Cloud Native Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Native
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 128 177
Rank change year-on-year +14 +49 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 97 26 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.32% 0.98% 1.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.65% 2.48% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 78 22 49
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% +4.69% +10.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £140,677 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,150 - £99,731
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,459 1,050 2,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.87% 39.52% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 886 588 2,063
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,058 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% +2.12% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,525 £65,818
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,225 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the South West over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the South West

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Bristol -10 29 £67,500 -15.63% 15
Gloucestershire - 26 £75,000 - 12
Wiltshire - 16 £75,000 - 5
Somerset -27 5 £55,000 -42.11% 5
Devon - 4 £42,750 - 1
Dorset - 2 - -
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (3.09%) CMS
2 2 (2.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.06%) NServiceBus
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 62 (63.92%) AWS
2 24 (24.74%) Azure
3 17 (17.53%) Serverless
4 15 (15.46%) GCP
5 11 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (11.34%) GitHub
6 10 (10.31%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.28%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.19%) SaaS
11 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.09%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.06%) IaaS
12 2 (2.06%) PaaS
13 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
1 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.15%) Metadata
5 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.06%) MySQL
8 1 (1.03%) Big Data
8 1 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.03%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Git
2 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.06%) JUnit
4 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) JIRA
4 1 (1.03%) Maven
4 1 (1.03%) Mockito
4 1 (1.03%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) Vite
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.53%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.12%) Aerospace
4 4 (4.12%) Electronics
4 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.09%) Automotive
5 3 (3.09%) Retail
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (25.77%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (16.49%) Software Engineer
4 15 (15.46%) Developer
5 11 (11.34%) Senior
6 8 (8.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Java Developer
8 5 (5.15%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Architect
8 5 (5.15%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.12%) Lead
9 4 (4.12%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.09%) .NET Software Developer
10 3 (3.09%) CUDA Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Head of Engineering
10 3 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.56%) React
2 15 (15.46%) Spring
3 13 (13.40%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.34%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.31%) .NET
5 10 (10.31%) REST
6 8 (8.25%) Node.js
6 8 (8.25%) RESTful
7 5 (5.15%) Django
7 5 (5.15%) Flask
7 5 (5.15%) YAML
8 4 (4.12%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.12%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.12%) CSS
8 4 (4.12%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.12%) HTML
8 4 (4.12%) Next.js
9 3 (3.09%) Blazor
9 3 (3.09%) SQLAlchemy
9 3 (3.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.12%) CUDA
3 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.12%) IoT
3 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.09%) Reference Data
4 3 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.06%) CCTV
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) CentOS
3 1 (1.03%) Debian
3 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (42.27%) CI/CD
2 32 (32.99%) Software Engineering
3 28 (28.87%) DevOps
4 27 (27.84%) Agile
5 23 (23.71%) Containerisation
6 21 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (20.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (18.56%) Microservices
9 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
10 13 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (10.31%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.31%) Mentoring
14 8 (8.25%) AI
14 8 (8.25%) Platform Engineering
15 7 (7.22%) Clean Code
15 7 (7.22%) Code Quality
15 7 (7.22%) Front End Development
15 7 (7.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) Python
2 20 (20.62%) Java
3 17 (17.53%) TypeScript
4 16 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.28%) SQL
6 8 (8.25%) C#
7 6 (6.19%) Bicep
8 4 (4.12%) PHP
9 2 (2.06%) Bash
10 1 (1.03%) Delphi
10 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
5 3 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.12%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (31.96%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (35.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.34%) Terraform
3 6 (6.19%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Grafana
5 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.03%) Argo
6 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.03%) Istio
6 1 (1.03%) Kibana
6 1 (1.03%) linkerd
6 1 (1.03%) Mesos
6 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.09%) Google
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle
2 3 (3.09%) Talend
3 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.03%) SaltStack
4 1 (1.03%) SAP