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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 127 303
Rank change year-on-year +71 +176 -71
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,774 622 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 2.27% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.54% 6.33% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 423 145
10th Percentile £413 £400 £427
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £731 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £63.50 £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 £90.50 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +21.60% -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 15,374 9,819 10,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.70% 35.87% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,393 6,206 6,353
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.92% -6.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 491 485
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.71 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -37.70% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £78.70 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.50% -33.33% +4.65%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +61 960 £573 +4.09% 1,494
North of England +38 351 £550 +10.00% 281
Yorkshire +24 172 £533 +6.55% 81
North West +19 159 £560 +12.00% 174
Midlands +30 131 £525 +4.48% 111
South West +38 118 £550 +10.00% 186
South East +7 118 £505 +15.43% 161
West Midlands +26 112 £551 +8.10% 60
East of England +20 50 £513 +9.63% 60
North East -15 28 £413 - 26
East Midlands -10 17 £414 -17.71% 51
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 66 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 54 (3.04%) Confluence
4 50 (2.82%) Apache
5 21 (1.18%) SAS
6 16 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.62%) Camunda
8 10 (0.56%) CMS
8 10 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.34%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.28%) nginx
12 4 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.45%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.28%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.17%) Quorum
6 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
6 3 (0.17%) Ripple
6 3 (0.17%) Workfront
7 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Endur
8 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.056%) SAP ECC
8 1 (0.056%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 1 (0.056%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 996 (56.14%) AWS
2 795 (44.81%) Azure
3 390 (21.98%) GCP
4 301 (16.97%) GitHub
5 274 (15.45%) Serverless
6 195 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
7 176 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
8 163 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
9 148 (8.34%) Amazon S3
10 127 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
11 104 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 99 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 98 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 82 (4.62%) Snowflake
15 80 (4.51%) SaaS
16 77 (4.34%) Azure AKS
17 73 (4.11%) Power Platform
18 63 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
18 63 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
19 62 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.28%) Firewall
2 50 (2.82%) Network Security
3 43 (2.42%) DNS
4 36 (2.03%) VPN
5 28 (1.58%) BGP
6 27 (1.52%) WAN
7 19 (1.07%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (0.96%) HTTP
9 16 (0.90%) OSPF
10 15 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.79%) MPLS
12 13 (0.73%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.73%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.68%) 5G
13 12 (0.68%) LAN
14 11 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.62%) VLAN
14 11 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (8.34%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (5.86%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.23%) Data Lake
3 75 (4.23%) Relational Database
4 68 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
5 64 (3.61%) Metadata
5 64 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 63 (3.55%) Power BI
7 58 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 56 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
8 56 (3.16%) DynamoDB
9 34 (1.92%) Big Data
10 32 (1.80%) Redis
11 30 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
12 29 (1.63%) MySQL
13 28 (1.58%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 25 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (1.24%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 196 (11.05%) Git
2 178 (10.03%) GitLab
3 174 (9.81%) Jenkins
4 87 (4.90%) JIRA
5 32 (1.80%) JUnit
6 28 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 24 (1.35%) Claude Code
8 20 (1.13%) Mockito
9 17 (0.96%) JMeter
9 17 (0.96%) Maven
10 15 (0.85%) Postman
10 15 (0.85%) Selenium
11 12 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.62%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.62%) MSI
13 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.39%) Gatling
13 7 (0.39%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.39%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.39%) MLflow
General
1 460 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 366 (20.63%) Finance
3 238 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 158 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (8.79%) Banking
6 49 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 42 (2.37%) Retail
8 36 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 34 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.24%) Legal
12 20 (1.13%) Front Office
13 18 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.01%) Law
13 18 (1.01%) Military
14 15 (0.85%) Marketing
15 14 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 436 (24.58%) Architect
2 304 (17.14%) Senior
3 279 (15.73%) Developer
4 162 (9.13%) Lead
5 151 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 135 (7.61%) Data Engineer
7 123 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
8 121 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 105 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 88 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
11 75 (4.23%) Java Developer
12 71 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
13 68 (3.83%) Technical Architect
14 63 (3.55%) Java Engineer
14 63 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 60 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
16 59 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 56 (3.16%) Cloud Architect
17 56 (3.16%) Security Engineer
18 54 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 571 (32.19%) Terraform
2 250 (14.09%) REST
3 203 (11.44%) Kafka
4 177 (9.98%) Spring
5 166 (9.36%) Spring Boot
6 155 (8.74%) RESTful
7 146 (8.23%) React
8 134 (7.55%) .NET
9 116 (6.54%) Node.js
10 81 (4.57%) OAuth
11 67 (3.78%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.38%) OpenID
13 51 (2.87%) OAuth2
13 51 (2.87%) PySpark
14 50 (2.82%) .NET Core
15 48 (2.71%) .NET Framework
16 45 (2.54%) FastAPI
17 44 (2.48%) GraphQL
18 40 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
19 39 (2.20%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 261 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 112 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 95 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 82 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 66 (3.72%) AI Agents
6 63 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 63 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 60 (3.38%) Security Posture
8 43 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.80%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 25 (1.41%) NHS
13 24 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
14 22 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 21 (1.18%) Data Structures
16 19 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
17 17 (0.96%) CMDB
18 16 (0.90%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.37%) Linux
2 72 (4.06%) Windows
3 42 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (1.41%) Unix
5 12 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.62%) VMS
6 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.39%) Android
8 6 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.11%) CentOS
10 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.056%) AIX
11 1 (0.056%) Solaris
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,068 (60.20%) CI/CD
2 875 (49.32%) DevOps
3 642 (36.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 581 (32.75%) Agile
5 487 (27.45%) Microservices
6 436 (24.58%) Containerisation
7 422 (23.79%) Observability
8 418 (23.56%) AI
9 397 (22.38%) Software Engineering
10 389 (21.93%) Event-Driven
11 307 (17.31%) Test Automation
12 274 (15.45%) Migration
13 271 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
14 267 (15.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 253 (14.26%) Stakeholder Management
16 247 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
17 244 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
18 239 (13.47%) Continuous Improvement
19 234 (13.19%) Analytics
19 234 (13.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 683 (38.50%) Python
2 434 (24.46%) Java
3 285 (16.07%) SQL
4 173 (9.75%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.33%) C#
6 124 (6.99%) Bash
7 119 (6.71%) JavaScript
8 98 (5.52%) PowerShell
9 75 (4.23%) Bicep
10 56 (3.16%) Go
11 24 (1.35%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.35%) Scala
12 19 (1.07%) Rust
13 18 (1.01%) C++
14 15 (0.85%) Ruby
15 11 (0.62%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.34%) Korn
17 6 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 452 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 369 (20.80%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 88 (4.96%) AWS Certification
4 88 (4.96%) Degree
5 68 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 52 (2.93%) CISSP
7 45 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.07%) CISM
13 13 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.56%) OSCP
15 10 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.51%) CCIE
16 9 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (6.54%) QA
2 107 (6.03%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.21%) GDPR
4 53 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 53 (2.99%) NIST
5 44 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.86%) NCSC
7 19 (1.07%) WCAG
8 17 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.56%) GRC
11 8 (0.45%) HL7
11 8 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 6 (0.34%) SEPA
12 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.23%) PSD2
14 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 411 (23.17%) Docker
2 28 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.62%) IAG
4 11 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) vSphere
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.11%) NFS
7 2 (0.11%) SRDF
7 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) etcd
8 1 (0.056%) Firmware
8 1 (0.056%) KVM
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 630 (35.51%) Kubernetes
2 145 (8.17%) Ansible
3 115 (6.48%) Grafana
4 91 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.20%) Argo
6 30 (1.69%) Istio
7 27 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.85%) Puppet
10 14 (0.79%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.51%) Cilium
11 9 (0.51%) linkerd
12 8 (0.45%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 3 (0.17%) Bosun
14 3 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.17%) Kibana
14 3 (0.17%) Packer
15 2 (0.11%) Nagios
15 2 (0.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 279 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 168 (9.47%) Google
3 117 (6.60%) Databricks
4 75 (4.23%) Oracle
5 53 (2.99%) Splunk
6 49 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 41 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 31 (1.75%) VMware
10 29 (1.63%) Informatica
11 27 (1.52%) SAP
12 24 (1.35%) Cisco
13 21 (1.18%) F5
14 19 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
14 19 (1.07%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.01%) Foundry
16 17 (0.96%) IBM
17 15 (0.85%) Okta
17 15 (0.85%) Salesforce