Cloud Native Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 260 140
Rank change year-on-year +3 -120 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 246 368 821
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.17% 1.16% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.89% 3.36% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 194 226 411
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £73,450 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% -2.93% -5.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,250 £106,289
UK median annual salary £80,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.63% - -

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 8,514 10,966 13,365
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 40.39% 34.58% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,866 8,036 10,306
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,544
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £118,275 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%

Cloud Native
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Native trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Native
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Native.

Cloud Native salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Cloud Native salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.03%) Apache
1 5 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.22%) Confluence
3 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Magento
2 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 146 (59.35%) Azure
2 113 (45.93%) AWS
3 56 (22.76%) GCP
4 47 (19.11%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (18.29%) GitHub
6 32 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (11.79%) SaaS
7 29 (11.79%) Serverless
8 15 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.69%) npm
10 12 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.47%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (4.47%) Datadog
12 10 (4.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 10 (4.07%) Power Automate
12 10 (4.07%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (3.25%) Azure Event Grid
13 8 (3.25%) PowerApps
13 8 (3.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.85%) DNS
1 7 (2.85%) Firewall
1 7 (2.85%) VPN
2 5 (2.03%) DHCP
3 4 (1.63%) Internet
4 3 (1.22%) Broadband
4 3 (1.22%) DKIM
4 3 (1.22%) DMARC
4 3 (1.22%) DNSSEC
4 3 (1.22%) SMTP
5 2 (0.81%) HTTP
5 2 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.81%) Network Security
5 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.81%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) 4G
6 1 (0.41%) 5G
6 1 (0.41%) BGP
6 1 (0.41%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (0.41%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.13%) NoSQL
1 20 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.47%) MySQL
3 8 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.25%) Power BI
4 7 (2.85%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.63%) Big Data
6 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.81%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.41%) Redis
9 1 (0.41%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (8.94%) Git
2 21 (8.54%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.07%) JIRA
4 9 (3.66%) GitLab
5 8 (3.25%) SonarQube
5 8 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.44%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.44%) webpack
7 3 (1.22%) MSTest
7 3 (1.22%) NUnit
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.41%) MSI
8 1 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.41%) Snyk
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (28.05%) Finance
2 55 (22.36%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.04%) Banking
4 28 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.07%) Retail
7 9 (3.66%) Local Government
8 7 (2.85%) Electronics
8 7 (2.85%) Law
9 5 (2.03%) Back Office
9 5 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Marketing
11 3 (1.22%) Advertising
11 3 (1.22%) Front Office
12 2 (0.81%) Danish Language
12 2 (0.81%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.81%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (28.05%) Lead
2 57 (23.17%) Senior
3 43 (17.48%) Architect
4 42 (17.07%) Developer
5 41 (16.67%) Software Engineer
6 26 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (8.94%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (7.72%) AWS Architect
10 18 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
11 16 (6.50%) Senior Architect
12 15 (6.10%) AWS Solution Architect
12 15 (6.10%) Lead Developer
12 15 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
13 14 (5.69%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (5.69%) DevOps Architect
13 14 (5.69%) Security Engineer
13 14 (5.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 14 (5.69%) TOGAF Architect
14 12 (4.88%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (23.98%) .NET
2 50 (20.33%) React
3 22 (8.94%) .NET Core
4 19 (7.72%) REST
5 18 (7.32%) Kafka
5 18 (7.32%) Node.js
6 17 (6.91%) HTML
7 16 (6.50%) RESTful
8 14 (5.69%) .NET Framework
8 14 (5.69%) CSS
8 14 (5.69%) Spring Boot
9 13 (5.28%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.28%) ASP.NET
9 13 (5.28%) Web Services
10 9 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (3.66%) JSON
11 8 (3.25%) Spring
12 6 (2.44%) Jest
12 6 (2.44%) jQuery
12 6 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.01%) Public Cloud
2 22 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (8.54%) Product Ownership
4 19 (7.72%) Management Information System
5 18 (7.32%) Onboarding
6 13 (5.28%) Algorithms
6 13 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (4.07%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.66%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.85%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (2.03%) IoT
12 4 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.22%) Smart Home
13 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.72%) Linux
2 15 (6.10%) Windows
3 9 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Debian
5 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (56.50%) CI/CD
2 134 (54.47%) DevOps
3 104 (42.28%) Agile
4 74 (30.08%) Microservices
5 71 (28.86%) Software Engineering
6 65 (26.42%) Containerisation
7 62 (25.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (20.73%) Roadmaps
9 44 (17.89%) Test Automation
10 43 (17.48%) Observability
11 41 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (16.26%) Mentoring
13 34 (13.82%) Cloud Security
13 34 (13.82%) Event-Driven
14 33 (13.41%) DevSecOps
15 32 (13.01%) Migration
16 30 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
16 30 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
17 27 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
18 26 (10.57%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 92 (37.40%) Python
2 70 (28.46%) C#
3 62 (25.20%) SQL
4 60 (24.39%) Java
5 51 (20.73%) JavaScript
6 45 (18.29%) TypeScript
7 31 (12.60%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.50%) Bash
9 9 (3.66%) PHP
10 8 (3.25%) Go
11 5 (2.03%) Scala
12 4 (1.63%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.22%) Bicep
13 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.22%) Ruby
14 1 (0.41%) C++
14 1 (0.41%) Elixir
14 1 (0.41%) Erlang
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (12.20%) Degree
2 22 (8.94%) AWS Certification
3 21 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.32%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (6.50%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.85%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (2.03%) PhD
11 3 (1.22%) CISSP
11 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.81%) CISM
12 2 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.41%) GIAC
13 1 (0.41%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.79%) GDPR
2 20 (8.13%) HIPAA
3 16 (6.50%) NIST
4 12 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (4.47%) QA
6 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.22%) PMBOK
8 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 78 (31.71%) Docker
2 9 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.81%) vSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 82 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 64 (26.02%) Terraform
3 27 (10.98%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.13%) Ansible
5 15 (6.10%) Grafana
6 3 (1.22%) Argo
6 3 (1.22%) SCCM
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (0.81%) SCOM
7 2 (0.81%) WSUS
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (23.17%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.79%) Google
3 11 (4.47%) Databricks
4 10 (4.07%) Oracle
5 8 (3.25%) Apple
6 6 (2.44%) IBM
6 6 (2.44%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.03%) SAP
8 4 (1.63%) IBM Sterling
8 4 (1.63%) VMware
9 3 (1.22%) Cisco
9 3 (1.22%) Foundry
9 3 (1.22%) Informatica
9 3 (1.22%) IronPort
9 3 (1.22%) Veritas
10 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.81%) Talend
11 1 (0.41%) Palantir
11 1 (0.41%) Qualys
11 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow