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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 262 245
Rank change year-on-year +172 -17 +1
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 887 281 383
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 0.90% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.05% 2.86% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 177 227
10th Percentile £400 £438 £450
25th Percentile £450 £493 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £688
90th Percentile £738 £760 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £61.15 £61.93 £36.76
25th Percentile £63.63 £71.94 £45.88
Median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £51.94
Median % change year-on-year - +63.65% -
75th Percentile £96.25 £92.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £100.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £85.00 £51.94
% change year-on-year - +63.65% -

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 11,022 9,830 12,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.43% 31.57% 32.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,901 5,869 8,584
10th Percentile £285 £300 £275
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 314 460
10th Percentile £13.95 £16.04 £17.00
25th Percentile £18.25 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +0.56% +27.86%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.22 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £35.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -23.13% -21.07% +29.93%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +144 505 £550 -8.33% 159
North of England +63 163 £500 - 53
Yorkshire +41 97 £500 - 18
Midlands +22 66 £525 -20.45% 27
North West +19 61 £500 +0.70% 34
South East +16 61 £475 -7.77% 93
West Midlands +21 51 £534 -19.82% 20
South West +31 43 £648 +1.25% 47
East of England +9 30 £531 -7.61% 12
East Midlands +3 15 £436 -24.17% 7
North East -3 5 £573 +4.09% 1
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 35 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.27%) Confluence
4 13 (1.47%) Apache
5 12 (1.35%) nginx
6 8 (0.90%) CMS
6 8 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.90%) SAS
7 4 (0.45%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.34%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.34%) Mule
8 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.56%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.45%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.45%) Maximo
3 4 (0.45%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.11%) Finacle
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 481 (54.23%) AWS
2 376 (42.39%) Azure
3 255 (28.75%) GCP
4 188 (21.20%) Serverless
5 165 (18.60%) GitHub
6 98 (11.05%) GitHub Actions
7 90 (10.15%) Amazon S3
8 89 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (6.99%) Azure AKS
11 60 (6.76%) SaaS
12 59 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 47 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
14 43 (4.85%) Entra ID
15 41 (4.62%) PaaS
16 39 (4.40%) OpenShift
17 37 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
18 35 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 34 (3.83%) Azure Functions
20 32 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 37 (4.17%) Firewall
2 22 (2.48%) Network Security
3 20 (2.25%) WAN
4 14 (1.58%) VPN
5 11 (1.24%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.13%) MPLS
7 9 (1.01%) BGP
7 9 (1.01%) DNS
7 9 (1.01%) LAN
8 6 (0.68%) SSL
9 4 (0.45%) Broadband
9 4 (0.45%) HTTP
9 4 (0.45%) NX-OS
10 3 (0.34%) NaaS
10 3 (0.34%) VLAN
10 3 (0.34%) VSAN
10 3 (0.34%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.23%) AMQP
11 2 (0.23%) NAS
11 2 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 35 (3.95%) BigQuery
4 34 (3.83%) DynamoDB
5 31 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 31 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 30 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 26 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (2.71%) Data Lake
9 24 (2.71%) MySQL
10 20 (2.25%) Metadata
11 18 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.92%) Redis
13 16 (1.80%) Big Data
13 16 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.80%) Power BI
14 12 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 140 (15.78%) Jenkins
2 100 (11.27%) Git
3 89 (10.03%) GitLab
4 52 (5.86%) JIRA
5 38 (4.28%) Liquibase
6 17 (1.92%) CircleCI
7 15 (1.69%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.58%) MLflow
9 12 (1.35%) Gradle
10 11 (1.24%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.24%) Maven
10 11 (1.24%) Selenium
11 10 (1.13%) JUnit
12 9 (1.01%) JMeter
12 9 (1.01%) Mockito
13 8 (0.90%) Snyk
14 7 (0.79%) Gatling
14 7 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.56%) Mocha
15 5 (0.56%) SonarLint
General
1 287 (32.36%) Social Skills
2 175 (19.73%) Finance
3 102 (11.50%) Banking
4 99 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 53 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 28 (3.16%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.14%) Investment Banking
10 18 (2.03%) Front Office
11 17 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 14 (1.58%) Publishing
13 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.35%) Marketing
13 12 (1.35%) Retail
14 9 (1.01%) Legal
15 8 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Aviation
16 7 (0.79%) Billing
16 7 (0.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 210 (23.68%) Architect
2 158 (17.81%) Developer
3 139 (15.67%) Senior
4 80 (9.02%) Lead
5 63 (7.10%) Software Engineer
6 58 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (4.85%) Data Engineer
9 40 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (4.28%) Java Developer
11 36 (4.06%) Senior Developer
12 30 (3.38%) Consultant
13 26 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
15 24 (2.71%) GCP Engineer
15 24 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (2.71%) Python Developer
15 24 (2.71%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.21%) REST
2 115 (12.97%) RESTful
3 97 (10.94%) Node.js
4 80 (9.02%) .NET
5 74 (8.34%) React
6 72 (8.12%) Kafka
7 69 (7.78%) Spring
8 61 (6.88%) Spring Boot
9 55 (6.20%) GraphQL
10 46 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 41 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
11 41 (4.62%) OAuth
12 34 (3.83%) Playwright
13 27 (3.04%) YAML
14 26 (2.93%) FastAPI
14 26 (2.93%) HTML
15 23 (2.59%) OAuth2
15 23 (2.59%) PyTorch
15 23 (2.59%) Vitest
16 22 (2.48%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
2 53 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 46 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 41 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
6 27 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.59%) Security Posture
9 20 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.92%) Fixed Income
11 17 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 15 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.58%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.58%) Genomics
14 12 (1.35%) Derivative
14 12 (1.35%) Life Science
15 11 (1.24%) NHS
16 9 (1.01%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 89 (10.03%) Linux
2 13 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (1.47%) Unix
2 13 (1.47%) Windows
3 7 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.56%) VMS
5 4 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.34%) CentOS
6 3 (0.34%) Solaris
6 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (56.93%) CI/CD
2 461 (51.97%) DevOps
3 367 (41.38%) Agile
4 297 (33.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 245 (27.62%) Containerisation
6 236 (26.61%) Microservices
7 179 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
8 174 (19.62%) Software Engineering
9 157 (17.70%) AI
10 141 (15.90%) Test Automation
11 123 (13.87%) Machine Learning
12 113 (12.74%) Migration
13 112 (12.63%) Roadmaps
14 105 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
15 101 (11.39%) Mentoring
16 94 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
17 92 (10.37%) Event-Driven
17 92 (10.37%) Observability
18 85 (9.58%) Full-Stack Development
19 83 (9.36%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 328 (36.98%) Python
2 166 (18.71%) Java
3 162 (18.26%) SQL
4 89 (10.03%) TypeScript
5 71 (8.00%) Go
6 61 (6.88%) JavaScript
7 50 (5.64%) C#
8 41 (4.62%) Bash
8 41 (4.62%) Bicep
9 32 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.01%) Ruby
11 8 (0.90%) Scala
11 8 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.68%) VBA
13 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.56%) R
14 3 (0.34%) C
14 3 (0.34%) PHP
14 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 166 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 132 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 91 (10.26%) Degree
4 57 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (5.98%) AWS Certification
6 45 (5.07%) Master's Degree
7 38 (4.28%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (3.04%) CISSP
10 26 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 18 (2.03%) DV Cleared
13 16 (1.80%) CISM
14 14 (1.58%) MCP
15 13 (1.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 13 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (1.47%) PhD
16 12 (1.35%) CCIE
17 9 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
17 9 (1.01%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (5.52%) NIST
2 48 (5.41%) QA
3 47 (5.30%) GDPR
4 45 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.82%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.14%) EU AI Act
7 15 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.69%) PSD2
8 10 (1.13%) ISO 20022
8 10 (1.13%) NCSC
9 9 (1.01%) SEPA
10 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.56%) MiFID
11 4 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.45%) SLA
11 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.34%) RMADS
12 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 297 (33.48%) Docker
2 28 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.35%) vSphere
5 10 (1.13%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 327 (36.87%) Kubernetes
2 286 (32.24%) Terraform
3 87 (9.81%) Prometheus
4 85 (9.58%) Grafana
5 74 (8.34%) Ansible
6 35 (3.95%) Argo
7 21 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (2.03%) Kibana
9 10 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (1.13%) logstash
9 10 (1.13%) Puppet
10 8 (0.90%) Kubeflow
10 8 (0.90%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.68%) SCCM
12 5 (0.56%) Istio
12 5 (0.56%) Packer
13 4 (0.45%) Consul
13 4 (0.45%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.45%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 152 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 91 (10.26%) Google
3 52 (5.86%) Databricks
4 43 (4.85%) Splunk
5 41 (4.62%) Oracle
6 30 (3.38%) Red Hat
7 29 (3.27%) VMware
8 23 (2.59%) Cisco
9 18 (2.03%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.58%) Foundry
12 12 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.24%) IBM
13 11 (1.24%) Solace
14 9 (1.01%) CyberArk
14 9 (1.01%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.01%) Informatica
14 9 (1.01%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.90%) Alibaba
15 8 (0.90%) BiZZdesign