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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 97 310
Rank change year-on-year +40 +213 -80
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,813 749 230
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.91% 2.67% 0.71%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.40% 7.34% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 505 146
10th Percentile £413 £400 £431
25th Percentile £463 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -39.71% +12.58%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £75.50 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +20.80% -26.47% +12.58%

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 15,903 10,203 10,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.33% 36.34% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,557 6,388 6,079
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -4.30% -0.26%
75th Percentile £645 £648 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £530
% change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,160 528 373
10th Percentile £13.99 £15.21 £15.77
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -47.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.73 £56.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.26 £74.13 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.14% -42.00% +11.73%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +42 1,005 £575 +4.55% 1,759
North of England +30 367 £525 +5.00% 463
Yorkshire +20 178 £525 +5.00% 114
North West +29 163 £560 +12.90% 273
Midlands +12 121 £551 +4.86% 210
South East +9 116 £513 +13.89% 277
South West +30 113 £550 -4.35% 265
West Midlands +13 109 £575 +8.49% 114
East of England +1 45 £549 +6.02% 146
North East -9 34 £425 -29.17% 78
East Midlands -10 10 £425 -15.42% 96
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 67 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 56 (3.09%) Confluence
3 50 (2.76%) Apache
4 18 (0.99%) SAS
5 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.66%) CMS
7 9 (0.50%) Camunda
7 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.33%) nginx
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 9 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
5 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) Quorum
5 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.17%) Ripple
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.055%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (56.70%) AWS
2 793 (43.74%) Azure
3 428 (23.61%) GCP
4 290 (16.00%) GitHub
5 278 (15.33%) Serverless
6 189 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
7 170 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 164 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
9 158 (8.71%) Amazon S3
10 147 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 105 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
13 88 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 84 (4.63%) SaaS
15 80 (4.41%) Snowflake
16 71 (3.92%) Azure AKS
17 69 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
17 69 (3.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 68 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
18 68 (3.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 70 (3.86%) Firewall
2 46 (2.54%) Network Security
3 33 (1.82%) DNS
4 31 (1.71%) VPN
5 28 (1.54%) BGP
6 26 (1.43%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (0.94%) HTTP
9 16 (0.88%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.77%) MPLS
11 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
14 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (5.07%) NoSQL
3 76 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 70 (3.86%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.81%) Metadata
7 68 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 60 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
9 59 (3.25%) DynamoDB
9 59 (3.25%) SQL Server
10 55 (3.03%) Power BI
11 33 (1.82%) MySQL
12 32 (1.77%) BigQuery
12 32 (1.77%) Redis
13 30 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
13 30 (1.65%) Big Data
14 24 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.21%) Delta Lake
16 16 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 205 (11.31%) Git
2 192 (10.59%) GitLab
3 176 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 91 (5.02%) JIRA
5 34 (1.88%) Claude Code
6 32 (1.77%) JUnit
7 27 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 22 (1.21%) Mockito
9 21 (1.16%) Maven
10 17 (0.94%) JMeter
11 15 (0.83%) Postman
12 13 (0.72%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.66%) Cucumber
13 12 (0.66%) Selenium
14 11 (0.61%) MSI
15 10 (0.55%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.44%) Gatling
17 7 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
18 6 (0.33%) MLflow
18 6 (0.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 475 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 420 (23.17%) Finance
3 245 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 189 (10.42%) Banking
5 175 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (2.70%) Retail
8 34 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 29 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.32%) Front Office
12 20 (1.10%) Law
12 20 (1.10%) Military
13 19 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (0.88%) Marketing
14 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (0.83%) Legal
16 11 (0.61%) Back Office
16 11 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 418 (23.06%) Architect
2 322 (17.76%) Senior
3 289 (15.94%) Developer
4 169 (9.32%) Lead
5 156 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
6 140 (7.72%) Data Engineer
7 129 (7.12%) Software Engineer
8 122 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
9 112 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 100 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 75 (4.14%) Java Developer
13 65 (3.59%) Java Engineer
14 63 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
14 63 (3.47%) Security Engineer
15 58 (3.20%) Senior Developer
16 57 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
16 57 (3.14%) Technical Architect
17 56 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
18 53 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 583 (32.16%) Terraform
2 277 (15.28%) REST
3 228 (12.58%) Kafka
4 177 (9.76%) Spring
5 175 (9.65%) RESTful
6 172 (9.49%) Spring Boot
7 146 (8.05%) React
8 129 (7.12%) .NET
9 112 (6.18%) Node.js
10 99 (5.46%) OAuth
11 69 (3.81%) OpenID
12 60 (3.31%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.31%) OAuth2
13 54 (2.98%) .NET Core
14 53 (2.92%) FastAPI
15 49 (2.70%) PySpark
16 46 (2.54%) .NET Framework
16 46 (2.54%) LangChain
17 45 (2.48%) SAML
17 45 (2.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 261 (14.40%) Distributed Systems
2 125 (6.89%) Product Ownership
3 94 (5.18%) Enterprise Software
4 93 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
5 88 (4.85%) AI Agents
6 81 (4.47%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.20%) Security Posture
8 55 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 49 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 38 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.82%) Data Centre
12 30 (1.65%) Management Information System
13 27 (1.49%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.43%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
16 24 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.21%) NHS
18 21 (1.16%) PKI
19 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
20 17 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 119 (6.56%) Linux
2 74 (4.08%) Windows
3 43 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.38%) Unix
5 15 (0.83%) VMS
6 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.28%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.055%) AIX
11 1 (0.055%) Solaris
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (60.67%) CI/CD
2 878 (48.43%) DevOps
3 655 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 617 (34.03%) Agile
5 508 (28.02%) Microservices
6 467 (25.76%) AI
7 436 (24.05%) Containerisation
8 434 (23.94%) Software Engineering
9 433 (23.88%) Observability
10 430 (23.72%) Event-Driven
11 337 (18.59%) Test Automation
12 310 (17.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 300 (16.55%) Stakeholder Management
14 289 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
15 273 (15.06%) Migration
16 272 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 270 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
18 262 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
19 247 (13.62%) Analytics
20 246 (13.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 705 (38.89%) Python
2 433 (23.88%) Java
3 285 (15.72%) SQL
4 195 (10.76%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.17%) C#
6 125 (6.89%) JavaScript
7 123 (6.78%) Bash
8 97 (5.35%) PowerShell
9 67 (3.70%) Go
10 66 (3.64%) Bicep
11 25 (1.38%) Scala
12 24 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.10%) C++
14 18 (0.99%) Rust
15 12 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.44%) Korn
16 8 (0.44%) Ruby
17 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 459 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 371 (20.46%) SC Cleared
3 107 (5.90%) AWS Certification
4 104 (5.74%) DV Cleared
5 93 (5.13%) Degree
6 75 (4.14%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.20%) CISSP
8 53 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 27 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.00%) QA
2 118 (6.51%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 49 (2.70%) NIST
6 45 (2.48%) GDPR
7 37 (2.04%) NCSC
8 18 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.94%) WCAG
10 14 (0.77%) GRC
11 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.39%) SEPA
15 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.33%) HL7
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 415 (22.89%) Docker
2 27 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
6 9 (0.50%) vSphere
7 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 646 (35.63%) Kubernetes
2 146 (8.05%) Ansible
3 113 (6.23%) Grafana
4 90 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.93%) Argo
6 29 (1.60%) Istio
7 28 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (0.88%) Puppet
10 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.50%) Cilium
11 9 (0.50%) linkerd
12 6 (0.33%) Control-M
12 6 (0.33%) Kibana
13 5 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.22%) Bosun
14 4 (0.22%) Packer
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) QRadar
15 2 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 278 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 202 (11.14%) Google
3 116 (6.40%) Databricks
4 69 (3.81%) Oracle
5 58 (3.20%) Splunk
6 48 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 39 (2.15%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.65%) VMware
11 27 (1.49%) Informatica
12 25 (1.38%) SAP
13 22 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.16%) Cisco
14 21 (1.16%) F5
15 20 (1.10%) Okta
15 20 (1.10%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.05%) IBM
17 17 (0.94%) Foundry
18 15 (0.83%) Salesforce