Cloud Native Job Trends in West Wales

Cloud Native
Wales > West Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in West Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 29 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 7.34% - 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 27.62% - 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 29 0 1
10th Percentile £47,594 - -
25th Percentile £63,744 - £57,910
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £63,823
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.68%
75th Percentile £76,201 - £69,736
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +73.12%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 105 19 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 26.58% 36.54% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 65 7 38
10th Percentile £32,300 £34,415 £33,672
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,733 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,501 £42,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.53% -15.84% +23.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,857 £55,122
90th Percentile £80,000 - £59,000
Wales median annual salary £51,709 £59,857 £44,886
% change year-on-year -13.61% +33.35% -0.25%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in West Wales

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in West Wales over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in West Wales

Cloud Native
Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Swansea - 29 £70,000 - 3
Cloud Native
Wales

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 23 (79.31%) AWS
2 17 (58.62%) Serverless
3 14 (48.28%) Azure
4 13 (44.83%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (41.38%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (24.14%) GitHub
6 7 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (20.69%) Amazon S3
8 5 (17.24%) GCP
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (13.79%) CloudFront
9 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
9 4 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (10.34%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (3.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) LAN
1 4 (13.79%) Unified Communications
1 4 (13.79%) WAN
1 4 (13.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.90%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) JUnit
3 4 (13.79%) Selenium
4 3 (10.34%) GitLab
5 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.90%) Newman
5 2 (6.90%) Postman
5 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.90%) TestRail
5 2 (6.90%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Lead
2 10 (34.48%) Architect
3 7 (24.14%) Senior
4 6 (20.69%) Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Lead Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Architect
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Leader
6 3 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Principal Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Principal Software Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (58.62%) Spring Boot
2 15 (51.72%) Ruby on Rails
3 14 (48.28%) Node.js
4 13 (44.83%) Spring
5 8 (27.59%) React
6 7 (24.14%) AWS CDK
7 6 (20.69%) REST
8 5 (17.24%) Kafka
9 4 (13.79%) GraphQL
9 4 (13.79%) Serverless Framework
10 3 (10.34%) AWS SAM
10 3 (10.34%) OpenAPI
11 2 (6.90%) CSS3
11 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
11 2 (6.90%) HTML5
11 2 (6.90%) Jest
11 2 (6.90%) JPA
11 2 (6.90%) Playwright
11 2 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (6.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Mainframe
2 9 (31.03%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (17.24%) Digital Wallet
5 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (10.34%) Driving Licence
7 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) AIX
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Agile
2 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
3 19 (65.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 17 (58.62%) Software Engineering
5 15 (51.72%) Microservices
6 14 (48.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (41.38%) Scrum
9 11 (37.93%) Event-Driven
9 11 (37.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 11 (37.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (37.93%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (34.48%) AI
11 9 (31.03%) Containerisation
11 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (31.03%) DevOps
11 9 (31.03%) Kanban
11 9 (31.03%) Observability
12 8 (27.59%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (65.52%) Java
2 15 (51.72%) Ruby
3 6 (20.69%) Python
4 5 (17.24%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) COBOL
6 3 (10.34%) Bicep
7 2 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (3.45%) Natural
8 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) AWS Certification
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (13.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
5 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.45%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) Accessibility
2 8 (27.59%) WCAG
3 4 (13.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (13.79%) NCSC
4 2 (6.90%) QA
5 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Grafana
3 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) OneLogin
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk