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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 217 175
Rank change year-on-year +51 -42 +110
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,788 1,748 3,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 1.76% 2.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.09% 4.13% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 550 900 1,335
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £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 £112,750 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £68,975 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.74% -1.46% +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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £109,865 £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 18 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 18 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 +160 1,433 £75,000 +8.74% 120
Scotland +122 969 £71,991 +10.46% 7
England -105 756 £80,000 -3.03% 238
Work from Home -101 382 £72,500 -7.64% 143
London -116 298 £90,000 - 147
North of England -3 167 £72,500 +5.82% 36
North West -4 107 £75,000 +25.00% 24
South West -15 101 £80,000 +14.60% 10
South East -22 71 £65,000 -7.14% 44
Midlands +3 64 £74,617 -3.72% 12
West Midlands +33 50 £74,617 +6.60% 8
Yorkshire +16 49 £75,000 +7.14% 7
East of England +17 36 £75,000 -6.25% 6
Northern Ireland +23 14 £90,000 +111.76% 6
East Midlands -17 14 £64,500 -19.38% 4
North East +4 11 £58,750 - 5
Wales -3 11 £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
1 229 (12.81%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.48%) FileNet
3 73 (4.08%) Apache
4 67 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.17%) GemFire
6 20 (1.12%) Confluence
7 19 (1.06%) Cloud Foundry
8 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
9 12 (0.67%) SharePoint
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%) nginx
15 1 (0.056%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (0.34%) Trello
2 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (0.34%) 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
1 829 (46.36%) AWS
2 469 (26.23%) Azure
3 187 (10.46%) GCP
4 149 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 107 (5.98%) PaaS
6 103 (5.76%) SaaS
6 103 (5.76%) Serverless
7 83 (4.64%) IaaS
8 76 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (4.19%) Datadog
10 70 (3.91%) GitHub
11 67 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 58 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 39 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.73%) Azure AKS
16 31 (1.73%) Snowflake
17 30 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
18 27 (1.51%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.51%) AMQP
1 27 (1.51%) Firewall
2 19 (1.06%) Kerberos
3 18 (1.01%) DSL
4 16 (0.89%) Network Security
5 12 (0.67%) VPN
6 11 (0.62%) DNS
7 9 (0.50%) Internet
8 8 (0.45%) HTTP
9 5 (0.28%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.28%) VLAN
10 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.17%) NGFW
12 2 (0.11%) 5G
12 2 (0.11%) MQTT
12 2 (0.11%) VoIP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
13 1 (0.056%) Broadband
13 1 (0.056%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (16.28%) NoSQL
2 259 (14.49%) Big Data
3 121 (6.77%) Apache Cassandra
4 116 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (5.98%) Relational Database
6 98 (5.48%) Hadoop
7 92 (5.15%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
9 62 (3.47%) MySQL
10 53 (2.96%) RDBMS
11 51 (2.85%) Data Lake
12 49 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
13 38 (2.13%) CockroachDB
14 30 (1.68%) Tableau
15 27 (1.51%) Cloudera CDH
16 25 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 25 (1.40%) MongoDB
17 24 (1.34%) BigQuery
18 23 (1.29%) Apache Hive
19 21 (1.17%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 112 (6.26%) JUnit
2 104 (5.82%) Git
3 85 (4.75%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.36%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.68%) Mockito
6 33 (1.85%) JIRA
7 31 (1.73%) Postman
8 27 (1.51%) GitLab
9 26 (1.45%) TeamCity
10 24 (1.34%) Maven
11 21 (1.17%) Jaeger
12 15 (0.84%) Karma Test Runner
12 15 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
14 11 (0.62%) Spinnaker
15 7 (0.39%) Moq
16 6 (0.34%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.34%) Cucumber
17 5 (0.28%) Cypress.io
18 4 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,101 (61.58%) Finance
2 1,010 (56.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 975 (54.53%) Law
4 636 (35.57%) Marketing
5 288 (16.11%) Banking
6 278 (15.55%) Social Skills
7 187 (10.46%) Financial Institution
8 170 (9.51%) Investment Banking
9 152 (8.50%) Legal
10 89 (4.98%) Retail
11 79 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
12 72 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
13 57 (3.19%) Private Banking
14 56 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
15 53 (2.96%) Aerospace
16 29 (1.62%) Games
17 22 (1.23%) Prime Brokerage
18 21 (1.17%) Public Sector
19 16 (0.89%) Publishing
20 9 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 746 (41.72%) Software Engineer
2 464 (25.95%) Lead
3 361 (20.19%) Lead Software Engineer
4 349 (19.52%) Architect
5 299 (16.72%) Java Engineer
6 286 (16.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 280 (15.66%) Senior
8 181 (10.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 167 (9.34%) Engineering Manager
10 160 (8.95%) Python Engineer
11 159 (8.89%) Software Engineering Manager
12 157 (8.78%) Data Engineer
13 156 (8.72%) Big Data Engineer
