Cloud Native Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Native
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 122 173
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 +25
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 98 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.69% 0.90% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.70% 2.69% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 13 21
10th Percentile £346 £414 £375
25th Percentile £400 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £549 £618 -
90th Percentile £628 £687 £675
England median daily rate £548 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.16% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £95.63 - -
90th Percentile £100.05 - -
England median hourly rate £72.25 £55.50 -
% change year-on-year +30.18% - -

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,718 1,004 1,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.68% 33.53% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 627 931
10th Percentile £254 £207 £205
25th Percentile £393 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £661 £688
England median daily rate £512 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.93% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 63 153
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £11.73
25th Percentile £27.91 £23.50 £18.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.81 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% +0.64% -7.32%
75th Percentile £87.50 £64.13 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £45.46 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +33.71% +13.33% +33.33%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Thames Valley -10 58 £475 -11.63% 33
Berkshire -9 44 £425 -15.00% 13
Surrey +3 21 £425 - 1
Hampshire -28 12 £483 -20.82% 13
Buckinghamshire -21 11 £550 -18.52% 15
East Sussex - 3 £461 - 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £530 - 5
Home Counties - 2 - -
West Sussex - 1 - - 2
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (3.06%) Confluence
1 3 (3.06%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) Appian
3 1 (1.02%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.02%) CMS
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (67.35%) Azure
2 55 (56.12%) AWS
3 27 (27.55%) GCP
4 19 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.18%) Azure Storage
5 9 (9.18%) GitHub
6 8 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (8.16%) Azure AKS
6 8 (8.16%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.16%) Serverless
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 7 (7.14%) Azure API Management
8 6 (6.12%) Azure Functions
8 6 (6.12%) IaaS
9 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (5.10%) Datadog
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) VPN
2 10 (10.20%) DNS
3 6 (6.12%) Firewall
3 6 (6.12%) MPLS
3 6 (6.12%) WAN
4 3 (3.06%) BGP
4 3 (3.06%) Broadband
4 3 (3.06%) LAN
4 3 (3.06%) NaaS
4 3 (3.06%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (1.02%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.02%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Big Data
6 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.02%) GIS
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.02%) MySQL
7 1 (1.02%) Parquet
7 1 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Git
2 8 (8.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.08%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) MLflow
4 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Finance
5 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.04%) Banking
6 2 (2.04%) Billing
6 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (1.02%) Automotive
7 1 (1.02%) Aviation
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (35.71%) Architect
2 11 (11.22%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (11.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (11.22%) Senior
3 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Architect
4 9 (9.18%) Developer
4 9 (9.18%) Java Engineer
4 9 (9.18%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.12%) Technical Architect
6 5 (5.10%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.08%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.08%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.08%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.06%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.06%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (3.06%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.29%) REST
2 10 (10.20%) ARM Templates
3 9 (9.18%) .NET
4 7 (7.14%) Kafka
5 6 (6.12%) RESTful
6 5 (5.10%) OAuth
6 5 (5.10%) OpenAPI
6 5 (5.10%) Swagger
7 4 (4.08%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.08%) JSON
7 4 (4.08%) Middleware
7 4 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.06%) Django
8 3 (3.06%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.06%) Flask
8 3 (3.06%) NumPy
8 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.06%) Pandas
8 3 (3.06%) pytest
8 3 (3.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.16%) Virtual Team
4 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.06%) Algorithms
7 3 (3.06%) TM Forum
8 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.06%) Windows
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.04%) DevOps
2 44 (44.90%) CI/CD
3 29 (29.59%) Microservices
4 28 (28.57%) Agile
5 24 (24.49%) Containerisation
6 22 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (18.37%) Roadmaps
10 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (14.29%) Observability
12 13 (13.27%) Analytics
13 12 (12.24%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (12.24%) TOGAF
14 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (11.22%) High Availability
14 11 (11.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 10 (10.20%) AI
15 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.55%) Python
2 15 (15.31%) SQL
3 12 (12.24%) Java
4 11 (11.22%) Bash
4 11 (11.22%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.16%) Bicep
6 7 (7.14%) C#
6 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.02%) Go
8 1 (1.02%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.02%) Korn
8 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.02%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.02%) R
8 1 (1.02%) Swift
8 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.02%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.14%) Degree
6 6 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.10%) CCIE
7 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.10%) RHCE
7 5 (5.10%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.06%) JNCIE
8 3 (3.06%) OCP
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (2.04%) CCNP
9 2 (2.04%) CISSP
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) GDPR
2 3 (3.06%) SLA
3 2 (2.04%) NIST
3 2 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) NCSC
4 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 24 (24.49%) Docker
2 12 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.20%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (31.63%) Kubernetes
2 26 (26.53%) Terraform
3 15 (15.31%) Ansible
4 10 (10.20%) Grafana
5 8 (8.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.06%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (3.06%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (3.06%) Puppet
7 2 (2.04%) Istio
7 2 (2.04%) linkerd
7 2 (2.04%) systemd
8 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.02%) Argo
8 1 (1.02%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.02%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.37%) VMware
3 11 (11.22%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.18%) Cisco
5 7 (7.14%) Splunk
6 6 (6.12%) Databricks
7 5 (5.10%) Dynatrace
8 4 (4.08%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.06%) Juniper
9 3 (3.06%) Oracle
10 2 (2.04%) PagerDuty
11 1 (1.02%) Ariba
11 1 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (1.02%) Checkmarx
11 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
11 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.02%) SAP
11 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.02%) Virgin Media