Cloud Native Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 313 230
Rank change year-on-year +131 -83 +5
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 408 253 531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.56% 0.68% 1.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.50% 2.21% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 163 346
10th Percentile £395 £456 £500
25th Percentile £413 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £506 £594 £638
% change year-on-year -14.74% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £37.38 - £75.75
25th Percentile £39.06 - -
Median hourly rate £51.25 - £78.00
75th Percentile £68.94 - £81.00
90th Percentile £78.28 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £51.25 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +22.61%

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 9,076 11,447 15,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.76% 30.63% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,792 7,375 10,973
10th Percentile £305 £281 £313
25th Percentile £408 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 832 523
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £32.77 £37.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +59.57% -11.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.98
90th Percentile £80.40 £72.50 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +60.20% -16.60%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +126 260 £525 -12.50% 1,723
North of England +52 60 £500 +2.77% 520
North West +29 30 £500 -1.53% 312
South East +25 30 £445 -10.55% 488
Yorkshire +30 29 £475 - 181
Midlands +14 22 £500 -23.08% 231
South West +22 15 £525 -16.67% 260
East of England +28 12 £450 -21.74% 203
West Midlands -2 12 £506 -22.15% 136
East Midlands - 10 £500 - 94
North East -1 1 - - 27
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.94%) Apache
4 10 (2.45%) Confluence
5 5 (1.23%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.98%) CMS
7 3 (0.74%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.74%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.49%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.49%) Camunda
8 2 (0.49%) Mule
8 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.25%) Drupal
9 1 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.49%) SAP PM
2 2 (0.49%) Shopify
3 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.25%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.25%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 210 (51.47%) AWS
2 134 (32.84%) Azure
3 98 (24.02%) GCP
4 92 (22.55%) Serverless
5 47 (11.52%) AWS Lambda
6 44 (10.78%) GitHub
7 38 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (8.82%) SaaS
9 34 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 33 (8.09%) Amazon S3
11 27 (6.62%) PaaS
12 24 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
13 21 (5.15%) IaaS
14 20 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (4.66%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (4.17%) Entra ID
17 17 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 17 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.37%) Firewall
2 16 (3.92%) VPN
3 10 (2.45%) 5G
3 10 (2.45%) WAN
4 9 (2.21%) DNS
4 9 (2.21%) MPLS
5 7 (1.72%) LAN
5 7 (1.72%) Network Security
6 5 (1.23%) BGP
7 4 (0.98%) DSL
7 4 (0.98%) OSPF
7 4 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.98%) VoIP
7 4 (0.98%) Wireshark
8 3 (0.74%) 4G
8 3 (0.74%) GPON
8 3 (0.74%) LTE
8 3 (0.74%) SSL
8 3 (0.74%) VLAN
8 3 (0.74%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 22 (5.39%) BigQuery
3 20 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.43%) MongoDB
4 14 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.19%) DynamoDB
6 12 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.94%) Big Data
7 11 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.45%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.21%) Power BI
10 8 (1.96%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.72%) MySQL
11 7 (1.72%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.23%) Tableau
14 4 (0.98%) Metadata
15 3 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (13.48%) Jenkins
2 27 (6.62%) GitLab
3 25 (6.13%) Git
4 18 (4.41%) JIRA
5 9 (2.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (1.96%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.47%) Selenium
9 5 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.23%) Gradle
10 4 (0.98%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.98%) git-flow
10 4 (0.98%) MLflow
10 4 (0.98%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.74%) Jaeger
11 3 (0.74%) JMeter
11 3 (0.74%) Log4j
12 2 (0.49%) MSI
12 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 139 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 88 (21.57%) Finance
3 49 (12.01%) Banking
4 27 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (3.19%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.96%) Billing
7 8 (1.96%) Marketing
7 8 (1.96%) Retail
8 6 (1.47%) Front Office
9 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.23%) Legal
9 5 (1.23%) Publishing
10 4 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.74%) Advertising
11 3 (0.74%) Aviation
11 3 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 132 (32.35%) Architect
2 59 (14.46%) Senior
3 50 (12.25%) Developer
4 44 (10.78%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (7.35%) Cloud Architect
6 28 (6.86%) Lead
7 26 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.88%) Data Engineer
10 22 (5.39%) GCP Architect
11 20 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 18 (4.41%) Data Architect
13 17 (4.17%) Azure Architect
14 16 (3.92%) AWS Architect
14 16 (3.92%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.43%) Senior Developer
16 12 (2.94%) Analyst
16 12 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (10.78%) Kafka
2 36 (8.82%) React
3 33 (8.09%) RESTful
4 28 (6.86%) OAuth
5 25 (6.13%) .NET
5 25 (6.13%) Spring
6 23 (5.64%) Node.js
6 23 (5.64%) REST
6 23 (5.64%) Spring Boot
7 22 (5.39%) GraphQL
8 21 (5.15%) AngularJS
9 15 (3.68%) AWS CDK
9 15 (3.68%) SAML
10 13 (3.19%) OpenID
11 12 (2.94%) OAuth2
12 11 (2.70%) JSON
13 10 (2.45%) PySpark
13 10 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
15 8 (1.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (6.62%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.66%) Public Cloud
4 16 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.43%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.23%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.98%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (11.03%) Linux
2 11 (2.70%) Windows
3 8 (1.96%) Unix
4 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.49%) SUSE
7 1 (0.25%) VMS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (47.79%) DevOps
2 180 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 149 (36.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 143 (35.05%) Agile
5 100 (24.51%) Microservices
6 83 (20.34%) Containerisation
7 82 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (16.67%) Migration
9 59 (14.46%) Analytics
10 51 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 49 (12.01%) Artificial Intelligence
11 49 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (11.76%) Observability
13 47 (11.52%) Mentoring
14 46 (11.27%) Event-Driven
15 44 (10.78%) Scrum
16 42 (10.29%) High Availability
16 42 (10.29%) Test Automation
17 40 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 40 (9.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 143 (35.05%) Python
2 89 (21.81%) Java
3 64 (15.69%) SQL
4 39 (9.56%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.60%) JavaScript
6 30 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 27 (6.62%) Bicep
7 27 (6.62%) Go
8 25 (6.13%) Bash
9 19 (4.66%) C#
10 14 (3.43%) Scala
11 8 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (1.23%) C++
13 4 (0.98%) Groovy
13 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.98%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.74%) PHP
14 3 (0.74%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.49%) DataWeave
15 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 46 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.84%) Degree
4 29 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 21 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 18 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.19%) Master's Degree
8 11 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.96%) CISSP
11 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 6 (1.47%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.47%) PMP
13 5 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.23%) CISM
13 5 (1.23%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.90%) GDPR
1 20 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 20 (4.90%) QA
2 19 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.21%) NIST
5 6 (1.47%) NCSC
6 4 (0.98%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.74%) RMADS
8 2 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.49%) OASIS TOSCA
9 1 (0.25%) COBIT
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.25%) MiFID
9 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (20.10%) Docker
2 15 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.74%) Firmware
5 2 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (37.99%) Terraform
2 148 (36.27%) Kubernetes
3 49 (12.01%) Ansible
4 32 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 25 (6.13%) Grafana
6 13 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 11 (2.70%) Puppet
7 11 (2.70%) Rancher
8 8 (1.96%) Amdocs OSS
9 7 (1.72%) Kibana
10 5 (1.23%) Argo
10 5 (1.23%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.98%) Istio
12 3 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.74%) Kiali
12 3 (0.74%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.74%) logstash
12 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 66 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.56%) Google
3 17 (4.17%) Splunk
4 16 (3.92%) Databricks
5 14 (3.43%) Oracle
6 10 (2.45%) Cisco
7 8 (1.96%) Alibaba
7 8 (1.96%) Amdocs
7 8 (1.96%) Ericsson
7 8 (1.96%) NetCracker
7 8 (1.96%) Nokia
7 8 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.72%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.47%) Ciena
9 6 (1.47%) Informatica
9 6 (1.47%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.47%) SAP
10 5 (1.23%) HP
10 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.23%) Progress