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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 186 313
Rank change year-on-year +123 +127 -81
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,602 391 253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 1.53% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.13% 4.39% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 271 164
10th Percentile £407 £395 £456
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 £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £512 £600
% change year-on-year +7.42% -14.67% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 0
10th Percentile £55.00 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year +48.29% - -

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 14,397 8,905 11,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.85% 34.74% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,957 5,698 7,319
10th Percentile £313 £303 £280
25th Percentile £415 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.64% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 782 426 840
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.70 £12.23
25th Percentile £21.14 £19.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% -10.81% +56.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.07 £81.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £31.29 £35.65
% change year-on-year +35.21% -12.24% +58.44%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +93 897 £575 +9.52% 407
North of England +68 300 £538 +7.50% 130
North West +52 154 £550 +10.00% 86
Yorkshire +33 133 £539 +7.75% 34
Midlands +24 111 £525 +5.00% 43
South West +45 102 £560 +6.67% 68
South East +2 100 £492 +11.70% 120
West Midlands +21 90 £563 +11.26% 31
East of England +17 52 £550 +22.22% 15
North East - 21 £413 - 13
East Midlands -2 20 £425 -15.00% 12
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 59 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (2.75%) Confluence
4 40 (2.50%) Apache
5 19 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.12%) SAS
7 13 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.56%) Camunda
8 9 (0.56%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.31%) nginx
11 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.19%) CMS
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications
1 9 (0.56%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.062%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.062%) Maya
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Quorum
3 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.19%) Ripple
5 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.12%) Endur
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.12%) Workfront
6 1 (0.062%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.062%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.062%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.062%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.062%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 880 (54.93%) AWS
2 727 (45.38%) Azure
3 335 (20.91%) GCP
4 262 (16.35%) GitHub
4 262 (16.35%) Serverless
5 164 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
6 163 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
7 154 (9.61%) Amazon S3
8 142 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 94 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
11 91 (5.68%) Power Platform
12 85 (5.31%) Azure AKS
13 79 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (4.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (4.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 70 (4.37%) SaaS
17 68 (4.24%) OpenShift
18 66 (4.12%) Snowflake
19 57 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.68%) Firewall
2 58 (3.62%) DNS
3 45 (2.81%) Network Security
4 41 (2.56%) VPN
5 27 (1.69%) WAN
6 24 (1.50%) BGP
7 22 (1.37%) 5G
8 19 (1.19%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.12%) 4G
10 17 (1.06%) OSPF
11 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.81%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.81%) LAN
12 13 (0.81%) MPLS
13 11 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.62%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 71 (4.43%) Power BI
4 68 (4.24%) Data Lake
5 57 (3.56%) DynamoDB
6 55 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 51 (3.18%) SQL Server
8 46 (2.87%) Metadata
8 46 (2.87%) MongoDB
9 43 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
10 40 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
11 32 (2.00%) Redis
12 29 (1.81%) Big Data
13 27 (1.69%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 24 (1.50%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.31%) MySQL
18 20 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (12.23%) Jenkins
2 162 (10.11%) Git
3 156 (9.74%) GitLab
4 94 (5.87%) JIRA
5 24 (1.50%) JUnit
6 19 (1.19%) MLflow
7 18 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 16 (1.00%) Selenium
9 15 (0.94%) Postman
10 12 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 12 (0.75%) JMeter
11 9 (0.56%) Gradle
12 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.50%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.44%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.44%) Maven
13 7 (0.44%) MSI
14 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 384 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 353 (22.03%) Finance
3 217 (13.55%) Public Sector
4 135 (8.43%) Banking
5 99 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
6 49 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (2.06%) Retail
8 31 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 23 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.31%) Legal
11 13 (0.81%) Front Office
11 13 (0.81%) Investment Banking
12 12 (0.75%) Marketing
13 11 (0.69%) Law
13 11 (0.69%) Military
14 7 (0.44%) Billing
14 7 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 416 (25.97%) Architect
2 238 (14.86%) Senior
3 227 (14.17%) Developer
4 171 (10.67%) Lead
5 154 (9.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 128 (7.99%) Data Engineer
7 109 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
