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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 192 312
Rank change year-on-year +128 +120 -83
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,569 369 250
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 1.47% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.03% 4.24% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 257 162
10th Percentile £406 £400 £458
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 £650 £675
90th Percentile £741 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 3 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £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 14,223 8,696 11,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.74% 34.72% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 5,588 7,289
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -1.04% -2.51% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 780 399 846
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.15
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.89 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -8.42% +64.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.03 £81.35 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £32.41 £36.00
% change year-on-year +31.13% -9.97% +60.11%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +107 870 £563 +7.14% 270
North of England +66 293 £538 +7.50% 84
North West +44 152 £558 +11.50% 55
Yorkshire +30 127 £538 +7.50% 24
Midlands +28 112 £505 +1.00% 31
South East +9 101 £475 +6.74% 85
South West +49 100 £560 +21.08% 44
West Midlands +14 88 £575 +12.30% 24
East of England +13 53 £549 +22.07% 10
East Midlands -4 23 £413 -17.50% 7
North East - 22 £425 - 7
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 60 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.61%) Confluence
4 40 (2.55%) Apache
5 19 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.15%) SAS
7 13 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.64%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.57%) Camunda
10 6 (0.38%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.32%) nginx
12 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.57%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.13%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.064%) Maya
4 1 (0.064%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Quorum
3 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
4 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.064%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.064%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.064%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.064%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.064%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 880 (56.09%) AWS
2 716 (45.63%) Azure
3 335 (21.35%) GCP
4 260 (16.57%) Serverless
5 258 (16.44%) GitHub
6 163 (10.39%) GitHub Actions
7 156 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
8 154 (9.82%) Amazon S3
9 143 (9.11%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 94 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (5.67%) Power Platform
13 81 (5.16%) Azure AKS
14 77 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 77 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
15 70 (4.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 67 (4.27%) OpenShift
16 67 (4.27%) SaaS
17 64 (4.08%) Snowflake
18 55 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 88 (5.61%) Firewall
2 60 (3.82%) DNS
3 46 (2.93%) Network Security
4 41 (2.61%) VPN
5 26 (1.66%) WAN
6 23 (1.47%) BGP
7 21 (1.34%) 5G
8 18 (1.15%) BIG-IP
8 18 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 17 (1.08%) 4G
10 16 (1.02%) OSPF
11 15 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.83%) 3GPP
13 12 (0.76%) LAN
13 12 (0.76%) MPLS
14 11 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (0.64%) VXLAN
15 10 (0.64%) WLAN
16 9 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 99 (6.31%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.53%) Power BI
4 70 (4.46%) Data Lake
5 62 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
7 50 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.12%) SQL Server
9 45 (2.87%) Metadata
10 44 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 42 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (2.29%) Redis
14 28 (1.78%) Big Data
14 28 (1.78%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.53%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.47%) MySQL
18 17 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 197 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 157 (10.01%) GitLab
3 153 (9.75%) Git
4 91 (5.80%) JIRA
5 23 (1.47%) JUnit
6 19 (1.21%) MLflow
7 18 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.96%) Selenium
9 14 (0.89%) Postman
10 12 (0.76%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.70%) JMeter
12 9 (0.57%) Gradle
13 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.51%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.45%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.45%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.45%) Maven
15 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 377 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 347 (22.12%) Finance
3 213 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 131 (8.35%) Banking
5 96 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (2.10%) Retail
9 29 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.40%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.27%) Legal
12 13 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 12 (0.76%) Front Office
14 11 (0.70%) Marketing
14 11 (0.70%) Military
15 10 (0.64%) Law
16 7 (0.45%) Billing
16 7 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 415 (26.45%) Architect
2 234 (14.91%) Senior
3 212 (13.51%) Developer
4 167 (10.64%) Lead
5 151 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 126 (8.03%) Data Engineer
7 110 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 100 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 77 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.27%) Technical Architect
