Cloud Native Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Native
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 196 226
Rank change year-on-year +111 +30 -84
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 410 116 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.84% 1.20% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.64% 2.99% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 318 94 85
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -4.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £101,639
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.31% +0.31% -

All Generic Skills
North of England

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,746 3,880 4,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.33% 40.24% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,359 1,585 2,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -11.54% -9.57%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Native relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Native.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the North of England

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. 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
North West +118 275 £80,000 +6.85% 65
Yorkshire +5 77 £70,000 - 40
North East -11 58 £70,932 +11.27% 13
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.90%) Apache
3 8 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.71%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.73%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.49%) Confluence
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 225 (54.88%) AWS
2 98 (23.90%) Azure
3 71 (17.32%) Serverless
4 58 (14.15%) GitHub
5 53 (12.93%) GCP
6 46 (11.22%) SaaS
7 32 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (7.56%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (7.07%) Amazon S3
10 26 (6.34%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
13 17 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (3.90%) Datadog
15 14 (3.41%) Snowflake
16 12 (2.93%) dbt
17 11 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (2.68%) Route 53
18 9 (2.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.46%) Network Security
2 3 (0.73%) DNS
2 3 (0.73%) Firewall
2 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.49%) AMQP
3 2 (0.49%) VPN
4 1 (0.24%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
4 1 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.10%) MongoDB
2 25 (6.10%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.85%) DynamoDB
4 13 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.95%) Redis
8 7 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (1.71%) MySQL
9 6 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.46%) DocumentDB
9 6 (1.46%) Metadata
9 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.22%) Big Data
10 5 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.22%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.98%) Data Vault
11 4 (0.98%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 44 (10.73%) Jenkins
2 43 (10.49%) GitLab
3 37 (9.02%) Git
4 19 (4.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.49%) JIRA
7 2 (0.49%) Vite
8 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 81 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 53 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 33 (8.05%) Finance
4 28 (6.83%) Retail
5 19 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.93%) Legal
8 11 (2.68%) Aviation
9 7 (1.71%) Banking
10 5 (1.22%) Agriculture
10 5 (1.22%) Automotive
11 4 (0.98%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.49%) Advertising
13 2 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 123 (30.00%) Senior
2 89 (21.71%) Software Engineer
3 73 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (11.46%) Architect
5 46 (11.22%) Developer
6 42 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (9.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 38 (9.27%) Principal Engineer
9 36 (8.78%) Lead
10 27 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.85%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.63%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 19 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
14 16 (3.90%) Data Engineer
15 15 (3.66%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.66%) Software Developer
16 14 (3.41%) Product Engineer
17 13 (3.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.41%) React
2 46 (11.22%) Node.js
3 42 (10.24%) .NET
4 26 (6.34%) AngularJS
5 19 (4.63%) Vue
6 16 (3.90%) REST
7 15 (3.66%) FastAPI
8 14 (3.41%) Next.js
9 12 (2.93%) RESTful
10 11 (2.68%) .NET Framework
10 11 (2.68%) Flask
10 11 (2.68%) Kafka
10 11 (2.68%) LangChain
11 10 (2.44%) Spring
12 9 (2.20%) Express.js
13 8 (1.95%) React Native
13 8 (1.95%) Ruby on Rails
13 8 (1.95%) Spring Boot
14 7 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
1 37 (9.02%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.20%) AI Agents
5 7 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 6 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.73%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.73%) IoT
9 3 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.05%) Linux
2 17 (4.15%) CentOS
2 17 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.22%) Windows
4 2 (0.49%) Debian
4 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (53.17%) DevOps
2 183 (44.63%) CI/CD
3 142 (34.63%) Software Engineering
4 107 (26.10%) Agile
5 103 (25.12%) AI
6 98 (23.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 90 (21.95%) Microservices
8 87 (21.22%) Mentoring
9 72 (17.56%) Observability
10 69 (16.83%) Full-Stack Development
11 68 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (16.59%) Event-Driven
12 64 (15.61%) Containerisation
12 64 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
13 57 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
14 56 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
15 51 (12.44%) Roadmaps
16 40 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (9.02%) Test Automation
18 36 (8.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 115 (28.05%) Python
2 56 (13.66%) TypeScript
3 54 (13.17%) SQL
4 40 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 38 (9.27%) C#
6 29 (7.07%) Bash
6 29 (7.07%) Java
7 17 (4.15%) Go
7 17 (4.15%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.95%) Ruby
9 7 (1.71%) Scala
10 5 (1.22%) Groovy
10 5 (1.22%) PHP
11 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (15.61%) Security Cleared
2 51 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.32%) DV Cleared
4 21 (5.12%) Degree
5 11 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.73%) CCSP
8 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.73%) CISM
8 3 (0.73%) CISSP
8 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.49%) CSPO
10 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.93%) QA
3 8 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.98%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.73%) NCSC
6 3 (0.73%) NIST
6 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 82 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 100 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 95 (23.17%) Terraform
3 25 (6.10%) Ansible
4 13 (3.17%) Grafana
4 13 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 9 (2.20%) Argo
6 9 (2.20%) Istio
7 8 (1.95%) linkerd
7 8 (1.95%) Puppet
8 1 (0.24%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.24%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (4.63%) Google
1 19 (4.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (3.66%) Databricks
3 4 (0.98%) Dynatrace
3 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
4 3 (0.73%) Confluent
4 3 (0.73%) UiPath
5 2 (0.49%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.49%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.24%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.24%) Avaya
6 1 (0.24%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.24%) Cisco
6 1 (0.24%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.24%) Dell
6 1 (0.24%) Genesys
6 1 (0.24%) New Relic