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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 42 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +42
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 9 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.79% 1.25% 3.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.20% 3.70% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 9
10th Percentile £52,277 - £58,660
25th Percentile £72,194 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £69,308 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -0.99% -5.41%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,144 £72,500
90th Percentile - - £78,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year -8.57% +7.69% -4.41%

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 125 135 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 24.85% 33.67% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 36 35 88
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £46,713 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,515 £99,500 £83,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in Northern Ireland

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 January 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 +2 5 £82,500 +19.03% 25
County Fermanagh - 3 - -
County Armagh - 1 - -
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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) Next.js
2 2 (22.22%) React
2 2 (22.22%) Vue
3 1 (11.11%) EDI
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) AI
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) LLM
2 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) User Experience
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAI