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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 102 322
Rank change year-on-year +45 +220 -86
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,815 723 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.90% 2.59% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.43% 7.18% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 487 134
10th Percentile £407 £400 £438
25th Percentile £463 £428 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 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 £70.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 15,878 10,064 10,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.11% 36.02% 30.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,585 6,317 6,179
10th Percentile £325 £300 £296
25th Percentile £425 £413 £419
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 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 513 394
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.48 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £35.82 £30.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -46.82% +27.44%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.33 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.86% -41.34% +12.36%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +44 995 £575 +4.55% 1,602
North of England +31 364 £525 +5.00% 352
Yorkshire +21 183 £525 +5.00% 82
North West +23 157 £560 +12.90% 233
Midlands +20 129 £527 +0.91% 119
South East +4 118 £515 +17.71% 188
West Midlands +25 116 £551 +3.87% 72
South West +21 112 £550 - 175
East of England 0 48 £525 +12.90% 71
North East -11 32 £413 -31.25% 37
East Midlands -15 11 £425 -15.42% 47
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 71 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.03%) Confluence
4 49 (2.70%) Apache
5 23 (1.27%) SAS
6 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 10 (0.55%) Camunda
9 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.39%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Appian
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
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%) 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 1,027 (56.58%) AWS
2 802 (44.19%) Azure
3 417 (22.98%) GCP
4 293 (16.14%) GitHub
5 277 (15.26%) Serverless
6 190 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
7 171 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
8 165 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 158 (8.71%) Amazon S3
10 137 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
11 114 (6.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 104 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 90 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 85 (4.68%) SaaS
15 82 (4.52%) Snowflake
16 70 (3.86%) Azure AKS
16 70 (3.86%) Power Platform
17 69 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
18 66 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
18 66 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.75%) Firewall
2 44 (2.42%) 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 18 (0.99%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (8.32%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (5.34%) NoSQL
3 79 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 79 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 74 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 72 (3.97%) Metadata
6 67 (3.69%) MongoDB
7 60 (3.31%) DynamoDB
8 59 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
8 59 (3.25%) SQL Server
9 57 (3.14%) Power BI
10 32 (1.76%) Redis
11 31 (1.71%) Big Data
11 31 (1.71%) BigQuery
11 31 (1.71%) MySQL
12 30 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
13 24 (1.32%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 206 (11.35%) Git
2 190 (10.47%) GitLab
3 172 (9.48%) Jenkins
4 89 (4.90%) JIRA
5 34 (1.87%) JUnit
6 33 (1.82%) Claude Code
7 25 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.27%) Mockito
9 22 (1.21%) Maven
10 17 (0.94%) JMeter
11 15 (0.83%) Postman
12 13 (0.72%) Selenium
13 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.61%) MSI
15 10 (0.55%) Cucumber
16 8 (0.44%) Gatling
17 7 (0.39%) MLflow
18 6 (0.33%) Gradle
18 6 (0.33%) REST Assured
General
1 469 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 412 (22.70%) Finance
3 239 (13.17%) Public Sector
4 183 (10.08%) Banking
5 172 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.64%) Retail
8 35 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (1.65%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.27%) Front Office
12 20 (1.10%) Law
12 20 (1.10%) Military
13 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 18 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (0.94%) Legal
15 16 (0.88%) Marketing
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.55%) Local Government
16 10 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 420 (23.14%) Architect
2 327 (18.02%) Senior
3 299 (16.47%) Developer
4 168 (9.26%) Lead
5 148 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 139 (7.66%) Data Engineer
7 127 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 122 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 109 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 95 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
11 76 (4.19%) Java Developer
12 74 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 67 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
14 65 (3.58%) Security Engineer
15 64 (3.53%) Senior Developer
16 63 (3.47%) Java Engineer
17 59 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
17 59 (3.25%) Technical Architect
18 55 (3.03%) Cloud Architect
19 53 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 587 (32.34%) Terraform
2 275 (15.15%) REST
3 224 (12.34%) Kafka
4 182 (10.03%) Spring
5 177 (9.75%) Spring Boot
6 173 (9.53%) RESTful
7 150 (8.26%) React
8 132 (7.27%) .NET
9 118 (6.50%) Node.js
10 98 (5.40%) OAuth
11 68 (3.75%) OpenID
12 60 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 59 (3.25%) OAuth2
14 53 (2.92%) .NET Core
15 52 (2.87%) FastAPI
16 50 (2.75%) PySpark
17 48 (2.64%) .NET Framework
18 46 (2.53%) GraphQL
18 46 (2.53%) LangChain
18 46 (2.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 264 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
2 122 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 90 (4.96%) Enterprise Software
3 90 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 84 (4.63%) AI Agents
5 80 (4.41%) Onboarding
6 59 (3.25%) Security Posture
7 55 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 45 (2.48%) Public Cloud
9 36 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 30 (1.65%) Management Information System
12 26 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
13 25 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 25 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (1.21%) NHS
15 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (1.05%) PKI
17 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.34%) Linux
2 70 (3.86%) Windows
3 41 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.10%) Unix
5 14 (0.77%) VMS
6 12 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.33%) 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 1,109 (61.10%) CI/CD
2 879 (48.43%) DevOps
3 658 (36.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 602 (33.17%) Agile
5 505 (27.82%) Microservices
6 463 (25.51%) AI
7 442 (24.35%) Containerisation
8 427 (23.53%) Event-Driven
8 427 (23.53%) Observability
9 424 (23.36%) Software Engineering
10 340 (18.73%) Test Automation
11 308 (16.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 290 (15.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 289 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
14 278 (15.32%) Migration
15 269 (14.82%) Technical Leadership
16 261 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 258 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
18 249 (13.72%) Analytics
19 248 (13.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 700 (38.57%) Python
2 435 (23.97%) Java
3 284 (15.65%) SQL
4 194 (10.69%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.16%) C#
6 126 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 115 (6.34%) Bash
8 97 (5.34%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.80%) Bicep
10 67 (3.69%) Go
11 24 (1.32%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.32%) Scala
12 20 (1.10%) C++
13 19 (1.05%) Rust
14 9 (0.50%) Ruby
14 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.44%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 457 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 373 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 105 (5.79%) DV Cleared
4 101 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 92 (5.07%) Degree
6 74 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 57 (3.14%) CISSP
8 52 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 42 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.50%) CCSP
17 9 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.00%) QA
2 121 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.64%) GDPR
4 48 (2.64%) NIST
5 46 (2.53%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.82%) NCSC
7 17 (0.94%) WCAG
8 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.77%) GRC
10 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
14 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.28%) PSD2
16 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 416 (22.92%) Docker
2 27 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) IAG
5 10 (0.55%) vSphere
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.17%) 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
1 644 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 140 (7.71%) Ansible
3 109 (6.01%) Grafana
4 89 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.93%) Argo
6 28 (1.54%) Istio
6 28 (1.54%) Progress Chef
7 22 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 14 (0.77%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 6 (0.33%) Kibana
12 5 (0.28%) Control-M
13 4 (0.22%) Bosun
13 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.22%) Packer
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
15 2 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 288 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 192 (10.58%) Google
3 117 (6.45%) Databricks
4 71 (3.91%) Oracle
5 57 (3.14%) Splunk
6 50 (2.75%) Dynatrace
7 44 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 43 (2.37%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.20%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.65%) VMware
11 28 (1.54%) Informatica
12 25 (1.38%) SAP
13 22 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.16%) Cisco
14 21 (1.16%) F5
14 21 (1.16%) Okta
15 20 (1.10%) IBM
16 19 (1.05%) Palo Alto
17 18 (0.99%) Foundry
18 16 (0.88%) Salesforce