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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 138 321
Rank change year-on-year +78 +183 -95
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,730 559 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 2.02% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.35% 5.72% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 382 144
10th Percentile £408 £400 £444
25th Percentile £463 £419 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £588
% change year-on-year +7.32% -12.77% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £74.50 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.37% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £72.25 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +15.60% -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 15,242 9,778 10,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.44% 35.32% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,359 6,185 6,651
10th Percentile £325 £306 £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 £676
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 486 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.56
Median hourly rate £43.56 £30.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.96% -34.94% +15.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +47.46% -34.44% +12.98%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +66 947 £563 +2.74% 1,466
North of England +47 334 £550 +10.00% 263
North West +28 158 £560 +12.00% 157
Yorkshire +25 156 £533 +6.65% 77
Midlands +32 121 £533 +6.65% 80
South West +40 116 £555 +20.00% 134
South East -1 113 £503 +11.67% 166
West Midlands +34 104 £551 +8.10% 41
East of England +26 52 £537 +15.52% 58
North East -15 28 £413 - 29
East Midlands -2 15 £425 -11.37% 39
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 64 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 59 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.01%) Confluence
4 45 (2.60%) Apache
5 22 (1.27%) SAS
6 15 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 10 (0.58%) Camunda
9 8 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 6 (0.35%) nginx
11 5 (0.29%) Apache Superset
11 5 (0.29%) CMS
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.23%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.23%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (0.46%) CPLEX
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.058%) Maya
5 1 (0.058%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.23%) Quorum
2 4 (0.23%) R3 Corda
2 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.17%) Ripple
3 3 (0.17%) Workfront
4 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.12%) Endur
5 1 (0.058%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.058%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.058%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.058%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.058%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.058%) SAP ECC
5 1 (0.058%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 937 (54.16%) AWS
2 772 (44.62%) Azure
3 369 (21.33%) GCP
4 297 (17.17%) GitHub
5 260 (15.03%) Serverless
6 190 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
7 180 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
8 148 (8.55%) AWS Lambda
9 142 (8.21%) Amazon S3
10 116 (6.71%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
11 95 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 93 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (5.20%) Power Platform
14 84 (4.86%) Azure AKS
15 79 (4.57%) SaaS
16 74 (4.28%) Snowflake
17 66 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 58 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
18 58 (3.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.32%) Firewall
2 49 (2.83%) DNS
3 46 (2.66%) Network Security
4 36 (2.08%) VPN
5 27 (1.56%) WAN
6 23 (1.33%) BGP
7 21 (1.21%) 5G
8 19 (1.10%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 17 (0.98%) 4G
10 16 (0.92%) OSPF
11 15 (0.87%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.75%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.75%) LAN
12 13 (0.75%) MPLS
13 12 (0.69%) TCP/IP
13 12 (0.69%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.64%) HTTP
14 11 (0.64%) VLAN
14 11 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (6.13%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 73 (4.22%) Power BI
5 62 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 58 (3.35%) Metadata
8 55 (3.18%) DynamoDB
9 54 (3.12%) MongoDB
10 52 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
11 51 (2.95%) SQL Server
12 37 (2.14%) Big Data
13 34 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (1.97%) Redis
14 30 (1.73%) Delta Lake
15 28 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (1.50%) BigQuery
17 25 (1.45%) MySQL
18 24 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
19 17 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 188 (10.87%) Git
2 174 (10.06%) Jenkins
3 170 (9.83%) GitLab
4 89 (5.14%) JIRA
5 26 (1.50%) JUnit
6 21 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 18 (1.04%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.92%) JMeter
9 14 (0.81%) Postman
10 13 (0.75%) Selenium
11 12 (0.69%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.64%) Bitbucket
12 11 (0.64%) MLflow
12 11 (0.64%) Mockito
12 11 (0.64%) MSI
13 7 (0.40%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.40%) Gatling
13 7 (0.40%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.40%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 416 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 372 (21.50%) Finance
3 232 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 151 (8.73%) Banking
5 131 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 43 (2.49%) Retail
8 37 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.85%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.33%) Financial Institution
12 22 (1.27%) Legal
13 20 (1.16%) Front Office
14 17 (0.98%) Law
15 14 (0.81%) Investment Banking
15 14 (0.81%) Marketing
16 13 (0.75%) Military
17 11 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.58%) Local Government
18 10 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 420 (24.28%) Architect
2 293 (16.94%) Senior
3 255 (14.74%) Developer
4 179 (10.35%) Lead
5 152 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 132 (7.63%) Data Engineer
7 124 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
8 117 (6.76%) Software Engineer
9 109 (6.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 84 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
11 67 (3.87%) Technical Architect
12 65 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
13 64 (3.70%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 62 (3.58%) Security Engineer
15 60 (3.47%) Senior Developer
16 59 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
17 58 (3.35%) Java Engineer
18 53 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 53 (3.06%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (12.77%) REST
2 173 (10.00%) Kafka
3 156 (9.02%) Spring
4 147 (8.50%) React
5 141 (8.15%) Spring Boot
6 137 (7.92%) RESTful
7 134 (7.75%) .NET
8 124 (7.17%) Node.js
9 75 (4.34%) OAuth
10 64 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 57 (3.29%) OpenID
12 55 (3.18%) PySpark
13 50 (2.89%) OAuth2
14 49 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
15 48 (2.77%) .NET Framework
16 47 (2.72%) .NET Core
17 44 (2.54%) FastAPI
17 44 (2.54%) GraphQL
18 37 (2.14%) LangChain
19 34 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 247 (14.28%) Distributed Systems
2 104 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
3 102 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 71 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (3.93%) Security Posture
6 61 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 58 (3.35%) Onboarding
8 47 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 35 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 33 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.85%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.79%) Management Information System
12 31 (1.79%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.50%) NHS
14 22 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
15 20 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
16 16 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.36%) Linux
2 70 (4.05%) Windows
3 46 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.27%) Unix
5 13 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.46%) VMS
8 7 (0.40%) Android
9 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.23%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.17%) Solaris
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.12%) CentOS
12 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.058%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,030 (59.54%) CI/CD
2 874 (50.52%) DevOps
3 615 (35.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 551 (31.85%) Agile
5 454 (26.24%) Microservices
6 422 (24.39%) Containerisation
7 403 (23.29%) AI
8 393 (22.72%) Observability
9 353 (20.40%) Software Engineering
10 335 (19.36%) Event-Driven
11 295 (17.05%) Test Automation
12 278 (16.07%) Migration
13 246 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
14 240 (13.87%) Analytics
15 228 (13.18%) Roadmaps
16 225 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 225 (13.01%) Technical Leadership
17 222 (12.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 219 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
19 210 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 663 (38.32%) Python
2 402 (23.24%) Java
3 295 (17.05%) SQL
4 169 (9.77%) TypeScript
5 121 (6.99%) Bash
6 120 (6.94%) C#
7 114 (6.59%) JavaScript
8 98 (5.66%) PowerShell
9 79 (4.57%) Bicep
10 61 (3.53%) Go
11 20 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 20 (1.16%) Scala
12 18 (1.04%) Rust
13 17 (0.98%) C++
14 15 (0.87%) Ruby
15 10 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.40%) Korn
17 7 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.29%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 422 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 357 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.09%) AWS Certification
4 87 (5.03%) Degree
5 84 (4.86%) DV Cleared
6 67 (3.87%) Azure Certification
7 48 (2.77%) CISSP
8 42 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.87%) CISM
14 12 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.52%) CCIE
15 9 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.40%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.36%) QA
2 102 (5.90%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.70%) GDPR
4 52 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.95%) NIST
6 43 (2.49%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.91%) NCSC
8 20 (1.16%) WCAG
9 19 (1.10%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.52%) GRC
11 9 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.46%) HL7
12 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 6 (0.35%) SEPA
13 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 391 (22.60%) Docker
2 24 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.69%) vSphere
6 9 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.52%) IAG
7 7 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) Snort
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.058%) etcd
10 1 (0.058%) Firmware
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 589 (34.05%) Kubernetes
2 562 (32.49%) Terraform
3 137 (7.92%) Ansible
4 112 (6.47%) Grafana
5 88 (5.09%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.31%) Argo
7 27 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.45%) Istio
9 20 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.92%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.92%) Puppet
11 11 (0.64%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.58%) linkerd
13 5 (0.29%) Cilium
14 3 (0.17%) Bosun
14 3 (0.17%) Control-M
14 3 (0.17%) Packer
15 2 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.12%) Nagios
15 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 273 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 164 (9.48%) Google
3 106 (6.13%) Databricks
4 72 (4.16%) Oracle
5 53 (3.06%) Splunk
6 49 (2.83%) Dynatrace
7 46 (2.66%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 30 (1.73%) VMware
11 27 (1.56%) SAP
12 26 (1.50%) Informatica
13 21 (1.21%) F5
13 21 (1.21%) IBM
14 19 (1.10%) Cisco
14 19 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.92%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.87%) Foundry
17 14 (0.81%) Okta