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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 161 186
Rank change year-on-year +99 +25 -55
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 283 74 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.19% 1.41% 0.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.10% 3.00% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 218 60 25
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £55,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,375 £93,500
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 2,802 2,463 2,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 21.67% 46.96% 30.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 899 964
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,900 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.13%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £80,250 £79,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.76%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +43 241 £85,000 +13.33% 181
Lancashire +26 14 £56,250 +40.63% 9
Merseyside -2 14 £62,500 - 9
Cheshire +18 12 £62,500 -27.33% 12
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 11 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.53%) Apache
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) CMS
3 3 (1.06%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.71%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 155 (54.77%) AWS
2 50 (17.67%) Serverless
3 46 (16.25%) Azure
4 41 (14.49%) SaaS
5 36 (12.72%) GCP
6 26 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (8.13%) GitHub
8 19 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (4.95%) Datadog
10 13 (4.59%) Route 53
11 12 (4.24%) dbt
11 12 (4.24%) Snowflake
12 10 (3.53%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.53%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.77%) 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 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.95%) MongoDB
3 13 (4.59%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.53%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.47%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.12%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.77%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.41%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.41%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.41%) Redis
9 4 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (1.06%) Big Data
10 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.06%) Metadata
10 3 (1.06%) MySQL
11 2 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 23 (8.13%) GitLab
2 19 (6.71%) Git
2 19 (6.71%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.71%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.71%) Vite
6 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.35%) Maven
6 1 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (14.13%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.13%) Retail
3 15 (5.30%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.59%) Aviation
5 11 (3.89%) Finance
6 6 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.41%) Law
8 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.71%) Marketing
9 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (28.62%) Senior
2 59 (20.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (19.43%) Software Engineer
4 42 (14.84%) Developer
5 31 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (8.48%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 24 (8.48%) Principal Engineer
7 23 (8.13%) Lead
7 23 (8.13%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (6.71%) Architect
8 19 (6.71%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.01%) Product Engineer
10 16 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.95%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.59%) Head of Architecture
13 12 (4.24%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (21.20%) Terraform
2 41 (14.49%) React
3 28 (9.89%) .NET
4 26 (9.19%) Node.js
5 14 (4.95%) AngularJS
6 13 (4.59%) FastAPI
6 13 (4.59%) Vue
7 12 (4.24%) REST
8 11 (3.89%) Next.js
8 11 (3.89%) Spring
9 9 (3.18%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (3.18%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.83%) React Native
10 8 (2.83%) Ruby on Rails
11 7 (2.47%) Kafka
11 7 (2.47%) Middleware
12 6 (2.12%) Flask
12 6 (2.12%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.77%) RESTful
14 4 (1.41%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.54%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.53%) 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 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.35%) Life Science
6 1 (0.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.35%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.35%) PMI
6 1 (0.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.35%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.01%) Linux
2 8 (2.83%) CentOS
2 8 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.06%) Debian
3 3 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (54.06%) DevOps
2 106 (37.46%) Software Engineering
3 102 (36.04%) CI/CD
4 73 (25.80%) AI
5 63 (22.26%) Microservices
6 61 (21.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (20.85%) Agile
8 57 (20.14%) Event-Driven
9 53 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 53 (18.73%) Mentoring
9 53 (18.73%) Observability
10 43 (15.19%) Containerisation
11 40 (14.13%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (12.72%) Full-Stack Development
13 36 (12.72%) Roadmaps
14 34 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (12.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (10.95%) Architectural Patterns
16 28 (9.89%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 72 (25.44%) Python
2 31 (10.95%) TypeScript
3 22 (7.77%) SQL
4 21 (7.42%) Bash
5 20 (7.07%) C#
6 18 (6.36%) Java
7 16 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 13 (4.59%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.24%) Go
10 8 (2.83%) Ruby
11 3 (1.06%) Rust
11 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 2 (0.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) Bicep
13 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.35%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.19%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.01%) Degree
5 11 (3.89%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.71%) CCSP
8 2 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 2 (0.71%) CSPO
8 2 (0.71%) 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 12 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 44 (15.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 71 (25.09%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.71%) Ansible
3 12 (4.24%) Grafana
3 12 (4.24%) Prometheus
4 10 (3.53%) Argo
5 9 (3.18%) Puppet
6 8 (2.83%) Istio
6 8 (2.83%) linkerd
6 8 (2.83%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.71%) Packer
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.95%) Google
3 11 (3.89%) Databricks
4 3 (1.06%) Cisco
4 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.06%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.71%) Mistral
5 2 (0.71%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.71%) 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