Cloud Native Job Trends in South Wales

Cloud Native
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +30
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 5 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.61% 0.60% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 1.57% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £66,377 - £50,040
25th Percentile £72,194 £64,471 £53,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +6.63% +23.81%
75th Percentile £82,241 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile £88,396 - -
Wales median annual salary £75,000 £69,308 £62,989
% change year-on-year +8.21% +10.03% +2.84%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 213 254 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 25.91% 38.02% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 135 141 162
10th Percentile £28,800 £23,750 £32,639
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £38,657
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,637 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.04% -9.63% +11.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,000 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £49,215
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.48% +9.37%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in South Wales

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in South Wales

Cloud Native
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
Cardiff +13 5 £75,000 +8.21% 33
Cloud Native
Wales

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Anthos
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) GitOps
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google