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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 317 212
Rank change year-on-year +49 -105 -22
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 578 756 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.17% 0.87% 1.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.14% 2.52% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 405 499 833
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,323
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 £96,539 £105,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £115,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 18,399 29,949 38,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.23% 34.63% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,831 20,880 20,891
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,000 £46,570
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 19 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 19 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 +116 343 £95,000 +5.56% 670
North of England -21 93 £74,870 +3.27% 188
South East +88 64 £62,500 -3.85% 261
North West -54 56 £74,870 -0.17% 103
Yorkshire +49 35 £77,246 +2.99% 72
Midlands +36 30 £70,000 -6.19% 79
West Midlands +16 23 £72,500 -2.84% 41
South West +28 22 £91,250 +14.06% 71
East Midlands +18 7 £65,000 +0.78% 35
East of England +10 7 - - 29
North East +32 2 £65,250 +11.06% 13
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 14 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.38%) Confluence
5 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.04%) CMS
5 6 (1.04%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.87%) Apache
7 4 (0.69%) Luigi
7 4 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.52%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Camunda
9 1 (0.17%) Drupal
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (1.90%) Maya
2 4 (0.69%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.52%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 277 (47.92%) Azure
2 260 (44.98%) AWS
3 132 (22.84%) GCP
4 81 (14.01%) SaaS
4 81 (14.01%) Serverless
5 67 (11.59%) GitHub
6 55 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (7.96%) Amazon S3
9 38 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
10 35 (6.06%) Power Platform
11 34 (5.88%) Datadog
12 32 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (3.98%) PaaS
15 22 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.81%) Snowflake
16 20 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (3.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.46%) Firewall
1 20 (3.46%) Network Security
2 16 (2.77%) VPN
3 12 (2.08%) DNS
4 10 (1.73%) Internet
5 6 (1.04%) DKIM
5 6 (1.04%) DMARC
5 6 (1.04%) DNSSEC
5 6 (1.04%) SMTP
5 6 (1.04%) WAN
6 5 (0.87%) HTTP
6 5 (0.87%) MQTT
7 4 (0.69%) DHCP
7 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.69%) SMS
8 3 (0.52%) BGP
8 3 (0.52%) SAN
8 3 (0.52%) VLAN
9 2 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (12.46%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (5.71%) MySQL
4 32 (5.54%) DynamoDB
4 32 (5.54%) SQL Server
5 30 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (5.02%) Data Lake
6 29 (5.02%) MongoDB
7 28 (4.84%) Power BI
8 20 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (2.94%) Big Data
10 13 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.90%) Tableau
13 9 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.38%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.04%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.04%) DocumentDB
16 5 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (7.79%) Git
2 29 (5.02%) Jenkins
3 19 (3.29%) GitLab
3 19 (3.29%) JIRA
4 9 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.56%) Maven
5 7 (1.21%) CircleCI
5 7 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 7 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.04%) webpack
7 5 (0.87%) Gradle
7 5 (0.87%) Storybook
8 4 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.69%) NUnit
8 4 (0.69%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
9 3 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 198 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 187 (32.35%) Finance
3 104 (17.99%) Banking
4 48 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.92%) Retail
6 37 (6.40%) Public Sector
7 34 (5.88%) Law
8 32 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (4.50%) Marketing
10 25 (4.33%) Games
11 17 (2.94%) Retail Banking
12 15 (2.60%) Investment Banking
12 15 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.90%) Front Office
15 10 (1.73%) Legal
16 9 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 6 (1.04%) Electronics
18 5 (0.87%) Military
18 5 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (24.91%) Senior
2 127 (21.97%) Architect
3 112 (19.38%) Lead
4 111 (19.20%) Software Engineer
5 87 (15.05%) Developer
6 78 (13.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.30%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (8.13%) Lead Software Engineer
9 41 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 37 (6.40%) Senior Architect
11 36 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (6.06%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 35 (6.06%) Senior Developer
13 33 (5.71%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 26 (4.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 22 (3.81%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (3.46%) .NET Developer
16 20 (3.46%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 19 (3.29%) AWS Architect
18 17 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (16.61%) React
2 81 (14.01%) .NET
3 71 (12.28%) Kafka
4 54 (9.34%) RESTful
5 35 (6.06%) Node.js
6 31 (5.36%) Spring
7 29 (5.02%) GraphQL
7 29 (5.02%) HTML
8 28 (4.84%) CSS
9 27 (4.67%) REST
10 26 (4.50%) AngularJS
10 26 (4.50%) Spring Boot
11 25 (4.33%) .NET Core
12 24 (4.15%) RabbitMQ
13 16 (2.77%) gRPC
13 16 (2.77%) Vue
13 16 (2.77%) Web Services
14 14 (2.42%) ASP.NET
14 14 (2.42%) CSS3
14 14 (2.42%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 64 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (8.13%) Product Ownership
3 41 (7.09%) Public Cloud
4 38 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
5 37 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 34 (5.88%) Legacy Code
7 25 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.98%) Security Posture
9 22 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.77%) Algorithms
12 14 (2.42%) Mobile App
13 13 (2.25%) Mobile Games
14 12 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
14 12 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
14 12 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.90%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.56%) Data Centre
16 9 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (11.94%) Linux
2 25 (4.33%) Windows
3 10 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.69%) Android
4 4 (0.69%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.52%) Unix
6 2 (0.35%) VMS
6 2 (0.35%) zOS
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (46.37%) CI/CD
2 236 (40.83%) DevOps
3 201 (34.78%) Agile
4 185 (32.01%) Software Engineering
5 166 (28.72%) Microservices
6 131 (22.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 110 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (18.86%) Containerisation
9 99 (17.13%) Mentoring
10 97 (16.78%) Roadmaps
11 94 (16.26%) Event-Driven
12 88 (15.22%) Analytics
13 80 (13.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 80 (13.84%) Technical Leadership
14 67 (11.59%) Migration
15 65 (11.25%) Observability
16 62 (10.73%) Cloud Security
17 60 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
18 58 (10.03%) Computer Science
19 53 (9.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 140 (24.22%) Python
2 120 (20.76%) SQL
3 112 (19.38%) Java
4 88 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 87 (15.05%) C#
6 76 (13.15%) TypeScript
7 56 (9.69%) Go
8 43 (7.44%) Rust
9 41 (7.09%) C++
10 40 (6.92%) PowerShell
11 38 (6.57%) C
12 28 (4.84%) Bash
13 10 (1.73%) Bicep
13 10 (1.73%) PHP
13 10 (1.73%) Scala
14 7 (1.21%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.04%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.87%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 92 (15.92%) Degree
2 52 (9.00%) Security Cleared
3 47 (8.13%) AWS Certification
4 41 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 40 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (5.71%) Azure Certification
7 29 (5.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.77%) CISSP
9 11 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.38%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.87%) CISM
12 5 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.69%) PhD
14 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.52%) CCNP
14 3 (0.52%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.65%) GDPR
2 28 (4.84%) QA
3 23 (3.98%) NIST
4 22 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (3.29%) HIPAA
6 12 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.73%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.73%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.21%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.69%) GMP
10 4 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.52%) PMBOK
12 2 (0.35%) SLA
13 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.17%) EU AI Act
13 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (20.07%) Docker
2 16 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.52%) vSphere
7 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.17%) Firmware
7 1 (0.17%) NFS
7 1 (0.17%) vCloud
7 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 198 (34.26%) Kubernetes
2 134 (23.18%) Terraform
3 53 (9.17%) Prometheus
4 29 (5.02%) Ansible
4 29 (5.02%) Grafana
5 12 (2.08%) Argo
6 8 (1.38%) CASB
7 7 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.87%) Istio
8 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.69%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.69%) Puppet
10 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.35%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.35%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.35%) linkerd
10 2 (0.35%) Packer
10 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Consul
Vendors
1 100 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 75 (12.98%) Google
3 33 (5.71%) Databricks
4 31 (5.36%) Oracle
5 17 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.94%) SAP
6 12 (2.08%) Dell
7 11 (1.90%) Adobe
7 11 (1.90%) MuleSoft
7 11 (1.90%) VMware
8 10 (1.73%) Rackspace
8 10 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.56%) Cisco
9 9 (1.56%) IBM
10 7 (1.21%) Splunk
11 6 (1.04%) Informatica
11 6 (1.04%) IronPort
11 6 (1.04%) Veritas
12 5 (0.87%) New Relic
12 5 (0.87%) OpenAI