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 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 142 193
Rank change year-on-year +42 +51 -11
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 132 54 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.29% 1.30% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.03% 3.20% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 108 45 75
10th Percentile £57,125 £43,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £77,500 £83,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £100,866
England median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%

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 3,279 1,686 2,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.02% 40.52% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 773 2,211
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,400 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,150 £83,759
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +29 115 £80,000 +6.85% 40
Lancashire +2 5 £70,000 +39.85% 14
Cheshire -27 5 £55,000 -31.25% 11
Merseyside - 5 £70,000 - 5
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 4 (3.03%) Apache
1 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.03%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.52%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (37.12%) Azure
2 46 (34.85%) AWS
3 27 (20.45%) Serverless
4 20 (15.15%) GCP
5 13 (9.85%) Azure AKS
6 12 (9.09%) SaaS
7 7 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.79%) GitHub
9 5 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.03%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.27%) Apigee
11 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.27%) Datadog
11 3 (2.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) AMQP
2 1 (0.76%) DNS
2 1 (0.76%) LTE
2 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.45%) NoSQL
2 14 (10.61%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.79%) MySQL
4 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.03%) Big Data
5 4 (3.03%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (3.03%) DocumentDB
5 4 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.03%) Hadoop
5 4 (3.03%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.52%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.52%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.52%) PostHog
7 2 (1.52%) Redis
7 2 (1.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Git
2 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.52%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.76%) GitLab
General
1 19 (14.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Retail
3 11 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.27%) French Language
6 3 (2.27%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.27%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.27%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.52%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (40.91%) Software Engineer
2 52 (39.39%) Senior
3 23 (17.42%) Senior Software Engineer
4 17 (12.88%) Architect
5 16 (12.12%) Developer
5 16 (12.12%) Python Engineer
6 15 (11.36%) Lead
7 13 (9.85%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) .NET Software Engineer
9 10 (7.58%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (6.82%) Principal Architect
10 9 (6.82%) Principal Software Engineer
11 8 (6.06%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.30%) Principal Solutions Architect
12 7 (5.30%) Software Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
13 6 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.24%) .NET
2 22 (16.67%) Node.js
3 21 (15.91%) React
4 15 (11.36%) .NET Framework
5 13 (9.85%) RESTful
6 11 (8.33%) REST
7 7 (5.30%) Spring
7 7 (5.30%) Spring Boot
8 6 (4.55%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.55%) CSS
8 6 (4.55%) FastAPI
8 6 (4.55%) HTML
8 6 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (3.03%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.03%) Backbone.js
9 4 (3.03%) Django
9 4 (3.03%) gRPC
9 4 (3.03%) Material-UI
9 4 (3.03%) OpenAPI
9 4 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.30%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.52%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.03%) CentOS
1 4 (3.03%) Debian
1 4 (3.03%) Linux
1 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (3.03%) Ubuntu
2 3 (2.27%) Android
2 3 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (50.00%) DevOps
1 66 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 59 (44.70%) CI/CD
3 42 (31.82%) Microservices
4 41 (31.06%) Event-Driven
5 37 (28.03%) Agile
6 32 (24.24%) AI
7 31 (23.48%) Containerisation
8 30 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (21.21%) Observability
10 22 (16.67%) Open Source
11 21 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (15.91%) Scrum
12 20 (15.15%) Mentoring
13 18 (13.64%) Clean Code
14 17 (12.88%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (12.88%) TDD
15 16 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 14 (10.61%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (10.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.79%) Python
2 28 (21.21%) SQL
3 27 (20.45%) C#
4 19 (14.39%) TypeScript
5 18 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.58%) Java
7 3 (2.27%) Bash
7 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.76%) Bicep
8 1 (0.76%) Go
8 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (3.79%) Degree
1 5 (3.79%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.03%) DBS Check
2 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 4 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 25 (18.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.15%) Terraform
3 7 (5.30%) Grafana
4 5 (3.79%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.03%) Ansible
5 4 (3.03%) Puppet
6 2 (1.52%) Packer
6 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (6.82%) Google
2 8 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.03%) SaltStack
4 3 (2.27%) Databricks