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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 140 192
Rank change year-on-year +36 +52 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 129 56 83
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.30% 1.38% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.97% 3.48% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 105 47 72
10th Percentile £56,750 £43,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.17% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £83,281
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £96,539
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 3,248 1,611 2,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.66% 39.60% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,286 777 2,194
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,950 £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 20 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 20 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 +25 115 £80,000 +6.85% 55
Cheshire -25 5 £55,000 -31.25% 2
Merseyside - 4 £77,500 - 6
Lancashire -1 3 £52,130 +4.15% 22
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 5 (3.88%) Apache
1 5 (3.88%) Apache Solr
1 5 (3.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.55%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 49 (37.98%) AWS
2 48 (37.21%) Azure
3 29 (22.48%) Serverless
4 21 (16.28%) GCP
5 13 (10.08%) Azure AKS
6 11 (8.53%) SaaS
7 8 (6.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.65%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (3.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.88%) GitHub
9 5 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.88%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.10%) Datadog
11 3 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.33%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) AMQP
2 1 (0.78%) DNS
2 1 (0.78%) LTE
2 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.71%) NoSQL
2 17 (13.18%) MongoDB
3 11 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.65%) MySQL
5 5 (3.88%) Big Data
5 5 (3.88%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (3.88%) DocumentDB
5 5 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.88%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.88%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.88%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.10%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.55%) PostHog
8 2 (1.55%) Redis
9 1 (0.78%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.78%) Metadata
9 1 (0.78%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
2 4 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.55%) Vagrant
4 1 (0.78%) GitLab
General
1 17 (13.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.53%) Retail
3 10 (7.75%) Finance
4 5 (3.88%) Aerospace
4 5 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.10%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.33%) French Language
6 3 (2.33%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.33%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.33%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.55%) Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (41.86%) Software Engineer
2 51 (39.53%) Senior
3 23 (17.83%) Senior Software Engineer
4 15 (11.63%) Architect
4 15 (11.63%) Python Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Developer
5 14 (10.85%) Lead
6 12 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (7.75%) .NET Software Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Principal Software Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) Principal Architect
10 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
10 6 (4.65%) Principal Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.65%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.81%) .NET
2 23 (17.83%) Node.js
3 22 (17.05%) React
4 15 (11.63%) .NET Framework
5 13 (10.08%) RESTful
6 12 (9.30%) REST
7 8 (6.20%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (6.20%) Spring
7 8 (6.20%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.43%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.43%) FastAPI
9 6 (4.65%) CSS
9 6 (4.65%) HTML
10 5 (3.88%) Django
10 5 (3.88%) gRPC
10 5 (3.88%) Material-UI
10 5 (3.88%) OpenAPI
10 5 (3.88%) Swagger
11 4 (3.10%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.85%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.43%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.65%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) CentOS
2 5 (3.88%) Debian
2 5 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.33%) Android
3 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.94%) Software Engineering
2 64 (49.61%) DevOps
3 59 (45.74%) CI/CD
4 43 (33.33%) Microservices
5 39 (30.23%) Event-Driven
6 38 (29.46%) Agile
7 33 (25.58%) Containerisation
8 31 (24.03%) AI
8 31 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (22.48%) Observability
10 23 (17.83%) Open Source
11 22 (17.05%) Scrum
12 20 (15.50%) Mentoring
13 19 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (14.73%) TDD
14 18 (13.95%) Clean Code
15 17 (13.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 17 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
16 14 (10.85%) Performance Tuning
16 14 (10.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (29.46%) Python
2 28 (21.71%) SQL
3 26 (20.16%) C#
4 20 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 19 (14.73%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.53%) Java
7 3 (2.33%) Bash
7 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.78%) Bicep
8 1 (0.78%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (4.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.88%) DV Cleared
2 5 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.10%) Degree
4 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.10%) QA
System Software
1 27 (20.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.28%) Terraform
3 7 (5.43%) Grafana
4 6 (4.65%) Ansible
5 5 (3.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.88%) Puppet
6 2 (1.55%) Packer
6 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (7.75%) Google
2 8 (6.20%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.88%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.55%) Databricks
5 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.78%) VMware