Cloud Native Job Trends in Merton

Cloud Native
South London > Merton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Merton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 1.22% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median annual salary - £60,000 £81,250
% change year-on-year - -26.15% -32.29%

All Generic Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 40 19 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 48.78% 26.76% 48.46%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 16
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,825 £29,026
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £52,500 £67,500 £79,125
90th Percentile £76,000 - £92,500
South London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +18.18%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Merton

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality