Cloud Native Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 84 69 105
Rank change year-on-year -15 +36 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 56 32 40
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.69% 2.58% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.53% 5.96% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 42 23 34
10th Percentile £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £70,097 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,253 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +8.26% +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,375 £121,588 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,677 £96,539
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £78,622 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.97% +4.83% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 857 537 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 25.82% 43.24% 31.08%
Number of salaries quoted 519 279 665
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £98,474 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in West Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -21 55 £70,000 -17.89% 14
Cloud Native
Yorkshire

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 36 (64.29%) AWS
2 34 (60.71%) Azure
3 20 (35.71%) GitHub
4 17 (30.36%) GCP
4 17 (30.36%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (28.57%) Serverless
6 14 (25.00%) Amazon S3
6 14 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 13 (23.21%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (17.86%) Amazon EventBridge
8 10 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (7.14%) Apigee
10 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (3.57%) Azure App Service
11 2 (3.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 13 (23.21%) NoSQL
3 12 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.14%) Metadata
6 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) MySQL
6 2 (3.57%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Git
1 10 (17.86%) GitLab
1 10 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 4 (7.14%) Maven
2 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Agriculture
2 5 (8.93%) Automotive
2 5 (8.93%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Developer
1 17 (30.36%) Lead
2 15 (26.79%) Senior
3 10 (17.86%) .NET Developer
4 9 (16.07%) Software Engineer
5 8 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Python Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (8.93%) Lead DevOps
8 5 (8.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.14%) Consultant
10 3 (5.36%) Architect
10 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) AWS Developer
10 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
10 3 (5.36%) Software Consultant
11 2 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) React
2 13 (23.21%) RESTful
3 10 (17.86%) .NET
3 10 (17.86%) .NET Core
3 10 (17.86%) ASP.NET
3 10 (17.86%) ASP.NET Core
3 10 (17.86%) AWS CDK
3 10 (17.86%) Blazor
4 9 (16.07%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.71%) Vue
6 5 (8.93%) Flask
7 4 (7.14%) Gherkin
7 4 (7.14%) Jest
7 4 (7.14%) Spring
7 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.57%) LangChain
8 2 (3.57%) LangGraph
8 2 (3.57%) Node.js
8 2 (3.57%) XBRL
8 2 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.93%) Educational Technology
3 3 (5.36%) AI Agents
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) CI/CD
2 29 (51.79%) DevOps
3 25 (44.64%) Agile
4 21 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (35.71%) Microservices
6 18 (32.14%) Containerisation
7 17 (30.36%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (28.57%) Software Engineering
9 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
10 11 (19.64%) Application Security
11 10 (17.86%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (16.07%) AI
12 9 (16.07%) SDLC
13 8 (14.29%) Analytics
13 8 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
14 7 (12.50%) Incident Response
14 7 (12.50%) Observability
14 7 (12.50%) Roadmaps
15 6 (10.71%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) SQL
2 19 (33.93%) Python
3 11 (19.64%) JavaScript
3 11 (19.64%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.71%) Java
5 5 (8.93%) Bash
5 5 (8.93%) C#
5 5 (8.93%) Groovy
6 3 (5.36%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 8 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Terraform
2 12 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.93%) Ansible
3 5 (8.93%) Grafana
3 5 (8.93%) Prometheus
4 4 (7.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.79%) Istio
5 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Databricks
2 3 (5.36%) Google
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.79%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (1.79%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.79%) UiPath