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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 115 318
Rank change year-on-year +59 +203 -75
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,799 660 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 2.37% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.49% 6.60% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 447 143
10th Percentile £413 £400 £428
25th Percentile £463 £433 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £675
90th Percentile £729 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £73.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.44% -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 15,653 10,005 10,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.77% 35.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,494 6,293 6,311
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
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 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,023 500 434
10th Percentile £14.17 £15.50 £14.17
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.95 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -42.55% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.13 £59.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +13.84%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +52 976 £575 +4.55% 1,138
North of England +31 363 £550 +10.00% 231
Yorkshire +21 176 £527 +5.30% 67
North West +26 165 £560 +12.00% 138
Midlands +25 129 £540 +5.52% 58
South East +15 121 £500 +17.65% 139
South West +31 114 £550 +10.00% 119
West Midlands +23 111 £560 +5.66% 35
East of England +19 50 £519 +10.96% 38
North East -16 30 £400 - 26
East Midlands -10 16 £402 -19.60% 23
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 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.17%) Confluence
4 48 (2.67%) Apache
5 22 (1.22%) SAS
6 16 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.61%) CMS
8 10 (0.56%) Camunda
8 10 (0.56%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.33%) Apache Superset
10 6 (0.33%) nginx
11 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
12 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.44%) 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
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%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.17%) Quorum
5 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.17%) Ripple
5 3 (0.17%) Workfront
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.056%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.056%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.056%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.056%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,012 (56.25%) AWS
2 800 (44.47%) Azure
3 409 (22.73%) GCP
4 301 (16.73%) GitHub
5 271 (15.06%) Serverless
6 197 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
7 168 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
8 163 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
9 148 (8.23%) Amazon S3
10 129 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
13 97 (5.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 83 (4.61%) SaaS
15 81 (4.50%) Snowflake
16 72 (4.00%) Azure AKS
17 71 (3.95%) Power Platform
18 65 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
18 65 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 72 (4.00%) Firewall
2 49 (2.72%) Network Security
3 39 (2.17%) DNS
4 34 (1.89%) VPN
5 28 (1.56%) BGP
6 27 (1.50%) WAN
7 19 (1.06%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.00%) HTTP
9 16 (0.89%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.78%) MPLS
12 13 (0.72%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.67%) 5G
13 12 (0.67%) LAN
14 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.34%) Data Lake
3 78 (4.34%) Relational Database
4 75 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 68 (3.78%) Metadata
5 68 (3.78%) MongoDB
6 61 (3.39%) Power BI
6 61 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 59 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
8 58 (3.22%) DynamoDB
9 35 (1.95%) Big Data
10 33 (1.83%) MySQL
11 30 (1.67%) Redis
12 29 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
13 26 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 26 (1.45%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.45%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 202 (11.23%) Git
2 183 (10.17%) GitLab
3 176 (9.78%) Jenkins
4 89 (4.95%) JIRA
5 33 (1.83%) JUnit
6 31 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 29 (1.61%) Claude Code
8 22 (1.22%) Mockito
9 19 (1.06%) Maven
10 17 (0.94%) JMeter
11 15 (0.83%) Postman
11 15 (0.83%) Selenium
12 13 (0.72%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.67%) Bitbucket
14 11 (0.61%) MSI
15 7 (0.39%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.39%) Gatling
15 7 (0.39%) IntelliJ
15 7 (0.39%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 472 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 393 (21.85%) Finance
3 239 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 170 (9.45%) Banking
5 163 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (2.56%) Retail
8 35 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 35 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.22%) Front Office
10 22 (1.22%) Legal
11 19 (1.06%) Law
11 19 (1.06%) Military
12 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 16 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.78%) Marketing
14 14 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.56%) Billing
15 10 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 442 (24.57%) Architect
2 313 (17.40%) Senior
3 293 (16.29%) Developer
4 164 (9.12%) Lead
5 150 (8.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 138 (7.67%) Data Engineer
7 129 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
8 122 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 106 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 88 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.28%) Java Developer
12 72 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
13 66 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 65 (3.61%) Technical Architect
15 63 (3.50%) Java Engineer
16 61 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 61 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
17 58 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
18 57 (3.17%) Security Engineer
19 52 (2.89%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 579 (32.18%) Terraform
2 263 (14.62%) REST
3 215 (11.95%) Kafka
4 179 (9.95%) Spring
5 174 (9.67%) Spring Boot
6 163 (9.06%) RESTful
7 150 (8.34%) React
8 140 (7.78%) .NET
9 118 (6.56%) Node.js
10 85 (4.72%) OAuth
11 68 (3.78%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.34%) OpenID
13 54 (3.00%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.89%) PySpark
15 51 (2.83%) OAuth2
16 50 (2.78%) .NET Framework
17 49 (2.72%) FastAPI
18 44 (2.45%) GraphQL
19 39 (2.17%) LangChain
19 39 (2.17%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 265 (14.73%) Distributed Systems
2 117 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 94 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
4 88 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
5 73 (4.06%) AI Agents
6 63 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 61 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 59 (3.28%) Security Posture
9 45 (2.50%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 31 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 30 (1.67%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.39%) NHS
15 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
15 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 24 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.28%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
17 17 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 113 (6.28%) Linux
2 71 (3.95%) Windows
3 42 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (1.28%) Unix
5 12 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.61%) VMS
6 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.39%) Android
8 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.22%) 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 1,088 (60.48%) CI/CD
2 878 (48.80%) DevOps
3 653 (36.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 591 (32.85%) Agile
5 508 (28.24%) Microservices
6 449 (24.96%) Containerisation
7 432 (24.01%) AI
8 422 (23.46%) Observability
9 411 (22.85%) Event-Driven
10 410 (22.79%) Software Engineering
11 322 (17.90%) Test Automation
12 289 (16.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 279 (15.51%) Platform Engineering
14 277 (15.40%) Migration
15 271 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
16 258 (14.34%) Technical Leadership
17 251 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
18 243 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
19 242 (13.45%) Analytics
20 241 (13.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 686 (38.13%) Python
2 441 (24.51%) Java
3 281 (15.62%) SQL
4 181 (10.06%) TypeScript
5 129 (7.17%) C#
6 126 (7.00%) JavaScript
7 122 (6.78%) Bash
8 98 (5.45%) PowerShell
9 73 (4.06%) Bicep
10 58 (3.22%) Go
11 25 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 24 (1.33%) Scala
13 20 (1.11%) Rust
14 19 (1.06%) C++
15 14 (0.78%) Ruby
16 10 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.39%) Korn
17 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 459 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 376 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 90 (5.00%) Degree
5 89 (4.95%) AWS Certification
6 73 (4.06%) Azure Certification
7 52 (2.89%) CISSP
8 47 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 23 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.06%) CISM
14 16 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
17 10 (0.56%) OSCP
18 9 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (7.00%) QA
2 109 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.00%) GDPR
4 52 (2.89%) NIST
5 50 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.39%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.83%) NCSC
8 19 (1.06%) WCAG
9 16 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.56%) GRC
11 10 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.44%) HL7
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
14 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.28%) PSD2
16 4 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 421 (23.40%) Docker
2 27 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) IAG
5 10 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.56%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.50%) vSphere
7 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) SRDF
8 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.056%) KVM
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 634 (35.24%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.89%) Ansible
3 114 (6.34%) Grafana
4 90 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.17%) Argo
6 30 (1.67%) Istio
7 27 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.22%) Control-M
12 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.17%) Bosun
13 3 (0.17%) Kibana
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 273 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 179 (9.95%) Google
3 118 (6.56%) Databricks
4 75 (4.17%) Oracle
5 53 (2.95%) Splunk
6 50 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 40 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 38 (2.11%) OpenAI
9 29 (1.61%) VMware
10 28 (1.56%) Informatica
11 27 (1.50%) SAP
12 24 (1.33%) Cisco
13 21 (1.17%) F5
14 20 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
15 19 (1.06%) IBM
15 19 (1.06%) Palo Alto
16 17 (0.94%) Foundry
17 16 (0.89%) Salesforce
18 15 (0.83%) Okta