Cloud Native Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Native
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 259 216
Rank change year-on-year +81 -43 +50
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 93 59 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.95% 0.57% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 1.64% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 54 32 25
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% -2.94%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,076 3,592 2,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.41% 34.55% 32.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,669 1,598 1,698
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 December 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
Thames Valley +41 56 £70,000 -3.45% 109
Berkshire +16 33 £66,250 -11.67% 65
Buckinghamshire +30 20 £70,000 +16.67% 24
Hampshire +57 17 £82,500 +80.33% 38
West Sussex +7 9 £60,000 - 14
Kent 0 6 £112,500 - 12
Oxfordshire +26 3 £71,250 +9.62% 21
East Sussex +20 3 £62,500 -21.88% 10
Surrey -2 2 £45,000 -14.29% 25
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (6.45%) Appian
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 49 (52.69%) Azure
2 35 (37.63%) AWS
3 28 (30.11%) GCP
4 24 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (13.98%) Amazon S3
6 11 (11.83%) GitHub
7 10 (10.75%) SaaS
7 10 (10.75%) Serverless
8 9 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
10 6 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.45%) MinIO
11 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.23%) Entra ID
13 3 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.83%) Firewall
2 6 (6.45%) iSCSI
2 6 (6.45%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (6.45%) SAN
3 4 (4.30%) VPN
4 3 (3.23%) HTTP
4 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.15%) DMZ
5 2 (2.15%) Network Security
6 1 (1.08%) 5G
6 1 (1.08%) AMQP
6 1 (1.08%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.08%) MIMO
6 1 (1.08%) NGN
6 1 (1.08%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.08%) SSL
6 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.51%) BigQuery
2 13 (13.98%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.90%) MySQL
4 8 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.53%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.38%) Airbyte
8 4 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.08%) DB2
9 1 (1.08%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.08%) Power BI
9 1 (1.08%) Redis
9 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Snyk
2 7 (7.53%) Selenium
3 6 (6.45%) Robot Framework
4 5 (5.38%) git-flow
5 2 (2.15%) JIRA
6 1 (1.08%) Appium
6 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.08%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.08%) Git
6 1 (1.08%) Gradle
6 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.66%) Law
3 20 (21.51%) Marketing
4 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.60%) Finance
6 6 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Automotive
9 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.08%) Advertising
10 1 (1.08%) Games
10 1 (1.08%) Publishing
10 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (33.33%) Architect
2 20 (21.51%) Cloud Architect
2 20 (21.51%) GCP Architect
2 20 (21.51%) Platform Architect
2 20 (21.51%) Senior
3 10 (10.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.68%) Developer
5 6 (6.45%) Applications Architect
5 6 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Consultant
5 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (6.45%) Lead
5 6 (6.45%) Linux Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.38%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.05%) .NET
2 12 (12.90%) React
3 11 (11.83%) Kafka
4 6 (6.45%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (6.45%) CSS
5 5 (5.38%) AWS CDK
5 5 (5.38%) HTML
5 5 (5.38%) Material-UI
5 5 (5.38%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 3 (3.23%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.23%) OAuth
6 3 (3.23%) Spring
7 2 (2.15%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.15%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.15%) RESTful
7 2 (2.15%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.08%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.08%) Drools
8 1 (1.08%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Security Posture
2 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.53%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (6.45%) Low-Code
5 5 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) Blog
7 2 (2.15%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.15%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.15%) PKI
8 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) IoT
8 1 (1.08%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 7 (7.53%) Windows
3 6 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.24%) DevOps
2 36 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 32 (34.41%) Cloud Security
4 31 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 29 (31.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (27.96%) Agile
6 26 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (26.88%) Analytics
8 23 (24.73%) Roadmaps
9 21 (22.58%) Cost Optimisation
9 21 (22.58%) Strategic Roadmap
10 20 (21.51%) Architectural Design
10 20 (21.51%) Cost Management
10 20 (21.51%) Data Science
10 20 (21.51%) Microservices
10 20 (21.51%) Performance Optimisation
11 16 (17.20%) Observability
12 12 (12.90%) DevSecOps
13 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
13 11 (11.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.56%) Python
2 24 (25.81%) Java
3 23 (24.73%) Go
4 10 (10.75%) Bash
4 10 (10.75%) C#
5 9 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.45%) Korn
6 6 (6.45%) SQL
7 5 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.30%) Bicep
9 2 (2.15%) C
9 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.08%) Ruby
10 1 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.98%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.75%) Degree
4 9 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.45%) JSP 440
2 6 (6.45%) NIST
3 4 (4.30%) GDPR
3 4 (4.30%) GRC
4 3 (3.23%) NCSC
4 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) Docker
2 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (56.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (24.73%) Terraform
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 3 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.08%) Netcool
6 1 (1.08%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 20 (21.51%) Google
2 17 (18.28%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.60%) Rackspace
4 7 (7.53%) UiPath
5 6 (6.45%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (6.45%) Black Duck
5 6 (6.45%) Blue Prism
5 6 (6.45%) Dell
5 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.45%) Splunk
5 6 (6.45%) VMware
6 5 (5.38%) Coverity
7 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.23%) Checkmarx
8 3 (3.23%) Qualys
9 2 (2.15%) New Relic
9 2 (2.15%) Oracle
10 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.08%) Pega