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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 110 314
Rank change year-on-year +54 +204 -74
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,810 705 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.89% 2.53% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.43% 7.02% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 473 135
10th Percentile £407 £400 £438
25th Percentile £463 £425 £478
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 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £73.00 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.44% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile - £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -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 15,839 10,043 10,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.00% 36.09% 30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,567 6,300 6,153
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,092 509 395
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.43 £15.27
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £24.17
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.36 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +19.58% -45.32% +25.08%
75th Percentile £69.75 £56.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £74.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £29.17 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.56% -41.66% +12.36%

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 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 24 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 24 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 +50 991 £575 +4.55% 1,597
North of England +31 363 £525 +5.00% 339
Yorkshire +24 181 £525 +5.00% 82
North West +21 157 £560 +12.90% 225
Midlands +18 128 £533 +2.20% 98
South East +10 117 £515 +17.71% 174
West Midlands +25 113 £551 +3.87% 68
South West +30 112 £550 +10.00% 157
East of England +6 50 £525 +12.90% 67
North East -15 33 £413 -31.25% 32
East Midlands -16 13 £414 -17.71% 30
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 68 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 56 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.04%) Confluence
4 46 (2.54%) Apache
5 23 (1.27%) SAS
6 15 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.66%) CMS
8 11 (0.61%) Camunda
9 10 (0.55%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.39%) nginx
12 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.17%) Apache Superset
13 3 (0.17%) Appian
13 3 (0.17%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
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
5 1 (0.055%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 8 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
1 8 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.22%) Workfront
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) Quorum
5 3 (0.17%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.17%) Ripple
6 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.055%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.055%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.055%) Sage 50
7 1 (0.055%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.055%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 1 (0.055%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1,026 (56.69%) AWS
2 804 (44.42%) Azure
3 413 (22.82%) GCP
4 294 (16.24%) GitHub
5 276 (15.25%) Serverless
6 191 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
7 170 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
8 162 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
9 155 (8.56%) Amazon S3
10 136 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
11 115 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 106 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 85 (4.70%) SaaS
15 82 (4.53%) Snowflake
16 71 (3.92%) Azure AKS
17 70 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
17 70 (3.87%) Power Platform
18 67 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
19 66 (3.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.76%) Firewall
2 44 (2.43%) Network Security
3 33 (1.82%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 77 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 74 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.81%) Metadata
7 68 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 61 (3.37%) DynamoDB
9 60 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
10 59 (3.26%) SQL Server
11 57 (3.15%) Power BI
12 33 (1.82%) MySQL
12 33 (1.82%) Redis
13 31 (1.71%) Big Data
14 29 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (1.60%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
16 22 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (1.22%) Delta Lake
17 16 (0.88%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 202 (11.16%) Git
2 185 (10.22%) GitLab
3 169 (9.34%) Jenkins
4 89 (4.92%) JIRA
5 34 (1.88%) JUnit
6 33 (1.82%) Claude Code
7 27 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 23 (1.27%) Mockito
9 22 (1.22%) Maven
10 16 (0.88%) JMeter
11 14 (0.77%) Postman
12 12 (0.66%) Bitbucket
12 12 (0.66%) Selenium
13 11 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.61%) MSI
14 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.39%) Gatling
16 6 (0.33%) MLflow
16 6 (0.33%) NeoLoad
16 6 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 468 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 409 (22.60%) Finance
3 239 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 180 (9.94%) Banking
5 169 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
7 47 (2.60%) Retail
8 35 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (1.71%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.27%) Front Office
12 20 (1.10%) Law
12 20 (1.10%) Military
13 18 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 18 (0.99%) Legal
14 16 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.83%) Marketing
16 10 (0.55%) Local Government
16 10 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 423 (23.37%) Architect
2 321 (17.73%) Senior
3 300 (16.57%) Developer
4 169 (9.34%) Lead
5 146 (8.07%) DevOps Engineer
6 135 (7.46%) Data Engineer
7 129 (7.13%) Solutions Architect
8 121 (6.69%) Software Engineer
9 108 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 94 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
11 76 (4.20%) Java Developer
12 73 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 67 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
14 65 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 64 (3.54%) Security Engineer
16 62 (3.43%) Java Engineer
17 61 (3.37%) Technical Architect
18 60 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
19 56 (3.09%) Cloud Architect
20 54 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 584 (32.27%) Terraform
2 275 (15.19%) REST
3 223 (12.32%) Kafka
4 180 (9.94%) Spring
5 175 (9.67%) Spring Boot
6 170 (9.39%) RESTful
7 150 (8.29%) React
8 135 (7.46%) .NET
9 122 (6.74%) Node.js
10 98 (5.41%) OAuth
11 68 (3.76%) OpenID
12 60 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 59 (3.26%) OAuth2
14 52 (2.87%) .NET Core
14 52 (2.87%) FastAPI
15 48 (2.65%) .NET Framework
15 48 (2.65%) GraphQL
16 47 (2.60%) PySpark
17 46 (2.54%) SAML
18 45 (2.49%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 268 (14.81%) Distributed Systems
2 120 (6.63%) Product Ownership
3 90 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
4 88 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
5 85 (4.70%) AI Agents
6 75 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 58 (3.20%) Security Posture
8 55 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 44 (2.43%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.77%) Data Centre
11 32 (1.77%) Virtual Team
12 29 (1.60%) Management Information System
13 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
13 25 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.33%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.22%) NHS
16 20 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
17 18 (0.99%) PKI
18 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.30%) Linux
2 71 (3.92%) Windows
3 41 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (1.05%) 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 (60.83%) CI/CD
2 877 (48.45%) DevOps
3 654 (36.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 604 (33.37%) Agile
5 507 (28.01%) Microservices
6 464 (25.64%) AI
7 443 (24.48%) Containerisation
8 429 (23.70%) Observability
9 427 (23.59%) Event-Driven
10 420 (23.20%) Software Engineering
11 335 (18.51%) Test Automation
12 309 (17.07%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 285 (15.75%) Platform Engineering
14 284 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 278 (15.36%) Migration
16 274 (15.14%) Technical Leadership
17 255 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
18 254 (14.03%) Continuous Improvement
19 245 (13.54%) Analytics
19 245 (13.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 694 (38.34%) Python
2 436 (24.09%) Java
3 283 (15.64%) SQL
4 194 (10.72%) TypeScript
5 133 (7.35%) C#
6 129 (7.13%) JavaScript
7 116 (6.41%) Bash
8 98 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 69 (3.81%) Bicep
10 66 (3.65%) Go
11 24 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.33%) Scala
12 20 (1.10%) C++
12 20 (1.10%) Rust
13 11 (0.61%) Ruby
14 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.44%) Korn
16 7 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.33%) PL/SQL
18 5 (0.28%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 457 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 373 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 103 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 100 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 94 (5.19%) Degree
6 76 (4.20%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.09%) CISSP
8 52 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 26 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.05%) CISM
14 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 15 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (0.55%) OSCP
16 10 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (0.50%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (6.96%) QA
2 116 (6.41%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.65%) GDPR
4 48 (2.65%) NIST
5 46 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.82%) NCSC
7 18 (0.99%) WCAG
8 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.77%) GRC
10 11 (0.61%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.55%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.39%) SEPA
14 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.33%) HL7
15 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.28%) PSD2
16 4 (0.22%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 416 (22.98%) Docker
2 27 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) IAG
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.55%) 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
Systems Management
1 641 (35.41%) Kubernetes
2 139 (7.68%) Ansible
3 110 (6.08%) Grafana
4 88 (4.86%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.93%) Argo
6 28 (1.55%) Progress Chef
7 27 (1.49%) Istio
8 22 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.77%) Puppet
11 9 (0.50%) Cilium
11 9 (0.50%) linkerd
12 6 (0.33%) Kibana
13 5 (0.28%) Control-M
14 4 (0.22%) Bosun
14 4 (0.22%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.17%) Packer
15 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.11%) HP Fortify
16 2 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 287 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 188 (10.39%) Google
3 117 (6.46%) Databricks
4 74 (4.09%) Oracle
5 55 (3.04%) Splunk
6 50 (2.76%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 44 (2.43%) OpenAI
9 40 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.66%) VMware
11 28 (1.55%) Informatica
12 26 (1.44%) SAP
13 22 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
14 21 (1.16%) Cisco
14 21 (1.16%) F5
14 21 (1.16%) IBM
14 21 (1.16%) Okta
15 19 (1.05%) Palo Alto
16 18 (0.99%) Foundry
17 16 (0.88%) Salesforce