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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 223 171
Rank change year-on-year +48 -52 +110
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,722 1,593 4,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 1.71% 2.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.70% 3.97% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 540 860 1,340
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,055 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.23%
75th Percentile £98,855 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £127,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +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 36,675 40,106 83,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.82% 43.08% 48.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,359 22,226 34,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,570 £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 9 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 9 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 +134 1,341 £72,500 +3.57% 87
Scotland +121 883 £72,996 +11.70% 8
England -105 772 £80,000 - 193
Work from Home -122 365 £72,500 -3.33% 106
London -112 322 £90,000 - 110
North of England -52 158 £72,500 +3.57% 27
North West -27 107 £70,000 +7.11% 19
South West -28 97 £80,000 +14.29% 6
South East -15 73 £65,000 -7.14% 20
Midlands -8 69 £80,000 +3.23% 15
West Midlands +17 52 £75,000 +7.14% 11
Yorkshire -18 39 £77,500 +10.71% 2
East of England +5 33 £75,000 -6.25% 6
East Midlands -37 17 £87,500 +9.38% 4
Northern Ireland +24 16 £90,000 +111.76% 6
Wales +4 12 £80,000 +73.12%
North East -4 12 £62,500 - 6

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
1 209 (12.14%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.69%) FileNet
3 64 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 63 (3.66%) Apache
5 21 (1.22%) GemFire
6 19 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.99%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.87%) Confluence
9 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.52%) IIS
11 7 (0.41%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.29%) CMS
14 3 (0.17%) Drupal
14 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
15 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.12%) Luigi
15 2 (0.12%) SAS
16 1 (0.058%) Apache Pulsar
16 1 (0.058%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Trello
2 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.12%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 805 (46.75%) AWS
2 496 (28.80%) Azure
3 189 (10.98%) GCP
4 150 (8.71%) Amazon S3
5 104 (6.04%) PaaS
6 102 (5.92%) SaaS
7 98 (5.69%) Serverless
8 86 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
9 81 (4.70%) IaaS
10 75 (4.36%) Datadog
11 67 (3.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 64 (3.72%) GitHub
13 62 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 59 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
15 55 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (2.09%) Azure AKS
19 31 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
19 31 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (1.74%) Firewall
2 29 (1.68%) AMQP
3 20 (1.16%) Network Security
4 19 (1.10%) Kerberos
5 13 (0.75%) DNS
5 13 (0.75%) DSL
5 13 (0.75%) VPN
6 10 (0.58%) Internet
7 8 (0.46%) HTTP
7 8 (0.46%) WAN
8 6 (0.35%) 5G
8 6 (0.35%) VLAN
9 5 (0.29%) Broadband
10 4 (0.23%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.23%) Wireless
11 3 (0.17%) LAN
11 3 (0.17%) MQTT
11 3 (0.17%) NGFW
11 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (15.62%) NoSQL
2 229 (13.30%) Big Data
3 120 (6.97%) Apache Cassandra
4 115 (6.68%) Elasticsearch
5 100 (5.81%) Relational Database
6 92 (5.34%) Hadoop
7 87 (5.05%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
9 63 (3.66%) MySQL
10 52 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
11 49 (2.85%) RDBMS
12 44 (2.56%) Data Lake
13 38 (2.21%) CockroachDB
14 29 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
15 25 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 25 (1.45%) BigQuery
15 25 (1.45%) Tableau
16 22 (1.28%) Power BI
17 21 (1.22%) Apache Hive
17 21 (1.22%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 105 (6.10%) JUnit
2 99 (5.75%) Git
3 88 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.14%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.79%) Mockito
6 38 (2.21%) JIRA
7 31 (1.80%) Postman
8 25 (1.45%) GitLab
9 24 (1.39%) TeamCity
10 23 (1.34%) Maven
11 21 (1.22%) Jaeger
12 13 (0.75%) SonarQube
13 12 (0.70%) Terragrunt
14 11 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (0.52%) Karma Test Runner
15 9 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (0.35%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.35%) Moq
16 6 (0.35%) Spinnaker
17 5 (0.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,016 (59.00%) Finance
2 956 (55.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 903 (52.44%) Law
4 588 (34.15%) Marketing
5 283 (16.43%) Social Skills
6 235 (13.65%) Banking
7 164 (9.52%) Financial Institution
8 160 (9.29%) Investment Banking
9 155 (9.00%) Legal
10 75 (4.36%) Retail
11 71 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
12 65 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
13 55 (3.19%) Aerospace
14 50 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (2.09%) Private Banking
16 28 (1.63%) Games
17 24 (1.39%) Public Sector
18 22 (1.28%) Prime Brokerage
19 16 (0.93%) Publishing
20 11 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 713 (41.41%) Software Engineer
2 450 (26.13%) Lead
3 346 (20.09%) Lead Software Engineer
4 340 (19.74%) Architect
5 285 (16.55%) Senior
6 284 (16.49%) Java Engineer
7 271 (15.74%) Java Software Engineer
8 180 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 155 (9.00%) Engineering Manager
10 149 (8.65%) Python Engineer
11 147 (8.54%) Software Engineering Manager
12 142 (8.25%) Big Data Engineer
12 142 (8.25%) Big Data Software Engineer
12 142 (8.25%) Lead Java Engineer
13 138 (8.01%) Python Software Engineer
14 136 (7.90%) Data Engineer
15 126 (7.32%) Developer
16 121 (7.03%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 117 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
18 105 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (22.53%) Spring
2 270 (15.68%) Spring Boot
3 268 (15.56%) React
4 226 (13.12%) AngularJS
5 225 (13.07%) Kafka
6 144 (8.36%) Node.js
7 137 (7.96%) CSS
8 134 (7.78%) HTML
9 127 (7.38%) RESTful
10 126 (7.32%) GraphQL
11 114 (6.62%) Hibernate
12 113 (6.56%) .NET
13 100 (5.81%) J2EE
14 99 (5.75%) Spring Integration
15 94 (5.46%) OpenTelemetry
16 92 (5.34%) REST
17 80 (4.65%) jQuery
17 80 (4.65%) JSON
18 60 (3.48%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 56 (3.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 191 (11.09%) Public Cloud
2 127 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 126 (7.32%) Algorithms
4 94 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
5 86 (4.99%) Management Information System
6 71 (4.12%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.83%) Distributed Applications
8 53 (3.08%) Market Risk
9 30 (1.74%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.51%) Replication
11 25 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 24 (1.39%) PMI
13 22 (1.28%) Mobile App
14 21 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
16 18 (1.05%) Cyberattack
16 18 (1.05%) Taxonomies
17 15 (0.87%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.84%) Linux
2 66 (3.83%) Windows
3 39 (2.26%) Ubuntu
4 30 (1.74%) CentOS
5 29 (1.68%) Debian
5 29 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.34%) Unix
7 19 (1.10%) Android
7 19 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.58%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.52%) Solaris
10 8 (0.46%) VMS
11 6 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.35%) Mesosphere
12 1 (0.058%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,123 (65.21%) Agile
2 1,121 (65.10%) Software Engineering
3 873 (50.70%) CI/CD
4 701 (40.71%) SDLC
5 576 (33.45%) Operational Stability
6 480 (27.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 474 (27.53%) Machine Learning
8 426 (24.74%) Microservices
9 378 (21.95%) Community of Practice
10 358 (20.79%) Computer Science
11 330 (19.16%) DevOps
12 276 (16.03%) Continuous Delivery
13 262 (15.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 255 (14.81%) Decision-Making
15 242 (14.05%) Architectural Design
16 232 (13.47%) Mathematics
17 223 (12.95%) Roadmaps
18 217 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
19 213 (12.37%) Coaching
19 213 (12.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 717 (41.64%) Java
2 507 (29.44%) Python
3 460 (26.71%) SQL
4 320 (18.58%) JavaScript
5 161 (9.35%) TypeScript
6 157 (9.12%) C#
7 114 (6.62%) Scala
8 80 (4.65%) Go
9 64 (3.72%) PowerShell
10 42 (2.44%) C++
10 42 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 39 (2.26%) PHP
12 37 (2.15%) Groovy
13 34 (1.97%) Rust
14 31 (1.80%) C
15 21 (1.22%) Bash
15 21 (1.22%) Kotlin
16 17 (0.99%) Bicep
17 14 (0.81%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 148 (8.59%) Degree
2 105 (6.10%) Security Cleared
3 95 (5.52%) AWS Certification
4 92 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 68 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 64 (3.72%) SC Cleared
7 55 (3.19%) Master's Degree
8 47 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 43 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
10 41 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 28 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.39%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.87%) CISSP
14 10 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.46%) CCSK
15 8 (0.46%) CCSP
16 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.41%) CISM
17 5 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (2.90%) SLA
2 48 (2.79%) Accessibility
3 33 (1.92%) QA
4 20 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.16%) NIST
5 18 (1.05%) GDPR
6 17 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (0.58%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.52%) WAI
9 5 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.23%) EMIR
10 4 (0.23%) MiFID
10 4 (0.23%) PMO
11 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.12%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.058%) SEPA
13 1 (0.058%) SOC 2
System Software
1 123 (7.14%) Docker
2 28 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.35%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 411 (23.87%) Kubernetes
2 311 (18.06%) Terraform
3 113 (6.56%) Grafana
4 90 (5.23%) Ansible
5 54 (3.14%) Puppet
6 47 (2.73%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.51%) Kibana
8 22 (1.28%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.22%) Zipkin
10 16 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.17%) Argo
14 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
15 2 (0.12%) CASB
15 2 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 185 (10.74%) Microsoft
2 166 (9.64%) Oracle
3 102 (5.92%) Splunk
4 97 (5.63%) Dynatrace
5 96 (5.57%) Google
6 56 (3.25%) Databricks
7 29 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 29 (1.68%) SaltStack
8 18 (1.05%) ServiceNow
9 13 (0.75%) Alteryx
9 13 (0.75%) Cognos
9 13 (0.75%) Sybase
10 12 (0.70%) Black Duck
10 12 (0.70%) OpenAI
11 11 (0.64%) Teradata
12 10 (0.58%) Commvault
12 10 (0.58%) VMware
13 6 (0.35%) Amplitude
13 6 (0.35%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (0.35%) Twitter