Cloud Native Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 148 193
Rank change year-on-year +21 +45 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 43 27 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.05% 0.80% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.03% 2.31% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 22 14 8
10th Percentile £60,800 - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +1.64% +8.93%
75th Percentile £78,750 £93,438 £80,313
90th Percentile £84,875 £94,625 £91,375
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -20.00% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,066 1,167 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.02% 34.67% 32.97%
Number of salaries quoted 605 507 957
10th Percentile £27,000 £36,250 £29,650
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,625 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £57,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -21.40% +9.05% -4.55%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the Thames Valley

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire +8 26 £66,250 -22.06% 52
Buckinghamshire +16 15 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Oxfordshire +14 2 £82,500 +26.92% 9
Cloud Native
South East

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) GCP
3 18 (41.86%) Azure
4 10 (23.26%) SaaS
5 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.95%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Serverless
6 5 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.65%) PaaS
9 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) IaaS
9 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 2 (4.65%) DNS
3 1 (2.33%) 5G
3 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (2.33%) MIMO
3 1 (2.33%) NGN
3 1 (2.33%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) SAN
3 1 (2.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) BigQuery
1 6 (13.95%) MySQL
2 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
2 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) git-flow
2 2 (4.65%) GitLab
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Appium
3 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Law
3 11 (25.58%) Finance
4 8 (18.60%) Public Sector
5 6 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (13.95%) Marketing
6 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Games
8 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Architect
1 12 (27.91%) Senior
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Architect
2 6 (13.95%) GCP Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Platform Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.98%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) .NET
2 9 (20.93%) React
3 5 (11.63%) AWS CDK
3 5 (11.63%) CSS
3 5 (11.63%) Kafka
3 5 (11.63%) Material-UI
3 5 (11.63%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (9.30%) HTML
5 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.65%) RESTful
5 2 (4.65%) Spring
5 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (2.33%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.30%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.65%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.65%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (41.86%) DevOps
3 16 (37.21%) Agile
3 16 (37.21%) CI/CD
4 14 (32.56%) Mentoring
5 12 (27.91%) Microservices
6 11 (25.58%) Cloud Security
7 9 (20.93%) Event-Driven
7 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (18.60%) Analytics
8 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (18.60%) Roadmaps
9 7 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.95%) Architectural Design
10 6 (13.95%) Cost Management
10 6 (13.95%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (13.95%) Observability
10 6 (13.95%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) C#
2 10 (23.26%) Java
3 7 (16.28%) Go
4 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
5 4 (9.30%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) C
7 1 (2.33%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
7 1 (2.33%) Korn
7 1 (2.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 7 (16.28%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) Netcool
4 1 (2.33%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Google
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Blue Prism
3 1 (2.33%) Dell
3 1 (2.33%) IBM
3 1 (2.33%) Pega
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk
3 1 (2.33%) UiPath