Cloud Native Job Trends in the Midlands

Cloud Native
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 185 254
Rank change year-on-year +9 +69 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 55 45 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.57% 0.81% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 2.20% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43 30 33
10th Percentile £51,500 £40,875 £42,850
25th Percentile £57,400 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,563 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £98,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,887 2,048 3,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.99% 36.93% 34.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 979 2,428
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +8.01% -9.10%
75th Percentile £64,813 £67,233 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,300 £75,650 £73,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.40% +13.64% -15.38%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the Midlands

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 March 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
West Midlands +12 36 £65,000 -3.70% 22
East Midlands -16 18 £75,000 +15.38% 10
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (1.82%) IIS
1 1 (1.82%) NServiceBus
1 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 18 (32.73%) AWS
3 14 (25.45%) PaaS
4 13 (23.64%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (21.82%) IaaS
5 12 (21.82%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 10 (18.18%) Entra ID
8 5 (9.09%) Serverless
9 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.27%) SaaS
10 3 (5.45%) Kong
10 3 (5.45%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (3.64%) GCP
12 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
12 1 (1.82%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 4 (7.27%) VPN
3 2 (3.64%) BGP
3 2 (3.64%) DHCP
3 2 (3.64%) HTTP
3 2 (3.64%) IPsec
3 2 (3.64%) Network Security
3 2 (3.64%) OSPF
3 2 (3.64%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.64%) SSH
3 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.64%) VLAN
3 2 (3.64%) WAN
3 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
1 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.82%) Metadata
2 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) GitLab
2 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JUnit
2 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 13 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (14.55%) Legal
4 6 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Law
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Architect
2 13 (23.64%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (20.00%) Lead
4 10 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.55%) Software Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Senior
7 6 (10.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 5 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (7.27%) Lead Architect
9 4 (7.27%) Security Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) E-Commerce Architect
10 3 (5.45%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
10 3 (5.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (5.45%) Principal Architect
10 3 (5.45%) Strategy Architect
10 3 (5.45%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) React
2 5 (9.09%) Node.js
3 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.27%) Middleware
4 3 (5.45%) .NET
4 3 (5.45%) Apollo GraphQL
4 3 (5.45%) Flask
4 3 (5.45%) GraphQL
4 3 (5.45%) Kafka
4 3 (5.45%) Spring
4 3 (5.45%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.64%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.64%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (3.64%) Vue
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Cordova
6 1 (1.82%) Django
6 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.64%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Linux
3 2 (3.64%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) DevOps
2 17 (30.91%) Agile
3 15 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
4 13 (23.64%) API Management
4 13 (23.64%) Integration Patterns
4 13 (23.64%) Technical Leadership
5 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
6 11 (20.00%) AI
6 11 (20.00%) CRM
6 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 11 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (18.18%) Architectural Design
7 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.18%) Data Privacy
7 10 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
7 10 (18.18%) TOGAF
8 9 (16.36%) Architecture Roadmap
8 9 (16.36%) Project Delivery
8 9 (16.36%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) Java
1 7 (12.73%) Python
2 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.91%) SQL
3 5 (9.09%) C#
4 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.45%) Bicep
5 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.64%) Bash
6 2 (3.64%) Ruby
7 1 (1.82%) Delphi
7 1 (1.82%) Scala
7 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) CCNP
4 2 (3.64%) CEH
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.64%) CISSP
4 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) GSEC
4 2 (3.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) Docker
3 2 (3.64%) Firmware
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.64%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
3 2 (3.64%) Nessus
3 2 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.45%) Adobe
2 3 (5.45%) Databricks
2 3 (5.45%) Informatica
2 3 (5.45%) MuleSoft
2 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.45%) SAP
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco
3 2 (3.64%) Dell
3 2 (3.64%) Meraki
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.64%) Qualys
3 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.64%) VMware
3 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.82%) Xamarin