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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 214 327
Rank change year-on-year +147 +113 -88
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,440 303 233
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 1.26% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.66% 3.68% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 213 152
10th Percentile £400 £396 £443
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 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £546 £512 £600
% change year-on-year +6.64% -14.67% -6.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 3 0
10th Percentile £51.25 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £91.25 £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 13,514 8,243 11,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.35% 34.36% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,487 5,338 7,285
10th Percentile £313 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £410 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 350 837
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £34.42 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -4.51% +60.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £83.47 £72.13
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -5.71% +59.09%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +115 813 £575 +10.24% 425
North of England +76 255 £538 +7.50% 162
North West +54 137 £550 +10.00% 103
Midlands +23 110 £500 - 35
Yorkshire +26 109 £543 -1.27% 40
South East +8 93 £459 +4.32% 90
West Midlands +16 86 £533 +4.15% 28
South West +39 83 £575 +35.29% 72
East of England +7 51 £525 +28.83% 20
East Midlands -11 23 £413 -17.50% 7
North East - 17 £450 - 20
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 64 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 47 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.85%) Apache
4 35 (2.43%) Confluence
5 17 (1.18%) SAS
6 14 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.63%) Camunda
8 9 (0.63%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.42%) Apache Superset
10 4 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.28%) Hyperledger
10 4 (0.28%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.21%) Appian
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.35%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.21%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.069%) Maya
5 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.28%) Quorum
3 4 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.21%) Ripple
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.069%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.069%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.069%) Endur
6 1 (0.069%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.069%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.069%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 810 (56.25%) AWS
2 651 (45.21%) Azure
3 319 (22.15%) GCP
4 251 (17.43%) Serverless
5 238 (16.53%) GitHub
6 150 (10.42%) Amazon S3
7 148 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
8 142 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 92 (6.39%) Power Platform
12 87 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
13 74 (5.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
14 72 (5.00%) Azure AKS
15 69 (4.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 68 (4.72%) OpenShift
17 58 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
18 57 (3.96%) Snowflake
19 56 (3.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (5.42%) Firewall
2 55 (3.82%) DNS
3 44 (3.06%) Network Security
4 38 (2.64%) VPN
5 20 (1.39%) WAN
6 18 (1.25%) 5G
7 17 (1.18%) BGP
8 14 (0.97%) 4G
9 13 (0.90%) 3GPP
10 12 (0.83%) BIG-IP
10 12 (0.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 12 (0.83%) OSPF
11 11 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.63%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.63%) WLAN
13 8 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
14 7 (0.49%) LAN
14 7 (0.49%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 74 (5.14%) Power BI
4 72 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 61 (4.24%) DynamoDB
6 55 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.13%) Metadata
8 44 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
9 41 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
9 41 (2.85%) SQL Server
10 39 (2.71%) MongoDB
11 37 (2.57%) Relational Database
12 31 (2.15%) BigQuery
13 27 (1.88%) Delta Lake
13 27 (1.88%) Redis
14 25 (1.74%) Big Data
15 24 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 19 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.18%) Mixpanel
18 16 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 187 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 145 (10.07%) GitLab
3 136 (9.44%) Git
4 80 (5.56%) JIRA
5 23 (1.60%) JUnit
6 19 (1.32%) MLflow
7 18 (1.25%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.04%) Selenium
9 14 (0.97%) Postman
10 11 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 11 (0.76%) JMeter
11 10 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 9 (0.63%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.56%) Gradle
13 8 (0.56%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.49%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.49%) Maven
15 5 (0.35%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 353 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 309 (21.46%) Finance
3 189 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 109 (7.57%) Banking
5 81 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.01%) Retail
9 26 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.18%) Legal
13 12 (0.83%) Front Office
13 12 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.69%) Marketing
15 7 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.42%) Billing
16 6 (0.42%) Military
17 5 (0.35%) Law
17 5 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 391 (27.15%) Architect
2 208 (14.44%) Senior
3 190 (13.19%) Developer
4 145 (10.07%) Lead
5 124 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 123 (8.54%) Data Engineer
7 101 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
8 92 (6.39%) Software Engineer
9 88 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 71 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 66 (4.58%) Cloud Architect
12 63 (4.38%) Technical Architect
13 57 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
14 49 (3.40%) Security Engineer
15 47 (3.26%) Java Engineer
16 45 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
17 44 (3.06%) Java Developer
17 44 (3.06%) Senior Developer
18 42 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
19 39 (2.71%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (10.00%) Kafka
2 128 (8.89%) REST
3 124 (8.61%) React
4 123 (8.54%) Spring
5 120 (8.33%) Node.js
6 111 (7.71%) Spring Boot
7 103 (7.15%) .NET
8 87 (6.04%) RESTful
9 62 (4.31%) AngularJS
9 62 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
10 59 (4.10%) OpenID
11 56 (3.89%) OAuth
12 54 (3.75%) PySpark
13 41 (2.85%) OAuth2
14 40 (2.78%) GraphQL
15 36 (2.50%) SAML
16 30 (2.08%) FastAPI
17 28 (1.94%) Playwright
18 27 (1.88%) Next.js
18 27 (1.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 173 (12.01%) Distributed Systems
2 66 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
3 65 (4.51%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 51 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 45 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 40 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.64%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.01%) Virtual Team
10 27 (1.88%) Data Centre
10 27 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.53%) Management Information System
13 21 (1.46%) Mobile App
14 20 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.11%) NHS
16 16 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (0.97%) Low-Code
18 12 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 88 (6.11%) Linux
2 43 (2.99%) Windows
3 32 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.90%) Unix
5 9 (0.63%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.49%) VMS
8 5 (0.35%) Android
9 4 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.21%) Solaris
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.069%) AIX
12 1 (0.069%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (60.28%) CI/CD
2 748 (51.94%) DevOps
3 514 (35.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 408 (28.33%) Agile
5 363 (25.21%) Containerisation
6 357 (24.79%) Microservices
7 298 (20.69%) AI
8 290 (20.14%) Observability
9 244 (16.94%) Migration
10 239 (16.60%) Software Engineering
11 227 (15.76%) Event-Driven
12 212 (14.72%) Analytics
13 200 (13.89%) Test Automation
14 195 (13.54%) Roadmaps
15 176 (12.22%) Data Modelling
16 171 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
17 163 (11.32%) Data Engineering
18 161 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
19 159 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
20 150 (10.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 528 (36.67%) Python
2 316 (21.94%) Java
3 271 (18.82%) SQL
4 118 (8.19%) TypeScript
5 95 (6.60%) Bash
6 87 (6.04%) C#
7 75 (5.21%) JavaScript
8 70 (4.86%) PowerShell
9 53 (3.68%) Bicep
10 49 (3.40%) Go
11 17 (1.18%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.11%) Scala
13 15 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.83%) Ruby
15 8 (0.56%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.49%) C++
16 7 (0.49%) R
16 7 (0.49%) Rust
17 6 (0.42%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 336 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 291 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.49%) Degree
4 68 (4.72%) AWS Certification
5 59 (4.10%) Azure Certification
6 51 (3.54%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.36%) CISSP
10 25 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.90%) CISM
14 9 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.56%) OCP
15 8 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.42%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.58%) GDPR
2 66 (4.58%) QA
3 61 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 59 (4.10%) NIST
5 24 (1.67%) NCSC
5 24 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 20 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.69%) GRC
7 10 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.49%) SEPA
10 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.42%) WCAG
11 4 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.28%) PMO
11 4 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 325 (22.57%) Docker
2 33 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.46%) vSphere
4 19 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.25%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.28%) Snort
8 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.14%) SRDF
10 1 (0.069%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.069%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.069%) etcd
10 1 (0.069%) Firmware
10 1 (0.069%) IAG
10 1 (0.069%) KVM
10 1 (0.069%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 498 (34.58%) Kubernetes
2 473 (32.85%) Terraform
3 113 (7.85%) Ansible
4 112 (7.78%) Grafana
5 92 (6.39%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.99%) Argo
7 26 (1.81%) Istio
8 18 (1.25%) vCenter Server
9 17 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.76%) Kustomize
12 10 (0.69%) Puppet
13 8 (0.56%) linkerd
14 5 (0.35%) Kibana
14 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.28%) AirWatch
15 4 (0.28%) Cilium
15 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
15 4 (0.28%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 209 (14.51%) Microsoft
2 126 (8.75%) Google
3 115 (7.99%) Databricks
4 73 (5.07%) Splunk
5 57 (3.96%) Oracle
6 47 (3.26%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.92%) VMware
8 36 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.74%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.67%) SAP
12 23 (1.60%) OpenAI
13 18 (1.25%) Pure Storage
14 16 (1.11%) Cisco
15 15 (1.04%) Informatica
16 14 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.97%) Okta
17 13 (0.90%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.90%) Salesforce
18 12 (0.83%) F5