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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 188 313
Rank change year-on-year +123 +125 -82
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,535 357 248
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 1.44% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.96% 4.15% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,086 249 161
10th Percentile £401 £399 £455
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 £738 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £546 £522 £600
% change year-on-year +4.68% -13.07% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 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 £86.88 £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 14,001 8,595 11,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.57% 34.64% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,730 5,529 7,353
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.31%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.24% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 769 388 855
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.45 £15.32
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.90 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -7.13% +62.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.05 £82.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £32.95 £35.50
% change year-on-year +29.63% -7.20% +57.88%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +115 857 £563 +7.14% 226
North of England +73 281 £530 +6.00% 84
North West +53 145 £550 +10.00% 54
Yorkshire +27 122 £539 -2.05% 22
Midlands +27 110 £500 - 20
South East +13 100 £464 +4.21% 80
South West +54 99 £560 +21.08% 45
West Midlands +22 86 £560 +9.38% 15
East of England +12 52 £537 +19.37% 9
East Midlands -9 23 £413 -17.50% 4
North East - 22 £425 - 9
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 61 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.67%) Confluence
4 40 (2.61%) Apache
5 19 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.17%) SAS
7 14 (0.91%) OpenStack
8 11 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.59%) Camunda
10 6 (0.39%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.26%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.26%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.26%) nginx
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.13%) CMS
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.59%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.26%) Quorum
3 4 (0.26%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
5 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.065%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.065%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.065%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.065%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.065%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 855 (55.70%) AWS
2 692 (45.08%) Azure
3 330 (21.50%) GCP
4 258 (16.81%) Serverless
5 249 (16.22%) GitHub
6 157 (10.23%) GitHub Actions
7 153 (9.97%) Amazon S3
7 153 (9.97%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
9 106 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
11 90 (5.86%) Power Platform
12 79 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
13 77 (5.02%) Azure AKS
14 76 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (4.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 66 (4.30%) OpenShift
17 62 (4.04%) Snowflake
18 61 (3.97%) SaaS
19 57 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 83 (5.41%) Firewall
2 57 (3.71%) DNS
3 45 (2.93%) Network Security
4 38 (2.48%) VPN
5 23 (1.50%) WAN
6 20 (1.30%) 5G
6 20 (1.30%) BGP
7 16 (1.04%) 4G
8 15 (0.98%) BIG-IP
8 15 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.85%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.85%) OSPF
10 12 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.65%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.65%) WLAN
12 9 (0.59%) LAN
12 9 (0.59%) MPLS
13 8 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.69%) Power BI
4 71 (4.63%) Data Lake
5 61 (3.97%) DynamoDB
6 59 (3.84%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (3.06%) SQL Server
8 46 (3.00%) Metadata
8 46 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 43 (2.80%) MongoDB
10 41 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
10 41 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (2.15%) Redis
12 28 (1.82%) Big Data
12 28 (1.82%) Delta Lake
13 26 (1.69%) BigQuery
14 24 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
15 21 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.30%) MySQL
17 16 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 193 (12.57%) Jenkins
2 156 (10.16%) GitLab
3 148 (9.64%) Git
4 89 (5.80%) JIRA
5 23 (1.50%) JUnit
6 19 (1.24%) MLflow
7 18 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.98%) Selenium
9 14 (0.91%) Postman
10 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.72%) JMeter
12 9 (0.59%) Gradle
13 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.46%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.46%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.46%) Maven
15 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 373 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 336 (21.89%) Finance
3 210 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 127 (8.27%) Banking
5 94 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (1.95%) Retail
10 26 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.24%) Legal
13 12 (0.78%) Front Office
13 12 (0.78%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.72%) Marketing
14 11 (0.72%) Military
15 10 (0.65%) Law
16 7 (0.46%) Billing
16 7 (0.46%) Retail Banking
17 6 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 403 (26.25%) Architect
2 229 (14.92%) Senior
3 210 (13.68%) Developer
4 158 (10.29%) Lead
5 141 (9.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 124 (8.08%) Data Engineer
7 109 (7.10%) Solutions Architect
8 105 (6.84%) Software Engineer
9 98 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 76 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (4.36%) Cloud Architect
