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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 171 317
Rank change year-on-year +107 +146 -84
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,618 422 252
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 1.59% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.07% 4.57% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 289 160
10th Percentile £413 £394 £455
25th Percentile £463 £413 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £515 £588
% change year-on-year +6.73% -12.28% -7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 0
10th Percentile £58.38 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £76.50 £51.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.27% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £68.94 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.28 -
UK median hourly rate £76.00 £51.25 -
% change year-on-year +48.29% - -

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 14,612 9,228 11,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.93% 34.73% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,072 5,886 7,346
10th Percentile £313 £304 £281
25th Percentile £415 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 441 822
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.90 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +36.36%
75th Percentile £71.00 £59.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.16 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.81 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.21% -14.48% +38.55%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +89 905 £575 +9.52% 337
North of England +72 309 £538 +7.50% 141
North West +50 155 £550 +10.00% 86
Yorkshire +31 141 £533 +12.26% 41
Midlands +25 116 £525 +5.00% 61
South West +44 102 £560 +6.67% 63
South East -3 96 £503 +12.92% 131
West Midlands +16 95 £575 +13.64% 40
East of England +9 51 £550 +22.22% 21
North East -17 21 £413 - 16
East Midlands -6 19 £431 -13.75% 21
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 61 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 51 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (2.78%) Confluence
4 41 (2.53%) Apache
5 18 (1.11%) SAS
5 18 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.56%) Camunda
7 9 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.37%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.31%) nginx
10 4 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.25%) CMS
10 4 (0.25%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.25%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 9 (0.56%) CPLEX
2 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.062%) LaTeX
5 1 (0.062%) Maya
5 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.25%) Quorum
4 4 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 3 (0.19%) Ripple
5 3 (0.19%) Workfront
6 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Endur
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.062%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.062%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.062%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.062%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.062%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.062%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 882 (54.51%) AWS
2 731 (45.18%) Azure
3 332 (20.52%) GCP
4 265 (16.38%) Serverless
5 263 (16.25%) GitHub
6 165 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 163 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
8 159 (9.83%) Amazon S3
9 146 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 96 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (5.75%) Power Platform
13 85 (5.25%) Azure AKS
14 80 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
15 79 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 72 (4.45%) SaaS
17 71 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 69 (4.26%) Snowflake
19 68 (4.20%) OpenShift
20 58 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.62%) Firewall
2 57 (3.52%) DNS
3 43 (2.66%) Network Security
4 40 (2.47%) VPN
5 27 (1.67%) WAN
6 24 (1.48%) BGP
7 22 (1.36%) 5G
8 19 (1.17%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.11%) 4G
10 17 (1.05%) OSPF
11 16 (0.99%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.80%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.80%) LAN
12 13 (0.80%) MPLS
13 11 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (0.62%) TCP/IP
14 10 (0.62%) VXLAN
14 10 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 74 (4.57%) Power BI
4 69 (4.26%) Data Lake
5 58 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (3.52%) DynamoDB
7 52 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 51 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 48 (2.97%) Metadata
10 45 (2.78%) MongoDB
11 43 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (1.92%) Redis
14 30 (1.85%) Big Data
15 29 (1.79%) Delta Lake
16 26 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
18 24 (1.48%) BigQuery
19 21 (1.30%) MySQL
20 20 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 196 (12.11%) Jenkins
2 163 (10.07%) Git
3 158 (9.77%) GitLab
4 94 (5.81%) JIRA
5 23 (1.42%) JUnit
6 20 (1.24%) MLflow
7 18 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 16 (0.99%) Postman
8 16 (0.99%) Selenium
9 13 (0.80%) JMeter
10 12 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.56%) Gradle
12 8 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.49%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.43%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.43%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.43%) Maven
13 7 (0.43%) MSI
14 6 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 391 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 359 (22.19%) Finance
3 219 (13.54%) Public Sector
4 139 (8.59%) Banking
5 101 (6.24%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 48 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (2.10%) Retail
9 33 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 23 (1.42%) Financial Institution
12 21 (1.30%) Legal
13 15 (0.93%) Front Office
14 13 (0.80%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.74%) Marketing
16 11 (0.68%) Law
16 11 (0.68%) Military
17 9 (0.56%) Billing
18 8 (0.49%) Retail Banking
19 7 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 420 (25.96%) Architect
2 241 (14.89%) Senior
3 226 (13.97%) Developer
4 172 (10.63%) Lead
5 155 (9.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 134 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 115 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
8 107 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 100 (6.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 76 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
11 71 (4.39%) Technical Architect
12 61 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
13 58 (3.58%) Java Developer
14 55 (3.40%) Java Engineer
15 54 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
16 52 (3.21%) Security Engineer
17 51 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
18 50 (3.09%) Senior Developer
19 49 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
20 44 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (10.82%) REST
2 160 (9.89%) Kafka
3 141 (8.71%) React
4 134 (8.28%) Spring
5 126 (7.79%) .NET
6 121 (7.48%) Spring Boot
7 118 (7.29%) Node.js
8 114 (7.05%) RESTful
9 63 (3.89%) OpenID
10 62 (3.83%) OAuth
11 59 (3.65%) OpenTelemetry
12 55 (3.40%) AngularJS
12 55 (3.40%) PySpark
13 44 (2.72%) OAuth2
14 43 (2.66%) GraphQL
15 39 (2.41%) .NET Core
15 39 (2.41%) .NET Framework
16 38 (2.35%) SAML
17 35 (2.16%) FastAPI
18 33 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 214 (13.23%) Distributed Systems
2 86 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
3 82 (5.07%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 62 (3.83%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 35 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 33 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 28 (1.73%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.48%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.42%) NHS
14 20 (1.24%) Mobile App
15 19 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 16 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (6.24%) Linux
2 58 (3.58%) Windows
3 36 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (1.05%) Unix
5 13 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.56%) VMS
6 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.37%) Android
8 4 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.12%) CentOS
10 2 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.062%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 975 (60.26%) CI/CD
2 831 (51.36%) DevOps
3 573 (35.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 470 (29.05%) Agile
5 411 (25.40%) Containerisation
6 404 (24.97%) Microservices
7 365 (22.56%) AI
8 335 (20.70%) Observability
9 288 (17.80%) Event-Driven
10 272 (16.81%) Migration
11 271 (16.75%) Software Engineering
12 244 (15.08%) Test Automation
13 236 (14.59%) Analytics
14 221 (13.66%) Roadmaps
15 206 (12.73%) Platform Engineering
16 204 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
17 187 (11.56%) Data Modelling
18 185 (11.43%) Data Engineering
19 182 (11.25%) Data Pipeline
20 179 (11.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 628 (38.81%) Python
2 361 (22.31%) Java
3 285 (17.61%) SQL
4 149 (9.21%) TypeScript
5 112 (6.92%) C#
6 104 (6.43%) Bash
7 96 (5.93%) JavaScript
8 80 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 68 (4.20%) Bicep
9 68 (4.20%) Go
10 25 (1.55%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.05%) Scala
12 14 (0.87%) Ruby
12 14 (0.87%) Rust
13 12 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.68%) C++
15 8 (0.49%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.31%) ActionScript
17 5 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 379 (23.42%) Security Cleared
2 325 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 85 (5.25%) Degree
4 80 (4.94%) AWS Certification
5 62 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 59 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 43 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.53%) CISSP
9 40 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 29 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.74%) CISM
15 10 (0.62%) CCIE
16 9 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
17 7 (0.43%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 78 (4.82%) QA
3 66 (4.08%) GDPR
4 64 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 60 (3.71%) NIST
6 37 (2.29%) NCSC
7 31 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 23 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.80%) WCAG
10 11 (0.68%) GRC
10 11 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.43%) SEPA
14 6 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.37%) PSD2
15 5 (0.31%) HL7
16 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 360 (22.25%) Docker
2 25 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.24%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.17%) vSphere
5 10 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) IAG
8 4 (0.25%) Snort
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) SRDF
10 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) etcd
10 1 (0.062%) Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) KVM
Systems Management
1 558 (34.49%) Kubernetes
2 533 (32.94%) Terraform
3 137 (8.47%) Ansible
4 124 (7.66%) Grafana
5 97 (6.00%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.84%) Argo
7 23 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.30%) Progress Chef
9 20 (1.24%) Istio
10 18 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.99%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.87%) Puppet
13 9 (0.56%) linkerd
14 4 (0.25%) Cilium
14 4 (0.25%) CSIRT
14 4 (0.25%) Kibana
14 4 (0.25%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.25%) Nagios
15 3 (0.19%) Packer
16 2 (0.12%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 251 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 137 (8.47%) Google
3 112 (6.92%) Databricks
4 76 (4.70%) Splunk
5 62 (3.83%) Oracle
6 44 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 43 (2.66%) Red Hat
8 37 (2.29%) VMware
9 28 (1.73%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.61%) SAP
11 25 (1.55%) CyberArk
12 19 (1.17%) F5
13 18 (1.11%) Palo Alto
13 18 (1.11%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.11%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.05%) Cisco
14 17 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
14 17 (1.05%) Informatica
15 16 (0.99%) Okta