Cloud Native Job Trends in the East of England

Cloud Native
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 154 198
Rank change year-on-year +29 +44 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 60 11 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.96% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.90% 0.89% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 35 3 26
10th Percentile - £62,950 £58,125
25th Percentile £55,750 £65,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £71,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% -4.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,250 £79,375
90th Percentile £92,000 - £93,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,538 1,230 2,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 24.60% 40.65% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 947 455 1,558
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,517 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the East of England

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 26 £60,100 - 3
Hertfordshire -7 25 £75,000 +4.90% 5
Suffolk +25 5 £77,500 +24.00%
Essex - 4 - - 1
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (11.67%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.67%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 36 (60.00%) AWS
2 35 (58.33%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) GCP
4 10 (16.67%) GitHub
5 9 (15.00%) Serverless
6 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
7 6 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (10.00%) dbt
7 6 (10.00%) Snowflake
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) Apigee
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.33%) SaaS
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Network Security
2 6 (10.00%) DMZ
2 6 (10.00%) Firewall
3 5 (8.33%) Broadband
4 3 (5.00%) MQTT
5 1 (1.67%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 8 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (11.67%) Power BI
4 6 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (10.00%) Looker
4 6 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (10.00%) Tableau
5 3 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) Big Data
7 1 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.67%) Metadata
7 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.67%) MySQL
7 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) MLflow
2 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.67%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.67%) git-flow
4 1 (1.67%) GitLab
4 1 (1.67%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Publishing
6 2 (3.33%) Games
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Law
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Lead
2 14 (23.33%) Developer
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Architect
4 9 (15.00%) Lead Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Principal Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 9 (15.00%) Team Leader
5 8 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (11.67%) Consultant
7 6 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Architect
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native Architect
8 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Technical Leader
10 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) Kafka
2 6 (10.00%) LangChain
2 6 (10.00%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (10.00%) pgvector
2 6 (10.00%) PyTorch
2 6 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 6 (10.00%) TensorFlow
3 4 (6.67%) Node.js
3 4 (6.67%) RESTful
4 3 (5.00%) .NET
4 3 (5.00%) Django
4 3 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 3 (5.00%) OpenAPI
4 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.00%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) Swagger
5 2 (3.33%) Flask
5 2 (3.33%) React
5 2 (3.33%) Spring
5 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (21.67%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (11.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (11.67%) Security Posture
5 6 (10.00%) Blog
5 6 (10.00%) Clustering
5 6 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (10.00%) PKI
5 6 (10.00%) Public Cloud
6 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (5.00%) IoT
8 1 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.67%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 27 (45.00%) Mentoring
3 26 (43.33%) AI
3 26 (43.33%) DevOps
3 26 (43.33%) Event-Driven
4 25 (41.67%) Microservices
4 25 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
5 23 (38.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (36.67%) Agile
7 18 (30.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (30.00%) Observability
8 16 (26.67%) Machine Learning
9 14 (23.33%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (23.33%) Containerisation
9 14 (23.33%) Data Modelling
9 14 (23.33%) Design Patterns
9 14 (23.33%) Migration
9 14 (23.33%) Technical Debt
10 13 (21.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) Python
2 12 (20.00%) SQL
3 7 (11.67%) C#
4 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) Bicep
6 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) DBS Check
2 11 (18.33%) Degree
3 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CISA
6 1 (1.67%) CISM
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.67%) CRISC
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (21.67%) GDPR
2 7 (11.67%) GRC
2 7 (11.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (11.67%) NIST
3 6 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 6 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 6 (10.00%) JSP 440
3 6 (10.00%) NCSC
3 6 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.00%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
2 6 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Databricks
2 6 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 6 (10.00%) Dell
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.00%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) Pega
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle