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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 169 181
Rank change year-on-year +111 +12 -55
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 273 72 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.23% 1.39% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.87% 2.97% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 212 55 49
10th Percentile £53,750 £33,125 £40,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,870 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -6.41% +14.29%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £103,750
England median annual salary £81,006 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -3.03% +3.13%

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 2,512 2,426 2,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.55% 46.69% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,825 870 1,266
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,497
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%

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 1 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 1 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 +52 232 £85,000 +13.53% 143
Lancashire +26 15 £57,500 +43.75% 15
Cheshire +16 13 £62,500 -21.88% 7
Merseyside -4 12 £62,500 - 13
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 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.30%) Apache
3 2 (0.73%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.73%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 135 (49.45%) AWS
2 46 (16.85%) Azure
3 45 (16.48%) SaaS
4 40 (14.65%) Serverless
5 30 (10.99%) GCP
6 24 (8.79%) GitHub
7 18 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (5.13%) Datadog
10 12 (4.40%) dbt
10 12 (4.40%) Snowflake
11 11 (4.03%) Route 53
12 9 (3.30%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.30%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.93%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Firewall
1 3 (1.10%) Network Security
1 3 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (0.73%) AMQP
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
3 1 (0.37%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.86%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.66%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.30%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.47%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.47%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.10%) Metadata
9 3 (1.10%) Redis
10 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.73%) Big Data
10 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
10 2 (0.73%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.73%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.73%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 19 (6.96%) GitLab
2 18 (6.59%) Jenkins
3 14 (5.13%) Git
4 8 (2.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) Vite
7 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 43 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (8.79%) Retail
3 14 (5.13%) Finance
4 12 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.03%) Aviation
6 4 (1.47%) Law
7 3 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.73%) Marketing
8 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 81 (29.67%) Senior
2 58 (21.25%) Software Engineer
3 52 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (12.09%) Developer
5 30 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (9.52%) Principal Engineer
6 26 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (8.79%) Lead
8 22 (8.06%) Architect
9 21 (7.69%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 17 (6.23%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (5.49%) Product Engineer
13 14 (5.13%) Software Developer
14 13 (4.76%) Senior Software Developer
15 12 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (4.40%) Data Engineer
16 11 (4.03%) Head of Architecture
16 11 (4.03%) Principal Software Engineer
17 10 (3.66%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (19.78%) Terraform
2 36 (13.19%) React
3 29 (10.62%) .NET
4 25 (9.16%) Node.js
5 13 (4.76%) FastAPI
6 12 (4.40%) AngularJS
6 12 (4.40%) Vue
7 11 (4.03%) Next.js
8 8 (2.93%) React Native
8 8 (2.93%) REST
8 8 (2.93%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (2.56%) Kafka
9 7 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.20%) Flask
10 6 (2.20%) RESTful
10 6 (2.20%) Spring
11 5 (1.83%) OAuth
11 5 (1.83%) Pulumi
12 4 (1.47%) JWT
12 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.10%) IoT
4 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.37%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.37%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.37%) PMI
6 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.13%) Linux
2 6 (2.20%) CentOS
2 6 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Debian
3 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (53.48%) DevOps
2 104 (38.10%) Software Engineering
3 98 (35.90%) CI/CD
4 73 (26.74%) AI
5 58 (21.25%) Observability
6 57 (20.88%) Microservices
7 55 (20.15%) Event-Driven
8 52 (19.05%) Agile
8 52 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 47 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (17.22%) Mentoring
10 41 (15.02%) Containerisation
10 41 (15.02%) Full-Stack Development
11 39 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 37 (13.55%) Roadmaps
12 37 (13.55%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (10.62%) Architectural Patterns
15 24 (8.79%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.64%) Python
2 25 (9.16%) TypeScript
3 22 (8.06%) Bash
4 21 (7.69%) SQL
5 19 (6.96%) C#
6 15 (5.49%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.40%) Go
9 10 (3.66%) Java
10 8 (2.93%) Ruby
11 3 (1.10%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) PHP
12 2 (0.73%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Bicep
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.33%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.23%) Degree
5 11 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.73%) CSPO
8 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.10%) QA
3 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (13.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (24.54%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.49%) Ansible
3 13 (4.76%) Grafana
3 13 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.30%) Argo
5 8 (2.93%) Istio
5 8 (2.93%) linkerd
5 8 (2.93%) Puppet
6 6 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (5.49%) Google
1 15 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.66%) Databricks
3 2 (0.73%) Mistral
3 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
3 2 (0.73%) SaltStack
4 1 (0.37%) Avaya
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco
4 1 (0.37%) Genesys
4 1 (0.37%) New Relic