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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 220 166
Rank change year-on-year +60 -54 +101
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,483 1,353 4,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.64% 1.68% 2.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.93% 4.07% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 526 776 1,399
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £99,688 £96,539 £102,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%

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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London +118 1,063 £75,000 +7.14% 48
England -68 757 £80,000 - 65
Scotland +121 663 £71,991 +10.16% 7
London -37 359 £90,000 +5.88% 30
Work from Home -108 349 £72,900 -3.66% 41
North of England -56 153 £76,250 +8.93% 9
North West -23 104 £75,000 +7.14% 3
South West -10 91 £80,000 -3.03% 8
Midlands -1 58 £80,000 +8.47% 6
South East -9 58 £65,000 -7.14% 10
West Midlands +24 47 £80,000 +8.47% 3
Yorkshire -37 35 £79,932 +14.19% 4
East of England +8 21 £65,000 -27.78% 2
North East +2 14 £62,500 - 2
East Midlands -35 11 £40,000 -39.62% 3
Northern Ireland +22 10 £90,000 +53.19% 6
Wales +17 9 £80,000 +60.00%

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
1 141 (9.51%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.61%) FileNet
3 43 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (2.43%) Apache
5 21 (1.42%) GemFire
6 20 (1.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 19 (1.28%) SharePoint
8 15 (1.01%) Confluence
9 9 (0.61%) IIS
10 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.067%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.067%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.27%) Trello
3 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.13%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.13%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 674 (45.45%) AWS
2 489 (32.97%) Azure
3 197 (13.28%) GCP
4 144 (9.71%) Amazon S3
5 100 (6.74%) Serverless
6 98 (6.61%) PaaS
7 95 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 95 (6.41%) SaaS
8 80 (5.39%) Datadog
9 76 (5.12%) IaaS
10 63 (4.25%) GitHub
11 62 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 58 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
13 55 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 49 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
15 43 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
16 34 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (2.29%) Azure AKS
17 30 (2.02%) OCI
17 30 (2.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.96%) AMQP
2 28 (1.89%) Firewall
3 24 (1.62%) Network Security
4 19 (1.28%) Kerberos
5 18 (1.21%) WAN
6 13 (0.88%) DNS
6 13 (0.88%) VPN
7 12 (0.81%) Wireless
8 11 (0.74%) Internet
8 11 (0.74%) LAN
9 10 (0.67%) Ethernet
10 9 (0.61%) HTTP
11 8 (0.54%) 5G
11 8 (0.54%) VLAN
12 6 (0.40%) MQTT
12 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.34%) Broadband
14 3 (0.20%) BGP
14 3 (0.20%) NGFW
14 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (15.51%) NoSQL
2 149 (10.05%) Big Data
3 122 (8.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 106 (7.15%) Elasticsearch
5 90 (6.07%) Relational Database
6 79 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (4.72%) Hadoop
8 61 (4.11%) MySQL
9 60 (4.05%) SQL Server
10 45 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
11 43 (2.90%) RDBMS
12 38 (2.56%) CockroachDB
13 29 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
14 26 (1.75%) Data Lake
15 25 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (1.55%) Power BI
17 21 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (1.42%) Hazelcast
18 19 (1.28%) Apache Hive
19 17 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 100 (6.74%) JUnit
2 85 (5.73%) Git
3 80 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 46 (3.10%) Mockito
5 45 (3.03%) Jasmine
6 35 (2.36%) JIRA
7 32 (2.16%) TeamCity
8 31 (2.09%) Postman
9 27 (1.82%) GitLab
10 21 (1.42%) Jaeger
11 20 (1.35%) Maven
12 12 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.81%) Terragrunt
13 6 (0.40%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.34%) Spinnaker
15 4 (0.27%) CircleCI
16 3 (0.20%) Cucumber
16 3 (0.20%) Cypress.io
17 2 (0.13%) MagicDraw
General
1 815 (54.96%) Finance
2 760 (51.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 700 (47.20%) Law
4 428 (28.86%) Marketing
5 270 (18.21%) Social Skills
6 176 (11.87%) Banking
7 139 (9.37%) Legal
8 125 (8.43%) Investment Banking
9 107 (7.22%) Financial Institution
10 67 (4.52%) Retail
11 46 (3.10%) Aerospace
12 42 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
14 29 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.89%) Games
16 24 (1.62%) Public Sector
17 22 (1.48%) Prime Brokerage
18 17 (1.15%) Back Office
19 16 (1.08%) Publishing
20 8 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 604 (40.73%) Software Engineer
2 404 (27.24%) Lead
3 310 (20.90%) Architect
4 291 (19.62%) Lead Software Engineer
5 275 (18.54%) Senior
6 233 (15.71%) Java Engineer
7 221 (14.90%) Java Software Engineer
8 149 (10.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 123 (8.29%) Lead Java Engineer
10 118 (7.96%) Developer
11 110 (7.42%) Engineering Manager
12 108 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
13 102 (6.88%) Cloud Software Engineer
13 102 (6.88%) Software Engineering Manager
