Cloud Native Jobs 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 231 144
Rank change year-on-year +151 -87 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 507 340 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.95% 1.36% 2.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.71% 3.41% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 245 229 493
10th Percentile £62,500 £59,990 £51,250
25th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £107,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £125,000 £143,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

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 5,823 9,964 13,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 45.38% 39.93% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 6,926 9,732
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.73% +0.74%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £136,250 £131,250 £125,000
England 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 London

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in London.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in London

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 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
Central London +70 88 £86,250 -1.43% 209
West London +25 4 £63,500 +15.45% 44
South London -2 2 £80,000 -1.54% 15
East London - 1 £85,000 - 73
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 15 (2.96%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.58%) Confluence
3 8 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.38%) nginx
5 5 (0.99%) Apache
6 4 (0.79%) CMS
6 4 (0.79%) Headless CMS
6 4 (0.79%) Traefik
7 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Maya
2 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.79%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.59%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 239 (47.14%) AWS
2 184 (36.29%) Azure
3 98 (19.33%) GCP
4 67 (13.21%) GitHub
5 47 (9.27%) Serverless
6 41 (8.09%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (6.90%) SaaS
8 32 (6.31%) Amazon S3
8 32 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
10 30 (5.92%) Datadog
11 29 (5.72%) Power Platform
12 26 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (4.54%) Amazon EC2
13 23 (4.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 14 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
17 13 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
18 12 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.17%) VPN
2 9 (1.78%) Firewall
3 8 (1.58%) Network Security
4 7 (1.38%) DNS
5 4 (0.79%) DHCP
5 4 (0.79%) ICMP
5 4 (0.79%) MQTT
5 4 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.79%) SMS
5 4 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.59%) BGP
6 3 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.39%) HTTP
7 2 (0.39%) NAS
7 2 (0.39%) OSPF
7 2 (0.39%) SAN
7 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.39%) SNMP
7 2 (0.39%) WAN
7 2 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.02%) NoSQL
2 28 (5.52%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.13%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (4.54%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.94%) DynamoDB
6 20 (3.94%) Power BI
6 20 (3.94%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.35%) Big Data
8 16 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.76%) MySQL
10 10 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.97%) Tableau
11 5 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.99%) Data Vault
11 5 (0.99%) DocumentDB
11 5 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
11 5 (0.99%) Redis
12 4 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 18 (3.55%) Git
2 17 (3.35%) GitLab
3 14 (2.76%) CircleCI
3 14 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.78%) JIRA
5 8 (1.58%) SonarQube
6 5 (0.99%) Maven
7 4 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.79%) Gradle
7 4 (0.79%) Terragrunt
7 4 (0.79%) Vite
8 3 (0.59%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.59%) Selenium
8 3 (0.59%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.59%) Storybook
9 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.20%) JUnit
10 1 (0.20%) MSI
10 1 (0.20%) NUnit
General
1 266 (52.47%) Finance
2 178 (35.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 177 (34.91%) Banking
4 167 (32.94%) Law
5 149 (29.39%) Social Skills
6 52 (10.26%) Marketing
7 45 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
8 34 (6.71%) Legal
9 32 (6.31%) Investment Banking
10 30 (5.92%) Public Sector
11 23 (4.54%) Financial Institution
12 21 (4.14%) Games
13 16 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (2.37%) Retail
15 10 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.78%) Front Office
16 9 (1.78%) Retail Banking
17 6 (1.18%) Billing
18 5 (0.99%) Advertising
18 5 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 203 (40.04%) Software Engineer
2 158 (31.16%) Lead
3 133 (26.23%) Senior
4 117 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
5 87 (17.16%) Architect
6 67 (13.21%) Developer
7 57 (11.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 54 (10.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 42 (8.28%) Java Engineer
10 41 (8.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 38 (7.50%) Java Software Engineer
11 38 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
12 35 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
13 34 (6.71%) Python Engineer
14 33 (6.51%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 32 (6.31%) Senior Architect
16 31 (6.11%) Python Software Engineer
16 31 (6.11%) Senior Developer
17 25 (4.93%) Lead Cloud Engineer
18 21 (4.14%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (17.75%) Kafka
2 88 (17.36%) RESTful
3 77 (15.19%) React
4 59 (11.64%) Spring
5 40 (7.89%) .NET
6 39 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 31 (6.11%) Node.js
8 28 (5.52%) GraphQL
9 27 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (3.55%) gRPC
11 14 (2.76%) .NET Core
11 14 (2.76%) CSS
11 14 (2.76%) REST
12 13 (2.56%) OpenAPI
13 12 (2.37%) .NET Framework
13 12 (2.37%) HTML
13 12 (2.37%) Micronaut
13 12 (2.37%) Quarkus
14 10 (1.97%) React Native
14 10 (1.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (17.36%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.51%) Legacy Code
4 30 (5.92%) Management Information System
4 30 (5.92%) Public Cloud
5 27 (5.33%) Mobile App
6 23 (4.54%) Legacy Systems
6 23 (4.54%) Virtual Team
7 21 (4.14%) Mobile Banking
8 18 (3.55%) Distributed Applications
9 17 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (2.96%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.76%) Client/Server
11 14 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (2.76%) Onboarding
12 11 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (2.17%) Market Risk
13 10 (1.97%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.97%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.68%) Linux
2 6 (1.18%) Windows
3 5 (0.99%) Unix
4 3 (0.59%) Android
4 3 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) zOS
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (52.47%) Software Engineering
2 257 (50.69%) CI/CD
3 224 (44.18%) Agile
4 181 (35.70%) Microservices
5 147 (28.99%) DevOps
6 132 (26.04%) SDLC
7 130 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (21.30%) Artificial Intelligence
9 88 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 87 (17.16%) Fintech
11 79 (15.58%) Architectural Patterns
12 78 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 77 (15.19%) Machine Learning
14 75 (14.79%) Continuous Delivery
15 73 (14.40%) Operational Stability
16 70 (13.81%) Analytics
16 70 (13.81%) Mentoring
17 68 (13.41%) Computer Science
18 61 (12.03%) Community of Practice
18 61 (12.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 167 (32.94%) Java
2 141 (27.81%) Python
3 97 (19.13%) Go
4 79 (15.58%) SQL
5 72 (14.20%) TypeScript
6 49 (9.66%) Kotlin
7 48 (9.47%) JavaScript
8 45 (8.88%) C++
9 39 (7.69%) Rust
10 38 (7.50%) C
10 38 (7.50%) C#
11 24 (4.73%) PowerShell
12 23 (4.54%) Bash
13 13 (2.56%) Scala
14 9 (1.78%) Lua
15 7 (1.38%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.99%) Bicep
17 4 (0.79%) Groovy
18 3 (0.59%) PHP
19 2 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 62 (12.23%) Degree
2 34 (6.71%) AWS Certification
3 24 (4.73%) Security Cleared
4 21 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (3.94%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.75%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.99%) PhD
10 4 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.79%) CISSP
10 4 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CCSP
12 2 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.71%) GDPR
2 27 (5.33%) QA
3 13 (2.56%) NIST
4 12 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.58%) HIPAA
6 8 (1.58%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.59%) SLA
9 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (14.60%) Docker
2 6 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 177 (34.91%) Kubernetes
2 103 (20.32%) Terraform
3 40 (7.89%) Prometheus
4 18 (3.55%) Argo
4 18 (3.55%) Grafana
5 15 (2.96%) Ansible
6 7 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.18%) HAProxy
7 6 (1.18%) Mesos
8 4 (0.79%) Istio
8 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.79%) Puppet
9 2 (0.39%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.39%) linkerd
9 2 (0.39%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 65 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.66%) Google
3 20 (3.94%) MuleSoft
4 19 (3.75%) Databricks
5 18 (3.55%) Oracle
6 15 (2.96%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.96%) SAP
7 11 (2.17%) Adobe
7 11 (2.17%) Dell
8 9 (1.78%) MKS
9 8 (1.58%) IBM
10 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.18%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.99%) Splunk
13 4 (0.79%) New Relic
13 4 (0.79%) Remedy
13 4 (0.79%) SimCorp
13 4 (0.79%) VMware
14 3 (0.59%) Informatica