Cloud Native Job Trends in Bristol

Cloud Native
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 69 92
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 -7
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 57 12 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.83% 1.08% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.96% 3.66% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 48 11 19
10th Percentile £52,050 £52,500 £64,250
25th Percentile £55,688 £55,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.88% -13.20%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,375 £92,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £91,250 £97,650
South West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
Bristol

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 636 328 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 20.42% 29.55% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 467 218 418
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -0.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,625 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £43,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +22.09% -16.50% -6.36%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Bristol

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in Bristol

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (3.51%) Confluence
1 2 (3.51%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (57.89%) AWS
2 25 (43.86%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.77%) GCP
6 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.51%) IaaS
8 2 (3.51%) PaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Route 53
8 2 (3.51%) SaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Parquet
5 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.51%) git-flow
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.75%) Vite
General
1 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Influencing Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Local Government
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Developer
1 15 (26.32%) Senior
2 11 (19.30%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior Developer
4 9 (15.79%) Engineering Manager
5 7 (12.28%) C++ Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Senior C++ Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Architect
7 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.02%) Python Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Software Engineering Manager
8 4 (7.02%) Software Manager
9 3 (5.26%) CUDA Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Digital Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Lead
10 2 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) Terraform
2 10 (17.54%) React
3 7 (12.28%) .NET
3 7 (12.28%) MFC
3 7 (12.28%) REST
4 6 (10.53%) AWS CDK
5 4 (7.02%) Django
5 4 (7.02%) Flask
5 4 (7.02%) LangChain
5 4 (7.02%) Next.js
6 3 (5.26%) FastAPI
6 3 (5.26%) Node.js
7 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.51%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.75%) Apache Avro
8 1 (1.75%) Entity Framework
8 1 (1.75%) Kafka
8 1 (1.75%) OAuth
8 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) NHS
1 7 (12.28%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.26%) CUDA
2 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
2 20 (35.09%) Agile
2 20 (35.09%) DevOps
3 17 (29.82%) Mentoring
4 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 13 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
6 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (15.79%) Coaching
8 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
9 8 (14.04%) AI
9 8 (14.04%) Analytics
9 8 (14.04%) Clean Code
9 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (14.04%) Observability
10 7 (12.28%) Data Security
10 7 (12.28%) Event-Driven
10 7 (12.28%) Migration
10 7 (12.28%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) C#
2 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
3 8 (14.04%) Python
4 7 (12.28%) C++
5 4 (7.02%) Java
5 4 (7.02%) SQL
6 3 (5.26%) Bash
6 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) Go
7 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
3 3 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) CISM
5 1 (1.75%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Puppet
2 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.02%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.75%) Foundry
5 1 (1.75%) Google