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 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 167 118
Rank change year-on-year +44 -49 +85
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 34 13 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.82% 0.37% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.60% 0.98% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 23
10th Percentile £55,750 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £125,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -34.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,875 £155,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £175,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
% change year-on-year -8.57% +4.48% -1.47%

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 1,307 1,330 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 31.68% 37.84% 38.68%
Number of salaries quoted 608 523 642
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,507 £28,812
25th Percentile £34,497 £41,250 £38,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 12 January 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 12 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
Cambridgeshire +29 16 £65,000 -21.21% 17
Hertfordshire +26 14 £90,000 - 23
Suffolk -8 3 £80,000 - 14
Essex -4 1 - - 14
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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) Serverless
4 5 (14.71%) SaaS
5 4 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 2 (5.88%) PaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DMZ
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
1 3 (8.82%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Games
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Publishing
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Software Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Architect
3 7 (20.59%) Principal Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Principal Software Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Azure Software Engineer
5 5 (14.71%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (14.71%) Senior
6 4 (11.76%) Azure Architect
6 4 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Compliance Manager
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Consultant
7 3 (8.82%) Lead
8 2 (5.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 2 (5.88%) Principal Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) React
2 4 (11.76%) Kafka
3 3 (8.82%) .NET
3 3 (8.82%) Node.js
4 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.88%) Hugging Face
4 2 (5.88%) Nuxt
4 2 (5.88%) Playwright
4 2 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.88%) Vue
5 1 (2.94%) Jest
5 1 (2.94%) Material-UI
5 1 (2.94%) Micronaut
5 1 (2.94%) Next.js
5 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.76%) Low-Code
2 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.82%) Blog
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (8.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.82%) IoT
3 3 (8.82%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 17 (50.00%) Microservices
3 14 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 13 (38.24%) Decision-Making
5 12 (35.29%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
6 10 (29.41%) Roadmaps
7 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
8 8 (23.53%) AI
8 8 (23.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (20.59%) Agile
9 7 (20.59%) Product Roadmap
10 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (17.65%) High Availability
10 6 (17.65%) Observability
10 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (17.65%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) C#
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
4 2 (5.88%) Go
4 2 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) PHP
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) MCP
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) GDPR
1 9 (26.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (14.71%) PCI DSS
3 4 (11.76%) NIST
4 3 (8.82%) GRC
4 3 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 3 (8.82%) JSP 440
4 3 (8.82%) NCSC
5 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.94%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Firmware
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.94%) Foundry
3 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto