Cloud Native Jobs

Cloud Native
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 160 213
Rank change year-on-year -91 +53 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 615 1,796 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 1.83% 1.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.41% 5.13% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 428 554 947
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,650
25th Percentile £63,563 £65,000 £62,412
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £83,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.61% +3.75%
75th Percentile £106,563 £97,260 £105,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,125 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £69,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +7.44% -0.28%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England +76 574 £82,500 +3.13% 603
London +109 337 £95,000 +5.56% 347
UK excluding London -189 239 £72,500 -3.33% 283
Work from Home +71 237 £75,000 +1.35% 415
North of England +21 93 £74,870 +3.27% 116
South East +93 59 £62,500 -3.85% 45
North West -10 57 £74,870 -0.17% 85
Yorkshire +56 34 £85,253 +17.59% 25
Midlands +32 33 £67,500 -2.51% 32
West Midlands +27 26 £70,000 +1.11% 19
South West +21 26 £91,069 +13.84% 32
Scotland -114 14 £75,360 +4.68% 21
East Midlands +44 7 £65,000 +0.78% 13
East of England +30 7 - - 16
Wales +34 4 £70,000 -12.50% 10
Northern Ireland +26 3 £110,000 +22.22% 14
North East +44 2 £65,250 +4.40% 6

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 12 (1.95%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.79%) Apache
2 11 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.79%) Confluence
3 10 (1.63%) CMS
3 10 (1.63%) Headless CMS
3 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.65%) Luigi
7 3 (0.49%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Camunda
8 1 (0.16%) Drupal
8 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Maya
2 4 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (2.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.49%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.49%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 286 (46.50%) Azure
2 281 (45.69%) AWS
3 136 (22.11%) GCP
4 93 (15.12%) SaaS
5 92 (14.96%) Serverless
6 75 (12.20%) GitHub
7 60 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
8 53 (8.62%) Amazon S3
9 52 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (5.37%) Power Platform
13 32 (5.20%) Datadog
14 26 (4.23%) PaaS
14 26 (4.23%) Snowflake
15 22 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
16 21 (3.41%) IaaS
17 20 (3.25%) Entra ID
18 18 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.39%) Network Security
2 16 (2.60%) Firewall
2 16 (2.60%) VPN
3 15 (2.44%) Internet
4 11 (1.79%) DNS
5 8 (1.30%) DKIM
5 8 (1.30%) DMARC
5 8 (1.30%) DNSSEC
5 8 (1.30%) SMTP
6 6 (0.98%) HTTP
6 6 (0.98%) MQTT
7 5 (0.81%) SMS
7 5 (0.81%) WAN
8 4 (0.65%) 5G
8 4 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.49%) 3GPP
9 3 (0.49%) DHCP
9 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.33%) LAN
10 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.22%) NoSQL
2 42 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (5.69%) MySQL
4 33 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 30 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 30 (4.88%) MongoDB
6 27 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (4.39%) Power BI
7 25 (4.07%) Data Lake
8 20 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (2.93%) Big Data
10 16 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (2.60%) Relational Database
11 14 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.63%) Tableau
13 8 (1.30%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.14%) DocumentDB
15 6 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.98%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (8.46%) Git
2 32 (5.20%) Jenkins
3 24 (3.90%) JIRA
4 17 (2.76%) GitLab
5 11 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.63%) Maven
7 9 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.30%) webpack
9 6 (0.98%) Gradle
9 6 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.81%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.81%) Storybook
11 4 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.65%) NUnit
11 4 (0.65%) Selenium
12 3 (0.49%) MSTest
12 3 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 212 (34.47%) Social Skills
2 196 (31.87%) Finance
3 110 (17.89%) Banking
4 55 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (7.48%) Retail
6 32 (5.20%) Law
7 31 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 30 (4.88%) Games
9 29 (4.72%) Marketing
10 20 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (3.09%) Retail Banking
12 17 (2.76%) Front Office
12 17 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (2.28%) Investment Banking
14 13 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
14 13 (2.11%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.95%) Legal
16 8 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.98%) Electronics
17 6 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (24.23%) Senior
2 142 (23.09%) Architect
3 126 (20.49%) Lead
4 123 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 93 (15.12%) Developer
6 87 (14.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 54 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
8 53 (8.62%) Lead Software Engineer
9 40 (6.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 38 (6.18%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 38 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 36 (5.85%) Senior Developer
13 35 (5.69%) Senior Architect
14 30 (4.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 28 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
16 24 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (3.74%) Data Engineer
17 23 (3.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
18 20 (3.25%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (16.75%) React
2 86 (13.98%) .NET
3 74 (12.03%) Kafka
4 67 (10.89%) RESTful
5 42 (6.83%) Node.js
6 37 (6.02%) Spring
7 36 (5.85%) GraphQL
8 35 (5.69%) REST
9 32 (5.20%) AngularJS
9 32 (5.20%) CSS
10 31 (5.04%) HTML
10 31 (5.04%) Spring Boot
11 27 (4.39%) .NET Core
11 27 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (2.93%) Vue
13 17 (2.76%) React Native
14 16 (2.60%) gRPC
15 15 (2.44%) Express.js
15 15 (2.44%) Web Services
16 14 (2.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 73 (11.87%) Distributed Systems
2 53 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 49 (7.97%) Public Cloud
4 42 (6.83%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (6.34%) Legacy Code
6 32 (5.20%) Management Information System
7 30 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (4.07%) Security Posture
9 21 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (3.09%) Mobile App
11 18 (2.93%) Mobile Games
12 17 (2.76%) Algorithms
13 15 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
14 14 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.95%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.95%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
17 9 (1.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 81 (13.17%) Linux
2 27 (4.39%) Windows
3 9 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.81%) Android
4 5 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.81%) Unix
5 4 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.49%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Debian
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (45.37%) CI/CD
2 242 (39.35%) DevOps
3 222 (36.10%) Agile
4 202 (32.85%) Software Engineering
5 183 (29.76%) Microservices
6 128 (20.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 114 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
8 108 (17.56%) Containerisation
9 102 (16.59%) Roadmaps
10 100 (16.26%) Event-Driven
11 92 (14.96%) Mentoring
12 90 (14.63%) Analytics
13 71 (11.54%) Computer Science
13 71 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
14 69 (11.22%) Migration
15 68 (11.06%) Artificial Intelligence
15 68 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
16 66 (10.73%) Cloud Security
17 59 (9.59%) Observability
18 58 (9.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 152 (24.72%) Python
2 130 (21.14%) Java
3 120 (19.51%) SQL
4 94 (15.28%) JavaScript
5 93 (15.12%) C#
6 83 (13.50%) TypeScript
7 59 (9.59%) Go
8 48 (7.80%) Rust
9 47 (7.64%) C++
10 43 (6.99%) C
11 40 (6.50%) PowerShell
12 30 (4.88%) Bash
13 11 (1.79%) Bicep
13 11 (1.79%) PHP
14 10 (1.63%) Scala
15 7 (1.14%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.98%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.49%) Perl
18 2 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 102 (16.59%) Degree
2 54 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 51 (8.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (6.99%) SC Cleared
5 42 (6.83%) AWS Certification
6 30 (4.88%) Azure Certification
7 29 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (2.60%) CISSP
9 14 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.46%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
14 5 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.81%) CISM
15 4 (0.65%) PhD
16 3 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.49%) CCSP
17 2 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.32%) GDPR
2 27 (4.39%) QA
3 24 (3.90%) NIST
4 20 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.44%) HIPAA
6 12 (1.95%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.79%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.46%) PCI DSS
9 8 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.65%) GMP
12 3 (0.49%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.16%) NCSC
14 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 123 (20.00%) Docker
2 13 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) NFS
7 1 (0.16%) vCloud
7 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 206 (33.50%) Kubernetes
2 137 (22.28%) Terraform
3 47 (7.64%) Prometheus
4 30 (4.88%) Ansible
5 26 (4.23%) Grafana
6 14 (2.28%) Argo
6 14 (2.28%) CASB
7 8 (1.30%) Istio
8 6 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.65%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.65%) Puppet
11 3 (0.49%) Packer
11 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.16%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.16%) linkerd
13 1 (0.16%) SCCM
13 1 (0.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 105 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 81 (13.17%) Google
3 37 (6.02%) Databricks
4 34 (5.53%) Oracle
5 21 (3.41%) SAP
6 16 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.79%) Adobe
7 11 (1.79%) Dell
7 11 (1.79%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.63%) Cisco
8 10 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.63%) VMware
9 9 (1.46%) IBM
9 9 (1.46%) Rackspace
10 8 (1.30%) Informatica
10 8 (1.30%) IronPort
10 8 (1.30%) Veritas
11 7 (1.14%) New Relic
12 5 (0.81%) Splunk
13 4 (0.65%) IBM Sterling