Cloud Native Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 328 305
Rank change year-on-year +82 -23 -30
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 66 72 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.41% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.22% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 47 30 51
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,438 £79,375
90th Percentile £93,000 £100,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%

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 3,750 5,906 5,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 38.92% 33.67% 42.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,867 3,785 3,054
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,625 £34,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £73,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the South East

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 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 30 May 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 +89 31 £70,000 -6.67% 465
Berkshire +55 22 £76,250 -4.69% 284
Buckinghamshire - 9 £70,000 - 119
West Sussex - 9 £60,000 - 59
Hampshire +82 8 £71,500 - 182
Middlesex - 8 - -
Kent +31 7 £90,000 +38.46% 113
Surrey +31 2 £52,500 -8.70% 117
Sussex - 1 £75,000 - 1
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.55%) Appian
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (65.15%) Azure
2 33 (50.00%) AWS
3 20 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (24.24%) GCP
5 8 (12.12%) SaaS
6 5 (7.58%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.58%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (6.06%) Serverless
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (4.55%) Datadog
8 3 (4.55%) MinIO
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Cognitive Search
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.03%) IaaS
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.52%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) DNS
1 3 (4.55%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.03%) Firewall
2 2 (3.03%) Network Security
2 2 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.03%) SAN
3 1 (1.52%) DHCP
3 1 (1.52%) Internet
3 1 (1.52%) MQTT
3 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) NoSQL
2 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 10 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (13.64%) Big Data
4 9 (13.64%) Data Lake
4 9 (13.64%) Hadoop
5 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.55%) MySQL
7 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.52%) Airbyte
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.52%) Power BI
8 1 (1.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) JIRA
2 6 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 4 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.55%) Robot Framework
4 3 (4.55%) Selenium
4 3 (4.55%) Snyk
5 1 (1.52%) MSTest
5 1 (1.52%) NUnit
5 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Finance
3 12 (18.18%) Law
4 8 (12.12%) Retail
5 7 (10.61%) Banking
6 5 (7.58%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Front Office
8 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Lead
2 10 (15.15%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Architect
3 9 (13.64%) Data Analytics Director
3 9 (13.64%) Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
5 5 (7.58%) Lead Software Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Vulnerability Manager
6 3 (4.55%) Applications Architect
6 3 (4.55%) AWS Architect
6 3 (4.55%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.55%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.03%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (3.03%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (28.79%) Kafka
2 11 (16.67%) React
3 10 (15.15%) .NET
3 10 (15.15%) AngularJS
4 6 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 6 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (6.06%) Loki
6 3 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (4.55%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (3.03%) CSS
7 2 (3.03%) HTML
7 2 (3.03%) Laravel
7 2 (3.03%) REST
8 1 (1.52%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.52%) Electron
8 1 (1.52%) Highcharts JS
8 1 (1.52%) LESS
8 1 (1.52%) NgRx
8 1 (1.52%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Management Information System
2 10 (15.15%) Public Cloud
3 7 (10.61%) Algorithms
4 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 6 (9.09%) Security Posture
5 5 (7.58%) Cyber Security Posture
6 4 (6.06%) Hackathon
7 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.55%) IoT
7 3 (4.55%) Low-Code
7 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
8 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.52%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (1.52%) Derivative
9 1 (1.52%) Equities
9 1 (1.52%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Windows
3 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Unix
3 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (60.61%) DevOps
2 35 (53.03%) Agile
3 29 (43.94%) CI/CD
4 21 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 20 (30.30%) Analytics
5 20 (30.30%) Computer Science
5 20 (30.30%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
8 17 (25.76%) Data Engineering
9 16 (24.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 15 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (19.70%) Data Science
11 13 (19.70%) Machine Learning
11 13 (19.70%) Regulatory Compliance
12 11 (16.67%) Data Modelling
12 11 (16.67%) ETL
12 11 (16.67%) High Availability
12 11 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 11 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) SQL
2 17 (25.76%) C#
3 16 (24.24%) Python
4 13 (19.70%) Java
5 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 6 (9.09%) Go
7 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.03%) Bash
9 2 (3.03%) Korn
9 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.52%) C++
10 1 (1.52%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
10 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (34.85%) Degree
2 14 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (19.70%) AWS Certification
4 9 (13.64%) Azure Certification
4 9 (13.64%) Master's Degree
5 7 (10.61%) CISSP
5 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
6 6 (9.09%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.03%) CISM
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.52%) VCAP
9 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) GDPR
2 9 (13.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) GMP
4 1 (1.52%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.03%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (1.52%) NFS
5 1 (1.52%) vCloud
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Terraform
3 8 (12.12%) Grafana
3 8 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.58%) CASB
5 3 (4.55%) Ansible
6 1 (1.52%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 15 (22.73%) Google
3 9 (13.64%) Rackspace
4 5 (7.58%) Databricks
5 4 (6.06%) VMware
6 3 (4.55%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (4.55%) Black Duck
6 3 (4.55%) UiPath
7 2 (3.03%) Dell
7 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.03%) Splunk
8 1 (1.52%) Blue Prism
8 1 (1.52%) Coverity
8 1 (1.52%) Foundry
8 1 (1.52%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle
8 1 (1.52%) Palantir
8 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow