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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 158 309
Rank change year-on-year +95 +151 -68
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,656 480 243
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.68% 1.75% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.07% 5.03% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 327 153
10th Percentile £411 £393 £446
25th Percentile £463 £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £512 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.42% -14.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £671 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £65.00 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £77.25 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.73% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £86.88 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £77.00 £51.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +50.24% -39.71% +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 14,953 9,537 10,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.27% 34.85% 31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,270 6,034 7,052
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £420 £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 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 807 475 662
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.49 £12.29
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.87 £16.35
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -22.61% +2.98%
75th Percentile £72.25 £60.00 £65.02
90th Percentile £87.50 £80.00 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.53% -25.00% +11.11%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +83 912 £575 +6.48% 537
North of England +65 313 £538 +7.50% 179
North West +46 160 £558 +11.50% 104
Yorkshire +24 138 £529 +8.51% 55
Midlands +34 119 £533 +6.65% 48
South West +36 108 £550 +14.29% 68
South East +6 107 £503 +12.92% 138
West Midlands +23 100 £563 +12.60% 35
East of England +29 56 £550 +22.22% 13
North East -13 23 £400 - 20
East Midlands -5 17 £425 -15.00% 13
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 68 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 52 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (2.90%) Apache
4 47 (2.84%) Confluence
5 20 (1.21%) SAS
6 17 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.48%) Camunda
8 8 (0.48%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.36%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.30%) nginx
11 4 (0.24%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.24%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.18%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.54%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.060%) Maya
5 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Quorum
4 4 (0.24%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.18%) Ripple
5 3 (0.18%) Workfront
6 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Endur
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.060%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.060%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.060%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.060%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.060%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.060%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 903 (54.53%) AWS
2 741 (44.75%) Azure
3 345 (20.83%) GCP
4 278 (16.79%) GitHub
5 255 (15.40%) Serverless
6 173 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 169 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (8.64%) Amazon S3
9 140 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
10 108 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
11 98 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 90 (5.43%) Power Platform
13 86 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 86 (5.19%) Azure AKS
14 85 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 75 (4.53%) SaaS
16 69 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 64 (3.86%) Snowflake
18 61 (3.68%) OpenShift
19 60 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 95 (5.74%) Firewall
2 56 (3.38%) DNS
3 45 (2.72%) Network Security
4 36 (2.17%) VPN
5 26 (1.57%) WAN
6 22 (1.33%) 5G
6 22 (1.33%) BGP
7 19 (1.15%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 18 (1.09%) 4G
9 17 (1.03%) OSPF
10 15 (0.91%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.79%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.79%) LAN
12 12 (0.72%) MPLS
12 12 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 11 (0.66%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.66%) VLAN
13 11 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (6.22%) NoSQL
3 74 (4.47%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.35%) Power BI
5 60 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 57 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 54 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
8 49 (2.96%) Metadata
8 49 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 49 (2.96%) SQL Server
9 48 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
11 36 (2.17%) Big Data
12 34 (2.05%) Redis
13 29 (1.75%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.63%) BigQuery
15 26 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.39%) MySQL
18 19 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 179 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 172 (10.39%) Git
3 156 (9.42%) GitLab
4 87 (5.25%) JIRA
5 23 (1.39%) JUnit
6 18 (1.09%) MLflow
6 18 (1.09%) SonarQube
7 14 (0.85%) Claude Code
7 14 (0.85%) Selenium
8 13 (0.79%) Postman
9 11 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.66%) JMeter
10 9 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 9 (0.54%) Gradle
10 9 (0.54%) MSI
11 8 (0.48%) Mockito
12 7 (0.42%) IntelliJ
12 7 (0.42%) Maven
13 6 (0.36%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 393 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 359 (21.68%) Finance
3 228 (13.77%) Public Sector
4 142 (8.57%) Banking
5 108 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
7 41 (2.48%) Retail
8 39 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.99%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.39%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.27%) Legal
13 17 (1.03%) Front Office
14 16 (0.97%) Law
15 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.72%) Military
17 9 (0.54%) Billing
17 9 (0.54%) Local Government
17 9 (0.54%) Marketing
