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 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 98 304
Rank change year-on-year +41 +206 -76
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,828 728 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.93% 2.62% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.47% 7.25% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 488 136
10th Percentile £407 £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% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -26.47% +8.97%

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 15,933 10,040 9,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.23% 36.18% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 6,300 6,006
10th Percentile £325 £300 £294
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,124 510 375
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.13 £15.55
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% -47.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.11 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.81 £73.88 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £29.27 £50.00
% change year-on-year +22.99% -41.46% +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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +44 999 £575 +4.55% 1,341
North of England +28 374 £525 +5.00% 303
Yorkshire +20 185 £525 +5.00% 76
North West +19 163 £561 +12.25% 193
Midlands +23 127 £540 +3.85% 100
South East +16 120 £528 +17.22% 130
South West +24 115 £550 - 155
West Midlands +23 114 £551 +3.87% 64
East of England +5 45 £525 +12.90% 64
North East -9 34 £425 -29.17% 34
East Midlands -17 11 £425 -15.42% 36
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 70 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.06%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.01%) Confluence
4 49 (2.68%) Apache
5 21 (1.15%) SAS
6 16 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 10 (0.55%) Camunda
9 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.38%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.16%) Appian
13 3 (0.16%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.38%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.16%) Quorum
5 3 (0.16%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.16%) 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%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,037 (56.73%) AWS
2 798 (43.65%) Azure
3 419 (22.92%) GCP
4 294 (16.08%) GitHub
5 284 (15.54%) Serverless
6 190 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
7 176 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
8 166 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
9 159 (8.70%) Amazon S3
10 139 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
11 117 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 107 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
13 91 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 84 (4.60%) SaaS
15 81 (4.43%) Snowflake
16 70 (3.83%) Azure AKS
17 69 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
18 68 (3.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 68 (3.72%) Power Platform
19 67 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.77%) Firewall
2 44 (2.41%) Network Security
3 33 (1.81%) DNS
4 31 (1.70%) VPN
5 28 (1.53%) BGP
6 26 (1.42%) WAN
7 19 (1.04%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (0.98%) HTTP
9 16 (0.88%) OSPF
10 15 (0.82%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.77%) MPLS
11 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
14 11 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.60%) VLAN
14 11 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (5.25%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.27%) Data Lake
3 78 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (4.05%) Relational Database
5 69 (3.77%) Metadata
6 66 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 63 (3.45%) DynamoDB
8 61 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
9 58 (3.17%) SQL Server
10 55 (3.01%) Power BI
11 31 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 31 (1.70%) MySQL
11 31 (1.70%) Redis
12 30 (1.64%) Big Data
13 29 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
14 23 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 23 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (1.26%) Delta Lake
15 16 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 207 (11.32%) Git
2 190 (10.39%) GitLab
3 174 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 89 (4.87%) JIRA
5 34 (1.86%) JUnit
6 33 (1.81%) Claude Code
7 27 (1.48%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.26%) Maven
8 23 (1.26%) Mockito
9 16 (0.88%) JMeter
10 14 (0.77%) Postman
11 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 12 (0.66%) Selenium
12 11 (0.60%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.60%) MSI
13 10 (0.55%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.44%) Gatling
15 6 (0.33%) Gradle
15 6 (0.33%) MLflow
15 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 472 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 418 (22.87%) Finance
3 246 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 187 (10.23%) Banking
5 172 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
6 49 (2.68%) Retail
7 36 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.26%) Front Office
11 20 (1.09%) Military
12 19 (1.04%) Law
13 18 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 18 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (0.88%) Legal
14 16 (0.88%) Marketing
14 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (0.55%) Local Government
15 10 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 421 (23.03%) Architect
2 329 (18.00%) Senior
3 301 (16.47%) Developer
4 169 (9.25%) Lead