12 66 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
13 56 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
13 56 (3.57%) Java Engineer
14 52 (3.31%) Security Engineer
15 51 (3.25%) Java Developer
16 48 (3.06%) Senior Developer
17 47 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
18 46 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
19 40 (2.55%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (10.39%) REST
2 159 (10.13%) Kafka
3 136 (8.67%) React
4 128 (8.16%) Spring
5 118 (7.52%) .NET
6 117 (7.46%) Node.js
6 117 (7.46%) Spring Boot
7 109 (6.95%) RESTful
8 68 (4.33%) OAuth
9 65 (4.14%) OpenID
10 59 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
11 54 (3.44%) AngularJS
11 54 (3.44%) PySpark
12 48 (3.06%) OAuth2
13 40 (2.55%) SAML
14 38 (2.42%) GraphQL
15 36 (2.29%) FastAPI
16 33 (2.10%) Vue
17 32 (2.04%) .NET Core
17 32 (2.04%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
2 77 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 74 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
4 64 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 61 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 60 (3.82%) Security Posture
7 45 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 40 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 35 (2.23%) Data Centre
10 31 (1.98%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (1.72%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.40%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.34%) NHS
16 20 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
17 19 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
18 14 (0.89%) Algorithms
18 14 (0.89%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 95 (6.05%) Linux
2 54 (3.44%) Windows
3 35 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.96%) Unix
5 13 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.57%) VMS
6 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.38%) Android
8 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 946 (60.29%) CI/CD
2 814 (51.88%) DevOps
3 558 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 458 (29.19%) Agile
5 401 (25.56%) Microservices
6 399 (25.43%) Containerisation
7 340 (21.67%) AI
8 321 (20.46%) Observability
9 274 (17.46%) Event-Driven
10 267 (17.02%) Software Engineering
11 263 (16.76%) Migration
12 226 (14.40%) Test Automation
13 223 (14.21%) Analytics
14 218 (13.89%) Roadmaps
15 193 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
15 193 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
16 184 (11.73%) Data Modelling
17 176 (11.22%) Data Pipeline
18 172 (10.96%) Data Engineering
19 170 (10.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 608 (38.75%) Python
2 351 (22.37%) Java
3 277 (17.65%) SQL
4 137 (8.73%) TypeScript
5 105 (6.69%) C#
6 101 (6.44%) Bash
7 91 (5.80%) JavaScript
8 78 (4.97%) PowerShell
9 61 (3.89%) Go
10 60 (3.82%) Bicep
11 25 (1.59%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.96%) Scala
13 13 (0.83%) Ruby
14 12 (0.76%) Rust
14 12 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.64%) C++
16 7 (0.45%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.45%) R
17 5 (0.32%) ActionScript
17 5 (0.32%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 373 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 322 (20.52%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.23%) AWS Certification
4 81 (5.16%) Degree
5 59 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 57 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 40 (2.55%) CISSP
7 40 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.76%) CISM
13 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.57%) CCIE
14 9 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.45%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.45%) JNCIE
16 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.16%) Data Quality
2 74 (4.72%) QA
3 64 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (3.95%) NIST
5 60 (3.82%) GDPR
6 34 (2.17%) NCSC
7 27 (1.72%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.66%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.70%) GRC
9 11 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.70%) WCAG
10 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.64%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.45%) SEPA
13 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.38%) PSD2
14 4 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 351 (22.37%) Docker
2 29 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.21%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.21%) vSphere
5 13 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.25%) Snort
7 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) IAG
9 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) SRDF
10 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.064%) etcd
10 1 (0.064%) Firmware
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 548 (34.93%) Kubernetes
2 521 (33.21%) Terraform
3 134 (8.54%) Ansible
4 120 (7.65%) Grafana
5 97 (6.18%) Prometheus
6 43 (2.74%) Argo
7 22 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.27%) Istio
10 18 (1.15%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.89%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.89%) Puppet
12 9 (0.57%) linkerd
13 4 (0.25%) Cilium
13 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.25%) Kibana
13 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.25%) Nagios
14 3 (0.19%) AirWatch
14 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 233 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.48%) Google
3 112 (7.14%) Databricks
4 77 (4.91%) Splunk
5 61 (3.89%) Oracle
6 44 (2.80%) Red Hat
7 42 (2.68%) Dynatrace
8 40 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 40 (2.55%) VMware
9 29 (1.85%) OpenAI
10 25 (1.59%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.59%) SAP
11 18 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (1.15%) F5
11 18 (1.15%) Pure Storage
12 17 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 16 (1.02%) Cisco
13 16 (1.02%) Informatica
13 16 (1.02%) Okta
13 16 (1.02%) Salesforce