14 101 (6.81%) Big Data Engineer
14 101 (6.81%) Big Data Software Engineer
15 98 (6.61%) Python Engineer
16 97 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
17 92 (6.20%) Python Software Engineer
18 87 (5.87%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (21.98%) Spring
2 242 (16.32%) React
3 208 (14.03%) Spring Boot
4 201 (13.55%) Kafka
5 189 (12.74%) AngularJS
6 139 (9.37%) Node.js
7 124 (8.36%) GraphQL
8 114 (7.69%) CSS
8 114 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 111 (7.48%) HTML
10 100 (6.74%) J2EE
11 99 (6.68%) Spring Integration
12 94 (6.34%) REST
13 93 (6.27%) OpenTelemetry
14 92 (6.20%) .NET
15 82 (5.53%) RESTful
16 78 (5.26%) JSON
17 65 (4.38%) jQuery
18 60 (4.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 55 (3.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.17%) Public Cloud
2 114 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 80 (5.39%) Algorithms
5 66 (4.45%) Management Information System
6 61 (4.11%) Legacy Code
7 47 (3.17%) Distributed Applications
8 34 (2.29%) Market Risk
9 30 (2.02%) Credit Risk
10 27 (1.82%) Blog
11 26 (1.75%) Replication
12 23 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 23 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
13 21 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
14 19 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.15%) Cyberattack
15 17 (1.15%) PMI
16 16 (1.08%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 130 (8.77%) Linux
2 55 (3.71%) Windows
3 38 (2.56%) Ubuntu
4 30 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.96%) CentOS
5 29 (1.96%) Debian
6 16 (1.08%) Unix
7 11 (0.74%) Android
7 11 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.61%) Solaris
8 9 (0.61%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.54%) VMS
10 3 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.13%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (61.36%) Software Engineering
2 895 (60.35%) Agile
3 723 (48.75%) CI/CD
4 566 (38.17%) SDLC
5 449 (30.28%) Operational Stability
6 394 (26.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 385 (25.96%) Microservices
8 384 (25.89%) Machine Learning
9 321 (21.65%) DevOps
10 292 (19.69%) Computer Science
11 277 (18.68%) Community of Practice
12 258 (17.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 235 (15.85%) Continuous Delivery
14 201 (13.55%) Architectural Design
15 196 (13.22%) Decision-Making
16 193 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
17 191 (12.88%) Scrum
18 184 (12.41%) Mathematics
19 179 (12.07%) Mentoring
20 178 (12.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 600 (40.46%) Java
2 383 (25.83%) Python
3 377 (25.42%) SQL
4 269 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 142 (9.58%) C#
5 142 (9.58%) TypeScript
6 86 (5.80%) Go
7 81 (5.46%) PowerShell
8 76 (5.12%) Scala
9 60 (4.05%) C++
10 49 (3.30%) Rust
11 45 (3.03%) C
12 36 (2.43%) Groovy
13 35 (2.36%) PHP
14 24 (1.62%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.48%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.28%) Bash
17 16 (1.08%) Ruby
18 12 (0.81%) Bicep
19 8 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (8.09%) Degree
2 97 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 64 (4.32%) AWS Certification
4 64 (4.32%) SC Cleared
5 62 (4.18%) Azure Certification
6 48 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 47 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 42 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.21%) CISSP
10 18 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 13 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 13 (0.88%) CCSP
12 13 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.47%) CCSK
14 5 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.34%) CRISC
14 5 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (1.89%) QA
2 27 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (1.69%) NIST
4 23 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.21%) GDPR
5 18 (1.21%) SLA
6 13 (0.88%) HIPAA
7 10 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.34%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.27%) EMIR
11 4 (0.27%) MiFID
12 3 (0.20%) PMO
13 2 (0.13%) GRC
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 102 (6.88%) Docker
2 27 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.13%) vSphere
7 1 (0.067%) KVM
7 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 394 (26.57%) Kubernetes
2 325 (21.92%) Terraform
3 129 (8.70%) Grafana
4 105 (7.08%) Ansible
5 53 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 53 (3.57%) Puppet
6 26 (1.75%) Kibana
7 22 (1.48%) HAProxy
8 21 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 21 (1.42%) Zipkin
9 16 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.34%) Argo
11 5 (0.34%) Istio
11 5 (0.34%) Packer
12 4 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 162 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 151 (10.18%) Oracle
3 112 (7.55%) Splunk
4 104 (7.01%) Google
5 97 (6.54%) Dynatrace
6 30 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 29 (1.96%) SaltStack
8 18 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.15%) Databricks
10 14 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.81%) Black Duck
12 7 (0.47%) Commvault
12 7 (0.47%) VMware
13 6 (0.40%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.40%) Twitter
14 5 (0.34%) CA
14 5 (0.34%) Sparx
14 5 (0.34%) Teradata
14 5 (0.34%) Virgin Media
15 4 (0.27%) Atlassian