Cloud Native Jobs

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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 217 175
Rank change year-on-year +47 -42 +103
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,770 1,642 4,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.68% 1.73% 2.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.93% 4.01% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 545 874 1,338
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,367 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £127,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.71% - +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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
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 £85,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +151 1,395 £74,000 +5.71% 103
Scotland +116 929 £72,996 +11.70% 12
England -89 774 £80,000 - 240
Work from Home -127 376 £72,500 -4.19% 114
London -100 316 £90,000 - 140
North of England -29 166 £72,500 +4.77% 34
North West -34 107 £70,000 +7.11% 26
South West -30 97 £80,000 +14.29% 11
South East -24 72 £65,000 -7.14% 24
Midlands +9 69 £80,000 +3.23% 12
West Midlands +15 52 £75,000 +7.14% 7
Yorkshire -6 47 £77,500 +10.71% 3
East of England +9 34 £75,000 -6.25% 6
East Midlands -20 17 £87,500 +9.38% 5
Northern Ireland +24 16 £90,000 +111.76% 5
North East 0 12 £62,500 - 5
Wales -4 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
1 224 (12.66%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.54%) FileNet
3 72 (4.07%) Apache
4 66 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.19%) GemFire
6 19 (1.07%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.96%) SharePoint
8 16 (0.90%) Confluence
9 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.45%) IIS
11 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.28%) CMS
14 3 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.11%) Luigi
15 2 (0.11%) SAS
16 1 (0.056%) Apache Pulsar
16 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
1 828 (46.78%) AWS
2 494 (27.91%) Azure
3 200 (11.30%) GCP
4 149 (8.42%) Amazon S3
5 105 (5.93%) PaaS
6 101 (5.71%) SaaS
7 100 (5.65%) Serverless
8 84 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
9 81 (4.58%) IaaS
10 75 (4.24%) Datadog
11 66 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 66 (3.73%) GitHub
12 62 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
17 35 (1.98%) Azure AKS
18 31 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
18 31 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.64%) AMQP
1 29 (1.64%) Firewall
2 20 (1.13%) Network Security
3 19 (1.07%) Kerberos
4 16 (0.90%) DSL
5 12 (0.68%) DNS
5 12 (0.68%) VPN
6 9 (0.51%) Internet
7 8 (0.45%) HTTP
8 7 (0.40%) WAN
9 6 (0.34%) 5G
10 5 (0.28%) Broadband
10 5 (0.28%) VLAN
11 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.23%) Wireless
12 3 (0.17%) LAN
12 3 (0.17%) MQTT
12 3 (0.17%) NGFW
12 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (15.88%) NoSQL
2 249 (14.07%) Big Data
3 120 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
4 116 (6.55%) Elasticsearch
5 106 (5.99%) Relational Database
6 96 (5.42%) Hadoop
7 91 (5.14%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
9 63 (3.56%) MySQL
10 51 (2.88%) RDBMS
11 50 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
12 48 (2.71%) Data Lake
13 38 (2.15%) CockroachDB
14 29 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
15 28 (1.58%) Tableau
16 25 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.41%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.30%) MongoDB
18 21 (1.19%) Apache Hive
18 21 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 110 (6.21%) JUnit
2 104 (5.88%) Git
3 92 (5.20%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.28%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.71%) Mockito
6 40 (2.26%) JIRA
7 31 (1.75%) Postman
8 27 (1.53%) GitLab
9 25 (1.41%) TeamCity
10 24 (1.36%) Maven
11 21 (1.19%) Jaeger
12 14 (0.79%) SonarQube
13 13 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
13 13 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
14 12 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
14 12 (0.68%) Terragrunt
15 7 (0.40%) Spinnaker
16 6 (0.34%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
16 6 (0.34%) Moq
General
1 1,068 (60.34%) Finance
2 995 (56.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 947 (53.50%) Law
4 616 (34.80%) Marketing
5 287 (16.21%) Social Skills
6 264 (14.92%) Banking
7 179 (10.11%) Financial Institution
8 166 (9.38%) Investment Banking
9 155 (8.76%) Legal
10 82 (4.63%) Retail
11 75 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
12 69 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
13 55 (3.11%) Aerospace
14 54 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
15 49 (2.77%) Private Banking
16 29 (1.64%) Games
17 24 (1.36%) Public Sector
18 22 (1.24%) Prime Brokerage
19 16 (0.90%) Publishing
20 10 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 729 (41.19%) Software Engineer
2 461 (26.05%) Lead
3 355 (20.06%) Lead Software Engineer
4 347 (19.60%) Architect
5 293 (16.55%) Java Engineer
6 282 (15.93%) Senior
7 280 (15.82%) Java Software Engineer
8 183 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 163 (9.21%) Engineering Manager
10 155 (8.76%) Software Engineering Manager
11 154 (8.70%) Python Engineer
12 150 (8.47%) Big Data Engineer
12 150 (8.47%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 146 (8.25%) Data Engineer
14 142 (8.02%) Lead Java Engineer
14 142 (8.02%) Python Software Engineer
15 128 (7.23%) Developer
16 126 (7.12%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 121 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
18 108 (6.10%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (23.22%) Spring
2 293 (16.55%) Spring Boot
3 275 (15.54%) React
4 240 (13.56%) AngularJS
5 233 (13.16%) Kafka
6 143 (8.08%) Node.js
7 141 (7.97%) CSS
8 137 (7.74%) HTML
9 136 (7.68%) RESTful
10 126 (7.12%) GraphQL
11 119 (6.72%) .NET
12 116 (6.55%) Hibernate
13 100 (5.65%) J2EE
14 99 (5.59%) Spring Integration
15 96 (5.42%) REST
16 94 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
17 83 (4.69%) jQuery
18 80 (4.52%) JSON
19 60 (3.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 58 (3.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 202 (11.41%) Public Cloud
2 135 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 131 (7.40%) Algorithms
4 92 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
5 89 (5.03%) Management Information System
6 73 (4.12%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.73%) Distributed Applications
8 57 (3.22%) Market Risk
9 30 (1.69%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.47%) Replication
11 25 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 24 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.36%) PMI
13 22 (1.24%) Taxonomies
14 21 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
16 17 (0.96%) Private Cloud
17 15 (0.85%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 134 (7.57%) Linux
2 64 (3.62%) Windows
3 39 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 30 (1.69%) CentOS
5 29 (1.64%) Debian
5 29 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.30%) Unix
7 20 (1.13%) Android
7 20 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.51%) Solaris
8 9 (0.51%) VMS
8 9 (0.51%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.34%) Mesosphere
10 1 (0.056%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (66.05%) Agile
2 1,158 (65.42%) Software Engineering
3 903 (51.02%) CI/CD
4 726 (41.02%) SDLC
5 600 (33.90%) Operational Stability
6 501 (28.31%) Machine Learning
7 499 (28.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 435 (24.58%) Microservices
9 396 (22.37%) Community of Practice
10 366 (20.68%) Computer Science
11 337 (19.04%) DevOps
12 288 (16.27%) Continuous Delivery
13 270 (15.25%) Decision-Making
14 255 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
15 253 (14.29%) Architectural Design
16 240 (13.56%) Mathematics
17 228 (12.88%) Roadmaps
18 226 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
19 224 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
20 221 (12.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 750 (42.37%) Java
2 532 (30.06%) Python
3 485 (27.40%) SQL
4 325 (18.36%) JavaScript
5 164 (9.27%) TypeScript
6 161 (9.10%) C#
7 121 (6.84%) Scala
8 75 (4.24%) Go
9 58 (3.28%) PowerShell
10 46 (2.60%) T-SQL
11 39 (2.20%) PHP
12 37 (2.09%) Groovy
13 36 (2.03%) C++
14 33 (1.86%) Rust
15 29 (1.64%) C
16 22 (1.24%) Bash
17 21 (1.19%) Kotlin
18 18 (1.02%) Bicep
19 17 (0.96%) PL/SQL
20 11 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (8.31%) Degree
2 108 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 97 (5.48%) AWS Certification
4 92 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 66 (3.73%) SC Cleared
7 55 (3.11%) Master's Degree
8 47 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 43 (2.43%) TOGAF Certification
10 41 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 29 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.36%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.85%) CISSP
14 10 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.45%) CCSK
15 8 (0.45%) CCSP
16 7 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.40%) CISM
17 5 (0.28%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (3.16%) SLA
2 55 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.86%) QA
4 22 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.07%) NIST
6 18 (1.02%) GDPR
7 17 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.73%) WAI
9 10 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.23%) PMO
12 3 (0.17%) EMIR
12 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.17%) MiFID
12 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.056%) SEPA
14 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (7.18%) Docker
2 26 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 415 (23.45%) Kubernetes
2 310 (17.51%) Terraform
3 117 (6.61%) Grafana
4 89 (5.03%) Ansible
5 54 (3.05%) Puppet
6 47 (2.66%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.47%) Kibana
8 22 (1.24%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.19%) Zipkin
10 17 (0.96%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.17%) Argo
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
15 2 (0.11%) CASB
15 2 (0.11%) Istio
15 2 (0.11%) linkerd
Vendors
1 184 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 170 (9.60%) Oracle
3 106 (5.99%) Splunk
4 103 (5.82%) Google
5 101 (5.71%) Dynatrace
6 68 (3.84%) Databricks
7 29 (1.64%) Red Hat
7 29 (1.64%) SaltStack
8 18 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 16 (0.90%) Alteryx
9 16 (0.90%) Cognos
9 16 (0.90%) Sybase
10 12 (0.68%) Black Duck
10 12 (0.68%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.62%) Teradata
12 10 (0.56%) Commvault
12 10 (0.56%) VMware
13 6 (0.34%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.34%) Sparx
13 6 (0.34%) Twitter