Cloud Native Job Trends in England

Cloud Native
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 197 309
Rank change year-on-year +73 +112 -115
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,177 566 718
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.59% 1.55% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.36% 3.98% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 792 403 489
10th Percentile £55,750 £51,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -4.65%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,956 14,213 28,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.57% 38.81% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,412 8,189 20,596
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -15.38%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 11 April 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 +82 650 £90,000 -5.26% 237
North of England +30 201 £75,000 +0.17% 113
North West +25 121 £75,000 +0.17% 67
South West +20 96 £72,500 -17.14% 47
South East -23 85 £70,000 +14.29% 89
Yorkshire -19 69 £70,000 -17.89% 39
Midlands -19 58 £75,000 +15.38% 36
East of England +16 50 £65,000 - 17
West Midlands +1 39 £72,500 +5.99% 30
East Midlands -41 18 £75,000 +15.38% 6
North East -19 11 £77,500 +11.82% 9
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 60 (5.10%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.21%) Apache
4 17 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.85%) CMS
5 10 (0.85%) JBoss
5 10 (0.85%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.42%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.42%) Appian
7 5 (0.42%) Confluence
8 3 (0.25%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) MTS
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.085%) SAS
10 1 (0.085%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Maya
3 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.085%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.17%) Shopify
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.085%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.085%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.085%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.085%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.085%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.085%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 679 (57.69%) AWS
2 521 (44.27%) Azure
3 332 (28.21%) GCP
4 155 (13.17%) Serverless
5 153 (13.00%) SaaS
6 124 (10.54%) GitHub
7 93 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
8 91 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 83 (7.05%) Amazon S3
9 83 (7.05%) GitHub Actions
10 81 (6.88%) Power Platform
11 80 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
12 78 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
13 45 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (3.82%) PaaS
14 44 (3.74%) dbt
14 44 (3.74%) Snowflake
15 38 (3.23%) Datadog
15 38 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
16 37 (3.14%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.74%) Firewall
2 36 (3.06%) Network Security
3 25 (2.12%) VPN
4 15 (1.27%) DNS
5 13 (1.10%) DSL
5 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.76%) BGP
6 9 (0.76%) DHCP
6 9 (0.76%) WAN
7 7 (0.59%) AMQP
8 6 (0.51%) DMZ
8 6 (0.51%) VLAN
9 4 (0.34%) HTTP
9 4 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.34%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (0.34%) SAN
9 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.25%) MPLS
10 3 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (8.92%) NoSQL
2 81 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (5.52%) SQL Server
4 62 (5.27%) Data Lake
5 58 (4.93%) Power BI
6 49 (4.16%) DynamoDB
7 48 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (3.48%) MongoDB
9 40 (3.40%) BigQuery
10 35 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 33 (2.80%) MySQL
12 32 (2.72%) Relational Database
13 30 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
14 28 (2.38%) Metadata
15 26 (2.21%) Tableau
16 24 (2.04%) Looker
17 23 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
18 13 (1.10%) Big Data
18 13 (1.10%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 74 (6.29%) Jenkins
2 66 (5.61%) Git
2 66 (5.61%) GitLab
3 64 (5.44%) TeamCity
4 26 (2.21%) MLflow
5 14 (1.19%) JIRA
6 13 (1.10%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.02%) Selenium
8 11 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.42%) Maven
11 4 (0.34%) JUnit
11 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.25%) ESLint
12 3 (0.25%) git-flow
13 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.17%) Mockito
13 2 (0.17%) Vagrant
14 1 (0.085%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.085%) Yeoman
General
1 331 (28.12%) Social Skills
2 310 (26.34%) Finance
3 171 (14.53%) Banking
4 145 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (12.15%) Retail
6 137 (11.64%) Law
7 94 (7.99%) Public Sector
8 81 (6.88%) Back Office
9 79 (6.71%) Financial Institution
10 74 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.63%) Marketing
13 25 (2.12%) Legal
13 25 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.36%) Italian Language
16 11 (0.93%) Retail Banking
17 10 (0.85%) Advertising
17 10 (0.85%) Front Office
18 9 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 346 (29.40%) Senior
2 203 (17.25%) Software Engineer
3 191 (16.23%) Architect
4 168 (14.27%) Lead
5 160 (13.59%) Developer
6 94 (7.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 89 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
8 77 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 66 (5.61%) Senior Developer
10 63 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
11 62 (5.27%) Java Engineer
12 45 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (3.74%) Consultant
14 42 (3.57%) Java Software Engineer
15 41 (3.48%) Data Engineer
15 41 (3.48%) DevOps Engineer
16 39 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 37 (3.14%) Lead Software Engineer
17 37 (3.14%) Senior Architect
18 36 (3.06%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (12.74%) .NET
2 149 (12.66%) React
3 114 (9.69%) Kafka
4 102 (8.67%) RESTful
5 92 (7.82%) Spring
6 86 (7.31%) Node.js
7 75 (6.37%) Spring Boot
8 67 (5.69%) REST
9 37 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 36 (3.06%) .NET Core
10 36 (3.06%) AWS CDK
11 34 (2.89%) LangChain
12 33 (2.80%) CSS
12 33 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
13 31 (2.63%) PyTorch
13 31 (2.63%) TensorFlow
14 29 (2.46%) gRPC
14 29 (2.46%) scikit-learn
15 28 (2.38%) LlamaIndex
16 26 (2.21%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 125 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
2 74 (6.29%) Product Ownership
3 58 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (3.65%) Public Cloud
6 42 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 39 (3.31%) Blog
8 25 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.95%) Clustering
9 23 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
10 22 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.44%) Blockchain
12 16 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
12 16 (1.36%) e-Learning
12 16 (1.36%) Web3
13 15 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.10%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.08%) Linux
2 32 (2.72%) Windows
3 15 (1.27%) Android
4 10 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.51%) CentOS
5 6 (0.51%) Debian
5 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.34%) VMS
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.25%) SUSE
8 1 (0.085%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.085%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (46.90%) CI/CD
2 440 (37.38%) DevOps
3 358 (30.42%) Agile
4 357 (30.33%) Microservices
5 335 (28.46%) Software Engineering
6 312 (26.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 268 (22.77%) AI
8 238 (20.22%) Containerisation
9 220 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 205 (17.42%) Mentoring
11 203 (17.25%) Test Automation
12 183 (15.55%) Event-Driven
13 182 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
14 177 (15.04%) Observability
15 163 (13.85%) Analytics
16 160 (13.59%) Roadmaps
17 147 (12.49%) Technical Leadership
18 130 (11.05%) Machine Learning
19 125 (10.62%) Clean Code
20 118 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 301 (25.57%) Python
2 260 (22.09%) Java
3 185 (15.72%) SQL
4 123 (10.45%) TypeScript
5 120 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 101 (8.58%) C#
7 94 (7.99%) Go
8 43 (3.65%) Bicep
9 40 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 39 (3.31%) Bash
11 22 (1.87%) Rust
12 15 (1.27%) C++
13 12 (1.02%) PHP
14 10 (0.85%) Ruby
15 9 (0.76%) C
16 6 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.34%) Groovy
17 4 (0.34%) Korn
17 4 (0.34%) Scala
18 3 (0.25%) R
Qualifications
1 165 (14.02%) Degree
2 123 (10.45%) Security Cleared
3 80 (6.80%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 55 (4.67%) AWS Certification
6 34 (2.89%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.70%) CISSP
9 19 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.53%) OSCP
11 15 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (1.19%) DBS Check
13 12 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (1.02%) CISM
13 12 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
16 7 (0.59%) CCSP
16 7 (0.59%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (5.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (3.99%) GDPR
3 41 (3.48%) NIST
4 38 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 34 (2.89%) QA
6 32 (2.72%) SOC 2
7 31 (2.63%) Data Quality
8 23 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 20 (1.70%) GRC
10 17 (1.44%) Accessibility
11 16 (1.36%) NCSC
12 10 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.85%) SLA
13 9 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 6 (0.51%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.42%) COBIT
15 5 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.25%) WCAG
18 2 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 222 (18.86%) Docker
2 22 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.085%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.085%) KVM
6 1 (0.085%) QEMU
6 1 (0.085%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.085%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.085%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 369 (31.35%) Kubernetes
2 323 (27.44%) Terraform
3 97 (8.24%) Grafana
4 54 (4.59%) Ansible
5 52 (4.42%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.93%) Cilium
7 9 (0.76%) Argo
8 8 (0.68%) HP Fortify
9 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.51%) Puppet
11 5 (0.42%) Kibana
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.25%) Istio
12 3 (0.25%) Rancher
12 3 (0.25%) SCCM
13 2 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.17%) Nessus
13 2 (0.17%) Netcool
13 2 (0.17%) Netcool/OMNIbus
13 2 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 137 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.12%) Databricks
3 53 (4.50%) Google
4 31 (2.63%) Dell
5 23 (1.95%) Cloudera
6 19 (1.61%) SAP
7 15 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
8 14 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.19%) Oracle
8 14 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.10%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 11 (0.93%) New Relic
11 9 (0.76%) Fortinet
11 9 (0.76%) IBM
11 9 (0.76%) VMware
12 8 (0.68%) Adobe
12 8 (0.68%) AppDynamics
12 8 (0.68%) Okta
12 8 (0.68%) Palo Alto