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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 123 255
Rank change year-on-year +65 +132 -129
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 688 348 289
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.38% 2.76% 1.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.70% 6.21% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 399 232 213
10th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £74,375 £71,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £130,500 £142,250 £122,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -4.65%

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 7,091 5,605 9,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.80% 44.41% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,246 3,233 6,802
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £137,500 £128,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +17 106 £87,000 -3.33% 81
West London -12 15 £82,500 +25.00% 7
South London +17 5 - -
East London -9 3 £80,000 -5.88% 2
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 43 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.02%) Apache
4 7 (1.02%) JBoss
4 7 (1.02%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.58%) Appian
5 4 (0.58%) CMS
6 3 (0.44%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.15%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.15%) MTS
8 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.29%) Maya
4 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.29%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.15%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 411 (59.74%) AWS
2 277 (40.26%) Azure
3 226 (32.85%) GCP
4 96 (13.95%) SaaS
5 76 (11.05%) Serverless
6 68 (9.88%) GitHub
7 63 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
10 43 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (6.25%) Power Platform
11 36 (5.23%) Amazon S3
11 36 (5.23%) dbt
12 29 (4.22%) Datadog
12 29 (4.22%) Snowflake
13 27 (3.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 25 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.49%) Broadband
2 20 (2.91%) Network Security
3 17 (2.47%) Firewall
4 16 (2.33%) DNS
5 13 (1.89%) DSL
6 12 (1.74%) VPN
7 8 (1.16%) DHCP
7 8 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.16%) WAN
8 6 (0.87%) BGP
9 4 (0.58%) HTTP
9 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.44%) MPLS
10 3 (0.44%) OSPF
10 3 (0.44%) SCCP
10 3 (0.44%) VLAN
11 2 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (0.29%) NX-OS
11 2 (0.29%) VXLAN
11 2 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (6.69%) NoSQL
2 42 (6.10%) Data Lake
2 42 (6.10%) Power BI
3 39 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.23%) BigQuery
5 29 (4.22%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (4.22%) MongoDB
6 26 (3.78%) DynamoDB
7 21 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 20 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.76%) Tableau
10 18 (2.62%) SQL Server
11 17 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (2.47%) Looker
12 16 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
13 15 (2.18%) Metadata
14 11 (1.60%) MySQL
15 9 (1.31%) Delta Lake
16 7 (1.02%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 68 (9.88%) GitLab
2 61 (8.87%) Jenkins
3 54 (7.85%) TeamCity
4 40 (5.81%) Git
5 19 (2.76%) MLflow
6 16 (2.33%) CircleCI
7 15 (2.18%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.31%) JIRA
9 7 (1.02%) Selenium
10 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.44%) ESLint
11 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.29%) rollup.js
12 1 (0.15%) Appium
12 1 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.15%) Mockito
12 1 (0.15%) Storybook
12 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 255 (37.06%) Finance
2 191 (27.76%) Social Skills
3 154 (22.38%) Banking
4 126 (18.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 124 (18.02%) Law
6 112 (16.28%) Retail
7 67 (9.74%) Financial Institution
8 66 (9.59%) Back Office
9 50 (7.27%) Public Sector
10 42 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
11 39 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (4.36%) Marketing
13 19 (2.76%) Legal
14 16 (2.33%) Telecoms
15 15 (2.18%) Games
16 14 (2.03%) Italian Language
17 12 (1.74%) Front Office
18 10 (1.45%) German Language
19 9 (1.31%) Advertising
20 7 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (34.88%) Senior
2 112 (16.28%) Architect
3 100 (14.53%) Developer
4 85 (12.35%) Software Engineer
5 81 (11.77%) Lead
6 50 (7.27%) Java Engineer
7 49 (7.12%) Senior Developer
8 39 (5.67%) Consultant
9 35 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (4.94%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (4.51%) Senior Architect
12 28 (4.07%) Security Engineer
13 27 (3.92%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (3.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (3.49%) Senior Manager
15 22 (3.20%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
17 18 (2.62%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (14.10%) Kafka
2 76 (11.05%) React
3 65 (9.45%) .NET
4 59 (8.58%) RESTful
5 53 (7.70%) Spring
6 41 (5.96%) Node.js
6 41 (5.96%) Spring Boot
7 34 (4.94%) REST
8 33 (4.80%) LangChain
9 27 (3.92%) LlamaIndex
10 25 (3.63%) PyTorch
10 25 (3.63%) TensorFlow
11 24 (3.49%) scikit-learn
12 23 (3.34%) gRPC
12 23 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (2.76%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.62%) AWS CDK
14 18 (2.62%) pgvector
15 17 (2.47%) CSS
15 17 (2.47%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 94 (13.66%) Distributed Systems
2 40 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 38 (5.52%) Public Cloud
4 30 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (4.07%) Blog
6 26 (3.78%) e-Learning
7 25 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (3.34%) Security Posture
9 21 (3.05%) AI Agents
9 21 (3.05%) Blockchain
10 19 (2.76%) Web3
11 17 (2.47%) Clustering
12 16 (2.33%) Data Centre
13 14 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
14 13 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (1.89%) Low-Code
15 10 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
16 9 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (1.31%) Data Structures
16 9 (1.31%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.34%) Linux
2 16 (2.33%) Windows
3 10 (1.45%) Android
4 5 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.44%) SUSE
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (47.97%) CI/CD
2 234 (34.01%) DevOps
3 215 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 213 (30.96%) Microservices
5 208 (30.23%) Agile
6 195 (28.34%) AI
7 192 (27.91%) Software Engineering
8 158 (22.97%) Test Automation
9 131 (19.04%) Mentoring
10 123 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (16.72%) Observability
12 113 (16.42%) Containerisation
13 98 (14.24%) Event-Driven
13 98 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
14 95 (13.81%) Analytics
15 93 (13.52%) Roadmaps
16 92 (13.37%) Machine Learning
17 90 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
18 85 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
19 78 (11.34%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 197 (28.63%) Python
2 184 (26.74%) Java
3 104 (15.12%) SQL
4 92 (13.37%) Go
5 64 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 58 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 47 (6.83%) C#
8 22 (3.20%) Bash
9 19 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.33%) Bicep
10 16 (2.33%) Rust
11 9 (1.31%) C++
12 6 (0.87%) Ruby
13 5 (0.73%) PHP
14 4 (0.58%) Scala
15 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.44%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.29%) R
16 2 (0.29%) VB
17 1 (0.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 124 (18.02%) Degree
2 73 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 45 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (5.38%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.36%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.47%) CISSP
8 16 (2.33%) OSCP
9 15 (2.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.45%) CISM
11 10 (1.45%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (1.02%) GIAC
12 7 (1.02%) ISACA
13 6 (0.87%) CCSP
14 5 (0.73%) CISA
14 5 (0.73%) SANS
15 4 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (3.78%) GDPR
3 23 (3.34%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.05%) SOC 2
5 20 (2.91%) NIST
6 18 (2.62%) PCI DSS
7 16 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 11 (1.60%) QA
9 9 (1.31%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.02%) GRC
10 7 (1.02%) SLA
11 6 (0.87%) COBIT
11 6 (0.87%) NCSC
12 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.29%) MiFID
13 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) SOC 1
13 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (15.26%) Docker
2 9 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 219 (31.83%) Kubernetes
2 213 (30.96%) Terraform
3 64 (9.30%) Grafana
4 38 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.36%) Ansible
6 9 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.16%) Argo
7 8 (1.16%) Cilium
8 4 (0.58%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.44%) Puppet
9 3 (0.44%) Rancher
10 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.29%) SCCM
11 1 (0.15%) Amdocs OSS
11 1 (0.15%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 65 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.25%) Databricks
3 38 (5.52%) Google
4 20 (2.91%) Dell
5 16 (2.33%) Cloudera
6 12 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 12 (1.74%) SAP
7 11 (1.60%) VMware
8 10 (1.45%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.16%) Oracle
9 8 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.02%) Cisco
10 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.02%) Okta
11 6 (0.87%) Concur
11 6 (0.87%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.87%) Fortinet
12 5 (0.73%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.73%) Splunk
12 5 (0.73%) Talend