Cloud Native Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 142 308
Rank change year-on-year -181 +166 -58
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 237 1,437 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 2.05% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.18% 5.99% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 178 303 300
10th Percentile £47,231 £50,000 £46,150
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +8.38% -1.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £83,827
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,750
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.32% +3.44%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,861 23,977 26,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.94% 34.21% 42.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,925 15,219 11,533
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £86,250
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
North of England +19 91 £74,870 +1.52% 130
South East +90 59 £62,500 -3.85% 96
North West -7 56 £74,870 -0.17% 91
Yorkshire +58 33 £85,253 +13.67% 25
Midlands +43 33 £67,500 -2.51% 44
West Midlands +44 26 £70,000 +1.11% 30
South West +21 26 £91,069 +13.84% 46
Scotland -116 14 £75,360 +4.68% 43
East Midlands +52 7 £65,000 +0.78% 14
East of England +35 7 - - 21
Wales +38 4 £70,000 -12.50% 8
Northern Ireland +28 3 £110,000 +22.22% 19
North East +44 2 £65,250 +4.40% 14
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.53%) Apache
3 5 (2.11%) CMS
3 5 (2.11%) Headless CMS
4 4 (1.69%) Confluence
4 4 (1.69%) Luigi
5 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (47.68%) Azure
2 108 (45.57%) AWS
3 53 (22.36%) SaaS
4 51 (21.52%) GCP
5 33 (13.92%) Serverless
6 23 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (9.70%) GitHub
7 16 (6.75%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.75%) Snowflake
8 13 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (5.06%) IaaS
10 10 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.22%) PaaS
11 9 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.80%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (3.80%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (3.38%) npm
12 8 (3.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.06%) Internet
2 8 (3.38%) DKIM
2 8 (3.38%) DMARC
2 8 (3.38%) DNSSEC
2 8 (3.38%) Network Security
2 8 (3.38%) SMTP
3 7 (2.95%) DNS
4 5 (2.11%) Firewall
5 4 (1.69%) VPN
6 3 (1.27%) HTTP
7 2 (0.84%) DHCP
7 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.42%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.42%) MQTT
8 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.42%) VLAN
8 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.02%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.91%) MySQL
4 13 (5.49%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.22%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.95%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (2.11%) Power BI
9 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.27%) Big Data
11 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.27%) Flink
12 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.84%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 33 (13.92%) Git
2 17 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.91%) JIRA
4 9 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (3.38%) Cucumber
5 8 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 8 (3.38%) webpack
6 6 (2.53%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (2.53%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.11%) GitLab
8 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.27%) MSTest
8 3 (1.27%) NUnit
8 3 (1.27%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.27%) Subversion
8 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.84%) Storybook
10 1 (0.42%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.42%) Maven
10 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 86 (36.29%) Finance
2 69 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 56 (23.63%) Banking
4 26 (10.97%) Retail
5 13 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.06%) Law
6 12 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.64%) Manufacturing
8 10 (4.22%) Marketing
8 10 (4.22%) Retail Banking
9 9 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.53%) Electronics
10 6 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.11%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.69%) Military
12 4 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.27%) Front Office
13 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (23.21%) Lead
2 42 (17.72%) Software Engineer
3 41 (17.30%) Senior
4 40 (16.88%) Architect
5 36 (15.19%) Developer
6 21 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.44%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (8.02%) Lead Software Engineer
9 17 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (5.49%) Java Engineer
11 12 (5.06%) .NET Developer
11 12 (5.06%) Data Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Security Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Lead Developer
14 9 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (3.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (3.38%) Lead Java Engineer
16 7 (2.95%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.68%) React
2 45 (18.99%) .NET
3 26 (10.97%) Kafka
4 25 (10.55%) RESTful
5 23 (9.70%) AngularJS
6 21 (8.86%) Node.js
7 18 (7.59%) CSS
7 18 (7.59%) HTML
8 15 (6.33%) Spring Boot
9 14 (5.91%) REST
10 13 (5.49%) .NET Core
10 13 (5.49%) Spring
10 13 (5.49%) Vue
11 12 (5.06%) Web Services
12 11 (4.64%) Express.js
12 11 (4.64%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.80%) CSS3
13 9 (3.80%) HTML5
13 9 (3.80%) Jest
14 7 (2.95%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 29 (12.24%) Public Cloud
3 15 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (5.91%) Security Posture
5 13 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.49%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.80%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.80%) Distributed Applications
8 8 (3.38%) IoT
9 7 (2.95%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (2.95%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.95%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.95%) Smartphone
10 6 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.53%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.11%) Cyber Security Posture
11 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.27%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.97%) Linux
2 20 (8.44%) Windows
3 8 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.27%) VMS
4 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) Unix
6 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.77%) CI/CD
2 98 (41.35%) Agile
3 92 (38.82%) DevOps
4 71 (29.96%) Software Engineering
5 56 (23.63%) Microservices
6 51 (21.52%) Roadmaps
7 49 (20.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (17.72%) Containerisation
9 41 (17.30%) Event-Driven
9 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
10 39 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 37 (15.61%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (13.08%) Test Automation
13 30 (12.66%) Analytics
13 30 (12.66%) Cloud Security
14 29 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 26 (10.97%) Data Engineering
16 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (10.13%) TDD
18 23 (9.70%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.52%) Java
2 49 (20.68%) C#
2 49 (20.68%) SQL
3 47 (19.83%) Python
4 43 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 36 (15.19%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.64%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.38%) Go
8 6 (2.53%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.11%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.11%) PHP
10 4 (1.69%) Rust
11 3 (1.27%) Bash
11 3 (1.27%) Bicep
12 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) C++
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (12.66%) Degree
2 29 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.91%) AWS Certification
5 13 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.38%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.95%) CISSP
9 6 (2.53%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (2.11%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.84%) CISM
14 1 (0.42%) CCNA
14 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.42%) MCSE
14 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
1 8 (3.38%) GDPR
2 7 (2.95%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.11%) NIST
3 5 (2.11%) QA
4 4 (1.69%) GMP
5 3 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.27%) PMBOK
6 2 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (23.63%) Docker
2 10 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.84%) vSphere
7 1 (0.42%) Firmware
7 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) NFS
7 1 (0.42%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 68 (28.69%) Kubernetes
2 57 (24.05%) Terraform
3 10 (4.22%) Ansible
3 10 (4.22%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.80%) Grafana
5 8 (3.38%) CASB
6 3 (1.27%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.42%) Consul
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.42%) Packer
7 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.28%) Google
3 15 (6.33%) Databricks
3 15 (6.33%) Oracle
4 9 (3.80%) Rackspace
5 8 (3.38%) Cisco
5 8 (3.38%) IronPort
5 8 (3.38%) Veritas
6 7 (2.95%) IBM
7 6 (2.53%) SAP
8 5 (2.11%) VMware
9 4 (1.69%) IBM Sterling
10 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.27%) Informatica
10 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.84%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.42%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.42%) Palantir
12 1 (0.42%) Splunk