Cloud Native Engineer Job Trends

Cloud Native Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Native Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 667 706
Rank change year-on-year +34 +39 +293
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Native Engineer 20 32 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.060% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.064% 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 20 32 15
10th Percentile £94,000 - -
25th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +41.79%
75th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile - - £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

Cloud Native Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Native Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Native Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Native Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Native Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Native Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Native Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native Engineer over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native Engineer in the UK

Cloud Native Engineer
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +50 20 £100,000 -9.09%
London +41 19 £100,000 -9.09%
UK excluding London - 1 £82,500 -
South West - 1 £82,500 -

Cloud Native Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Cloud Native Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Native Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
1 17 (85.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (80.00%) C
2 16 (80.00%) C++
2 16 (80.00%) Go
2 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 16 (80.00%) Rust
3 15 (75.00%) Java
4 14 (70.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 14 (70.00%) Open Source
4 14 (70.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (70.00%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (20.00%) AWS
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Terraform
7 1 (5.00%) Azure
7 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Docker
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven Programming
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (5.00%) Microservices

Cloud Native Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (85.00%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (80.00%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Software Engineering
2 14 (70.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 14 (70.00%) Open Source
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven Programming
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (5.00%) Microservices
5 1 (5.00%) Observability
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (5.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) C
1 16 (80.00%) C++
1 16 (80.00%) Go
1 16 (80.00%) Rust
2 15 (75.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (70.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform