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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 247 241
Rank change year-on-year +45 -6 +32
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 68 59 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.66% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 1.87% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 42 31 14
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £63,250
25th Percentile £58,313 £48,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £81,563
90th Percentile £93,625 £93,750 £84,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +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 3,118 3,149 2,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.04% 35.07% 32.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 1,340 1,921
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,975 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,177 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +4.59% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 14 January 2026.

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 14 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
Thames Valley +23 40 £70,000 -9.68% 73
Berkshire 0 24 £66,250 -22.06% 50
Buckinghamshire +18 14 £72,500 +20.83% 15
Hampshire +39 11 £80,000 +74.86% 18
West Sussex +6 7 £60,000 - 15
Kent -14 5 £112,500 +32.35% 16
East Sussex +8 3 £62,500 -21.88% 15
Oxfordshire +15 2 £82,500 +26.92% 8
Surrey -6 2 £45,000 -14.29% 17
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 4 (5.88%) Apache
1 4 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.88%) Appian
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 41 (60.29%) Azure
2 33 (48.53%) AWS
3 19 (27.94%) GCP
4 14 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (16.18%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.71%) SaaS
7 9 (13.24%) Serverless
8 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (10.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (8.82%) GitHub
10 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
11 5 (7.35%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (7.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (7.35%) PaaS
12 4 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (5.88%) IaaS
12 4 (5.88%) MinIO
13 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.94%) Datadog
14 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) VPN
3 2 (2.94%) DMZ
3 2 (2.94%) DNS
3 2 (2.94%) HTTP
3 2 (2.94%) Network Security
3 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.47%) 5G
4 1 (1.47%) AMQP
4 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.47%) MIMO
4 1 (1.47%) NGN
4 1 (1.47%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.47%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.47%) SAN
4 1 (1.47%) SSL
4 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) MySQL
1 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.82%) BigQuery
2 6 (8.82%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.88%) Airbyte
4 4 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.47%) DB2
6 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.47%) Power BI
6 1 (1.47%) Redis
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) Snyk
2 5 (7.35%) git-flow
2 5 (7.35%) Selenium
3 4 (5.88%) Robot Framework
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (1.47%) Appium
5 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.47%) Gradle
5 1 (1.47%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.59%) Finance
3 11 (16.18%) Law
3 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.82%) Marketing
5 5 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Automotive
8 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Games
9 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Architect
1 16 (23.53%) Senior
2 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Developer
4 7 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (8.82%) GCP Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Platform Architect
6 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Lead
6 5 (7.35%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Applications Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Consultant
8 3 (4.41%) Product Owner
8 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.59%) .NET
2 10 (14.71%) React
3 9 (13.24%) Kafka
4 6 (8.82%) CSS
5 5 (7.35%) AWS CDK
5 5 (7.35%) HTML
5 5 (7.35%) Material-UI
5 5 (7.35%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (4.41%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.41%) OAuth
7 3 (4.41%) RESTful
7 3 (4.41%) Spring
8 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.94%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.47%) Drools
9 1 (1.47%) React Native
9 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Security Posture
2 8 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Security Posture
4 5 (7.35%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (7.35%) Low-Code
5 4 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.94%) Blog
7 2 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.94%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.94%) PKI
8 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.47%) IoT
8 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.47%) VMS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) DevOps
2 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
3 25 (36.76%) Agile
4 23 (33.82%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (27.94%) Cloud Security
7 18 (26.47%) Microservices
8 15 (22.06%) Mentoring
9 12 (17.65%) Observability
9 12 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (16.18%) Analytics
10 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
11 9 (13.24%) Data Modelling
11 9 (13.24%) Event-Driven
11 9 (13.24%) Roadmaps
12 8 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 7 (10.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (10.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) Python
2 10 (14.71%) C#
2 10 (14.71%) Java
3 7 (10.29%) Go
3 7 (10.29%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.82%) Bicep
5 5 (7.35%) SQL
6 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.94%) C
8 1 (1.47%) Bash
8 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.47%) Korn
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.24%) Degree
4 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.24%) QA
2 7 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.29%) NIST
3 4 (5.88%) NCSC
3 4 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.41%) GDPR
4 3 (4.41%) GRC
4 3 (4.41%) JSP 440
5 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 26 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.00%) Terraform
3 7 (10.29%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.94%) Grafana
6 1 (1.47%) Netcool
6 1 (1.47%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) Google
3 5 (7.35%) Blue Prism
3 5 (7.35%) Rackspace
3 5 (7.35%) UiPath
4 4 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
4 4 (5.88%) Black Duck
4 4 (5.88%) Coverity
4 4 (5.88%) VMware
5 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.94%) Checkmarx
6 2 (2.94%) New Relic
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Qualys
7 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.47%) Pega
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.47%) Splunk