Cloud Native Job Trends in Wales

Cloud Native
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 75 84
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +28
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 6 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.56% 0.55% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.05% 1.53% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £64,375 - £52,079
25th Percentile £67,736 £64,471 £56,658
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,308 £62,989
Median % change year-on-year +8.21% +10.03% +2.84%
75th Percentile £81,055 £74,144 £69,680
90th Percentile £87,370 - £69,800
UK median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% -2.94%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 293 327 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 27.18% 35.93% 38.41%
Number of salaries quoted 190 169 220
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,372 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £49,215
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.48% +9.37%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,449
90th Percentile £78,911 £70,200 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Wales

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Wales over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in Wales

Cloud Native
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales 0 5 £75,000 +8.21% 11
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (16.67%) Anthos
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Next.js
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
4 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Business Case
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (16.67%) GitOps
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Micro Frontends
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Product Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google