Cloud Native Job Trends in Essex

Cloud Native
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.33% - 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% - 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £72,500 £71,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year +1.40% -6.23% -44.55%

All Generic Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 334 146 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 21.72% 22.85% 21.25%
Number of salaries quoted 223 96 98
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £27,125
25th Percentile £32,123 £27,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,879 £36,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.68% -26.50% +9.89%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £59,688
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,500 £79,750
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Essex

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Essex region over the 6 months to 11 September 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
Grays - 4 - -
Colchester - 1 £90,000 -
Cloud Native
East of England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SGI