12 62 (4.04%) Technical Architect
13 57 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
14 55 (3.58%) Java Engineer
15 51 (3.32%) Java Developer
15 51 (3.32%) Security Engineer
16 49 (3.19%) Senior Developer
17 45 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
18 44 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
19 41 (2.67%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (10.23%) Kafka
2 156 (10.16%) REST
3 132 (8.60%) React
4 130 (8.47%) Spring
5 119 (7.75%) Spring Boot
6 116 (7.56%) Node.js
7 111 (7.23%) .NET
8 106 (6.91%) RESTful
9 65 (4.23%) OAuth
10 64 (4.17%) OpenID
11 58 (3.78%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (3.71%) AngularJS
13 53 (3.45%) PySpark
14 47 (3.06%) OAuth2
15 39 (2.54%) SAML
16 37 (2.41%) FastAPI
17 36 (2.35%) GraphQL
18 30 (1.95%) Vue
19 29 (1.89%) .NET Core
19 29 (1.89%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 208 (13.55%) Distributed Systems
2 73 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 73 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 61 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 61 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.26%) Security Posture
5 46 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.61%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 31 (2.02%) Virtual Team
9 29 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (1.82%) AI Agents
11 25 (1.63%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 19 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
14 18 (1.17%) NHS
15 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 93 (6.06%) Linux
2 54 (3.52%) Windows
3 33 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (0.98%) Unix
5 11 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.59%) VMS
6 9 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Android
8 4 (0.26%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.13%) CentOS
10 2 (0.13%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.065%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 918 (59.80%) CI/CD
2 795 (51.79%) DevOps
3 549 (35.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 446 (29.06%) Agile
5 391 (25.47%) Containerisation
5 391 (25.47%) Microservices
6 326 (21.24%) AI
7 311 (20.26%) Observability
8 262 (17.07%) Event-Driven
9 260 (16.94%) Software Engineering
10 255 (16.61%) Migration
11 224 (14.59%) Analytics
12 216 (14.07%) Test Automation
13 211 (13.75%) Roadmaps
14 191 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
15 182 (11.86%) Data Modelling
16 179 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
17 170 (11.07%) Data Engineering
18 169 (11.01%) Data Pipeline
19 168 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 595 (38.76%) Python
2 346 (22.54%) Java
3 275 (17.92%) SQL
4 129 (8.40%) TypeScript
5 100 (6.51%) Bash
6 98 (6.38%) C#
7 87 (5.67%) JavaScript
8 78 (5.08%) PowerShell
9 59 (3.84%) Bicep
10 58 (3.78%) Go
11 25 (1.63%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.98%) Scala
13 12 (0.78%) Ruby
13 12 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.72%) Rust
15 8 (0.52%) C++
15 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.46%) R
17 6 (0.39%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.33%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 360 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 314 (20.46%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.15%) AWS Certification
4 77 (5.02%) Degree
5 58 (3.78%) Azure Certification
6 56 (3.65%) DV Cleared
7 40 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (2.54%) CISSP
9 30 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 22 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 17 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.85%) CISM
13 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.59%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.52%) CCIE
16 7 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.46%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.46%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.28%) Data Quality
2 71 (4.63%) QA
3 65 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.04%) NIST
5 61 (3.97%) GDPR
6 31 (2.02%) NCSC
7 29 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.69%) PCI DSS
9 11 (0.72%) GRC
9 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.72%) WCAG
10 10 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.46%) SEPA
14 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 349 (22.74%) Docker
2 30 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.30%) vSphere
5 17 (1.11%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.26%) Snort
8 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
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%) IAG
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) SRDF
10 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) etcd
10 1 (0.065%) Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) KVM
Systems Management
1 539 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 509 (33.16%) Terraform
3 127 (8.27%) Ansible
4 118 (7.69%) Grafana
5 96 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.87%) Argo
7 22 (1.43%) Istio
8 21 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.17%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.91%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.91%) Puppet
11 9 (0.59%) linkerd
12 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.26%) AirWatch
13 4 (0.26%) Cilium
13 4 (0.26%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
13 4 (0.26%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.26%) Nagios
Vendors
1 226 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.53%) Google
3 112 (7.30%) Databricks
4 76 (4.95%) Splunk
5 61 (3.97%) Oracle
6 44 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.67%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.54%) VMware
9 38 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 26 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 25 (1.63%) SAP
13 18 (1.17%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
15 16 (1.04%) Okta
15 16 (1.04%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.98%) F5
16 15 (0.98%) Informatica
17 14 (0.91%) Cisco
17 14 (0.91%) Palo Alto