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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 58 110
Rank change year-on-year -23 +52 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 7 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.42% 0.75% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 1.61% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile - £63,505 £53,914
25th Percentile £47,930 £64,466 £57,910
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% -12.50% +73.12%
75th Percentile £76,201 £75,054 £90,000
90th Percentile - £75,151 £107,250
UK median annual salary £79,500 £81,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.45% +1.88% -3.03%

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 359 249 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 21.67% 46.98% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 210 136 339
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,763 £40,938 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £44,886
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.53% -0.25%
75th Percentile £68,943 £71,156 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £67,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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
West Wales - 4 £60,796 - 4
South Wales -31 3 £74,000 +5.71% 7
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 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Google Sheets
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Law
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) BCP
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Trend Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) GRC
1 2 (28.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Opsgenie
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) GoldenSource
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) PagerDuty