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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 220 171
Rank change year-on-year +59 -49 +118
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,813 1,772 3,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 1.75% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.17% 4.11% 4.99%
Number of salaries quoted 550 910 1,339
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,750 £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 35,065 43,146 75,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.71% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 23,057 23,446 33,908
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,014 £34,513
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £108,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +170 1,460 £75,000 +7.44% 118
Scotland +123 970 £71,991 +7.65% 14
England -92 778 £80,000 -4.65% 223
Work from Home -105 378 £73,450 -8.19% 131
London -114 294 £90,000 - 118
North of England -3 165 £72,500 +5.82% 38
South West +28 130 £80,000 +14.60% 16
North West -3 106 £75,000 +25.00% 28
South East -17 72 £65,000 -7.14% 30
Midlands -6 63 £69,235 -10.67% 10
Yorkshire +26 49 £75,000 +7.14% 6
West Midlands +18 49 £69,235 -6.12% 6
East of England +28 35 £75,000 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +24 14 £90,000 +111.76% 6
East Midlands -24 14 £64,500 -19.38% 4
Wales -2 11 £80,000 +73.12% 1
North East +2 10 £62,500 -24.24% 4

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 (12.63%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.41%) FileNet
3 72 (3.97%) Apache
4 67 (3.70%) 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%) IIS
11 6 (0.33%) 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 (0.055%) Tuxedo
15 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
1 855 (47.16%) AWS
2 466 (25.70%) Azure
3 184 (10.15%) GCP
4 147 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 106 (5.85%) PaaS
6 102 (5.63%) SaaS
7 100 (5.52%) Serverless
8 81 (4.47%) IaaS
9 76 (4.19%) Datadog
10 75 (4.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 74 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (3.92%) GitHub
13 67 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.77%) Snowflake
18 29 (1.60%) Azure AKS
19 28 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
20 27 (1.49%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.10%) DNS
2 37 (2.04%) HTTP
3 34 (1.88%) 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 (16.11%) NoSQL
2 260 (14.34%) Big Data
3 122 (6.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 118 (6.51%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (5.90%) Relational Database
6 99 (5.46%) Hadoop
7 92 (5.07%) 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 (2.10%) 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 (5.68%) Git
3 84 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.31%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.65%) 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 (62.38%) Finance
2 1,034 (57.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 974 (53.72%) Law
4 637 (35.14%) Marketing
5 305 (16.82%) Social Skills
6 287 (15.83%) Banking
7 187 (10.31%) Financial Institution
8 170 (9.38%) Investment Banking
9 150 (8.27%) Legal
10 90 (4.96%) Retail
11 80 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
12 71 (3.92%) 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 20 (1.10%) Public Sector
19 16 (0.88%) Publishing
20 9 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 744 (41.04%) Software Engineer
2 463 (25.54%) Lead
3 369 (20.35%) Architect
4 360 (19.86%) Lead Software Engineer
5 310 (17.10%) Senior
6 298 (16.44%) Java Engineer
7 286 (15.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 183 (10.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 167 (9.21%) Engineering Manager
10 159 (8.77%) Software Engineering Manager
11 158 (8.71%) Python Engineer
12 157 (8.66%) Data Engineer
13 156 (8.60%) Big Data Engineer
13 156 (8.60%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 147 (8.11%) Python Software Engineer
15 146 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
16 143 (7.89%) Lead Java Engineer
17 128 (7.06%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 128 (7.06%) Developer
18 116 (6.40%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 413 (22.78%) Spring
2 297 (16.38%) Spring Boot
3 281 (15.50%) React
4 244 (13.46%) AngularJS
5 237 (13.07%) Kafka
6 164 (9.05%) HTML
7 140 (7.72%) CSS
8 139 (7.67%) RESTful
9 131 (7.23%) Node.js
10 126 (6.95%) GraphQL
11 122 (6.73%) .NET
12 118 (6.51%) Hibernate
13 100 (5.52%) J2EE
14 99 (5.46%) Spring Integration
15 95 (5.24%) OpenTelemetry
16 93 (5.13%) REST
17 84 (4.63%) jQuery
18 80 (4.41%) JSON
19 60 (3.31%) Twitter Bootstrap
20 59 (3.25%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 217 (11.97%) Public Cloud
2 137 (7.56%) Algorithms
3 127 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 92 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
5 91 (5.02%) Management Information System
6 79 (4.36%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.64%) Distributed Applications
8 59 (3.25%) Market Risk
9 37 (2.04%) Cyberattack
10 36 (1.99%) 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
16 22 (1.21%) Taxonomies
16 22 (1.21%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 19 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 150 (8.27%) Linux
2 63 (3.47%) Windows
3 34 (1.88%) 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 15 (0.83%) 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 1,226 (67.62%) Agile
2 1,178 (64.98%) Software Engineering
3 904 (49.86%) CI/CD
4 782 (43.13%) SDLC
5 617 (34.03%) Operational Stability
6 513 (28.30%) Machine Learning
7 503 (27.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 442 (24.38%) Microservices
9 405 (22.34%) Community of Practice
10 367 (20.24%) Computer Science
11 329 (18.15%) DevOps
12 284 (15.66%) Continuous Delivery
13 276 (15.22%) Decision-Making
14 261 (14.40%) Architectural Design
14 261 (14.40%) Roadmaps
15 253 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
16 243 (13.40%) Mathematics
17 226 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
18 222 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 217 (11.97%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 757 (41.75%) Java
2 531 (29.29%) Python
3 497 (27.41%) SQL
4 313 (17.26%) JavaScript
5 169 (9.32%) TypeScript
6 160 (8.83%) C#
7 128 (7.06%) Scala
8 74 (4.08%) Go
9 49 (2.70%) T-SQL
10 45 (2.48%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.15%) Groovy
12 38 (2.10%) PHP
13 33 (1.82%) Rust
14 28 (1.54%) C++
15 27 (1.49%) C
16 23 (1.27%) 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 (8.11%) Degree
2 132 (7.28%) Security Cleared
3 103 (5.68%) AWS Certification
4 90 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 63 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 56 (3.09%) SC Cleared
8 53 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 52 (2.87%) 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 (1.99%) QA
4 25 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 19 (1.05%) 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%) PMO
12 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.11%) EMIR
13 2 (0.11%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.11%) MiFID
13 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.055%) SEPA
System Software
1 112 (6.18%) 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
1 404 (22.28%) Kubernetes
2 312 (17.21%) Terraform
3 120 (6.62%) Grafana
4 72 (3.97%) Ansible
5 56 (3.09%) Puppet
6 48 (2.65%) 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 (9.76%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.60%) Oracle
3 110 (6.07%) Splunk
4 107 (5.90%) Google
5 103 (5.68%) 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%) Teradata
11 10 (0.55%) Commvault
11 10 (0.55%) Dell
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