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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 215 174
Rank change year-on-year +53 -41 +113
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,815 1,784 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 1.76% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.18% 4.12% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 551 914 1,338
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,019 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £69,805 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.44% -0.28% +5.99%

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 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £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 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 9 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 +180 1,462 £75,000 +7.44% 119
Scotland +119 971 £71,991 +7.65% 15
England -93 780 £80,000 -4.65% 234
Work from Home -100 377 £72,900 -8.88% 156
London -119 295 £90,000 - 128
North of England +5 165 £72,500 +5.82% 38
South West +22 130 £80,000 +14.60% 14
North West +4 106 £75,000 +25.00% 26
South East -27 72 £65,000 -7.14% 30
Midlands -1 63 £69,235 -10.67% 12
West Midlands +30 49 £69,235 -6.12% 6
Yorkshire +28 49 £75,000 +7.14% 9
East of England +31 36 £75,000 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland +29 14 £90,000 +111.76% 6
East Midlands -25 14 £64,500 -19.38% 6
Wales -5 11 £80,000 +73.12% 1
North East +4 10 £62,500 -24.24% 3

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
1 229 (12.62%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.40%) FileNet
3 72 (3.97%) Apache
4 67 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.16%) GemFire
6 20 (1.10%) Confluence
7 19 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
8 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (0.61%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.33%) CMS
11 6 (0.33%) IIS
11 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.17%) Drupal
12 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.11%) Luigi
13 2 (0.11%) SAS
14 1 (0.055%) Tuxedo
14 1 (0.055%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.33%) Trello
2 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.33%) 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
1 856 (47.16%) AWS
2 465 (25.62%) Azure
3 184 (10.14%) GCP
4 147 (8.10%) Amazon S3
5 105 (5.79%) PaaS
6 101 (5.56%) SaaS
7 100 (5.51%) Serverless
8 80 (4.41%) IaaS
9 76 (4.19%) Datadog
10 75 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (3.91%) GitHub
13 67 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.76%) Snowflake
18 29 (1.60%) Azure AKS
19 28 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
20 27 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.09%) DNS
2 37 (2.04%) HTTP
3 34 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.60%) DHCP
5 26 (1.43%) AMQP
5 26 (1.43%) Firewall
6 19 (1.05%) Kerberos
7 18 (0.99%) DSL
8 16 (0.88%) Network Security
9 11 (0.61%) VPN
10 9 (0.50%) Internet
11 4 (0.22%) VLAN
11 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.11%) MQTT
12 2 (0.11%) NGFW
12 2 (0.11%) VoIP
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
13 1 (0.055%) 5G
13 1 (0.055%) WAN
13 1 (0.055%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (16.09%) NoSQL
2 260 (14.33%) Big Data
3 122 (6.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 118 (6.50%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (5.90%) Relational Database
6 99 (5.45%) Hadoop
7 94 (5.18%) SQL Server
8 88 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
9 63 (3.47%) MySQL
10 53 (2.92%) RDBMS
11 51 (2.81%) Data Lake
12 47 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.09%) CockroachDB
14 30 (1.65%) Tableau
15 26 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 26 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
15 26 (1.43%) MongoDB
16 23 (1.27%) Apache Hive
16 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.16%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 113 (6.23%) JUnit
2 103 (5.67%) Git
3 84 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.31%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.64%) Mockito
6 33 (1.82%) JIRA
7 31 (1.71%) Postman
8 28 (1.54%) GitLab
9 26 (1.43%) TeamCity
10 24 (1.32%) Maven
11 21 (1.16%) Jaeger
12 15 (0.83%) Karma Test Runner
12 15 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (0.55%) Spinnaker
15 7 (0.39%) Moq
16 6 (0.33%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
17 5 (0.28%) Cypress.io
18 4 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,131 (62.31%) Finance
2 1,033 (56.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 974 (53.66%) Law
4 637 (35.10%) Marketing
5 305 (16.80%) Social Skills
6 287 (15.81%) Banking
7 187 (10.30%) Financial Institution
8 170 (9.37%) Investment Banking
9 150 (8.26%) Legal
10 90 (4.96%) Retail
11 80 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
12 71 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
13 57 (3.14%) Private Banking
14 56 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
15 52 (2.87%) Aerospace
16 28 (1.54%) Games
17 22 (1.21%) Prime Brokerage
18 19 (1.05%) Public Sector
19 16 (0.88%) Publishing
20 9 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 744 (40.99%) Software Engineer
2 464 (25.56%) Lead
3 369 (20.33%) Architect
4 360 (19.83%) Lead Software Engineer
5 311 (17.13%) Senior
6 298 (16.42%) Java Engineer
7 286 (15.76%) Java Software Engineer
8 183 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 167 (9.20%) Engineering Manager
10 159 (8.76%) Software Engineering Manager
11 158 (8.71%) Python Engineer
12 157 (8.65%) Data Engineer
13 156 (8.60%) Big Data Engineer
13 156 (8.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 147 (8.10%) Python Software Engineer
15 145 (7.99%) Solutions Architect
16 143 (7.88%) Lead Java Engineer
17 129 (7.11%) Developer
18 128 (7.05%) Cloud Software Engineer
19 116 (6.39%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (22.75%) Spring
2 297 (16.36%) Spring Boot
3 282 (15.54%) React
4 244 (13.44%) AngularJS
5 237 (13.06%) Kafka
6 163 (8.98%) HTML
7 140 (7.71%) CSS
7 140 (7.71%) RESTful
8 133 (7.33%) Node.js
9 126 (6.94%) GraphQL
10 123 (6.78%) .NET
11 118 (6.50%) Hibernate
12 100 (5.51%) J2EE
13 99 (5.45%) Spring Integration
14 95 (5.23%) OpenTelemetry
15 93 (5.12%) REST
16 83 (4.57%) jQuery
17 80 (4.41%) JSON
18 60 (3.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 59 (3.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 217 (11.96%) Public Cloud
2 137 (7.55%) Algorithms
3 127 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 93 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
5 91 (5.01%) Management Information System
6 79 (4.35%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.64%) Distributed Applications
8 59 (3.25%) Market Risk
9 37 (2.04%) Cyberattack
10 36 (1.98%) Data Structures
11 30 (1.65%) Credit Risk
12 26 (1.43%) Replication
13 25 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
14 24 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.32%) PMI
15 23 (1.27%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.21%) Taxonomies
17 21 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 151 (8.32%) Linux
2 63 (3.47%) Windows
3 34 (1.87%) Ubuntu
4 27 (1.49%) CentOS
5 26 (1.43%) Debian
5 26 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (1.32%) Android
6 24 (1.32%) Apple iOS
7 21 (1.16%) Unix
8 16 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.55%) VMS
10 7 (0.39%) Solaris
11 6 (0.33%) Mesosphere
12 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,227 (67.60%) Agile
2 1,179 (64.96%) Software Engineering
3 903 (49.75%) CI/CD
4 782 (43.09%) SDLC
5 617 (33.99%) Operational Stability
6 513 (28.26%) Machine Learning
7 503 (27.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 442 (24.35%) Microservices
9 405 (22.31%) Community of Practice
10 367 (20.22%) Computer Science
11 329 (18.13%) DevOps
12 284 (15.65%) Continuous Delivery
13 276 (15.21%) Decision-Making
14 262 (14.44%) Roadmaps
15 261 (14.38%) Architectural Design
16 253 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
17 243 (13.39%) Mathematics
18 226 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
19 222 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
20 217 (11.96%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 757 (41.71%) Java
2 532 (29.31%) Python
3 496 (27.33%) SQL
4 315 (17.36%) JavaScript
5 170 (9.37%) TypeScript
6 161 (8.87%) C#
7 128 (7.05%) Scala
8 74 (4.08%) Go
9 49 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 45 (2.48%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.15%) Groovy
12 38 (2.09%) PHP
13 33 (1.82%) Rust
14 28 (1.54%) C++
15 27 (1.49%) C
16 24 (1.32%) Bash
17 21 (1.16%) PL/SQL
18 19 (1.05%) Bicep
19 17 (0.94%) Kotlin
20 13 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (8.10%) Degree
2 131 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 103 (5.67%) AWS Certification
4 90 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 63 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 55 (3.03%) SC Cleared
8 53 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 51 (2.81%) Azure Certification
10 43 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.32%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.88%) CISSP
14 11 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (0.61%) 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 62 (3.42%) SLA
2 58 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 36 (1.98%) QA
4 25 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (0.99%) GDPR
6 18 (0.99%) NIST
7 15 (0.83%) WAI
8 12 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.22%) PMO
12 3 (0.17%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.055%) EMIR
14 1 (0.055%) MiFID
14 1 (0.055%) SEPA
System Software
1 112 (6.17%) Docker
2 21 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.10%) Active Directory
4 15 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.055%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 405 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 312 (17.19%) Terraform
3 120 (6.61%) Grafana
4 72 (3.97%) Ansible
5 56 (3.09%) Puppet
6 48 (2.64%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.43%) Kibana
8 22 (1.21%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.16%) Zipkin
10 18 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.22%) Istio
14 3 (0.17%) Argo
14 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 177 (9.75%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.59%) Oracle
3 110 (6.06%) Splunk
4 107 (5.90%) Google
5 103 (5.67%) Dynatrace
6 74 (4.08%) Databricks
7 26 (1.43%) Red Hat
7 26 (1.43%) SaltStack
8 18 (0.99%) Alteryx
8 18 (0.99%) Cognos
8 18 (0.99%) Sybase
9 13 (0.72%) VMware
10 11 (0.61%) Dell
10 11 (0.61%) Teradata
11 10 (0.55%) Commvault
12 9 (0.50%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.33%) Guidewire
13 6 (0.33%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.33%) Sparx
13 6 (0.33%) Twitter