Cloud Native
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 211 173
Rank change year-on-year +49 -38 +110
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,800 1,736 3,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.78% 1.76% 2.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.11% 4.13% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 554 890 1,333
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,539 £104,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,515 £70,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -2.12% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,224 42,073 78,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.90% 42.71% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,037 22,960 34,085
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,066 £46,350 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +168 1,436 £75,000 +9.47% 154
Scotland +123 967 £71,991 +10.16% 8
England -101 766 £80,000 - 253
Work from Home -114 379 £72,500 -4.19% 152
London -107 307 £90,000 - 159
North of England -11 168 £72,500 +5.82% 44
North West -16 108 £75,000 +25.00% 29
South West -11 101 £80,000 +15.61% 7
South East -15 70 £65,000 -7.14% 71
Midlands +6 67 £80,000 +3.23% 13
West Midlands +30 51 £80,000 +14.29% 7
Yorkshire +14 49 £75,000 +7.14% 7
East of England +23 35 £75,000 -6.25% 7
Northern Ireland +31 16 £90,000 +111.76% 5
East Midlands -13 16 £87,500 +9.38% 6
Wales 0 12 £80,000 +73.12%
North East +4 11 £58,750 - 8

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 230 (12.78%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.44%) FileNet
3 73 (4.06%) Apache
4 66 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.17%) GemFire
6 19 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
7 18 (1.00%) Confluence
8 13 (0.72%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.39%) IIS
10 7 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.28%) CMS
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.11%) Luigi
14 2 (0.11%) SAS
15 1 (0.056%) nginx
15 1 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Trello
2 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 843 (46.83%) AWS
2 484 (26.89%) Azure
3 205 (11.39%) GCP
4 149 (8.28%) Amazon S3
5 106 (5.89%) PaaS
6 102 (5.67%) SaaS
7 100 (5.56%) Serverless
8 82 (4.56%) IaaS
9 77 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (4.17%) Datadog
11 69 (3.83%) GitHub
12 67 (3.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 60 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 58 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
15 54 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.78%) Azure AKS
18 31 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
18 31 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
18 31 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.56%) AMQP
2 26 (1.44%) Firewall
3 19 (1.06%) Kerberos
4 18 (1.00%) DSL
5 17 (0.94%) Network Security
6 11 (0.61%) VPN
7 10 (0.56%) DNS
8 9 (0.50%) Internet
9 8 (0.44%) HTTP
10 4 (0.22%) 5G
10 4 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.22%) VLAN
11 3 (0.17%) Broadband
11 3 (0.17%) NGFW
11 3 (0.17%) WAN
11 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.11%) MQTT
12 2 (0.11%) VoIP
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
13 1 (0.056%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (16.06%) NoSQL
2 260 (14.44%) Big Data
3 121 (6.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 116 (6.44%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 99 (5.50%) Hadoop
7 94 (5.22%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (3.44%) MySQL
10 53 (2.94%) RDBMS
11 50 (2.78%) Data Lake
12 49 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.11%) CockroachDB
14 30 (1.67%) Tableau
15 28 (1.56%) Cloudera CDH
16 25 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.39%) BigQuery
16 25 (1.39%) MongoDB
17 23 (1.28%) Apache Hive
18 21 (1.17%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 112 (6.22%) JUnit
2 106 (5.89%) Git
3 95 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.33%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.67%) Mockito
6 43 (2.39%) JIRA
7 31 (1.72%) Postman
8 26 (1.44%) GitLab
9 25 (1.39%) TeamCity
10 24 (1.33%) Maven
11 21 (1.17%) Jaeger
12 15 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
12 15 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.67%) Terragrunt
14 10 (0.56%) Spinnaker
15 7 (0.39%) Moq
16 6 (0.33%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
General
1 1,102 (61.22%) Finance
2 1,015 (56.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 975 (54.17%) Law
4 635 (35.28%) Marketing
5 291 (16.17%) Social Skills
6 287 (15.94%) Banking
7 187 (10.39%) Financial Institution
8 170 (9.44%) Investment Banking
9 155 (8.61%) Legal
10 88 (4.89%) Retail
11 78 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
12 72 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
13 57 (3.17%) Private Banking
14 56 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (3.00%) Aerospace
16 29 (1.61%) Games
17 22 (1.22%) Prime Brokerage
18 20 (1.11%) Public Sector
19 16 (0.89%) Publishing
20 8 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 748 (41.56%) Software Engineer
2 465 (25.83%) Lead
3 363 (20.17%) Lead Software Engineer
4 350 (19.44%) Architect
5 299 (16.61%) Java Engineer
6 286 (15.89%) Java Software Engineer
7 282 (15.67%) Senior
8 186 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 167 (9.28%) Engineering Manager
10 160 (8.89%) Python Engineer
11 159 (8.83%) Software Engineering Manager
12 156 (8.67%) Big Data Engineer
12 156 (8.67%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 154 (8.56%) Data Engineer
14 147 (8.17%) Python Software Engineer
15 144 (8.00%) Lead Java Engineer
16 132 (7.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 131 (7.28%) Solutions Architect
18 129 (7.17%) Developer
19 116 (6.44%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (23.33%) Spring
2 302 (16.78%) Spring Boot
3 280 (15.56%) React
4 246 (13.67%) AngularJS
5 238 (13.22%) Kafka
6 145 (8.06%) CSS
7 143 (7.94%) Node.js
8 140 (7.78%) HTML
8 140 (7.78%) RESTful
9 126 (7.00%) GraphQL
10 124 (6.89%) .NET
11 118 (6.56%) Hibernate
12 100 (5.56%) J2EE
13 99 (5.50%) Spring Integration
14 96 (5.33%) REST
15 95 (5.28%) OpenTelemetry
16 84 (4.67%) jQuery
17 80 (4.44%) JSON
18 60 (3.33%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 59 (3.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 216 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 141 (7.83%) Product Ownership
3 138 (7.67%) Algorithms
4 92 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
5 91 (5.06%) Management Information System
6 77 (4.28%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.67%) Distributed Applications
8 59 (3.28%) Market Risk
9 30 (1.67%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.44%) Replication
11 25 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.33%) PMI
13 23 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.28%) Private Cloud
13 23 (1.28%) Taxonomies
14 21 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 20 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
16 19 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
17 17 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 142 (7.89%) Linux
2 63 (3.50%) Windows
3 38 (2.11%) Ubuntu
4 29 (1.61%) CentOS
5 28 (1.56%) Debian
5 28 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.28%) Unix
7 21 (1.17%) Android
7 21 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.50%) Solaris
9 9 (0.50%) VMS
10 6 (0.33%) Mesosphere
10 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,210 (67.22%) Agile
2 1,183 (65.72%) Software Engineering
3 921 (51.17%) CI/CD
4 748 (41.56%) SDLC
5 619 (34.39%) Operational Stability
6 516 (28.67%) Machine Learning
7 508 (28.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 440 (24.44%) Microservices
9 407 (22.61%) Community of Practice
10 368 (20.44%) Computer Science
11 340 (18.89%) DevOps
12 297 (16.50%) Continuous Delivery
13 277 (15.39%) Decision-Making
14 261 (14.50%) Architectural Design
15 250 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
16 243 (13.50%) Mathematics
17 237 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 229 (12.72%) Roadmaps
18 229 (12.72%) Scrum
19 226 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 765 (42.50%) Java
2 546 (30.33%) Python
3 497 (27.61%) SQL
4 332 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 170 (9.44%) TypeScript
6 163 (9.06%) C#
7 127 (7.06%) Scala
8 76 (4.22%) Go
9 50 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 49 (2.72%) T-SQL
11 38 (2.11%) Groovy
11 38 (2.11%) PHP
12 34 (1.89%) C++
12 34 (1.89%) Rust
13 29 (1.61%) C
14 21 (1.17%) Bash
14 21 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.06%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.00%) Bicep
17 13 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 146 (8.11%) Degree
2 112 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 95 (5.28%) AWS Certification
4 91 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (3.78%) Azure Certification
5 68 (3.78%) SC Cleared
6 54 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 48 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 43 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 39 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 29 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 16 (0.89%) CISSP
13 11 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 11 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.50%) CCSK
14 9 (0.50%) CCSP
15 7 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.39%) CISM
16 5 (0.28%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.44%) SLA
2 59 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.89%) QA
4 24 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.06%) NIST
6 18 (1.00%) GDPR
6 18 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 15 (0.83%) WAI
8 11 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.22%) PMO
12 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.11%) EMIR
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.056%) SEPA
14 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (7.06%) Docker
2 22 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 418 (23.22%) Kubernetes
2 303 (16.83%) Terraform
3 120 (6.67%) Grafana
4 87 (4.83%) Ansible
5 55 (3.06%) Puppet
6 48 (2.67%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.44%) Kibana
8 22 (1.22%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.17%) Zipkin
10 18 (1.00%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.17%) Argo
14 3 (0.17%) Istio
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) linkerd
Vendors
1 178 (9.89%) Microsoft
2 173 (9.61%) Oracle
3 109 (6.06%) Google
4 108 (6.00%) Splunk
5 103 (5.72%) Dynatrace
6 72 (4.00%) Databricks
7 28 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 28 (1.56%) SaltStack
8 18 (1.00%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.00%) Cognos
8 18 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.00%) Sybase
9 13 (0.72%) VMware
10 12 (0.67%) Black Duck
10 12 (0.67%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.61%) Teradata
12 10 (0.56%) Commvault
13 6 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.33%) Sparx
13 6 (0.33%) Twitter