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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 204 312
Rank change year-on-year +138 +108 -74
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,490 320 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 1.31% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.77% 3.80% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 223 153
10th Percentile £400 £400 £444
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 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £724
UK median daily rate £546 £518 £600
% change year-on-year +5.37% -13.64% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 0
10th Percentile £53.50 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £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 13,837 8,429 11,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.49% 34.45% 30.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,661 5,444 7,379
10th Percentile £315 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.38% -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 741 369 848
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.14 £20.64 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.91 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year +29.64% -6.51% +61.32%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £85.50 £82.68 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.97 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.18% -5.71% +56.70%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +108 843 £575 +9.52% 210
North of England +73 263 £538 +7.50% 108
North West +49 138 £550 +10.00% 69
Yorkshire +39 115 £539 -2.05% 27
Midlands +19 113 £500 - 23
South East +7 97 £459 +4.32% 84
South West +49 91 £568 +33.53% 71
West Midlands +17 88 £540 -2.88% 20
East of England +14 51 £525 +28.83% 10
East Midlands -13 24 £400 -20.00% 3
North East - 18 £450 - 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 63 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 49 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (2.75%) Apache
4 38 (2.55%) Confluence
5 18 (1.21%) SAS
5 18 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.94%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.60%) Camunda
7 9 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.40%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.27%) Hyperledger
9 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 3 (0.20%) Appian
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.54%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.20%) LaTeX
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.067%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.27%) Quorum
3 4 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.20%) Ripple
4 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
6 1 (0.067%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.067%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.067%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.067%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.067%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.067%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.067%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 834 (55.97%) AWS
2 668 (44.83%) Azure
3 323 (21.68%) GCP
4 254 (17.05%) Serverless
5 242 (16.24%) GitHub
6 154 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 153 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
8 148 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
10 108 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 93 (6.24%) Power Platform
12 88 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 75 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
15 72 (4.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 70 (4.70%) Azure AKS
17 66 (4.43%) OpenShift
18 61 (4.09%) Snowflake
19 57 (3.83%) SaaS
20 55 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.44%) Firewall
2 56 (3.76%) DNS
3 44 (2.95%) Network Security
4 38 (2.55%) VPN
5 22 (1.48%) WAN
6 19 (1.28%) 5G
6 19 (1.28%) BGP
7 15 (1.01%) 4G
8 14 (0.94%) BIG-IP
8 14 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 13 (0.87%) 3GPP
9 13 (0.87%) OSPF
10 12 (0.81%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.67%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
11 10 (0.67%) WLAN
12 8 (0.54%) LAN
12 8 (0.54%) MPLS
12 8 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (6.31%) NoSQL
3 75 (5.03%) Power BI
4 74 (4.97%) Data Lake
5 61 (4.09%) DynamoDB
6 57 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
7 45 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (3.02%) Metadata
8 44 (2.95%) SQL Server
9 41 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
10 39 (2.62%) MongoDB
11 38 (2.55%) Relational Database
12 32 (2.15%) BigQuery
13 29 (1.95%) Big Data
14 28 (1.88%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.88%) Redis
15 25 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
17 17 (1.14%) Mixpanel
18 16 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 186 (12.48%) Jenkins
2 151 (10.13%) GitLab
3 141 (9.46%) Git
4 83 (5.57%) JIRA
5 23 (1.54%) JUnit
6 19 (1.28%) MLflow
7 16 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 15 (1.01%) Selenium
9 14 (0.94%) Postman
10 12 (0.81%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.74%) JMeter
12 9 (0.60%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 8 (0.54%) Gradle
13 8 (0.54%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.47%) IntelliJ
14 7 (0.47%) Maven
15 5 (0.34%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 364 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 322 (21.61%) Finance
3 198 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 117 (7.85%) Banking
5 88 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (2.01%) Retail
9 25 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.48%) Financial Institution
11 17 (1.14%) Legal
12 11 (0.74%) Front Office
12 11 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 11 (0.74%) Marketing
13 9 (0.60%) Military
14 8 (0.54%) Law
15 6 (0.40%) Aviation
15 6 (0.40%) Billing
15 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 397 (26.64%) Architect
2 216 (14.50%) Senior
3 197 (13.22%) Developer
4 155 (10.40%) Lead
5 133 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 128 (8.59%) Data Engineer
7 103 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
