Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Native
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 180 254
Rank change year-on-year +123 +74 -56
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 740 190 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 1.52% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.77% 4.23% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 130 94
10th Percentile £428 £405 £454
25th Percentile £487 £435 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £668 £738 £700
90th Percentile £805 £775 £750
England median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% -9.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% - -
75th Percentile £74.63 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £89.35 £39.88 -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +90.00% - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,289 4,491 5,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.42% 35.98% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,022 3,046 4,165
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £447 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 80 150
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £15.49
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.45 £17.64
Median hourly rate £34.06 £35.45 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +36.33% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.00 £49.94 £49.88
90th Percentile £88.75 £78.64 £69.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £35.45 £32.31
% change year-on-year +32.60% +9.71% +43.68%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Native in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Central London +48 121 £550 -4.35% 67
West London +8 36 £603 +17.68% 12
South London -5 8 £600 -3.54% 7
East London - 7 £585 - 9
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 48 (6.49%) Apache Spark
2 31 (4.19%) Apache
3 26 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.22%) Camunda
5 8 (1.08%) Confluence
5 8 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.68%) SAS
8 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.27%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.27%) Appian
10 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) CMS
10 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.14%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.14%) JBoss
10 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
10 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.14%) Maya
1 1 (0.14%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Quorum
4 1 (0.14%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.14%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 415 (56.08%) AWS
2 337 (45.54%) Azure
3 149 (20.14%) GCP
4 131 (17.70%) GitHub
5 130 (17.57%) Serverless
6 104 (14.05%) Amazon S3
7 86 (11.62%) GitHub Actions
8 81 (10.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 81 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
9 77 (10.41%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (7.57%) Power Platform
11 49 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
12 46 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (5.81%) Azure AKS
13 43 (5.81%) Snowflake
14 36 (4.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (4.86%) SaaS
15 30 (4.05%) OpenShift
16 28 (3.78%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (3.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.65%) Firewall
2 23 (3.11%) Network Security
3 12 (1.62%) 5G
3 12 (1.62%) DNS
4 9 (1.22%) 4G
4 9 (1.22%) VPN
5 8 (1.08%) 3GPP
6 5 (0.68%) HTTP
6 5 (0.68%) LTE
6 5 (0.68%) WAN
7 3 (0.41%) BGP
7 3 (0.41%) Diameter Protocol
7 3 (0.41%) OSPF
7 3 (0.41%) VSAN
8 2 (0.27%) Calico
8 2 (0.27%) Internet
8 2 (0.27%) NaaS
8 2 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 48 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 41 (5.54%) Power BI
5 36 (4.86%) Amazon Athena
6 28 (3.78%) BigQuery
6 28 (3.78%) Metadata
6 28 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (2.97%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.97%) MongoDB
10 20 (2.70%) Mixpanel
11 16 (2.16%) Big Data
11 16 (2.16%) OLAP
11 16 (2.16%) OLTP
11 16 (2.16%) Relational Database
12 15 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.89%) Delta Lake
14 13 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (12.30%) Jenkins
2 62 (8.38%) Git
3 58 (7.84%) GitLab
4 16 (2.16%) MLflow
5 15 (2.03%) JIRA
6 9 (1.22%) JUnit
7 8 (1.08%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.08%) JMeter
7 8 (1.08%) Postman
8 5 (0.68%) Mockito
8 5 (0.68%) Selenium
8 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.54%) Appium
9 4 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.41%) Gradle
10 3 (0.41%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.41%) Maven
10 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.27%) Mocha
General
1 169 (22.84%) Finance
2 164 (22.16%) Social Skills
3 105 (14.19%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.92%) Banking
5 35 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.30%) Retail
10 13 (1.76%) Legal
11 12 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.49%) Front Office
13 10 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.68%) Billing
17 4 (0.54%) Aviation
17 4 (0.54%) Marketing
