Cloud Native Job Trends in Kent

Cloud Native
South East > Kent

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Kent. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 64 73
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 7 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.41% 0.66% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 1.62% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £60,750
25th Percentile - £95,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +53.85% -
75th Percentile - £105,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Generic Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 389 309 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.80% 41.04% 31.45%
Number of salaries quoted 277 241 168
10th Percentile £29,038 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £34,988 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £38,325 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -14.83% -10.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £54,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -12.38% -8.70%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Kent

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Kent region over the 6 months to 10 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
Rochester - 5 - -
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Systems Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL