Cloud Native Job Trends in London

Cloud Native
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 152 231
Rank change year-on-year +75 +79 -119
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 470 343 240
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.32% 2.21% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.12% 5.06% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 334 182 184
10th Percentile £61,625 £70,000 £66,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £82,813 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -
75th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £124,750 £130,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,791 6,782 7,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.65% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,419 3,547 5,566
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% +0.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £127,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the London region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Central London +53 93 £100,000 -9.09% 48
West London +9 11 £79,000 +19.70% 7
East London - 3 £80,000 - 3
North London +7 1 - -
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 24 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.40%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.55%) Apache
4 9 (1.91%) Confluence
4 9 (1.91%) JBoss
4 9 (1.91%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.85%) Appian
6 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) MTS
8 1 (0.21%) TPMS
Applications
1 14 (2.98%) Maya
2 4 (0.85%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.85%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 260 (55.32%) AWS
2 195 (41.49%) Azure
3 140 (29.79%) GCP
4 62 (13.19%) SaaS
5 61 (12.98%) Serverless
6 49 (10.43%) GitHub
7 45 (9.57%) Power Platform
8 42 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
9 36 (7.66%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
10 31 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (5.32%) Amazon S3
13 23 (4.89%) Dynamics 365
14 22 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
15 20 (4.26%) Datadog
16 19 (4.04%) Power Automate
16 19 (4.04%) PowerApps
17 15 (3.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 15 (3.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.26%) Firewall
2 14 (2.98%) Network Security
3 11 (2.34%) VPN
4 9 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.28%) DNS
6 5 (1.06%) DHCP
7 4 (0.85%) BGP
7 4 (0.85%) DSL
7 4 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.85%) VLAN
7 4 (0.85%) WAN
8 3 (0.64%) HTTP
8 3 (0.64%) SCCP
9 2 (0.43%) AMQP
9 2 (0.43%) Broadband
9 2 (0.43%) NAS
9 2 (0.43%) SAN
9 2 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.66%) Power BI
2 28 (5.96%) MongoDB
3 27 (5.74%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.53%) Data Lake
4 26 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (3.40%) SQL Server
6 15 (3.19%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.98%) Tableau
8 11 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.49%) Big Data
10 7 (1.49%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.06%) ClickHouse
11 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.85%) Weaviate
13 3 (0.64%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 33 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.32%) Git
3 23 (4.89%) TeamCity
4 21 (4.47%) GitLab
5 16 (3.40%) JIRA
6 8 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.49%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.28%) JMeter
9 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.06%) Selenium
9 5 (1.06%) Vite
10 4 (0.85%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.64%) ESLint
11 3 (0.64%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.64%) Postman
11 3 (0.64%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.43%) MLflow
12 2 (0.43%) Snyk
General
1 156 (33.19%) Social Skills
2 132 (28.09%) Finance
3 67 (14.26%) Retail
4 65 (13.83%) Law
5 59 (12.55%) Banking
6 51 (10.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 40 (8.51%) Financial Institution
8 31 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
8 31 (6.60%) Back Office
9 30 (6.38%) Public Sector
10 20 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (4.04%) Marketing
12 17 (3.62%) Telecoms
13 15 (3.19%) Games
14 10 (2.13%) Front Office
14 10 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.28%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.28%) Legal
16 5 (1.06%) Electronics
16 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (33.83%) Senior
2 93 (19.79%) Lead
3 91 (19.36%) Architect
4 79 (16.81%) Developer
5 75 (15.96%) Software Engineer
6 37 (7.87%) Senior Developer
7 35 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 33 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (5.74%) Senior Architect
10 26 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (5.32%) Java Engineer
12 23 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 20 (4.26%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 19 (4.04%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 18 (3.83%) Lead Architect
16 16 (3.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (3.40%) Senior Java Engineer
17 15 (3.19%) CRM Architect
17 15 (3.19%) Lead Developer
17 15 (3.19%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (14.47%) React
2 59 (12.55%) .NET
2 59 (12.55%) Kafka
3 55 (11.70%) Node.js
4 54 (11.49%) Spring
5 46 (9.79%) REST
6 42 (8.94%) Spring Boot
7 36 (7.66%) RESTful
8 28 (5.96%) GraphQL
9 26 (5.53%) FastAPI
10 15 (3.19%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (2.98%) CSS
11 14 (2.98%) gRPC
12 13 (2.77%) Middleware
13 12 (2.55%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.55%) Django
13 12 (2.55%) Flask
13 12 (2.55%) Hibernate
13 12 (2.55%) Vue
13 12 (2.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 79 (16.81%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.83%) Legacy Code
4 17 (3.62%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.77%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.55%) Virtual Team
9 11 (2.34%) Blog
9 11 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.13%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.91%) DataPower
11 9 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.70%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.47%) Linux
2 13 (2.77%) Windows
3 9 (1.91%) Android
4 7 (1.49%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.64%) SUSE
6 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (47.02%) CI/CD
2 162 (34.47%) DevOps
3 135 (28.72%) Microservices
4 132 (28.09%) Software Engineering
5 126 (26.81%) AI
6 122 (25.96%) Agile
7 98 (20.85%) Containerisation
8 93 (19.79%) Roadmaps
9 91 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 88 (18.72%) Observability
10 88 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
11 87 (18.51%) Test Automation
12 86 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 78 (16.60%) Mentoring
14 76 (16.17%) Event-Driven
15 71 (15.11%) Technical Leadership
16 69 (14.68%) Computer Science
17 67 (14.26%) Full-Stack Development
18 59 (12.55%) Analytics
19 57 (12.13%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 151 (32.13%) Java
2 121 (25.74%) Python
3 71 (15.11%) TypeScript
4 69 (14.68%) JavaScript
5 59 (12.55%) Go
6 54 (11.49%) SQL
7 53 (11.28%) C#
8 28 (5.96%) C++
9 22 (4.68%) Rust
10 17 (3.62%) Bash
11 16 (3.40%) C
12 15 (3.19%) Bicep
13 13 (2.77%) PowerShell
14 11 (2.34%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.28%) Scala
16 5 (1.06%) Ruby
17 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.21%) PHP
17 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (20.43%) Degree
2 47 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 47 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 36 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 24 (5.11%) AWS Certification
5 17 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 17 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.91%) CISSP
9 7 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.49%) CISM
10 6 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.85%) OSCP
13 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.43%) CISA
14 2 (0.43%) PMP
14 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.83%) PCI DSS
3 17 (3.62%) SOC 2
4 16 (3.40%) NIST
5 15 (3.19%) GDPR
6 14 (2.98%) QA
7 9 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.91%) Data Quality
8 7 (1.49%) SLA
9 6 (1.28%) NCSC
10 5 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.85%) GRC
11 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 4 (0.85%) WCAG
12 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.43%) ISO 14001
13 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 88 (18.72%) Docker
2 15 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (2.98%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (1.06%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 165 (35.11%) Kubernetes
2 120 (25.53%) Terraform
3 35 (7.45%) Grafana
4 24 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 16 (3.40%) Ansible
6 7 (1.49%) Argo
7 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.85%) Cilium
8 4 (0.85%) Kibana
9 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.64%) Rancher
9 3 (0.64%) SCCM
10 2 (0.43%) SCOM
11 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 75 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.74%) Oracle
2 27 (5.74%) Salesforce
3 25 (5.32%) Google
4 24 (5.11%) SAP
5 17 (3.62%) Dell
6 16 (3.40%) Adobe
6 16 (3.40%) MuleSoft
7 14 (2.98%) Databricks
8 10 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
9 9 (1.91%) VMware
10 8 (1.70%) New Relic
10 8 (1.70%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.49%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.28%) AppDynamics
12 6 (1.28%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.28%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.28%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.28%) IBM
13 5 (1.06%) Qualys