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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 119 320
Rank change year-on-year +64 +201 -87
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,799 658 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.88% 2.37% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.46% 6.56% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 447 143
10th Percentile £413 £400 £428
25th Percentile £463 £435 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £728 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 4 2
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% -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 15,693 10,033 10,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.82% 36.06% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,517 6,319 6,321
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £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 £546
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.68% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,029 498 440
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.50 £14.37
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £22.47
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -42.46% +25.16%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.75 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.84% +8.57%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +52 978 £573 +4.09% 849
North of England +30 359 £550 +10.00% 188
Yorkshire +21 175 £527 +5.30% 57
North West +26 162 £560 +12.00% 110
Midlands +26 129 £527 +1.54% 50
South East +17 121 £500 +17.65% 120
South West +26 115 £550 +10.00% 109
West Midlands +28 111 £551 +3.87% 31
East of England +9 51 £519 +10.96% 36
North East -17 30 £400 - 21
East Midlands -5 16 £402 -20.00% 19
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 61 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.17%) Confluence
4 49 (2.72%) Apache
5 21 (1.17%) 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
11 5 (0.28%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 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 6 (0.33%) 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 1,009 (56.09%) AWS
2 804 (44.69%) Azure
3 408 (22.68%) GCP
4 305 (16.95%) GitHub
5 271 (15.06%) Serverless
6 197 (10.95%) GitHub Actions
7 170 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
8 163 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
9 147 (8.17%) Amazon S3
10 130 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
11 109 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
13 98 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 84 (4.67%) SaaS
15 80 (4.45%) Snowflake
16 72 (4.00%) Azure AKS
17 71 (3.95%) Power Platform
18 65 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
18 65 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 64 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 74 (4.11%) Firewall
2 50 (2.78%) Network Security
3 41 (2.28%) DNS
4 35 (1.95%) 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
1 150 (8.34%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 77 (4.28%) Data Lake
3 77 (4.28%) Relational Database
4 72 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 69 (3.84%) MongoDB
6 65 (3.61%) Metadata
7 61 (3.39%) SQL Server
8 60 (3.34%) Power BI
9 57 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
10 56 (3.11%) DynamoDB
11 35 (1.95%) Big Data
12 32 (1.78%) MySQL
13 30 (1.67%) Redis
14 29 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
15 27 (1.50%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.39%) BigQuery
18 23 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
19 16 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 204 (11.34%) Git
2 184 (10.23%) GitLab
3 178 (9.89%) 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
1 470 (26.13%) Social Skills
2 388 (21.57%) Finance
3 238 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 170 (9.45%) Banking
5 165 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (2.56%) Retail
8 36 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 22 (1.22%) Legal
12 21 (1.17%) Front Office
13 20 (1.11%) Military
14 18 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 18 (1.00%) Law
15 16 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.83%) Marketing
17 14 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.56%) Billing
18 10 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 438 (24.35%) Architect
2 312 (17.34%) Senior
3 292 (16.23%) Developer
4 165 (9.17%) Lead
5 151 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 139 (7.73%) Data Engineer
7 126 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
8 123 (6.84%) Software Engineer
9 107 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 89 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 77 (4.28%) Java Developer
12 72 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
13 66 (3.67%) Technical Architect
14 65 (3.61%) Senior Developer
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 53 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 579 (32.18%) Terraform
2 260 (14.45%) REST
3 211 (11.73%) Kafka
4 180 (10.01%) Spring
5 174 (9.67%) Spring Boot
6 163 (9.06%) RESTful
7 148 (8.23%) React
8 138 (7.67%) .NET
9 116 (6.45%) Node.js
10 82 (4.56%) OAuth
11 69 (3.84%) AngularJS
12 60 (3.34%) OpenID
13 52 (2.89%) .NET Core
13 52 (2.89%) PySpark
14 51 (2.83%) OAuth2
15 49 (2.72%) FastAPI
16 48 (2.67%) .NET Framework
17 43 (2.39%) GraphQL
18 39 (2.17%) LangChain
18 39 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 263 (14.62%) Distributed Systems
2 117 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 96 (5.34%) Legacy Systems
4 86 (4.78%) Enterprise Software
5 69 (3.84%) AI Agents
6 65 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 62 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 60 (3.34%) 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
14 25 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
16 23 (1.28%) Data Structures
17 22 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
18 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
19 16 (0.89%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.34%) Linux
2 72 (4.00%) Windows
3 42 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (1.33%) 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 1,087 (60.42%) CI/CD
2 882 (49.03%) DevOps
3 655 (36.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 589 (32.74%) Agile
5 504 (28.02%) Microservices
6 446 (24.79%) Containerisation
7 425 (23.62%) AI
8 422 (23.46%) Observability
9 408 (22.68%) Event-Driven
9 408 (22.68%) Software Engineering
10 319 (17.73%) Test Automation
11 285 (15.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 282 (15.68%) Platform Engineering
13 278 (15.45%) Migration
14 267 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 255 (14.17%) Technical Leadership
16 252 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
17 243 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 238 (13.23%) Roadmaps
19 237 (13.17%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 686 (38.13%) Python
2 438 (24.35%) Java
3 284 (15.79%) SQL
4 178 (9.89%) TypeScript
5 131 (7.28%) C#
6 123 (6.84%) Bash
6 123 (6.84%) JavaScript
7 99 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 74 (4.11%) Bicep
9 58 (3.22%) Go
10 25 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.33%) Scala
12 20 (1.11%) Rust
13 19 (1.06%) C++
14 15 (0.83%) Ruby
15 11 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.39%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.39%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 457 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 372 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 100 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 88 (4.89%) Degree
5 87 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 70 (3.89%) Azure Certification
7 52 (2.89%) CISSP
8 45 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.33%) 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%) CCIE
18 9 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (6.95%) QA
2 108 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.00%) GDPR
4 52 (2.89%) NIST
5 49 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.45%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.83%) NCSC
8 19 (1.06%) WCAG
9 17 (0.94%) 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
1 420 (23.35%) 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%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) etcd
9 1 (0.056%) Firmware
9 1 (0.056%) KVM
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 636 (35.35%) Kubernetes
2 142 (7.89%) Ansible
3 114 (6.34%) Grafana
4 91 (5.06%) Prometheus
5 39 (2.17%) Argo
6 30 (1.67%) Istio
7 27 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.06%) 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%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 275 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 178 (9.89%) Google
3 118 (6.56%) Databricks
4 75 (4.17%) Oracle
5 54 (3.00%) Splunk
6 49 (2.72%) Dynatrace
7 40 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 40 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.06%) 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