13 156 (8.72%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 147 (8.22%) Python Software Engineer
15 144 (8.05%) Lead Java Engineer
16 134 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
17 129 (7.21%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 129 (7.21%) Developer
18 116 (6.49%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 419 (23.43%) Spring
2 301 (16.83%) Spring Boot
3 283 (15.83%) React
4 245 (13.70%) AngularJS
5 238 (13.31%) Kafka
6 142 (7.94%) CSS
7 140 (7.83%) RESTful
8 137 (7.66%) HTML
9 132 (7.38%) Node.js
10 126 (7.05%) GraphQL
11 122 (6.82%) .NET
12 118 (6.60%) Hibernate
13 100 (5.59%) J2EE
14 99 (5.54%) Spring Integration
15 95 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
15 95 (5.31%) REST
16 84 (4.70%) jQuery
17 80 (4.47%) JSON
18 60 (3.36%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 59 (3.30%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 217 (12.14%) Public Cloud
2 137 (7.66%) Algorithms
3 128 (7.16%) Product Ownership
4 91 (5.09%) Management Information System
5 90 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 77 (4.31%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.69%) Distributed Applications
8 59 (3.30%) Market Risk
9 30 (1.68%) Credit Risk
10 26 (1.45%) Replication
11 25 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 24 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 24 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.34%) PMI
13 23 (1.29%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 21 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 20 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
18 18 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (8.11%) Linux
2 66 (3.69%) Windows
3 36 (2.01%) Ubuntu
4 28 (1.57%) CentOS
5 27 (1.51%) Debian
5 27 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.29%) Android
6 23 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.23%) Unix
8 14 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.56%) VMS
10 8 (0.45%) Solaris
11 6 (0.34%) Mesosphere
12 5 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (67.11%) Agile
2 1,180 (66.00%) Software Engineering
3 907 (50.73%) CI/CD
4 750 (41.95%) SDLC
5 618 (34.56%) Operational Stability
6 512 (28.64%) Machine Learning
7 505 (28.24%) Artificial Intelligence
8 441 (24.66%) Microservices
9 406 (22.71%) Community of Practice
10 367 (20.53%) Computer Science
11 328 (18.34%) DevOps
12 286 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
13 277 (15.49%) Decision-Making
14 261 (14.60%) Architectural Design
15 243 (13.59%) Mathematics
16 232 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 230 (12.86%) Roadmaps
18 227 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
19 222 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
20 218 (12.19%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 762 (42.62%) Java
2 530 (29.64%) Python
3 499 (27.91%) SQL
4 317 (17.73%) JavaScript
5 169 (9.45%) TypeScript
6 161 (9.00%) C#
7 126 (7.05%) Scala
8 73 (4.08%) Go
9 49 (2.74%) T-SQL
10 47 (2.63%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.18%) Groovy
12 38 (2.13%) PHP
13 32 (1.79%) Rust
14 30 (1.68%) C++
15 27 (1.51%) C
16 22 (1.23%) Bash
17 21 (1.17%) PL/SQL
18 19 (1.06%) Bicep
19 18 (1.01%) Kotlin
20 13 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 146 (8.17%) Degree
2 103 (5.76%) Security Cleared
3 90 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 78 (4.36%) AWS Certification
5 57 (3.19%) SC Cleared
6 54 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 53 (2.96%) Master's Degree
8 49 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 43 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
10 36 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 30 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.34%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.89%) 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%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.47%) SLA
2 59 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 35 (1.96%) QA
4 25 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.01%) GDPR
5 18 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.01%) NIST
6 15 (0.84%) WAI
7 12 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 4 (0.22%) PMO
11 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.11%) EMIR
12 2 (0.11%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.056%) SEPA
13 1 (0.056%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (6.38%) Docker
2 22 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.056%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 403 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 287 (16.05%) Terraform
3 120 (6.71%) Grafana
4 71 (3.97%) Ansible
5 55 (3.08%) Puppet
6 48 (2.68%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.45%) Kibana
8 22 (1.23%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.17%) Zipkin
10 18 (1.01%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.22%) Istio
13 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.17%) Argo
14 3 (0.17%) Salt
14 3 (0.17%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 178 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 173 (9.68%) Oracle
3 108 (6.04%) Google
3 108 (6.04%) Splunk
4 103 (5.76%) Dynatrace
5 73 (4.08%) Databricks
6 27 (1.51%) Red Hat
6 27 (1.51%) SaltStack
7 18 (1.01%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.01%) Cognos
7 18 (1.01%) Sybase
8 13 (0.73%) VMware
9 11 (0.62%) Teradata
10 10 (0.56%) Commvault
10 10 (0.56%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.39%) Dell
12 6 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (0.34%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.34%) Sparx
12 6 (0.34%) Twitter