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 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 102 79
Rank change year-on-year +32 -23 +84
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 56 11 63
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.11% 0.73% 3.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.79% 2.30% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 36 6 42
10th Percentile £48,750 - £47,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £70,097 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,622 £72,788
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +8.02% -2.95%
75th Percentile £82,500 £128,952 £96,539
90th Percentile £86,250 £142,438 £106,289
Yorkshire median annual salary £77,500 £45,000 £72,788
% change year-on-year +72.22% -38.18% -11.77%

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 572 478 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 31.80% 31.53% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 299 208 564
10th Percentile £28,950 £29,175 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £42,178 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,500 £78,678 £95,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% -11.50% +2.73%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 +29 50 £75,000 -4.61% 24
Bradford -9 6 £77,500 - 2
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SAP GRC
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (73.21%) Azure
2 36 (64.29%) AWS
3 20 (35.71%) Serverless
4 19 (33.93%) Amazon S3
5 18 (32.14%) AWS Lambda
5 18 (32.14%) GitHub
5 18 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (30.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (30.36%) AWS Step Functions
7 16 (28.57%) GCP
8 15 (26.79%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (23.21%) Amazon EventBridge
10 13 (23.21%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (7.14%) Apigee
13 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
13 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 1 (1.79%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) AMQP
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
1 2 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) BGP
2 1 (1.79%) DNS
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) MQTT
2 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) DynamoDB
2 15 (26.79%) NoSQL
3 14 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.36%) Metadata
6 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) ClickHouse
7 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.79%) Power BI
7 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) GitLab
2 13 (23.21%) Git
3 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 4 (7.14%) Maven
4 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.79%) Snyk
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.57%) Law
2 2 (3.57%) Legal
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Developer
2 19 (33.93%) Lead
3 14 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 11 (19.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) Lead DevOps
5 10 (17.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 8 (14.29%) Consultant
7 6 (10.71%) AWS Developer
7 6 (10.71%) Principal Consultant
7 6 (10.71%) Principal SAP Consultant
7 6 (10.71%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.14%) DevOps Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Serverless Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Development Consultant
9 3 (5.36%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.71%) .NET
2 16 (28.57%) React
3 15 (26.79%) RESTful
4 14 (25.00%) .NET Core
4 14 (25.00%) Blazor
5 13 (23.21%) ASP.NET
5 13 (23.21%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (23.21%) AWS CDK
6 7 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 7 (12.50%) Spring
6 7 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.14%) Gherkin
7 4 (7.14%) Jest
8 3 (5.36%) PySpark
8 3 (5.36%) SAP Basis
8 3 (5.36%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (5.36%) SAPUI5
9 2 (3.57%) OpenAPI
9 2 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (3.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) IoT
4 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (80.36%) CI/CD
2 44 (78.57%) DevOps
3 36 (64.29%) Agile
4 28 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (37.50%) Microservices
6 20 (35.71%) Containerisation
7 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (23.21%) Application Security
10 13 (23.21%) Incident Response
11 12 (21.43%) Observability
11 12 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (19.64%) Line Management
12 11 (19.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
14 7 (12.50%) Software Delivery
14 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (44.64%) SQL
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 8 (14.29%) Java
4 5 (8.93%) C#
4 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.14%) Bash
5 4 (7.14%) Groovy
6 3 (5.36%) ABAP
6 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.57%) Go
8 1 (1.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) AWS Certification
1 11 (19.64%) AWS Certified Developer
2 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (48.21%) Terraform
2 18 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (19.64%) Grafana
3 11 (19.64%) Prometheus
4 10 (17.86%) Ansible
5 4 (7.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.79%) Kibana
6 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) SAP
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.79%) LogRhythm
4 1 (1.79%) New Relic
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Qualys
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) VMware