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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 280 184
Rank change year-on-year +67 -96 -34
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 230 377 833
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.49% 1.12% 1.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.84% 3.14% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 175 242 423
10th Percentile £48,869 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £62,313 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,450 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -8.19% -
75th Percentile £102,500 £96,539 £97,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £81,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -3.03% +3.13%

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 5,992 12,005 16,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.86% 35.53% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,850 9,227 11,835
10th Percentile £34,975 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,300 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.61% -8.77% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £101,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 5 May 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 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.04%) Apache
3 5 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.43%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 123 (53.48%) Azure
2 107 (46.52%) AWS
3 59 (25.65%) GCP
4 48 (20.87%) SaaS
5 40 (17.39%) GitHub
6 34 (14.78%) Serverless
7 29 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (6.96%) npm
11 10 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (4.35%) IaaS
11 10 (4.35%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (3.91%) PaaS
12 9 (3.91%) Power Automate
13 8 (3.48%) OpenShift
13 8 (3.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) Internet
2 9 (3.91%) Firewall
3 8 (3.48%) DKIM
3 8 (3.48%) DMARC
3 8 (3.48%) DNSSEC
3 8 (3.48%) SMTP
3 8 (3.48%) VPN
4 6 (2.61%) Network Security
5 4 (1.74%) DNS
5 4 (1.74%) WAN
6 2 (0.87%) DHCP
6 2 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.43%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.43%) 4G
7 1 (0.43%) 5G
7 1 (0.43%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.43%) HTTP
7 1 (0.43%) MQTT
7 1 (0.43%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.30%) NoSQL
2 18 (7.83%) MySQL
3 16 (6.96%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.91%) Power BI
6 7 (3.04%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.04%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.61%) Big Data
7 6 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.74%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.74%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Exadata
12 1 (0.43%) Flink
Development Applications
1 31 (13.48%) Git
2 16 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.48%) Cucumber
3 8 (3.48%) Cypress.io
3 8 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (3.48%) webpack
4 7 (3.04%) JIRA
5 6 (2.61%) Gradle
5 6 (2.61%) Maven
5 6 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (2.61%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.30%) GitLab
6 3 (1.30%) MSTest
6 3 (1.30%) NUnit
6 3 (1.30%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Appium
8 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
General
1 86 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 74 (32.17%) Finance
3 46 (20.00%) Banking
4 18 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.65%) Games
6 12 (5.22%) Retail
7 11 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.35%) Marketing
9 8 (3.48%) Law
10 7 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.17%) Military
12 5 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.74%) Electronics
14 3 (1.30%) Back Office
14 3 (1.30%) Front Office
14 3 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.87%) Advertising
15 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (23.91%) Architect
2 53 (23.04%) Lead
3 48 (20.87%) Senior
4 41 (17.83%) Software Engineer
5 40 (17.39%) Developer
6 27 (11.74%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 16 (6.96%) Lead Software Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Cloud Architect
10 14 (6.09%) Security Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Senior Architect
10 14 (6.09%) Software Developer
11 13 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) AWS Architect
12 12 (5.22%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 11 (4.78%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 10 (4.35%) Lead Developer
15 9 (3.91%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (23.48%) React
2 50 (21.74%) .NET
3 34 (14.78%) Kafka
4 25 (10.87%) RESTful
5 19 (8.26%) Spring Boot
6 18 (7.83%) Node.js
7 17 (7.39%) Spring
8 16 (6.96%) .NET Core
9 14 (6.09%) HTML
9 14 (6.09%) RabbitMQ
10 13 (5.65%) Web Services
11 12 (5.22%) CSS
12 10 (4.35%) .NET Framework
12 10 (4.35%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (4.35%) JSON
12 10 (4.35%) REST
12 10 (4.35%) XML
13 9 (3.91%) ASP.NET
13 9 (3.91%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 25 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 21 (9.13%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (7.83%) Management Information System
5 17 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (5.22%) Mobile Games
7 11 (4.78%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.91%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.91%) Distributed Applications
8 9 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.91%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.91%) Virtual Team
9 8 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.61%) Mobile App
11 5 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.74%) IoT
13 3 (1.30%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.30%) Equities
13 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.70%) Windows
2 18 (7.83%) Linux
3 7 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Debian
5 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (52.17%) DevOps
2 111 (48.26%) CI/CD
3 91 (39.57%) Agile
4 77 (33.48%) Software Engineering
5 74 (32.17%) Microservices
6 55 (23.91%) Containerisation
7 52 (22.61%) Event-Driven
8 43 (18.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 43 (18.70%) Migration
9 39 (16.96%) Computer Science
9 39 (16.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 38 (16.52%) Roadmaps
11 37 (16.09%) Test Automation
12 36 (15.65%) Full-Stack Development
13 34 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (13.48%) Architectural Design
15 30 (13.04%) Cloud Security
16 29 (12.61%) API Design
16 29 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (12.61%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 65 (28.26%) Java
2 62 (26.96%) SQL
3 60 (26.09%) Python
4 50 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 47 (20.43%) C#
6 45 (19.57%) TypeScript
7 16 (6.96%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.35%) Bash
9 8 (3.48%) Go
10 6 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.17%) PHP
12 4 (1.74%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.30%) Scala
14 2 (0.87%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) C++
Qualifications
1 50 (21.74%) Degree
2 27 (11.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (11.74%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.57%) AWS Certification
5 18 (7.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.22%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.61%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.74%) CISSP
8 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.30%) PhD
10 2 (0.87%) CCNP
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.83%) GDPR
2 12 (5.22%) HIPAA
3 11 (4.78%) QA
4 9 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 7 (3.04%) NIST
6 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.30%) PMBOK
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.43%) GMP
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (27.39%) Docker
2 9 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 56 (24.35%) Terraform
3 23 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.22%) Ansible
5 9 (3.91%) Grafana
6 6 (2.61%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) Consul
7 1 (0.43%) Packer
7 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.17%) Google
3 16 (6.96%) Oracle
4 14 (6.09%) Databricks
5 8 (3.48%) Cisco
5 8 (3.48%) IBM
5 8 (3.48%) IronPort
5 8 (3.48%) Veritas
6 7 (3.04%) SAP
7 6 (2.61%) New Relic
8 5 (2.17%) Informatica
9 4 (1.74%) IBM Sterling
9 4 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.74%) VMware
10 2 (0.87%) Talend
11 1 (0.43%) Foundry
11 1 (0.43%) Netskope
11 1 (0.43%) Palantir
11 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow