Cloud Native Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Native
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 93 134
Rank change year-on-year +36 +41 -4
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 77 66 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.37% 2.50% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.00% 5.88% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 66 41 26
10th Percentile £57,500 £82,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,313 £87,500 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £105,000 £132,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £155,000 £137,500 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £110,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +33.33% -

All Generic Skills
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 770 1,122 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.67% 42.52% 34.25%
Number of salaries quoted 594 670 849
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £116,375 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the City of London

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the City of London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £87,500 -
Cloud Native
Central London

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (11.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (49.35%) AWS
2 32 (41.56%) Azure
3 17 (22.08%) SaaS
4 15 (19.48%) GCP
5 10 (12.99%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (12.99%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (12.99%) Power Platform
6 9 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (11.69%) Power Automate
6 9 (11.69%) PowerApps
6 9 (11.69%) Serverless
7 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
7 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.49%) GitHub
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.90%) dbt
9 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) NAS
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.30%) SAN
2 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.30%) VLAN
2 1 (1.30%) VPN
2 1 (1.30%) VSAN
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
2 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) Power BI
2 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.19%) ClickHouse
3 4 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.60%) Metadata
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) KDB
6 1 (1.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) ESLint
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.69%) Law
5 7 (9.09%) Front Office
6 6 (7.79%) Finance
7 4 (5.19%) Health Technology
8 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Legal
9 2 (2.60%) Advertising
10 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (45.45%) Senior
2 28 (36.36%) Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Senior Developer
4 14 (18.18%) Lead
5 10 (12.99%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Power Platform Developer
6 9 (11.69%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Lead Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Python Developer
10 4 (5.19%) React Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) React
2 14 (18.18%) Node.js
3 10 (12.99%) Kafka
3 10 (12.99%) Spring
4 9 (11.69%) HTML5 Canvas
4 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.09%) .NET
5 7 (9.09%) CSS
6 6 (7.79%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.79%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (7.79%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (7.79%) Web Services
7 5 (6.49%) Vue
8 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.19%) HTML
8 4 (5.19%) RESTful
9 3 (3.90%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.90%) REST
9 3 (3.90%) WebAssembly
10 2 (2.60%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
1 6 (7.79%) Derivative
1 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.19%) Equities
2 4 (5.19%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.90%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.90%) Educational Technology
3 3 (3.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) VMS
3 1 (1.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
2 23 (29.87%) Mentoring
3 20 (25.97%) Computer Science
4 19 (24.68%) AI
4 19 (24.68%) DevOps
5 17 (22.08%) Agile
5 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.08%) Software Engineering
6 12 (15.58%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (15.58%) Event-Driven
6 12 (15.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (15.58%) Observability
7 11 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
7 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (14.29%) Mathematics
7 11 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
7 11 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
7 11 (14.29%) Visualisation
8 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.27%) Java
2 19 (24.68%) Python
3 15 (19.48%) C#
4 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.39%) Kotlin
6 6 (7.79%) SQL
7 4 (5.19%) C++
8 3 (3.90%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) Degree
2 16 (20.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.60%) SnowPro
7 2 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (1.30%) CCNP
8 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.30%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (25.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Terraform
3 3 (3.90%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Argo
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.90%) AppDynamics
2 3 (3.90%) New Relic
3 2 (2.60%) Databricks
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle
3 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe
4 1 (1.30%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.30%) Dell
4 1 (1.30%) Google
4 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.30%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.30%) VMware