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 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 166 198
Rank change year-on-year +109 +32 -76
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 291 70 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.25% 1.35% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.57% 2.88% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 223 55 28
10th Percentile £52,750 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,100 £92,375
England median annual salary £82,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% +6.25%

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 2,753 2,430 2,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.29% 46.92% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,899 868 995
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,350
25th Percentile £39,250 £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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,900 £80,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%

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 29 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 29 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 +46 249 £85,000 +17.24% 160
Lancashire +24 15 £57,500 +43.75% 7
Merseyside -2 14 £62,500 - 12
Cheshire +12 12 £62,500 -27.33% 11
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 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.44%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.69%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.69%) CMS
4 2 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 158 (54.30%) AWS
2 52 (17.87%) Serverless
3 50 (17.18%) Azure
4 43 (14.78%) SaaS
5 37 (12.71%) GCP
6 26 (8.93%) GitHub
7 25 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (5.50%) Datadog
10 13 (4.47%) Route 53
11 12 (4.12%) dbt
11 12 (4.12%) Snowflake
12 10 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.44%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.09%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.75%) GitHub Copilot
15 7 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) Network Security
2 3 (1.03%) AMQP
2 3 (1.03%) Firewall
2 3 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.34%) HTTP
3 1 (0.34%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.84%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.81%) NoSQL
4 11 (3.78%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.09%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.75%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.06%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.06%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.37%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.37%) Redis
8 4 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.03%) Big Data
9 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.03%) Metadata
9 3 (1.03%) MySQL
10 2 (0.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 23 (7.90%) GitLab
2 21 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.53%) Git
4 9 (3.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.69%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.69%) Vite
7 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.34%) Maven
7 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (14.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (8.93%) Retail
3 16 (5.50%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.47%) Aviation
4 13 (4.47%) Finance
5 6 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.37%) Law
7 3 (1.03%) Aerospace
7 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.69%) Marketing
8 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (29.55%) Senior
2 60 (20.62%) Software Engineer
3 59 (20.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (13.40%) Developer
5 33 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (9.28%) Principal Engineer
7 26 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (8.25%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 23 (7.90%) Lead
10 21 (7.22%) Architect
11 19 (6.53%) Senior Developer
12 16 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.50%) Product Engineer
13 15 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (5.15%) Data Engineer
14 14 (4.81%) Software Developer
15 13 (4.47%) Head of Architecture
16 12 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
16 12 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 12 (4.12%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (21.65%) Terraform
2 42 (14.43%) React
3 28 (9.62%) .NET
4 26 (8.93%) Node.js
5 14 (4.81%) AngularJS
5 14 (4.81%) FastAPI
6 13 (4.47%) Vue
7 12 (4.12%) REST
8 11 (3.78%) Next.js
9 10 (3.44%) Spring
10 9 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (2.75%) Kafka
11 8 (2.75%) React Native
11 8 (2.75%) Ruby on Rails
11 8 (2.75%) Spring Boot
12 6 (2.06%) Flask
12 6 (2.06%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.72%) Django
13 5 (1.72%) Middleware
13 5 (1.72%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.31%) Product Ownership
2 27 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.44%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.03%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.03%) IoT
4 3 (1.03%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.34%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.34%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.34%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.84%) Linux
2 8 (2.75%) CentOS
2 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Debian
3 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.69%) Windows
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (54.30%) DevOps
2 113 (38.83%) Software Engineering
3 106 (36.43%) CI/CD
4 78 (26.80%) AI
5 63 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (21.65%) Microservices
6 60 (20.62%) Agile
6 60 (20.62%) Observability
7 59 (20.27%) Event-Driven
8 54 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (18.56%) Mentoring
9 44 (15.12%) Containerisation
10 41 (14.09%) Technical Leadership
11 39 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
12 37 (12.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (12.71%) Roadmaps
13 36 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (11.00%) Architectural Patterns
15 27 (9.28%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 77 (26.46%) Python
2 32 (11.00%) TypeScript
3 23 (7.90%) Bash
3 23 (7.90%) SQL
4 19 (6.53%) C#
5 17 (5.84%) Java
6 16 (5.50%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.15%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.12%) Go
9 8 (2.75%) Ruby
10 3 (1.03%) Rust
10 3 (1.03%) Scala
11 2 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.34%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 43 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 17 (5.84%) Degree
5 11 (3.78%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.69%) CCSP
8 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CISSP
8 2 (0.69%) CSPO
8 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 2 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 46 (15.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 75 (25.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.53%) Ansible
3 15 (5.15%) Grafana
3 15 (5.15%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.44%) Argo
5 9 (3.09%) Puppet
6 8 (2.75%) Istio
6 8 (2.75%) linkerd
6 8 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.69%) Packer
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.15%) Google
3 11 (3.78%) Databricks
4 3 (1.03%) Cisco
4 3 (1.03%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.03%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.69%) Mistral
5 2 (0.69%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.69%) YouTube
6 1 (0.34%) Avaya
6 1 (0.34%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.34%) Genesys
6 1 (0.34%) New Relic
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle
6 1 (0.34%) Splunk