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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 114 313
Rank change year-on-year +59 +199 -80
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,809 689 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 2.48% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.46% 6.88% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 461 140
10th Percentile £407 £400 £438
25th Percentile £463 £430 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £739
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 2
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £73.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +16.80% -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 15,789 10,012 10,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.92% 36.00% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,566 6,294 6,274
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £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 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,072 498 415
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.48 £15.11
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.03 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.55% -42.41% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.88 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +26.25% -40.00% +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +49 991 £575 +4.55% 1,594
North of England +30 360 £527 +5.30% 356
Yorkshire +23 181 £525 +5.00% 82
North West +15 156 £560 +12.90% 233
Midlands +20 129 £545 +5.11% 129
South East +11 118 £530 +21.14% 183
South West +31 112 £550 +4.76% 154
West Midlands +20 112 £560 +5.66% 84
East of England +12 50 £519 +10.96% 78
North East -21 31 £413 - 41
East Midlands -10 15 £414 -17.71% 45
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 69 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (3.21%) Confluence
3 56 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 45 (2.49%) Apache
5 23 (1.27%) SAS
6 16 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 11 (0.61%) Camunda
9 10 (0.55%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.33%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Apache Superset
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.17%) Appian
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.39%) 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 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.22%) Workfront
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.17%) Quorum
4 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.17%) Ripple
5 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.055%) Sage 50
6 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.055%) SAP ECC
6 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,020 (56.38%) AWS
2 793 (43.84%) Azure
3 411 (22.72%) GCP
4 297 (16.42%) GitHub
5 274 (15.15%) Serverless
6 192 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
7 167 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
8 165 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
9 151 (8.35%) Amazon S3
10 131 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
11 112 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 102 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
13 93 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 85 (4.70%) SaaS
15 82 (4.53%) Snowflake
16 72 (3.98%) Azure AKS
17 71 (3.92%) Power Platform
18 68 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
19 67 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
20 66 (3.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.70%) Firewall
2 42 (2.32%) Network Security
3 34 (1.88%) DNS
4 31 (1.71%) VPN
5 28 (1.55%) BGP
6 26 (1.44%) WAN
7 19 (1.05%) BIG-IP
7 19 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 17 (0.94%) HTTP
9 16 (0.88%) OSPF
10 15 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.77%) MPLS
11 14 (0.77%) TCP/IP
12 13 (0.72%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.66%) LAN
14 11 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.61%) VLAN
14 11 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.55%) WLAN
16 9 (0.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
2 97 (5.36%) NoSQL
3 78 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (4.15%) Data Lake
5 74 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 68 (3.76%) Metadata
7 66 (3.65%) MongoDB
8 61 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
9 60 (3.32%) DynamoDB
10 59 (3.26%) Power BI
10 59 (3.26%) SQL Server
11 33 (1.82%) Big Data
12 32 (1.77%) MySQL
13 31 (1.71%) Redis
14 29 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (1.60%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (1.22%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 206 (11.39%) Git
2 187 (10.34%) GitLab
3 174 (9.62%) Jenkins
4 92 (5.09%) JIRA
5 34 (1.88%) JUnit
6 32 (1.77%) Claude Code
7 30 (1.66%) SonarQube
8 22 (1.22%) Maven
8 22 (1.22%) Mockito
9 16 (0.88%) JMeter
10 14 (0.77%) Postman
11 13 (0.72%) Bitbucket
11 13 (0.72%) Selenium
12 11 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.61%) MSI
13 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.39%) Gatling
15 6 (0.33%) NeoLoad
15 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 470 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 399 (22.06%) Finance
3 238 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 175 (9.67%) Banking
5 165 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 46 (2.54%) Retail
8 35 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 21 (1.16%) Front Office
12 20 (1.11%) Legal
12 20 (1.11%) Military
13 19 (1.05%) Law
14 17 (0.94%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
16 15 (0.83%) Marketing
16 15 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.55%) Local Government
17 10 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 426 (23.55%) Architect
2 322 (17.80%) Senior
3 295 (16.31%) Developer
4 170 (9.40%) Lead
5 150 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 137 (7.57%) Data Engineer
7 129 (7.13%) Solutions Architect
8 124 (6.85%) Software Engineer
9 109 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 93 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
11 78 (4.31%) Java Developer
12 71 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 70 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 65 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 63 (3.48%) Java Engineer
15 63 (3.48%) Security Engineer
16 62 (3.43%) Technical Architect
17 60 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
18 56 (3.10%) Cloud Architect
19 54 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 580 (32.06%) Terraform
2 268 (14.81%) REST
3 217 (12.00%) Kafka
4 180 (9.95%) Spring
5 175 (9.67%) Spring Boot
6 165 (9.12%) RESTful
7 148 (8.18%) React
8 137 (7.57%) .NET
9 122 (6.74%) Node.js
10 91 (5.03%) OAuth
11 63 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 63 (3.48%) OpenID
12 55 (3.04%) OAuth2
13 52 (2.87%) .NET Core
14 50 (2.76%) FastAPI
15 48 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 48 (2.65%) PySpark
16 47 (2.60%) GraphQL
17 43 (2.38%) SAML
18 42 (2.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 266 (14.70%) Distributed Systems
2 117 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 91 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
4 87 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
5 82 (4.53%) AI Agents
6 72 (3.98%) Onboarding
7 57 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 57 (3.15%) Security Posture
8 45 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 35 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
10 33 (1.82%) Virtual Team
11 32 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
14 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 23 (1.27%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.27%) NHS
16 20 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
17 17 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 115 (6.36%) Linux
2 70 (3.87%) Windows
3 42 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.11%) Unix
5 14 (0.77%) VMS
6 12 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.33%) Android
9 5 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.055%) AIX
12 1 (0.055%) Solaris
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,101 (60.86%) CI/CD
2 877 (48.48%) DevOps
3 658 (36.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 602 (33.28%) Agile
5 508 (28.08%) Microservices
6 453 (25.04%) AI
7 447 (24.71%) Containerisation
8 433 (23.94%) Observability
9 421 (23.27%) Event-Driven
10 419 (23.16%) Software Engineering
11 331 (18.30%) Test Automation
12 300 (16.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 286 (15.81%) Platform Engineering
14 283 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
15 277 (15.31%) Migration
16 271 (14.98%) Technical Leadership
17 255 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
18 249 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
19 247 (13.65%) Roadmaps
20 242 (13.38%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 692 (38.25%) Python
2 440 (24.32%) Java
3 282 (15.59%) SQL
4 190 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 130 (7.19%) C#
6 127 (7.02%) JavaScript
7 119 (6.58%) Bash
8 99 (5.47%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.81%) Bicep
10 64 (3.54%) Go
11 25 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 23 (1.27%) Scala
13 20 (1.11%) Rust
14 19 (1.05%) C++
15 12 (0.66%) Ruby
16 8 (0.44%) Korn
16 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
18 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 459 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 374 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 101 (5.58%) DV Cleared
4 97 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 92 (5.09%) Degree
6 75 (4.15%) Azure Certification
7 53 (2.93%) CISSP
8 50 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 24 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.94%) CISM
13 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 8 (0.44%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (7.02%) QA
2 115 (6.36%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.65%) NIST
5 47 (2.60%) GDPR
6 44 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.71%) NCSC
8 18 (1.00%) WCAG
9 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.77%) GRC
11 11 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.44%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.39%) SEPA
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 6 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.28%) PSD2
17 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 420 (23.22%) Docker
2 26 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) IAG
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.50%) vSphere
6 8 (0.44%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.11%) KVM
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) SRDF
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 637 (35.21%) Kubernetes
2 139 (7.68%) Ansible
3 114 (6.30%) Grafana
4 91 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.93%) Argo
6 29 (1.60%) Istio
7 27 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
9 15 (0.83%) Puppet
10 9 (0.50%) Cilium
10 9 (0.50%) linkerd
11 5 (0.28%) Control-M
11 5 (0.28%) Kibana
12 4 (0.22%) Bosun
12 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
13 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
14 2 (0.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 281 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 190 (10.50%) Google
3 116 (6.41%) Databricks
4 75 (4.15%) Oracle
5 53 (2.93%) Splunk
6 48 (2.65%) Dynatrace
7 43 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 42 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 41 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.60%) Informatica
10 29 (1.60%) VMware
11 26 (1.44%) SAP
12 22 (1.22%) IBM
13 21 (1.16%) Cisco
13 21 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
13 21 (1.16%) F5
14 19 (1.05%) Okta
14 19 (1.05%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.00%) Foundry
16 16 (0.88%) Salesforce