5 150 (8.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 137 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 126 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 125 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
9 110 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 97 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
11 78 (4.27%) Java Developer
12 76 (4.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 67 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 65 (3.56%) Security Engineer
15 64 (3.50%) Java Engineer
15 64 (3.50%) Senior Developer
16 60 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
17 59 (3.23%) Technical Architect
18 57 (3.12%) Cloud Architect
19 52 (2.84%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 589 (32.22%) Terraform
2 275 (15.04%) REST
3 222 (12.14%) Kafka
4 183 (10.01%) Spring
5 178 (9.74%) Spring Boot
6 177 (9.68%) RESTful
7 149 (8.15%) React
8 133 (7.28%) .NET
9 119 (6.51%) Node.js
10 100 (5.47%) OAuth
11 69 (3.77%) OpenID
12 60 (3.28%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.28%) OAuth2
13 53 (2.90%) .NET Core
13 53 (2.90%) FastAPI
14 48 (2.63%) .NET Framework
14 48 (2.63%) PySpark
15 46 (2.52%) LangChain
15 46 (2.52%) SAML
16 45 (2.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 264 (14.44%) Distributed Systems
2 125 (6.84%) Product Ownership
3 93 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
4 90 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 85 (4.65%) AI Agents
6 81 (4.43%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 56 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (2.52%) Public Cloud
10 37 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.70%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.64%) Management Information System
14 26 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
15 25 (1.37%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
17 22 (1.20%) NHS
18 20 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
19 19 (1.04%) PKI
20 17 (0.93%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 117 (6.40%) Linux
2 73 (3.99%) Windows
3 41 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (1.26%) Unix
5 15 (0.82%) VMS
6 12 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 12 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.27%) Android
8 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.11%) CentOS
9 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.055%) AIX
10 1 (0.055%) Solaris
10 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,113 (60.89%) CI/CD
2 887 (48.52%) DevOps
3 663 (36.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 613 (33.53%) Agile
5 512 (28.01%) Microservices
6 469 (25.66%) AI
7 448 (24.51%) Containerisation
8 430 (23.52%) Event-Driven
9 429 (23.47%) Software Engineering
10 428 (23.41%) Observability
11 341 (18.65%) Test Automation
12 309 (16.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 293 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 291 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
15 279 (15.26%) Migration
16 273 (14.93%) Technical Leadership
17 267 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 259 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
19 251 (13.73%) Roadmaps
20 248 (13.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 703 (38.46%) Python
2 441 (24.12%) Java
3 284 (15.54%) SQL
4 194 (10.61%) TypeScript
5 131 (7.17%) C#
6 126 (6.89%) JavaScript
7 117 (6.40%) Bash
8 98 (5.36%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.77%) Bicep
10 68 (3.72%) Go
11 24 (1.31%) Scala
12 23 (1.26%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.09%) C++
14 19 (1.04%) Rust
15 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.49%) Ruby
17 8 (0.44%) Korn
18 7 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
19 6 (0.33%) Groovy
19 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 464 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 379 (20.73%) SC Cleared
3 105 (5.74%) DV Cleared
4 103 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 92 (5.03%) Degree
6 76 (4.16%) Azure Certification
7 58 (3.17%) CISSP
8 52 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.09%) CISM
14 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.49%) CCSP
17 9 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (6.95%) QA
2 117 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 50 (2.74%) NIST
5 48 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 47 (2.57%) GDPR
7 36 (1.97%) NCSC
8 19 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.93%) WCAG
10 14 (0.77%) GRC
11 11 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.38%) SEPA
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.33%) EU AI Act
15 6 (0.33%) HL7
16 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 418 (22.87%) Docker
2 27 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 648 (35.45%) Kubernetes
2 141 (7.71%) Ansible
3 110 (6.02%) Grafana
4 89 (4.87%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.91%) Argo
6 28 (1.53%) Istio
6 28 (1.53%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.82%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.77%) Puppet
10 9 (0.49%) Cilium
10 9 (0.49%) linkerd
11 6 (0.33%) Kibana
12 5 (0.27%) Control-M
13 4 (0.22%) Bosun
13 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.22%) Packer
14 3 (0.16%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 285 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 197 (10.78%) Google
3 115 (6.29%) Databricks
4 70 (3.83%) Oracle
5 57 (3.12%) Splunk
6 48 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.41%) OpenAI
7 44 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 40 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 31 (1.70%) VMware
10 27 (1.48%) Informatica
11 24 (1.31%) SAP
12 22 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (1.15%) Cisco
13 21 (1.15%) F5
13 21 (1.15%) Okta
14 20 (1.09%) IBM
15 19 (1.04%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.98%) Foundry
17 16 (0.88%) Salesforce