Hybrid/Remote Cloud Native Job Trends

Cloud Native
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 196 260
Rank change year-on-year +124 +64 -82
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 566 248 331
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 1.79% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.64% 4.26% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 352 185 225
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,539
90th Percentile £107,250 £140,677 £118,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,874 5,817 11,022
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.93% 42.05% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,609 3,555 8,991
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% -15.38%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Native and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cloud Native
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Cloud Native salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 19 (3.36%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (1.94%) JBoss
3 11 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 11 (1.94%) WebSphere
4 7 (1.24%) Apache
5 6 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.88%) CMS
7 3 (0.53%) NServiceBus
8 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (4.42%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.71%) Markit EDM
2 4 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.35%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.35%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Quorum
4 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 309 (54.59%) AWS
2 293 (51.77%) Azure
3 161 (28.45%) GCP
4 110 (19.43%) SaaS
5 95 (16.78%) GitHub
6 80 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (13.25%) Serverless
8 71 (12.54%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (8.30%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (7.60%) Power Platform
12 36 (6.36%) Snowflake
13 35 (6.18%) GitHub Copilot
14 32 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 32 (5.65%) dbt
14 32 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (5.12%) Entra ID
16 26 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (4.42%) OCI
18 23 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.30%) Firewall
2 19 (3.36%) Network Security
2 19 (3.36%) VPN
3 12 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.59%) BGP
5 8 (1.41%) DNS
5 8 (1.41%) VLAN
6 6 (1.06%) DHCP
6 6 (1.06%) DMZ
6 6 (1.06%) WAN
7 5 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.53%) IPsec
9 3 (0.53%) Modbus
9 3 (0.53%) OSPF
9 3 (0.53%) SCCP
9 3 (0.53%) Wireless
10 2 (0.35%) AMQP
10 2 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.83%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (8.48%) NoSQL
3 33 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (5.65%) Power BI
5 30 (5.30%) SQL Server
6 25 (4.42%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.71%) MySQL
9 19 (3.36%) Data Lake
10 14 (2.47%) Metadata
11 13 (2.30%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.94%) Tableau
13 9 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.88%) Redis
15 4 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.71%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.53%) Big Data
16 3 (0.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 54 (9.54%) TeamCity
2 44 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.01%) Git
4 28 (4.95%) JIRA
5 25 (4.42%) Oracle Forms
6 20 (3.53%) GitLab
7 6 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.06%) Storybook
8 5 (0.88%) git-flow
9 3 (0.53%) ESLint
10 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.35%) JUnit
10 2 (0.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.18%) Maven
11 1 (0.18%) MLflow
11 1 (0.18%) Snyk
General
1 216 (38.16%) Finance
2 139 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 124 (21.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 123 (21.73%) Law
5 104 (18.37%) Banking
6 97 (17.14%) Retail
7 70 (12.37%) Public Sector
8 69 (12.19%) Back Office
9 59 (10.42%) Financial Institution
10 40 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
11 25 (4.42%) Marketing
11 25 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.65%) Telecoms
13 12 (2.12%) Legal
14 9 (1.59%) Italian Language
15 8 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.06%) German Language
17 5 (0.88%) Aviation
18 4 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (30.92%) Senior
2 117 (20.67%) Software Engineer
3 76 (13.43%) Lead
4 75 (13.25%) Developer
5 48 (8.48%) Architect
5 48 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 48 (8.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 38 (6.71%) Java Engineer
7 34 (6.01%) Applications Engineer
7 34 (6.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 34 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
