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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 128 157
Rank change year-on-year +5 +29 +35
Contract jobs citing Cloud Native 96 27 43
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.58% 0.89% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.39% 2.74% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 16 28
10th Percentile £349 £381 £393
25th Percentile £400 £402 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £445 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -10.55% -20.40%
75th Percentile £588 £522 £506
90th Percentile £650 £606 £673
England median daily rate £550 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £76.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +90.00% - -

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 1,781 985 1,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.34% 32.62% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 615 967
10th Percentile £275 £200 £210
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - -0.40%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £700 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 80 172
10th Percentile £18.10 £15.13 £11.79
25th Percentile £27.69 £16.95 £18.35
Median hourly rate £60.00 £37.44 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.25% -30.66% -0.68%
75th Percentile £85.40 £62.24 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £87.07 £75.16
England median hourly rate £42.30 £33.91 £36.50
% change year-on-year +24.74% -7.10% +62.33%

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 13 June 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
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 13 June 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 -20 45 £450 - 26
Berkshire -18 31 £395 -12.22% 17
Surrey -6 21 £425 - 10
Hampshire -8 20 £492 +15.38% 9
Buckinghamshire - 10 £550 - 4
East Sussex - 4 £459 - 1
Oxfordshire - 4 £665 - 5
West Sussex - 4 £500 - 4
Home Counties - 2 - -
Sussex - 1 £600 - 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 6 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) Appian
4 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) CPLEX
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 64 (66.67%) Azure
2 53 (55.21%) AWS
3 24 (25.00%) GCP
4 21 (21.88%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (12.50%) GitHub
5 12 (12.50%) Serverless
6 7 (7.29%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (7.29%) Azure AKS
6 7 (7.29%) Azure API Management
6 7 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.25%) Azure Storage
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) VPN
2 9 (9.38%) DNS
3 6 (6.25%) BGP
3 6 (6.25%) Firewall
3 6 (6.25%) LAN
3 6 (6.25%) MPLS
3 6 (6.25%) WAN
4 3 (3.13%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.46%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.21%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.08%) Metadata
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.04%) Big Data
7 1 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.04%) GIS
7 1 (1.04%) MySQL
7 1 (1.04%) Parquet
7 1 (1.04%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Git
2 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
5 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.04%) MLflow
5 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.42%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.08%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.08%) Marketing
5 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.04%) Automotive
6 1 (1.04%) Aviation
6 1 (1.04%) Banking
6 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.04%) Legal
6 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Architect
2 16 (16.67%) Developer
3 13 (13.54%) Senior
4 12 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Java Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) IP Architect
10 5 (5.21%) Network Architect
11 4 (4.17%) Lead
11 4 (4.17%) Technical Architect
12 3 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
12 3 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Project Manager
12 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.75%) REST
2 12 (12.50%) RESTful
3 11 (11.46%) Kafka
4 10 (10.42%) .NET
4 10 (10.42%) ARM Templates
5 9 (9.38%) GraphQL
5 9 (9.38%) OAuth
6 7 (7.29%) Django
6 7 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (6.25%) FastAPI
7 6 (6.25%) Flask
7 6 (6.25%) NETCONF
7 6 (6.25%) NumPy
7 6 (6.25%) OAuth2
7 6 (6.25%) OpenAPI
7 6 (6.25%) Pandas
7 6 (6.25%) pytest
7 6 (6.25%) Swagger
7 6 (6.25%) YANG
8 4 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.46%) Public Cloud
3 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 9 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.29%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.04%) Chip and PIN
8 1 (1.04%) EMV
8 1 (1.04%) IoT
8 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Windows
2 6 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.33%) DevOps
2 45 (46.88%) CI/CD
3 33 (34.38%) Microservices
4 26 (27.08%) Software Engineering
5 25 (26.04%) Agile
5 25 (26.04%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.75%) Roadmaps
8 15 (15.63%) Analytics
8 15 (15.63%) Observability
9 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
11 12 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
11 12 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
11 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.46%) Migration
12 11 (11.46%) Scrum
13 10 (10.42%) AI
13 10 (10.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.50%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) Java
3 14 (14.58%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.58%) SQL
4 11 (11.46%) Bash
5 8 (8.33%) Bicep
5 8 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.29%) C#
7 1 (1.04%) Go
7 1 (1.04%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.04%) Korn
7 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.04%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.04%) Swift
7 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.25%) CCIE
4 6 (6.25%) Degree
4 6 (6.25%) JNCIE
5 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.08%) CISM
7 2 (2.08%) CISSP
7 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.04%) CCNP
8 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.04%) MCSE
8 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
2 2 (2.08%) NCSC
2 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (26.04%) Docker
2 9 (9.38%) Hyper-V
2 9 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.04%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 27 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 26 (27.08%) Terraform
3 15 (15.63%) Ansible
4 8 (8.33%) Grafana
5 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 4 (4.17%) Puppet
7 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (2.08%) Istio
7 2 (2.08%) linkerd
8 1 (1.04%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) VMware
3 8 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.25%) Databricks
4 6 (6.25%) Splunk
5 4 (4.17%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.08%) Google
6 2 (2.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.04%) Ariba
7 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco
7 1 (1.04%) Dell
7 1 (1.04%) ESRI
7 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.04%) Informatica
7 1 (1.04%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.04%) Teradata
7 1 (1.04%) webMethods