Cloud Native Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 198 172
Rank change year-on-year +46 -26 +17
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 27 95 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.76% 0.97% 1.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.38% 3.25% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 17 39 35
10th Percentile £55,000 £36,250 £53,238
25th Percentile £77,500 £59,875 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £140,677 £87,500 £97,290
90th Percentile - £108,364 £135,693
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% - -

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 1,136 2,920 2,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.03% 29.81% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 571 2,034 1,371
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,945 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £38,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £68,525 £65,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the South West

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the South West

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

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 31 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
Bristol +36 17 £95,000 +18.75% 26
Dorset +38 6 - - 1
Somerset - 3 £95,000 - 6
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) AWS
2 16 (59.26%) Azure
3 9 (33.33%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) Serverless
5 6 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (22.22%) npm
6 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (18.52%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (7.41%) Datadog
7 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.70%) OCI
8 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Internet
2 2 (7.41%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) DNS
3 1 (3.70%) Firewall
3 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (22.22%) MySQL
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.41%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (7.41%) CockroachDB
4 2 (7.41%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.41%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 6 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 6 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 6 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (22.22%) webpack
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) JUnit
3 2 (7.41%) Mockito
4 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (62.96%) Finance
2 12 (44.44%) Banking
3 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (22.22%) Law
4 6 (22.22%) Manufacturing
5 5 (18.52%) Marketing
6 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (11.11%) Electronics
7 3 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
8 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
8 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (7.41%) Retail
8 2 (7.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Lead
2 8 (29.63%) Java Engineer
2 8 (29.63%) Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Architect
4 6 (22.22%) Lead Java Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) PHP Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Software Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Web Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.70%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (44.44%) RESTful
1 12 (44.44%) Spring Boot
2 8 (29.63%) Kafka
3 6 (22.22%) Jest
3 6 (22.22%) Spring
3 6 (22.22%) Web Services
4 5 (18.52%) React
5 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) Laravel
5 3 (11.11%) Symfony
6 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
6 2 (7.41%) Node.js
6 2 (7.41%) Vue
7 1 (3.70%) .NET
7 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Public Cloud
2 7 (25.93%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (11.11%) IoT
4 3 (11.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
6 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 17 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 15 (55.56%) Microservices
4 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
5 11 (40.74%) Architectural Design
5 11 (40.74%) Event-Driven
5 11 (40.74%) Software Engineering
6 9 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 9 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (29.63%) DevOps
8 7 (25.93%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (25.93%) Change Management
8 7 (25.93%) Test Automation
9 6 (22.22%) API Design
9 6 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (22.22%) Micro Frontends
9 6 (22.22%) Release Automation
10 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
10 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Java
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 3 (11.11%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) PHP
6 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GMP
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
2 2 (7.41%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (7.41%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) VMware