8 32 (5.65%) Senior Developer
9 28 (4.95%) Consultant
10 24 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 22 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (3.36%) Data Engineer
14 18 (3.18%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (15.72%) RESTful
2 84 (14.84%) .NET
3 81 (14.31%) React
4 44 (7.77%) Spring
5 40 (7.07%) Kafka
6 35 (6.18%) Node.js
7 33 (5.83%) REST
8 29 (5.12%) Spring Boot
9 26 (4.59%) SOAP
10 23 (4.06%) JSON
11 19 (3.36%) OAuth
12 18 (3.18%) CSS
13 17 (3.00%) Middleware
14 16 (2.83%) .NET Framework
14 16 (2.83%) HTML5 Canvas
15 15 (2.65%) AngularJS
15 15 (2.65%) GraphQL
15 15 (2.65%) RabbitMQ
15 15 (2.65%) SAML
15 15 (2.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (7.77%) Enterprise Software
3 39 (6.89%) Blog
4 36 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.42%) Security Posture
6 18 (3.18%) Legacy Applications
6 18 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (3.00%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.94%) DataPower
10 10 (1.77%) Cloud Security Posture
11 7 (1.24%) IoT
12 6 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 6 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.06%) PKI
12 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (0.88%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.18%) Linux
2 17 (3.00%) Windows
3 11 (1.94%) Android
4 5 (0.88%) VMS
5 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (55.12%) CI/CD
2 256 (45.23%) DevOps
3 208 (36.75%) Agile
4 191 (33.75%) Software Engineering
5 186 (32.86%) Microservices
6 151 (26.68%) Test Automation
7 141 (24.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 135 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (23.50%) AI
10 124 (21.91%) Mentoring
11 116 (20.49%) Coaching
12 113 (19.96%) Containerisation
13 102 (18.02%) Clean Code
14 101 (17.84%) Observability
15 83 (14.66%) Event-Driven
15 83 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
16 82 (14.49%) Full-Stack Development
17 77 (13.60%) Analytics
18 71 (12.54%) Roadmaps
19 65 (11.48%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (29.68%) Java
2 118 (20.85%) Python
3 109 (19.26%) SQL
4 71 (12.54%) TypeScript
5 66 (11.66%) C#
6 56 (9.89%) JavaScript
7 33 (5.83%) Bicep
8 30 (5.30%) Go
9 25 (4.42%) PL/SQL
9 25 (4.42%) Shell Script
10 20 (3.53%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.77%) Bash
12 8 (1.41%) C++
12 8 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 6 (1.06%) PHP
14 3 (0.53%) ABAP
14 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.53%) Scala
15 2 (0.35%) C
15 2 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 72 (12.72%) Degree
2 69 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 57 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 41 (7.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.41%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.24%) CISSP
11 6 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.71%) CCNP
12 4 (0.71%) GIAC
12 4 (0.71%) ISACA
12 4 (0.71%) SANS
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.35%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (5.65%) PCI DSS
3 25 (4.42%) NIST
4 22 (3.89%) SOC 2
5 20 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 20 (3.53%) GRC
6 19 (3.36%) QA
7 16 (2.83%) GDPR
8 14 (2.47%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 7 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.24%) NCSC
11 6 (1.06%) JSP 440
11 6 (1.06%) WCAG
12 5 (0.88%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.53%) SLA
15 2 (0.35%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.35%) SEPA
16 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 100 (17.67%) Docker
2 27 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) Firmware
3 4 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) vSphere
5 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 186 (32.86%) Kubernetes
2 177 (31.27%) Terraform
3 76 (13.43%) Grafana
4 26 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (3.89%) Ansible
6 17 (3.00%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.24%) Kibana
8 4 (0.71%) Cilium
9 3 (0.53%) Argo
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.35%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.35%) Packer
10 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.18%) Nessus
11 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.12%) Oracle
3 20 (3.53%) Databricks
4 19 (3.36%) Okta
5 16 (2.83%) Google
6 9 (1.59%) New Relic
6 9 (1.59%) SAP
7 8 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.06%) VMware
9 4 (0.71%) Ab Initio
9 4 (0.71%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.71%) Cisco
9 4 (0.71%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.71%) Foundry
9 4 (0.71%) IBM
9 4 (0.71%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.53%) Dell
10 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.53%) Meraki
10 3 (0.53%) SolarWinds