.64%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.56%) CISSP
6 40 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 17 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.77%) CISM
12 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.58%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.51%) CCIE
15 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.45%) JNCIE
16 6 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.24%) Data Quality
2 74 (4.73%) QA
3 64 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (3.96%) NIST
5 60 (3.84%) GDPR
6 33 (2.11%) NCSC
7 27 (1.73%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.66%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.70%) GRC
9 11 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.70%) WCAG
10 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.45%) SEPA
14 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.38%) PSD2
15 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 349 (22.31%) Docker
2 29 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.21%) vSphere
5 18 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.26%) Snort
8 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.19%) IAG
10 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
10 2 (0.13%) SRDF
11 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.064%) Firmware
11 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 545 (34.85%) Kubernetes
2 515 (32.93%) Terraform
3 133 (8.50%) Ansible
4 120 (7.67%) Grafana
5 97 (6.20%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.75%) Argo
7 22 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.28%) Istio
10 18 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.90%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.90%) Puppet
12 9 (0.58%) linkerd
13 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.26%) Cilium
13 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
13 4 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 231 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.38%) Google
3 112 (7.16%) Databricks
4 77 (4.92%) Splunk
5 60 (3.84%) Oracle
6 43 (2.75%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.69%) Dynatrace
8 40 (2.56%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.49%) VMware
10 28 (1.79%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.66%) CyberArk
12 25 (1.60%) SAP
13 19 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
14 18 (1.15%) Pure Storage
15 17 (1.09%) F5
16 16 (1.02%) Informatica
16 16 (1.02%) Okta
16 16 (1.02%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.02%) Salesforce
17 15 (0.96%) Cisco