Cloud Native Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 313 211
Rank change year-on-year +54 -102 -21
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 647 767 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.32% 0.86% 1.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.50% 2.53% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 398 495 801
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,750 £115,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £81,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.88% - -

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 18,503 30,294 38,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.79% 33.86% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 20,923 20,470
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £35,764
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in England.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in England

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025. 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 +142 405 £95,000 +5.56% 588
North of England -18 90 £74,935 +3.36% 1,256
South East +82 66 £70,000 +7.69% 1,504
North West -41 56 £74,870 +6.96% 624
Yorkshire +45 33 £83,876 +8.23% 495
Midlands +45 27 £72,500 -9.38% 1,002
South West +36 27 £95,000 +18.75% 636
West Midlands +28 21 £72,500 -9.38% 535
East of England +24 10 £71,500 -4.67% 782
East Midlands +35 6 £65,000 -25.71% 400
North East +36 1 £75,500 +20.80% 138
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.55%) Apache
4 10 (1.55%) Confluence
5 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.93%) CMS
6 6 (0.93%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.77%) Appian
7 5 (0.77%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) Luigi
8 2 (0.31%) Traefik
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (1.70%) Maya
2 4 (0.62%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.62%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.46%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 311 (48.07%) AWS
2 287 (44.36%) Azure
3 143 (22.10%) GCP
4 83 (12.83%) Serverless
5 76 (11.75%) GitHub
6 75 (11.59%) SaaS
7 60 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (8.35%) Amazon S3
10 47 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (6.49%) Power Platform
12 36 (5.56%) Datadog
13 34 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
14 27 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (3.09%) Snowflake
19 18 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
19 18 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.63%) VPN
2 16 (2.47%) Firewall
3 12 (1.85%) DNS
3 12 (1.85%) Network Security
4 8 (1.24%) Internet
5 6 (0.93%) DHCP
5 6 (0.93%) MQTT
6 5 (0.77%) HTTP
6 5 (0.77%) SMS
7 4 (0.62%) DKIM
7 4 (0.62%) DMARC
7 4 (0.62%) DNSSEC
7 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.62%) SAN
7 4 (0.62%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.62%) SMTP
7 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.62%) WAN
8 3 (0.46%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (13.91%) NoSQL
2 51 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (6.18%) MongoDB
4 36 (5.56%) MySQL
4 36 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 33 (5.10%) Data Lake
6 32 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
6 32 (4.95%) DynamoDB
7 28 (4.33%) Power BI
8 23 (3.55%) Big Data
9 22 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (3.25%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.85%) Tableau
12 11 (1.70%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.93%) DocumentDB
16 5 (0.77%) Redis
17 4 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 47 (7.26%) Git
2 29 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 19 (2.94%) GitLab
3 19 (2.94%) JIRA
4 9 (1.39%) CircleCI
4 9 (1.39%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.24%) Selenium
6 7 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.93%) Maven
7 6 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.93%) webpack
8 5 (0.77%) Gradle
8 5 (0.77%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.77%) Snyk
8 5 (0.77%) Storybook
9 4 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.62%) NUnit
General
1 255 (39.41%) Finance
2 205 (31.68%) Social Skills
3 157 (24.27%) Banking
4 109 (16.85%) Law
5 104 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (6.49%) Marketing
8 39 (6.03%) Public Sector
8 39 (6.03%) Retail
9 25 (3.86%) Games
10 23 (3.55%) Investment Banking
11 21 (3.25%) Legal
12 17 (2.63%) Retail Banking
13 16 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (2.01%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.70%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.70%) Front Office
17 10 (1.55%) Electronics
18 9 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (27.98%) Software Engineer
2 161 (24.88%) Lead
3 157 (24.27%) Senior
4 122 (18.86%) Architect
5 99 (15.30%) Developer
6 93 (14.37%) Lead Software Engineer
7 77 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (7.42%) Senior Software Engineer
9 47 (7.26%) Solutions Architect
10 45 (6.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (6.34%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 39 (6.03%) Senior Developer
13 38 (5.87%) Senior Architect
14 36 (5.56%) Java Engineer
15 35 (5.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 29 (4.48%) Python Engineer
17 25 (3.86%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 25 (3.86%) Python Software Engineer
18 24 (3.71%) Java Software Engineer
18 24 (3.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (17.00%) React
2 109 (16.85%) Kafka
3 88 (13.60%) RESTful
4 85 (13.14%) .NET
5 55 (8.50%) Spring
6 47 (7.26%) Node.js
7 43 (6.65%) Spring Boot
8 32 (4.95%) GraphQL
9 30 (4.64%) .NET Core
9 30 (4.64%) AngularJS
10 29 (4.48%) REST
11 28 (4.33%) CSS
11 28 (4.33%) HTML
12 27 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (2.94%) Web Services
14 18 (2.78%) gRPC
15 17 (2.63%) Vue
16 14 (2.16%) CSS3
16 14 (2.16%) HTML5
16 14 (2.16%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 84 (12.98%) Distributed Systems
2 54 (8.35%) Product Ownership
3 50 (7.73%) Public Cloud
4 47 (7.26%) Management Information System
5 40 (6.18%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (5.56%) Legacy Code
7 27 (4.17%) Mobile App
8 25 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (2.94%) Security Posture
12 17 (2.63%) Algorithms
13 16 (2.47%) Distributed Applications
14 15 (2.32%) Data Structures
15 14 (2.16%) Virtual Team
16 13 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (2.01%) Mobile Games
17 11 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (1.70%) Cloud Security Posture
18 10 (1.55%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 74 (11.44%) Linux
2 22 (3.40%) Windows
3 11 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 4 (0.62%) Android
5 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.31%) zOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (49.30%) CI/CD
2 269 (41.58%) Agile
3 263 (40.65%) Software Engineering
4 241 (37.25%) DevOps
5 204 (31.53%) Microservices
6 143 (22.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 124 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
8 119 (18.39%) Containerisation
9 113 (17.47%) Artificial Intelligence
10 107 (16.54%) Mentoring
11 100 (15.46%) Event-Driven
12 99 (15.30%) Analytics
13 97 (14.99%) Roadmaps
14 93 (14.37%) SDLC
15 87 (13.45%) Technical Leadership
16 76 (11.75%) Test Automation
17 74 (11.44%) Computer Science
18 71 (10.97%) Observability
19 69 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
19 69 (10.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 184 (28.44%) Python
2 167 (25.81%) Java
3 139 (21.48%) SQL
4 97 (14.99%) JavaScript
5 92 (14.22%) C#
6 91 (14.06%) TypeScript
7 82 (12.67%) Go
8 45 (6.96%) Rust
9 44 (6.80%) C++
10 40 (6.18%) C
11 34 (5.26%) PowerShell
12 29 (4.48%) Bash
13 23 (3.55%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.85%) Scala
15 9 (1.39%) Bicep
15 9 (1.39%) PHP
16 8 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.93%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.46%) Lua
Qualifications
1 92 (14.22%) Degree
2 57 (8.81%) AWS Certification
3 53 (8.19%) Security Cleared
4 40 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 33 (5.10%) SC Cleared
7 32 (4.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 15 (2.32%) Master's Degree
10 13 (2.01%) CISSP
11 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
13 5 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.62%) CISM
14 4 (0.62%) PhD
14 4 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.46%) CCSP
16 2 (0.31%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.04%) GDPR
2 30 (4.64%) QA
3 23 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.25%) NIST
5 18 (2.78%) HIPAA
6 13 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.55%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.39%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.62%) GMP
10 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.46%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.31%) SLA
13 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.15%) NCSC
13 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 130 (20.09%) Docker
2 16 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.15%) NFS
8 1 (0.15%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 230 (35.55%) Kubernetes
2 144 (22.26%) Terraform
3 58 (8.96%) Prometheus
4 33 (5.10%) Grafana
5 30 (4.64%) Ansible
6 15 (2.32%) Argo
7 7 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.77%) CASB
8 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.62%) HAProxy
9 4 (0.62%) Istio
9 4 (0.62%) Mesos
9 4 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.62%) Puppet
10 3 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.31%) linkerd
12 1 (0.15%) Consul
12 1 (0.15%) Packer
12 1 (0.15%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 100 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.36%) Google
3 37 (5.72%) Oracle
4 35 (5.41%) Databricks
5 21 (3.25%) SAP
6 19 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.16%) MuleSoft
7 14 (2.16%) VMware
8 13 (2.01%) Dell
9 11 (1.70%) Adobe
10 10 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.39%) IBM
11 9 (1.39%) Rackspace
11 9 (1.39%) Splunk
12 6 (0.93%) Cisco
12 6 (0.93%) Informatica
13 5 (0.77%) Black Duck
13 5 (0.77%) New Relic
13 5 (0.77%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.77%) UiPath