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 have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 208 168
Rank change year-on-year +44 -40 +120
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,777 1,923 3,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.84% 2.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.11% 4.29% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 546 961 1,362
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,323 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £83,900 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +4.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,805 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.28% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +167 1,441 £75,000 +7.44% 109
Scotland +108 962 £71,991 +10.76% 16
England -111 754 £80,000 -5.88% 218
Work from Home -100 378 £74,000 -7.50% 137
London -133 281 £90,000 - 125
North of England -9 154 £73,750 +7.64% 33
South West +30 126 £80,000 +14.60% 11
North West -1 97 £75,000 +25.00% 23
South East -8 79 £65,000 -7.14% 29
Midlands +12 62 £69,235 -10.67% 10
West Midlands +43 50 £69,235 -6.12% 9
Yorkshire +27 47 £75,000 +7.14% 7
East of England +18 35 £75,000 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland +32 13 £90,000 +111.76% 5
East Midlands -27 12 £64,500 -19.38% 1
North East +5 10 £62,500 -27.54% 3
Wales +1 10 £80,000 +66.30% 3

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
1 227 (12.77%) Apache Spark
2 96 (5.40%) FileNet
3 71 (4.00%) Apache
4 68 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (1.24%) Confluence
6 21 (1.18%) GemFire
7 19 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
8 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.45%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.39%) CMS
10 7 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.34%) IIS
11 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.17%) Drupal
12 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.11%) Luigi
14 1 (0.056%) nginx
14 1 (0.056%) Tuxedo
14 1 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.34%) Trello
2 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.056%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 848 (47.72%) AWS
2 458 (25.77%) Azure
3 174 (9.79%) GCP
4 146 (8.22%) Amazon S3
5 101 (5.68%) PaaS
6 98 (5.51%) Serverless
7 96 (5.40%) SaaS
8 78 (4.39%) IaaS
9 73 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 73 (4.11%) Datadog
10 68 (3.83%) GitHub
11 67 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 67 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (1.80%) Snowflake
16 29 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
17 25 (1.41%) Azure Functions
17 25 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.08%) DNS
1 37 (2.08%) HTTP
2 34 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.63%) DHCP
4 24 (1.35%) AMQP
4 24 (1.35%) Firewall
5 19 (1.07%) Kerberos
5 19 (1.07%) Network Security
6 18 (1.01%) DSL
7 11 (0.62%) VPN
8 9 (0.51%) Internet
9 4 (0.23%) VLAN
9 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.11%) VoIP
10 2 (0.11%) Wireless
11 1 (0.056%) 2G
11 1 (0.056%) 3G
11 1 (0.056%) LAN
11 1 (0.056%) WAN
11 1 (0.056%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (16.09%) NoSQL
2 258 (14.52%) Big Data
3 120 (6.75%) Apache Cassandra
4 114 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (5.97%) Relational Database
6 97 (5.46%) Hadoop
7 94 (5.29%) SQL Server
8 87 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
9 63 (3.55%) MySQL
10 53 (2.98%) RDBMS
11 48 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (2.14%) CockroachDB
13 36 (2.03%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.69%) Tableau
15 29 (1.63%) MongoDB
16 26 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
18 23 (1.29%) Apache Hive
18 23 (1.29%) BigQuery
19 21 (1.18%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 111 (6.25%) JUnit
2 100 (5.63%) Git
3 81 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 59 (3.32%) Jasmine
5 46 (2.59%) Mockito
6 36 (2.03%) JIRA
7 31 (1.74%) Postman
8 26 (1.46%) TeamCity
9 25 (1.41%) GitLab
10 22 (1.24%) Maven
11 21 (1.18%) Jaeger
12 15 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
12 15 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.45%) Spinnaker
15 7 (0.39%) Moq
16 6 (0.34%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
17 5 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 5 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,118 (62.92%) Finance
2 1,008 (56.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 956 (53.80%) Law
4 629 (35.40%) Marketing
5 292 (16.43%) Social Skills
6 284 (15.98%) Banking
7 184 (10.35%) Financial Institution
8 170 (9.57%) Investment Banking
9 142 (7.99%) Legal
10 91 (5.12%) Retail
11 80 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
12 74 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
13 57 (3.21%) Private Banking
14 55 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.97%) Aerospace
16 27 (1.52%) Games
17 22 (1.24%) Prime Brokerage
18 16 (0.90%) Publishing
19 15 (0.84%) Public Sector
20 9 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 722 (40.63%) Software Engineer
2 447 (25.15%) Lead
3 355 (19.98%) Architect
4 350 (19.70%) Lead Software Engineer
5 314 (17.67%) Senior
6 290 (16.32%) Java Engineer
7 279 (15.70%) Java Software Engineer
8 179 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 165 (9.29%) Engineering Manager
10 157 (8.84%) Python Engineer
10 157 (8.84%) Software Engineering Manager
11 156 (8.78%) Big Data Engineer
11 156 (8.78%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 156 (8.78%) Data Engineer
12 147 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
13 145 (8.16%) Python Software Engineer
14 140 (7.88%) Lead Java Engineer
15 129 (7.26%) Developer
16 123 (6.92%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 116 (6.53%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 402 (22.62%) Spring
2 289 (16.26%) Spring Boot
3 279 (15.70%) React
4 241 (13.56%) AngularJS
5 232 (13.06%) Kafka
6 160 (9.00%) HTML
7 138 (7.77%) CSS
8 136 (7.65%) RESTful
9 132 (7.43%) Node.js
10 124 (6.98%) .NET
10 124 (6.98%) GraphQL
11 116 (6.53%) Hibernate
12 98 (5.51%) J2EE
13 96 (5.40%) Spring Integration
14 94 (5.29%) OpenTelemetry
15 90 (5.06%) REST
16 81 (4.56%) jQuery
17 79 (4.45%) JSON
18 59 (3.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 58 (3.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 214 (12.04%) Public Cloud
2 137 (7.71%) Algorithms
3 121 (6.81%) Product Ownership
4 91 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
5 90 (5.06%) Management Information System
6 79 (4.45%) Legacy Code
7 65 (3.66%) Distributed Applications
8 58 (3.26%) Market Risk
9 48 (2.70%) Data Structures
10 37 (2.08%) Cyberattack
11 28 (1.58%) Credit Risk
12 25 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
12 25 (1.41%) Replication
13 24 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.35%) PMI
14 23 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 23 (1.29%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.24%) Taxonomies
16 21 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (0.90%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.77%) Linux
2 62 (3.49%) Windows
3 32 (1.80%) Ubuntu
4 27 (1.52%) Android
4 27 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.41%) CentOS
6 24 (1.35%) Debian
6 24 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (1.29%) Unix
8 17 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.51%) VMS
10 7 (0.39%) Solaris
11 6 (0.34%) Mesosphere
12 4 (0.23%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (67.19%) Agile
2 1,155 (65.00%) Software Engineering
3 898 (50.53%) CI/CD
4 778 (43.78%) SDLC
5 608 (34.21%) Operational Stability
6 501 (28.19%) Machine Learning
7 488 (27.46%) Artificial Intelligence
8 435 (24.48%) Microservices
9 400 (22.51%) Community of Practice
10 361 (20.32%) Computer Science
11 320 (18.01%) DevOps
12 287 (16.15%) Continuous Delivery
13 268 (15.08%) Decision-Making
14 259 (14.58%) Architectural Design
15 253 (14.24%) Roadmaps
16 244 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
17 236 (13.28%) Mathematics
18 226 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
19 217 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
20 213 (11.99%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 733 (41.25%) Java
2 524 (29.49%) Python
3 488 (27.46%) SQL
4 310 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 170 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 158 (8.89%) C#
7 127 (7.15%) Scala
8 72 (4.05%) Go
9 49 (2.76%) T-SQL
10 43 (2.42%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.19%) Groovy
12 38 (2.14%) PHP
13 33 (1.86%) Rust
14 27 (1.52%) C++
15 24 (1.35%) C
16 22 (1.24%) Bash
17 21 (1.18%) PL/SQL
18 19 (1.07%) Bicep
19 13 (0.73%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.68%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 147 (8.27%) Degree
2 127 (7.15%) Security Cleared
3 97 (5.46%) AWS Certification
4 93 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (4.39%) DV Cleared
6 60 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 57 (3.21%) Master's Degree
8 53 (2.98%) SC Cleared
9 49 (2.76%) Azure Certification
10 43 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 28 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.35%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.90%) CISSP
14 12 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.56%) CCSK
15 10 (0.56%) CCSP
16 8 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
17 6 (0.34%) CISM
18 4 (0.23%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.49%) SLA
2 58 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.14%) QA
4 22 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 22 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.07%) GDPR
6 17 (0.96%) NIST
7 15 (0.84%) WAI
8 13 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.17%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.17%) PMO
12 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.056%) SEPA
System Software
1 110 (6.19%) Docker
2 19 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 397 (22.34%) Kubernetes
2 304 (17.11%) Terraform
3 119 (6.70%) Grafana
4 75 (4.22%) Ansible
5 55 (3.10%) Puppet
6 47 (2.64%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.46%) Kibana
8 22 (1.24%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.18%) Zipkin
10 19 (1.07%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.23%) Istio
13 4 (0.23%) vRealize
13 4 (0.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 173 (9.74%) Microsoft
2 170 (9.57%) Oracle
3 109 (6.13%) Splunk
4 102 (5.74%) Dynatrace
5 101 (5.68%) Google
6 75 (4.22%) Databricks
7 24 (1.35%) Red Hat
7 24 (1.35%) SaltStack
8 18 (1.01%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.01%) Cognos
8 18 (1.01%) Sybase
9 15 (0.84%) Dell
10 13 (0.73%) VMware
11 11 (0.62%) Teradata
12 10 (0.56%) Commvault
13 9 (0.51%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.45%) Guidewire
15 7 (0.39%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.34%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.34%) Sparx