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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 140 316
Rank change year-on-year +80 +176 -89
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 1,727 564 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.79% 2.04% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.32% 5.76% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 385 146
10th Percentile £409 £400 £445
25th Percentile £463 £420 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.08% -13.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £522 £588
% change year-on-year +5.41% -11.19% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 4 2
10th Percentile £62.50 £37.38 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £39.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate £72.25 £51.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.98% -39.71% +8.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £68.94 £92.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £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 15,250 9,787 10,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.47% 35.40% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,356 6,184 6,654
10th Percentile £325 £305 £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 899 490 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.48 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.91
Median hourly rate £43.56 £30.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -36.32% +15.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £29.33 £45.00
% change year-on-year +48.31% -34.82% +12.74%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +63 945 £563 +2.27% 1,014
North of England +43 334 £550 +10.00% 201
North West +29 158 £560 +12.00% 117
Yorkshire +25 156 £538 +7.50% 62
Midlands +31 121 £533 +6.65% 48
South West +38 117 £550 +18.92% 112
South East +4 112 £505 +12.22% 140
West Midlands +33 103 £551 +8.10% 25
East of England +24 51 £537 +15.52% 37
North East -15 28 £413 - 22
East Midlands -9 16 £425 -15.00% 23
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 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 59 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (3.01%) Confluence
4 45 (2.61%) 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%) 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 (54.26%) AWS
2 777 (44.99%) Azure
3 373 (21.60%) GCP
4 296 (17.14%) GitHub
5 260 (15.06%) Serverless
6 191 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
7 178 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
8 148 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
9 141 (8.16%) Amazon S3
10 116 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
11 95 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 94 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
13 93 (5.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 89 (5.15%) Power Platform
15 83 (4.81%) Azure AKS
16 79 (4.57%) SaaS
17 75 (4.34%) Snowflake
18 66 (3.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 58 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
20 57 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 92 (5.33%) Firewall
2 48 (2.78%) DNS
3 46 (2.66%) Network Security
4 36 (2.08%) VPN
5 27 (1.56%) WAN
6 24 (1.39%) BGP
7 21 (1.22%) 5G
8 19 (1.10%) BIG-IP
8 19 (1.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 17 (0.98%) 4G
10 16 (0.93%) OSPF
11 15 (0.87%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.75%) 3GPP
12 13 (0.75%) LAN
12 13 (0.75%) MPLS
12 13 (0.75%) VXLAN
13 12 (0.69%) TCP/IP
14 11 (0.64%) HTTP
14 11 (0.64%) VLAN
14 11 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 105 (6.08%) NoSQL
3 75 (4.34%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.17%) Power BI
5 62 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 59 (3.42%) Metadata
8 54 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 54 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 52 (3.01%) Amazon RDS
10 51 (2.95%) SQL Server
11 37 (2.14%) Big Data
12 34 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (1.97%) Redis
13 30 (1.74%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 26 (1.51%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.45%) MySQL
17 24 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 186 (10.77%) Git
2 173 (10.02%) Jenkins
3 170 (9.84%) GitLab
4 89 (5.15%) JIRA
5 26 (1.51%) JUnit
6 21 (1.22%) SonarQube
7 19 (1.10%) Claude Code
8 16 (0.93%) 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 (0.41%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.41%) Gatling
13 7 (0.41%) IntelliJ
13 7 (0.41%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 416 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 373 (21.60%) Finance
3 229 (13.26%) Public Sector
4 152 (8.80%) Banking
5 133 (7.70%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
6 44 (2.55%) Retail
7 38 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (1.85%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.33%) Financial Institution
11 22 (1.27%) Legal
12 20 (1.16%) Front Office
13 17 (0.98%) Law
14 14 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.81%) Marketing
15 13 (0.75%) Military
16 11 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.58%) Billing
17 10 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 419 (24.26%) Architect
2 293 (16.97%) Senior
3 256 (14.82%) Developer
4 176 (10.19%) Lead
5 150 (8.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 130 (7.53%) Data Engineer
7 123 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
8 115 (6.66%) Software Engineer
9 109 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 84 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
11 65 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
11 65 (3.76%) Technical Architect
12 64 (3.71%) Java Developer
13 62 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 62 (3.59%) Security Engineer
14 60 (3.47%) Senior Developer
15 58 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
16 57 (3.30%) Java Engineer
17 55 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 52 (3.01%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (12.80%) REST
2 173 (10.02%) Kafka
3 154 (8.92%) Spring
4 145 (8.40%) React
5 141 (8.16%) Spring Boot
6 137 (7.93%) RESTful
7 134 (7.76%) .NET
8 121 (7.01%) Node.js
9 74 (4.28%) OAuth
10 63 (3.65%) AngularJS
11 56 (3.24%) OpenID
12 55 (3.18%) PySpark
13 49 (2.84%) OAuth2
13 49 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
14 48 (2.78%) .NET Framework
15 47 (2.72%) .NET Core
16 44 (2.55%) FastAPI
16 44 (2.55%) GraphQL
17 37 (2.14%) LangChain
18 35 (2.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 246 (14.24%) Distributed Systems
2 103 (5.96%) Legacy Systems
2 103 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 71 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
4 68 (3.94%) Security Posture
5 61 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 59 (3.42%) Onboarding
7 49 (2.84%) AI Agents
8 36 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 34 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.91%) Data Centre
11 31 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.80%) Virtual Team
12 26 (1.51%) NHS
13 22 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
17 16 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
17 16 (0.93%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.43%) Linux
2 71 (4.11%) 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 (0.41%) 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 1,032 (59.76%) CI/CD
2 871 (50.43%) DevOps
3 616 (35.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 549 (31.79%) Agile
5 453 (26.23%) Microservices
6 421 (24.38%) Containerisation
7 403 (23.34%) AI
8 392 (22.70%) Observability
9 352 (20.38%) Software Engineering
10 337 (19.51%) Event-Driven
11 294 (17.02%) Test Automation
12 275 (15.92%) Migration
13 248 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
14 240 (13.90%) Analytics
15 228 (13.20%) Roadmaps
16 226 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
17 225 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
18 224 (12.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 219 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
20 211 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 664 (38.45%) Python
2 400 (23.16%) Java
3 296 (17.14%) SQL
4 167 (9.67%) TypeScript
5 121 (7.01%) C#
6 120 (6.95%) Bash
7 113 (6.54%) JavaScript
8 97 (5.62%) PowerShell
9 77 (4.46%) Bicep
10 60 (3.47%) 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 (0.41%) Korn
17 7 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.29%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 419 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 354 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 88 (5.10%) AWS Certification
4 85 (4.92%) Degree
5 84 (4.86%) DV Cleared
6 68 (3.94%) Azure Certification
7 48 (2.78%) CISSP
8 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.87%) CISM
14 11 (0.64%) 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 (0.41%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (6.37%) QA
2 101 (5.85%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.71%) GDPR
4 52 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (3.01%) NIST
5 43 (2.49%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.91%) NCSC
7 20 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.16%) WCAG
8 11 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (0.52%) GRC
9 9 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.46%) HL7
10 8 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 6 (0.35%) SEPA
11 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
12 4 (0.23%) PSD2
System Software
1 390 (22.58%) Docker
2 24 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.64%) vSphere
6 9 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.52%) IAG
7 7 (0.41%) 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
1 590 (34.16%) Kubernetes
2 561 (32.48%) Terraform
3 137 (7.93%) Ansible
4 111 (6.43%) Grafana
5 87 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 39 (2.26%) Argo
7 27 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.45%) Istio
9 19 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (0.93%) Kustomize
10 16 (0.93%) Puppet
11 10 (0.58%) linkerd
11 10 (0.58%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.29%) Cilium
13 3 (0.17%) Bosun
13 3 (0.17%) Control-M
13 3 (0.17%) Packer
14 2 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
14 2 (0.12%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 273 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.61%) Google
3 106 (6.14%) Databricks
4 72 (4.17%) Oracle
5 52 (3.01%) Splunk
6 48 (2.78%) Dynatrace
7 45 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 43 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 28 (1.62%) VMware
11 27 (1.56%) SAP
12 26 (1.51%) Informatica
13 21 (1.22%) F5
13 21 (1.22%) IBM
14 19 (1.10%) Cisco
14 19 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 16 (0.93%) Salesforce
16 15 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.87%) Foundry
17 14 (0.81%) Okta