8 98 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 98 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 74 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
11 63 (4.23%) Technical Architect
12 55 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
13 50 (3.36%) Java Engineer
13 50 (3.36%) Security Engineer
14 46 (3.09%) Java Developer
14 46 (3.09%) Senior Developer
15 45 (3.02%) GCP Engineer
16 44 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
17 43 (2.89%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (10.07%) Kafka
2 142 (9.53%) REST
3 128 (8.59%) React
4 125 (8.39%) Spring
5 121 (8.12%) Node.js
6 114 (7.65%) Spring Boot
7 108 (7.25%) .NET
8 95 (6.38%) RESTful
9 63 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
10 61 (4.09%) AngularJS
11 60 (4.03%) OpenID
12 58 (3.89%) OAuth
13 56 (3.76%) PySpark
14 42 (2.82%) OAuth2
15 38 (2.55%) GraphQL
15 38 (2.55%) SAML
16 33 (2.21%) FastAPI
17 28 (1.88%) Next.js
18 27 (1.81%) .NET Core
18 27 (1.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 188 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
2 71 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
3 69 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 55 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 47 (3.15%) Security Posture
7 42 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (2.62%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.08%) Virtual Team
10 30 (2.01%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.81%) AI Agents
11 27 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
12 24 (1.61%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.48%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.41%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
16 18 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.14%) NHS
18 14 (0.94%) Low-Code
19 12 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.64%) Linux
2 49 (3.29%) Windows
3 29 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (0.87%) Unix
5 9 (0.60%) VMS
6 8 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.34%) Android
8 4 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.27%) 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%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.067%) AIX
11 1 (0.067%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (59.87%) CI/CD
2 768 (51.54%) DevOps
3 538 (36.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 422 (28.32%) Agile
5 377 (25.30%) Microservices
6 376 (25.23%) Containerisation
7 319 (21.41%) AI
8 306 (20.54%) Observability
9 252 (16.91%) Software Engineering
10 249 (16.71%) Migration
11 239 (16.04%) Event-Driven
12 222 (14.90%) Analytics
13 206 (13.83%) Test Automation
14 199 (13.36%) Roadmaps
15 181 (12.15%) Data Modelling
16 177 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
17 174 (11.68%) Data Engineering
18 170 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
19 169 (11.34%) Platform Engineering
20 162 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 569 (38.19%) Python
2 328 (22.01%) Java
3 274 (18.39%) SQL
4 125 (8.39%) TypeScript
5 98 (6.58%) Bash
6 94 (6.31%) C#
7 82 (5.50%) JavaScript
8 74 (4.97%) PowerShell
9 55 (3.69%) Bicep
10 52 (3.49%) Go
11 20 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.07%) Scala
13 12 (0.81%) Ruby
13 12 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.60%) Rust
15 7 (0.47%) C++
15 7 (0.47%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.47%) R
16 6 (0.40%) MATLAB
17 5 (0.34%) Korn
Qualifications
1 352 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 307 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 77 (5.17%) AWS Certification
4 75 (5.03%) Degree
5 54 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 52 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.35%) CISSP
10 30 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.87%) CISM
14 9 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.54%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.47%) CCIE
17 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.40%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.50%) Data Quality
2 66 (4.43%) QA
3 63 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (4.16%) GDPR
4 62 (4.16%) NIST
5 29 (1.95%) NCSC
6 25 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.74%) GRC
9 10 (0.67%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.60%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.60%) WCAG
11 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) SEPA
12 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) PMO
13 4 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 329 (22.08%) Docker
2 32 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.41%) vSphere
4 19 (1.28%) Active Directory
5 18 (1.21%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.01%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.27%) Snort
8 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) SRDF
10 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.067%) etcd
10 1 (0.067%) Firmware
10 1 (0.067%) IAG
10 1 (0.067%) KVM
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 513 (34.43%) Kubernetes
2 493 (33.09%) Terraform
3 119 (7.99%) Ansible
4 118 (7.92%) Grafana
5 96 (6.44%) Prometheus
6 47 (3.15%) Argo
7 26 (1.74%) Istio
8 20 (1.34%) Progress Chef
8 20 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (1.21%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.94%) Puppet
11 13 (0.87%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.54%) linkerd
13 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.27%) AirWatch
14 4 (0.27%) Cilium
14 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.27%) Kibana
14 4 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 218 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 130 (8.72%) Google
3 116 (7.79%) Databricks
4 76 (5.10%) Splunk
5 57 (3.83%) Oracle
6 44 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.75%) VMware
8 38 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 33 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.68%) CyberArk
10 25 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.61%) SAP
12 18 (1.21%) Pure Storage
13 16 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (1.01%) Cisco
14 15 (1.01%) Informatica
14 15 (1.01%) Salesforce
15 14 (0.94%) F5
15 14 (0.94%) Okta
15 14 (0.94%) Palo Alto