18 3 (0.41%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (27.97%) Architect
2 106 (14.32%) Senior
3 86 (11.62%) Lead
4 85 (11.49%) Developer
5 81 (10.95%) Data Engineer
6 54 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
7 53 (7.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 49 (6.62%) Software Engineer
9 46 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 39 (5.27%) Cloud Architect
11 36 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (4.73%) Technical Architect
13 34 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 29 (3.92%) Principal Engineer
15 26 (3.51%) Senior Developer
16 24 (3.24%) Java Engineer
17 21 (2.84%) AWS Architect
18 20 (2.70%) Azure Architect
19 19 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (11.49%) Kafka
2 79 (10.68%) React
3 71 (9.59%) Spring
4 64 (8.65%) .NET
5 63 (8.51%) Node.js
6 62 (8.38%) Spring Boot
7 53 (7.16%) RESTful
8 46 (6.22%) REST
9 44 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 40 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 35 (4.73%) PySpark
12 29 (3.92%) OpenID
12 29 (3.92%) Playwright
13 25 (3.38%) OAuth
14 24 (3.24%) GraphQL
15 19 (2.57%) LangChain
16 18 (2.43%) Next.js
17 17 (2.30%) OAuth2
17 17 (2.30%) SAML
17 17 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
2 54 (7.30%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.43%) AI Agents
5 18 (2.43%) Virtual Team
6 17 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.35%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.08%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.95%) Equities
13 5 (0.68%) Clustering
13 5 (0.68%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.92%) Linux
2 13 (1.76%) Windows
3 11 (1.49%) Unix
4 7 (0.95%) VMS
5 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.41%) Solaris
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Android
9 1 (0.14%) AIX
9 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (60.81%) CI/CD
2 378 (51.08%) DevOps
3 281 (37.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 224 (30.27%) Agile
5 201 (27.16%) AI
6 188 (25.41%) Containerisation
7 174 (23.51%) Microservices
8 157 (21.22%) Observability
9 127 (17.16%) Migration
10 123 (16.62%) Analytics
10 123 (16.62%) Software Engineering
11 114 (15.41%) Data Engineering
12 111 (15.00%) Data Modelling
13 103 (13.92%) Machine Learning
14 102 (13.78%) Event-Driven
15 98 (13.24%) Test Automation
16 91 (12.30%) Roadmaps
17 84 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
18 82 (11.08%) Mentoring
19 81 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 267 (36.08%) Python
2 168 (22.70%) SQL
3 154 (20.81%) Java
4 73 (9.86%) TypeScript
5 63 (8.51%) C#
6 43 (5.81%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.92%) Bash
8 25 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.24%) Go
10 23 (3.11%) Bicep
11 11 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.35%) Scala
13 9 (1.22%) Ruby
14 8 (1.08%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.68%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) R
17 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.41%) SAS Macro
18 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 188 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 172 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.54%) Degree
4 30 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.65%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.43%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
9 13 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (1.22%) CISSP
11 8 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.68%) CISM
13 5 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.27%) CCNP
15 2 (0.27%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.73%) GDPR
3 33 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (4.19%) NIST
5 29 (3.92%) QA
6 15 (2.03%) NCSC
7 10 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.35%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.54%) PMO
9 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.54%) SLA
10 3 (0.41%) SEPA
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 164 (22.16%) Docker
2 11 (1.49%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.41%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) IAG
7 1 (0.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 243 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 225 (30.41%) Terraform
3 46 (6.22%) Grafana
4 45 (6.08%) Prometheus
5 32 (4.32%) Ansible
6 15 (2.03%) Istio
7 12 (1.62%) Argo
8 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.68%) linkerd
9 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.68%) Puppet
10 4 (0.54%) AirWatch
10 4 (0.54%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.27%) Amdocs OSS
12 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.27%) Packer
13 1 (0.14%) QRadar
Vendors
1 104 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.86%) Databricks
3 54 (7.30%) Google
4 24 (3.24%) Splunk
5 21 (2.84%) CyberArk
6 20 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.57%) Oracle
8 13 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 10 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.08%) Cisco
10 8 (1.08%) VMware
11 7 (0.95%) IBM
12 6 (0.81%) Bloomberg
12 6 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.81%) Ericsson
12 6 (0.81%) Refinitiv
12 6 (0.81%) SAP
13 5 (0.68%) Informatica