8 108 (6.74%) Software Engineer
9 101 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 77 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.43%) Technical Architect
12 62 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
13 57 (3.56%) Java Developer
14 56 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
15 55 (3.43%) Java Engineer
16 52 (3.25%) Security Engineer
17 51 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
17 51 (3.18%) Senior Developer
18 49 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
19 43 (2.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (10.74%) REST
2 157 (9.80%) Kafka
3 139 (8.68%) React
4 132 (8.24%) Spring
5 126 (7.87%) .NET
6 119 (7.43%) Spring Boot
7 117 (7.30%) Node.js
8 112 (6.99%) RESTful
9 64 (4.00%) OAuth
10 63 (3.93%) OpenID
11 59 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
12 57 (3.56%) AngularJS
13 55 (3.43%) PySpark
14 45 (2.81%) OAuth2
15 43 (2.68%) GraphQL
16 39 (2.43%) SAML
17 37 (2.31%) .NET Core
17 37 (2.31%) .NET Framework
18 36 (2.25%) FastAPI
19 33 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.30%) Distributed Systems
2 81 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 80 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
4 64 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.87%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (2.43%) Public Cloud
8 36 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 32 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.87%) AI Agents
12 28 (1.75%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.50%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.37%) NHS
15 19 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.12%) Linux
2 57 (3.56%) Windows
3 36 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (1.00%) Unix
5 13 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.62%) VMS
7 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.37%) Android
9 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.19%) Solaris
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.12%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.062%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (60.24%) CI/CD
2 827 (51.62%) DevOps
3 568 (35.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 467 (29.15%) Agile
5 409 (25.53%) Containerisation
6 403 (25.16%) Microservices
7 354 (22.10%) AI
8 331 (20.66%) Observability
9 279 (17.42%) Event-Driven
10 272 (16.98%) Migration
11 271 (16.92%) Software Engineering
12 236 (14.73%) Test Automation
13 231 (14.42%) Analytics
14 219 (13.67%) Roadmaps
15 204 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
16 200 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
17 181 (11.30%) Data Modelling
18 180 (11.24%) Data Engineering
19 176 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
20 174 (10.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 623 (38.89%) Python
2 356 (22.22%) Java
3 279 (17.42%) SQL
4 144 (8.99%) TypeScript
5 112 (6.99%) C#
6 104 (6.49%) Bash
7 96 (5.99%) JavaScript
8 81 (5.06%) PowerShell
9 66 (4.12%) Bicep
10 64 (4.00%) Go
11 26 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.94%) Scala
13 14 (0.87%) Ruby
13 14 (0.87%) Rust
14 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.69%) C++
16 7 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.31%) ActionScript
17 5 (0.31%) Korn
Qualifications
1 380 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 327 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.31%) Degree
4 81 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 63 (3.93%) DV Cleared
6 59 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 43 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.56%) CISSP
9 39 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.75%) CISM
14 10 (0.62%) CCIE
15 9 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.44%) JNCIE
17 6 (0.37%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.18%) Data Quality
2 77 (4.81%) QA
3 63 (3.93%) GDPR
3 63 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 60 (3.75%) NIST
5 37 (2.31%) NCSC
6 31 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.81%) WCAG
9 11 (0.69%) GRC
9 11 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.62%) ISO 20022
10 10 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.44%) SEPA
13 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.37%) PSD2
14 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 4 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 360 (22.47%) Docker
2 27 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.25%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.19%) vSphere
5 11 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) IAG
6 4 (0.25%) Snort
6 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) SRDF
8 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.062%) etcd
8 1 (0.062%) Firmware
8 1 (0.062%) KVM
Systems Management
1 560 (34.96%) Kubernetes
2 532 (33.21%) Terraform
3 138 (8.61%) Ansible
4 122 (7.62%) Grafana
5 97 (6.05%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.75%) Argo
7 23 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.25%) Istio
10 18 (1.12%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.94%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.87%) Puppet
13 9 (0.56%) linkerd
14 4 (0.25%) Cilium
14 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.25%) Kibana
14 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.25%) Nagios
15 3 (0.19%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 249 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.55%) Google
3 111 (6.93%) Databricks
4 77 (4.81%) Splunk
5 61 (3.81%) Oracle
6 43 (2.68%) Dynatrace
6 43 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 43 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.43%) VMware
8 28 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 26 (1.62%) SAP
10 25 (1.56%) CyberArk
11 19 (1.19%) F5
12 18 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.12%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.12%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.06%) Cisco
13 17 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (1.00%) Informatica
14 16 (1.00%) Okta