Cloud Native Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Cloud Native
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 27 52
Rank change year-on-year -53 +25 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 15 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.33% 2.38% 1.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% 6.67% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 5
10th Percentile - £114,000 £63,750
25th Percentile - £127,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £130,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +44.44% +53.19%
75th Percentile - £132,500 -
90th Percentile - - £109,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.23% +1.25% -

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 360 105 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 31.80% 35.71% 25.12%
Number of salaries quoted 53 22 80
10th Percentile £32,350 £46,375 £32,822
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,125 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,313
90th Percentile £74,500 £132,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
County Antrim -31 6 £70,000 -36.36% 22
Newry - 5 £70,000 -
County Down - 5 £70,000 -
County Londonderry - 4 £70,000 -
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Full-Stack Development
1 14 (93.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (6.67%) Agile
2 1 (6.67%) AI
2 1 (6.67%) Clean Code
2 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (6.67%) Microservices
2 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java