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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 213 170
Rank change year-on-year +50 -43 +118
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 1,805 1,843 3,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.83% 1.78% 2.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.16% 4.16% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 557 930 1,370
10th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,323 £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 £97,500 £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% +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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
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 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 3 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 3 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 +188 1,453 £75,000 +7.44% 119
Scotland +109 969 £71,991 +10.76% 17
England -94 774 £80,000 -5.88% 224
Work from Home -91 379 £72,900 -8.88% 150
London -116 294 £90,000 - 124
North of England -3 160 £72,500 +5.29% 36
South West +19 129 £80,000 +10.49% 14
North West -2 102 £75,000 +25.00% 25
South East -16 76 £65,000 -7.14% 30
Midlands +20 60 £69,235 -10.67% 12
West Midlands +34 48 £69,235 -6.12% 8
Yorkshire +17 48 £72,500 +3.57% 7
East of England +26 36 £77,500 -3.13% 3
Northern Ireland +30 13 £90,000 +111.76% 6
East Midlands -16 12 £64,500 -19.38% 4
North East +4 10 £62,500 -24.24% 4
Wales -2 10 £80,000 +73.12% 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
1 228 (12.63%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.43%) FileNet
3 71 (3.93%) Apache
4 67 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
5 21 (1.16%) GemFire
6 19 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
6 19 (1.05%) Confluence
7 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.39%) CMS
9 7 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.33%) IIS
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.17%) Drupal
11 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.11%) Luigi
13 1 (0.055%) nginx
13 1 (0.055%) SAS
13 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 8 (0.44%) 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
4 1 (0.055%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 859 (47.59%) AWS
2 466 (25.82%) Azure
3 180 (9.97%) GCP
4 148 (8.20%) Amazon S3
5 105 (5.82%) PaaS
6 104 (5.76%) Serverless
7 100 (5.54%) SaaS
8 81 (4.49%) IaaS
9 76 (4.21%) Datadog
10 74 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 71 (3.93%) GitHub
13 67 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 57 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
15 52 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (1.77%) Snowflake
18 29 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
19 28 (1.55%) Azure AKS
20 27 (1.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.11%) DNS
2 37 (2.05%) HTTP
3 34 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.61%) DHCP
5 25 (1.39%) AMQP
5 25 (1.39%) Firewall
6 19 (1.05%) Kerberos
7 18 (1.00%) DSL
8 16 (0.89%) 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%) VoIP
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
13 1 (0.055%) 2G
13 1 (0.055%) LAN
13 1 (0.055%) WAN
13 1 (0.055%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (16.23%) NoSQL
2 259 (14.35%) Big Data
3 122 (6.76%) Apache Cassandra
4 120 (6.65%) Elasticsearch
5 107 (5.93%) Relational Database
6 98 (5.43%) Hadoop
7 93 (5.15%) SQL Server
8 88 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
9 64 (3.55%) MySQL
10 53 (2.94%) RDBMS
11 48 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
12 38 (2.11%) CockroachDB
13 36 (1.99%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.66%) Tableau
15 28 (1.55%) MongoDB
16 26 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
17 25 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
18 23 (1.27%) Apache Hive
18 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
19 21 (1.16%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 113 (6.26%) JUnit
2 103 (5.71%) Git
3 84 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.32%) Jasmine
5 48 (2.66%) Mockito
6 33 (1.83%) JIRA
7 31 (1.72%) Postman
8 29 (1.61%) GitLab
9 26 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 24 (1.33%) 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 9 (0.50%) Spinnaker
15 7 (0.39%) Moq
16 6 (0.33%) Crashlytics
16 6 (0.33%) Cucumber
17 5 (0.28%) Artifactory
17 5 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 1,136 (62.94%) Finance
2 1,030 (57.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 974 (53.96%) Law
4 637 (35.29%) Marketing
5 303 (16.79%) Social Skills
6 285 (15.79%) Banking
7 187 (10.36%) Financial Institution
8 170 (9.42%) Investment Banking
9 150 (8.31%) Legal
10 91 (5.04%) Retail
11 81 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
12 72 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
13 57 (3.16%) Private Banking
14 56 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
15 36 (1.99%) Aerospace
16 28 (1.55%) Games
17 22 (1.22%) Prime Brokerage
18 17 (0.94%) Public Sector
19 16 (0.89%) Publishing
20 9 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 742 (41.11%) Software Engineer
2 461 (25.54%) Lead
3 359 (19.89%) Lead Software Engineer
4 358 (19.83%) Architect
5 321 (17.78%) Senior
6 298 (16.51%) Java Engineer
7 286 (15.84%) Java Software Engineer
8 184 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 167 (9.25%) Engineering Manager
10 159 (8.81%) Python Engineer
10 159 (8.81%) Software Engineering Manager
11 156 (8.64%) Big Data Engineer
11 156 (8.64%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 156 (8.64%) Data Engineer
12 148 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
13 147 (8.14%) Python Software Engineer
14 143 (7.92%) Lead Java Engineer
15 131 (7.26%) Developer
16 127 (7.04%) Cloud Software Engineer
17 118 (6.54%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (22.83%) Spring
2 296 (16.40%) Spring Boot
3 283 (15.68%) React
4 244 (13.52%) AngularJS
5 238 (13.19%) Kafka
6 163 (9.03%) HTML
7 140 (7.76%) CSS
8 139 (7.70%) RESTful
9 134 (7.42%) Node.js
10 126 (6.98%) .NET
10 126 (6.98%) GraphQL
11 118 (6.54%) Hibernate
12 100 (5.54%) J2EE
13 99 (5.48%) Spring Integration
14 95 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
15 92 (5.10%) REST
16 83 (4.60%) jQuery
17 80 (4.43%) JSON
18 60 (3.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
19 59 (3.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 218 (12.08%) Public Cloud
2 138 (7.65%) Algorithms
3 125 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 95 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 91 (5.04%) Management Information System
6 81 (4.49%) Legacy Code
7 66 (3.66%) Distributed Applications
8 59 (3.27%) Market Risk
9 49 (2.71%) Data Structures
10 37 (2.05%) Cyberattack
11 30 (1.66%) Credit Risk
12 26 (1.44%) Replication
13 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
14 24 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 24 (1.33%) PMI
15 23 (1.27%) Private Cloud
15 23 (1.27%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.22%) Taxonomies
17 21 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 16 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 142 (7.87%) Linux
2 64 (3.55%) Windows
3 33 (1.83%) Ubuntu
4 26 (1.44%) Android
4 26 (1.44%) Apple iOS
4 26 (1.44%) CentOS
5 25 (1.39%) Debian
5 25 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.22%) Unix
7 17 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.55%) VMS
9 7 (0.39%) Solaris
10 6 (0.33%) Mesosphere
11 4 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,209 (66.98%) Agile
2 1,178 (65.26%) Software Engineering
3 908 (50.30%) CI/CD
4 783 (43.38%) SDLC
5 616 (34.13%) Operational Stability
6 512 (28.37%) Machine Learning
7 501 (27.76%) Artificial Intelligence
8 446 (24.71%) Microservices
9 404 (22.38%) Community of Practice
10 367 (20.33%) Computer Science
11 331 (18.34%) DevOps
12 284 (15.73%) Continuous Delivery
13 276 (15.29%) Decision-Making
14 262 (14.52%) Architectural Design
15 254 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 251 (13.91%) Roadmaps
17 243 (13.46%) Mathematics
18 229 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
19 222 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
20 216 (11.97%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 754 (41.77%) Java
2 532 (29.47%) Python
3 495 (27.42%) SQL
4 315 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 172 (9.53%) TypeScript
6 161 (8.92%) C#
7 128 (7.09%) Scala
8 77 (4.27%) Go
9 49 (2.71%) T-SQL
10 46 (2.55%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.16%) Groovy
11 39 (2.16%) PHP
12 35 (1.94%) Rust
13 28 (1.55%) C++
14 27 (1.50%) C
15 24 (1.33%) Bash
16 21 (1.16%) PL/SQL
17 19 (1.05%) Bicep
18 16 (0.89%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 147 (8.14%) Degree
2 131 (7.26%) Security Cleared
3 101 (5.60%) AWS Certification
4 90 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 79 (4.38%) DV Cleared
6 62 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 55 (3.05%) SC Cleared
8 53 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 51 (2.83%) Azure Certification
10 43 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.33%) PMI Certification
13 17 (0.94%) CISSP
14 12 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.55%) CCSK
15 10 (0.55%) CCSP
16 8 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.39%) CISM
18 5 (0.28%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (3.43%) SLA
2 58 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.11%) QA
4 24 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 21 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.05%) GDPR
7 18 (1.00%) NIST
8 15 (0.83%) WAI
9 13 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.22%) PMO
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.055%) EMIR
15 1 (0.055%) MiFID
15 1 (0.055%) SEPA
System Software
1 114 (6.32%) Docker
2 21 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (1.11%) Active Directory
4 14 (0.78%) 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
1 408 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 313 (17.34%) Terraform
3 120 (6.65%) Grafana
4 73 (4.04%) Ansible
5 56 (3.10%) Puppet
6 48 (2.66%) Prometheus
7 26 (1.44%) Kibana
8 22 (1.22%) HAProxy
9 21 (1.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 21 (1.16%) Zipkin
10 19 (1.05%) 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
1 178 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.64%) Oracle
3 110 (6.09%) Splunk
4 106 (5.87%) Google
5 103 (5.71%) Dynatrace
6 74 (4.10%) Databricks
7 25 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 25 (1.39%) SaltStack
8 18 (1.00%) Alteryx
8 18 (1.00%) Cognos
8 18 (1.00%) Sybase
9 13 (0.72%) VMware
10 11 (0.61%) Dell
10 11 (0.61%) Teradata
11 10 (0.55%) Commvault
12 8 (0.44%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.39%) Guidewire
14 6 (0.33%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.33%) Sparx
14 6 (0.33%) Twitter