Cloud Native
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Native over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 211 172
Rank change year-on-year +47 -39 +112
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,784 1,716 4,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 1.76% 2.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.04% 4.12% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 548 877 1,340
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,350 £62,323 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,539 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,600 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -0.57% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
UK

Cloud Native is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the UK

Cloud Native
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +164 1,415 £75,000 +7.76% 97
Scotland +129 948 £72,996 +11.70% 6
England -106 769 £80,000 -3.03% 204
Work from Home -106 380 £72,500 -4.19% 106
London -101 310 £90,000 - 112
North of England -12 169 £72,500 +5.82% 40
North West -4 107 £72,500 +20.83% 25
South West -27 99 £80,000 +14.29% 10
South East -18 71 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Midlands +11 67 £80,000 +3.23% 11
West Midlands +32 51 £80,000 +14.29% 8
Yorkshire +5 50 £77,500 +10.71% 7
East of England +10 33 £75,000 -6.25% 8
Northern Ireland +24 16 £90,000 +111.76% 7
East Midlands -21 16 £87,500 +9.38% 3
North East +5 12 £62,500 - 8
Wales -6 12 £80,000 +73.12%

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 228 (12.78%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.49%) FileNet
3 72 (4.04%) Apache
4 66 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.18%) GemFire
6 19 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.95%) Confluence
8 16 (0.90%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.39%) IIS
10 7 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.28%) CMS
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.11%) Luigi
14 2 (0.11%) SAS
15 1 (0.056%) Apache Pulsar
15 1 (0.056%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Trello
2 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.11%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 838 (46.97%) AWS
2 489 (27.41%) Azure
3 205 (11.49%) GCP
4 149 (8.35%) Amazon S3
5 107 (6.00%) PaaS
6 99 (5.55%) Serverless
7 98 (5.49%) SaaS
8 83 (4.65%) IaaS
9 81 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
10 75 (4.20%) Datadog
11 67 (3.76%) GitHub
12 66 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 61 (3.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 58 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
15 54 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (1.85%) Azure AKS
19 31 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
19 31 (1.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.63%) Firewall
2 28 (1.57%) AMQP
3 19 (1.07%) Kerberos
3 19 (1.07%) Network Security
4 17 (0.95%) DSL
5 11 (0.62%) DNS
5 11 (0.62%) VPN
6 9 (0.50%) Internet
7 8 (0.45%) HTTP
8 6 (0.34%) 5G
9 5 (0.28%) Broadband
9 5 (0.28%) WAN
10 4 (0.22%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.22%) VLAN
10 4 (0.22%) Wireless
11 3 (0.17%) LAN
11 3 (0.17%) MQTT
11 3 (0.17%) NGFW
11 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (16.03%) NoSQL
2 256 (14.35%) Big Data
3 120 (6.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 117 (6.56%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 98 (5.49%) Hadoop
7 93 (5.21%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (3.48%) MySQL
10 52 (2.91%) RDBMS
11 49 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
11 49 (2.75%) Data Lake
12 38 (2.13%) CockroachDB
13 29 (1.63%) Tableau
14 28 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
15 25 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.40%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.35%) MongoDB
17 23 (1.29%) Apache Hive
18 21 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 111 (6.22%) JUnit
2 106 (5.94%) Git
3 93 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 59 (3.31%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.69%) Mockito
6 41 (2.30%) JIRA
7 31 (1.74%) Postman
8 27 (1.51%) GitLab
9 25 (1.40%) TeamCity
10 24 (1.35%) Maven
11 21 (1.18%) Jaeger
12 14 (0.78%) Karma Test Runner
12 14 (0.78%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
13 12 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (0.67%) Terragrunt
14 8 (0.45%) Spinnaker
15 7 (0.39%) Moq
16 6 (0.34%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
General
1 1,090 (61.10%) Finance
2 1,009 (56.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 965 (54.09%) Law
4 626 (35.09%) Marketing
5 290 (16.26%) Social Skills
6 277 (15.53%) Banking
7 183 (10.26%) Financial Institution
8 168 (9.42%) Investment Banking
9 156 (8.74%) Legal
10 85 (4.76%) Retail
11 76 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
12 70 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
13 55 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (3.03%) Aerospace
15 53 (2.97%) Private Banking
16 29 (1.63%) Games
17 23 (1.29%) Public Sector
18 22 (1.23%) Prime Brokerage
19 16 (0.90%) Publishing
20 9 (0.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 738 (41.37%) Software Engineer
2 464 (26.01%) Lead
3 358 (20.07%) Lead Software Engineer
4 351 (19.67%) Architect
5 297 (16.65%) Java Engineer
6 284 (15.92%) Java Software Engineer
7 277 (15.53%) Senior
8 182 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
9 165 (9.25%) Engineering Manager
10 159 (8.91%) Python Engineer
11 157 (8.80%) Software Engineering Manager
12 154 (8.63%) Big Data Engineer
12 154 (8.63%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 151 (8.46%) Data Engineer
14 147 (8.24%) Python Software Engineer
15 143 (8.02%) Lead Java Engineer
16 127 (7.12%) Cloud Software Engineer
16 127 (7.12%) Developer
17 125 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
18 111 (6.22%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (23.37%) Spring
2 299 (16.76%) Spring Boot
3 275 (15.41%) React
4 243 (13.62%) AngularJS
5 236 (13.23%) Kafka
6 143 (8.02%) CSS
7 141 (7.90%) Node.js
8 139 (7.79%) RESTful
9 138 (7.74%) HTML
10 126 (7.06%) GraphQL
11 119 (6.67%) .NET
12 117 (6.56%) Hibernate
13 100 (5.61%) J2EE
14 99 (5.55%) Spring Integration
15 95 (5.33%) REST
16 94 (5.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 83 (4.65%) jQuery
18 80 (4.48%) JSON
19 60 (3.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 58 (3.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 210 (11.77%) Public Cloud
2 138 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 136 (7.62%) Algorithms
4 90 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 89 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
6 72 (4.04%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
8 58 (3.25%) Market Risk
9 30 (1.68%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.46%) Replication
11 25 (1.40%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.35%) PMI
13 23 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.29%) Taxonomies
14 21 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 21 (1.18%) Private Cloud
15 19 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 133 (7.46%) Linux
2 60 (3.36%) Windows
3 38 (2.13%) Ubuntu
4 29 (1.63%) CentOS
5 28 (1.57%) Debian
5 28 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.29%) Unix
7 20 (1.12%) Android
7 20 (1.12%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.50%) Solaris
8 9 (0.50%) VMS
9 7 (0.39%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.34%) Mesosphere
11 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,189 (66.65%) Agile
2 1,169 (65.53%) Software Engineering
3 911 (51.07%) CI/CD
4 739 (41.42%) SDLC
5 612 (34.30%) Operational Stability
6 511 (28.64%) Machine Learning
7 505 (28.31%) Artificial Intelligence
8 435 (24.38%) Microservices
9 403 (22.59%) Community of Practice
10 368 (20.63%) Computer Science
11 337 (18.89%) DevOps
12 292 (16.37%) Continuous Delivery
13 275 (15.41%) Decision-Making
14 257 (14.41%) Architectural Design
15 252 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
16 242 (13.57%) Mathematics
17 234 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 230 (12.89%) Roadmaps
19 226 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
20 224 (12.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 759 (42.54%) Java
2 542 (30.38%) Python
3 492 (27.58%) SQL
4 327 (18.33%) JavaScript
5 164 (9.19%) TypeScript
6 161 (9.02%) C#
7 125 (7.01%) Scala
8 71 (3.98%) Go
9 53 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 48 (2.69%) T-SQL
11 38 (2.13%) PHP
12 37 (2.07%) Groovy
13 32 (1.79%) C++
14 31 (1.74%) Rust
15 27 (1.51%) C
16 22 (1.23%) Bash
17 21 (1.18%) Kotlin
18 19 (1.07%) PL/SQL
19 18 (1.01%) Bicep
20 12 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (8.30%) Degree
2 110 (6.17%) Security Cleared
3 97 (5.44%) AWS Certification
4 92 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 66 (3.70%) SC Cleared
7 55 (3.08%) Master's Degree
8 48 (2.69%) DV Cleared
9 43 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 41 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.35%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.90%) CISSP
14 11 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.50%) CCSK
15 9 (0.50%) CCSP
16 7 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.39%) CISM
17 5 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (3.36%) SLA
2 57 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.85%) QA
4 23 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.07%) NIST
6 18 (1.01%) GDPR
6 18 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (0.78%) WAI
8 11 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.22%) PMO
12 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.11%) EMIR
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.11%) MiFID
14 1 (0.056%) SEPA
14 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (7.12%) Docker
2 24 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 307 (17.21%) Terraform
3 118 (6.61%) Grafana
4 88 (4.93%) Ansible
5 55 (3.08%) Puppet
6 47 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.46%) Kibana
8 22 (1.23%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.18%) Zipkin
10 17 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.17%) Argo
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
15 2 (0.11%) Istio
15 2 (0.11%) linkerd
15 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 183 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 171 (9.59%) Oracle
3 107 (6.00%) Google
3 107 (6.00%) Splunk
4 102 (5.72%) Dynatrace
5 70 (3.92%) Databricks
6 28 (1.57%) Red Hat
6 28 (1.57%) SaltStack
7 18 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 17 (0.95%) Alteryx
8 17 (0.95%) Cognos
8 17 (0.95%) Sybase
9 12 (0.67%) Black Duck
9 12 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 11 (0.62%) Teradata
10 11 (0.62%) VMware
11 10 (0.56%) Commvault
12 6 (0.34%) Amplitude
12 6 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.34%) Twitter