18 8 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 407 (24.58%) Architect
2 271 (16.36%) Senior
3 231 (13.95%) Developer
4 178 (10.75%) Lead
5 156 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 124 (7.49%) Data Engineer
7 119 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
8 114 (6.88%) Software Engineer
9 106 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 83 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
11 68 (4.11%) Technical Architect
12 59 (3.56%) Java Developer
12 59 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
13 57 (3.44%) Java Engineer
14 56 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
15 55 (3.32%) Security Engineer
15 55 (3.32%) Senior Developer
16 54 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
17 52 (3.14%) Cloud Architect
18 49 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (12.08%) REST
2 168 (10.14%) Kafka
3 150 (9.06%) React
4 146 (8.82%) Spring
5 132 (7.97%) Spring Boot
6 131 (7.91%) .NET
7 122 (7.37%) RESTful
8 121 (7.31%) Node.js
9 68 (4.11%) OAuth
10 60 (3.62%) AngularJS
10 60 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
11 57 (3.44%) PySpark
12 50 (3.02%) OpenID
13 47 (2.84%) OAuth2
14 45 (2.72%) GraphQL
15 43 (2.60%) .NET Framework
16 41 (2.48%) .NET Core
17 40 (2.42%) FastAPI
18 38 (2.29%) LangChain
19 35 (2.11%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 248 (14.98%) Distributed Systems
2 100 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
3 90 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 67 (4.05%) Security Posture
5 63 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 58 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (3.26%) Onboarding
8 41 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 34 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 34 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 32 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 27 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.63%) NHS
12 25 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 20 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.03%) Algorithms
17 15 (0.91%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.34%) Linux
2 67 (4.05%) Windows
3 43 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.15%) Unix
5 13 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.48%) VMS
8 6 (0.36%) Android
9 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.18%) Solaris
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.060%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 992 (59.90%) CI/CD
2 850 (51.33%) DevOps
3 596 (35.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 499 (30.13%) Agile
5 431 (26.03%) Microservices
6 423 (25.54%) Containerisation
7 385 (23.25%) AI
8 371 (22.40%) Observability
9 320 (19.32%) Software Engineering
10 308 (18.60%) Event-Driven
11 276 (16.67%) Migration
12 268 (16.18%) Test Automation
13 237 (14.31%) Analytics
14 225 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
14 225 (13.59%) Roadmaps
15 207 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
16 202 (12.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 196 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
17 196 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
18 195 (11.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 639 (38.59%) Python
2 378 (22.83%) Java
3 289 (17.45%) SQL
4 160 (9.66%) TypeScript
5 117 (7.07%) Bash
6 115 (6.94%) C#
7 103 (6.22%) JavaScript
8 90 (5.43%) PowerShell
9 77 (4.65%) Bicep
10 67 (4.05%) Go
11 23 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 17 (1.03%) Rust
13 16 (0.97%) Ruby
14 13 (0.79%) C++
14 13 (0.79%) Scala
15 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.60%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.36%) R
18 5 (0.30%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 397 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 338 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 89 (5.37%) Degree
4 86 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 76 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 67 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.78%) CISSP
8 43 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.79%) CISM
15 10 (0.60%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.54%) CCIE
17 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.42%) CCNP
17 7 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 92 (5.56%) QA
3 66 (3.99%) GDPR
4 52 (3.14%) NIST
5 50 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.42%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.87%) NCSC
8 22 (1.33%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.09%) WCAG
10 11 (0.66%) GRC
10 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.48%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.42%) HL7
13 7 (0.42%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.30%) SEPA
16 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 384 (23.19%) Docker
2 23 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.21%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.15%) vSphere
5 9 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.42%) IAG
7 4 (0.24%) Snort
8 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.060%) Firmware
10 1 (0.060%) KVM
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.060%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 576 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 550 (33.21%) Terraform
3 140 (8.45%) Ansible
4 123 (7.43%) Grafana
5 96 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.78%) Argo
7 24 (1.45%) Progress Chef
8 21 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.09%) Istio
9 18 (1.09%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.91%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.85%) Puppet
12 9 (0.54%) linkerd
13 4 (0.24%) Cilium
13 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.18%) Bosun
14 3 (0.18%) Kibana
14 3 (0.18%) Nagios
14 3 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 265 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 147 (8.88%) Google
3 105 (6.34%) Databricks
4 67 (4.05%) Oracle
5 65 (3.93%) Splunk
6 48 (2.90%) Dynatrace
7 47 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 40 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 35 (2.11%) VMware
10 34 (2.05%) OpenAI
11 25 (1.51%) SAP
12 21 (1.27%) F5
13 20 (1.21%) Informatica
13 20 (1.21%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.15%) Cisco
15 18 (1.09%) Pure Storage
16 17 (1.03%) IBM
17 15 (0.91%) CrowdStrike
17 15 (0.91%) Salesforce
18 13 (0.79%) Arista