Cloud Native Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 174 166
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +60
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 29 25 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.55% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.49% 1.64% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 24 13 11
10th Percentile £51,250 £33,500 -
25th Percentile £54,375 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -27.87%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £69,550
90th Percentile £77,500 £109,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,950 1,525 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.89% 36.82% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 678 612 1,098
10th Percentile £26,375 £32,500 £27,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,004 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -6.32%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the West Midlands

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
Birmingham +35 26 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Coventry +2 2 £45,125 -27.80%
Staffordshire - 1 £63,500 - 4
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) NServiceBus
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
4 7 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (24.14%) PaaS
5 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
5 6 (20.69%) IaaS
5 6 (20.69%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Functions
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (10.34%) Power Automate
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.90%) Azure API Management
7 2 (6.90%) GCP
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
1 5 (17.24%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) BGP
2 3 (10.34%) DHCP
2 3 (10.34%) IPsec
2 3 (10.34%) Network Security
2 3 (10.34%) OSPF
2 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
2 3 (10.34%) VLAN
2 3 (10.34%) WAN
2 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (10.34%) Wireshark
3 2 (6.90%) HTTP
3 2 (6.90%) SSH
3 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MSTest
1 3 (10.34%) NUnit
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Moq
3 1 (3.45%) NSubstitute
3 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Legal
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Back Office
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Architect
1 6 (20.69%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Information Security Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) IT Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
2 5 (17.24%) .NET
3 4 (13.79%) ARM Templates
3 4 (13.79%) React
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
4 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
4 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
4 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (10.34%) Entity Framework
4 3 (10.34%) Flask
4 3 (10.34%) RESTful
4 3 (10.34%) Spring
4 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 3 (10.34%) YAML
5 2 (6.90%) Middleware
5 2 (6.90%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) Vue
6 1 (3.45%) Apache Cordova
6 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (3.45%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (6.90%) Educational Technology
3 2 (6.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) API Management
3 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Integration Patterns
3 10 (34.48%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (27.59%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (24.14%) AI
6 6 (20.69%) Architectural Design
6 6 (20.69%) Data Privacy
6 6 (20.69%) Data Protection
6 6 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
6 6 (20.69%) Information Security
6 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
6 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (20.69%) TOGAF
6 6 (20.69%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) C#
1 5 (17.24%) Java
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Bicep
3 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.45%) Delphi
4 1 (3.45%) R
4 1 (3.45%) Scala
4 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) CCNP
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) CEH
4 2 (6.90%) CISSP
4 2 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (6.90%) GSEC
4 2 (6.90%) OSCP
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Firmware
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Dell DRAC
2 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.90%) Nessus
3 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco
2 3 (10.34%) Dell
2 3 (10.34%) Meraki
2 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
2 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
2 3 (10.34%) Zscaler
3 2 (6.90%) Qualys
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) UiPath
4 1 (3.45%) Xamarin