Cloud Native Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Native
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 167 191
Rank change year-on-year +111 +24 -61
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 284 71 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.25% 1.39% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.83% 2.97% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 215 56 36
10th Percentile £53,750 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,188 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,870 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -6.41% +14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £83,594
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,250 £91,250
England median annual salary £82,000 £80,000 £82,865
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.46% +3.58%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,623 2,393 2,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.82% 46.94% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,850 840 1,053
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,450 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -9.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cloud Native job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cloud Native

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North West over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Manchester +48 241 £85,000 +13.33% 224
Lancashire +21 15 £57,500 +43.75% 21
Merseyside +1 14 £62,500 - 11
Cheshire +19 13 £62,500 -27.33% 18
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.52%) Apache
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.70%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.70%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 149 (52.46%) AWS
2 50 (17.61%) Azure
3 48 (16.90%) Serverless
4 45 (15.85%) SaaS
5 35 (12.32%) GCP
6 25 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (8.80%) GitHub
7 18 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (5.63%) Datadog
9 13 (4.58%) Route 53
10 12 (4.23%) dbt
10 12 (4.23%) Snowflake
11 10 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.52%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.17%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.76%) Network Security
2 3 (1.06%) AMQP
2 3 (1.06%) Firewall
2 3 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.75%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.87%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.11%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.11%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.41%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.41%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.41%) Redis
8 4 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.06%) Big Data
9 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.06%) Metadata
9 3 (1.06%) MySQL
10 2 (0.70%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 22 (7.75%) GitLab
2 20 (7.04%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.34%) Git
4 8 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.70%) Vite
7 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (14.79%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.15%) Retail
3 15 (5.28%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.58%) Aviation
5 12 (4.23%) Finance
6 6 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.41%) Law
8 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.70%) Marketing
9 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (29.93%) Senior
2 58 (20.42%) Software Engineer
3 55 (19.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 38 (13.38%) Developer
5 32 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (9.15%) Principal Engineer
6 26 (9.15%) Senior Software Engineer
7 23 (8.10%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 23 (8.10%) Lead
8 21 (7.39%) Architect
9 19 (6.69%) Senior Developer
10 16 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) Data Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) Product Engineer
11 15 (5.28%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) Head of Architecture
12 13 (4.58%) Senior Software Developer
13 11 (3.87%) Principal Software Engineer
14 10 (3.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.13%) Terraform
2 38 (13.38%) React
3 27 (9.51%) .NET
4 24 (8.45%) Node.js
5 14 (4.93%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.58%) FastAPI
6 13 (4.58%) Vue
7 11 (3.87%) Next.js
8 10 (3.52%) REST
9 9 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.17%) Spring
10 8 (2.82%) Kafka
10 8 (2.82%) React Native
10 8 (2.82%) Ruby on Rails
11 7 (2.46%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.11%) Flask
12 6 (2.11%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.76%) OAuth
13 5 (1.76%) RESTful
14 4 (1.41%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.56%) Product Ownership
2 26 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.52%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.06%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.06%) IoT
4 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.35%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.35%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.63%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) CentOS
2 7 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.06%) Debian
3 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.70%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (53.52%) DevOps
2 110 (38.73%) Software Engineering
3 102 (35.92%) CI/CD
4 77 (27.11%) AI
5 60 (21.13%) Observability
6 59 (20.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 58 (20.42%) Agile
7 58 (20.42%) Microservices
8 56 (19.72%) Event-Driven
9 53 (18.66%) Mentoring
10 51 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (15.14%) Containerisation
12 40 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
13 38 (13.38%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (13.38%) Roadmaps
14 37 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (11.27%) Architectural Patterns
17 24 (8.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 76 (26.76%) Python
2 28 (9.86%) TypeScript
3 23 (8.10%) Bash
3 23 (8.10%) SQL
4 17 (5.99%) C#
4 17 (5.99%) JavaScript
5 16 (5.63%) Java
6 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
7 12 (4.23%) Go
8 8 (2.82%) Ruby
9 3 (1.06%) Rust
9 3 (1.06%) Scala
10 2 (0.70%) PHP
11 1 (0.35%) Bicep
11 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.10%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.99%) Degree
5 11 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.76%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.70%) CCSP
8 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) CSPO
8 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.76%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.06%) QA
3 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (14.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (5.99%) Ansible
3 15 (5.28%) Grafana
3 15 (5.28%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.52%) Argo
5 9 (3.17%) Puppet
6 8 (2.82%) Istio
6 8 (2.82%) linkerd
7 7 (2.46%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (5.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.63%) Google
3 11 (3.87%) Databricks
4 3 (1.06%) Cisco
4 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.06%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.70%) Mistral
5 2 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.70%) YouTube
6 1 (0.35%) Avaya
6 1 (0.35%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.35%) Genesys
6 1 (0.35%) New Relic
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle
6 1 (0.35%) Splunk