Cloud Native Job Trends in Watford

Cloud Native
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 7 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 3.41% - 4.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.29% - 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile - - £72,500
25th Percentile - - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £80,000
75th Percentile - - £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £90,000 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

All Generic Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 68 107 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 33.17% 59.78% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 51 44 56
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,500 £25,438
25th Percentile £36,250 £52,375 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £82,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% +11.82% +4.76%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in Watford

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Debt
2 5 (71.43%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (57.14%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) People Management
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#