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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 177 204
Rank change year-on-year +112 +27 -36
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 231 64 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.09% 1.31% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.95% 2.71% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 193 48 76
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,058 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +6.96% +7.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £97,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% -

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 2,321 2,360 3,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.97% 48.39% 30.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,806 812 2,213
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,926 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 29 June 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 June 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 +64 190 £81,250 +8.52% 43
Lancashire +38 16 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Merseyside -9 13 £62,500 - 3
Cheshire +12 10 £58,750 -26.56% 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 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.30%) Apache
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Solr
2 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 104 (45.02%) AWS
2 52 (22.51%) Azure
3 33 (14.29%) Serverless
4 30 (12.99%) GCP
5 27 (11.69%) SaaS
6 13 (5.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (5.19%) GitHub
8 9 (3.90%) Azure AKS
8 9 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (3.03%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.60%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (2.16%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (2.16%) dbt
11 5 (2.16%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) AMQP
1 3 (1.30%) Firewall
1 3 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) DNS
2 1 (0.43%) LTE
2 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.96%) NoSQL
2 21 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 20 (8.66%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.60%) RDBMS
6 5 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.73%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.73%) MySQL
7 4 (1.73%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.30%) Big Data
8 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.30%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.30%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.30%) Metadata
8 3 (1.30%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.87%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 15 (6.49%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.63%) GitLab
3 12 (5.19%) Git
4 6 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.73%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.87%) Vagrant
6 2 (0.87%) Vite
General
1 31 (13.42%) Social Skills
2 16 (6.93%) Retail
3 15 (6.49%) Finance
4 10 (4.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.30%) French Language
6 3 (1.30%) Italian Language
6 3 (1.30%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (1.30%) Spanish Language
6 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.87%) Banking
7 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.87%) Marketing
7 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (33.33%) Senior
2 66 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 37 (16.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (12.55%) Senior Software Engineer
5 26 (11.26%) Developer
6 24 (10.39%) Principal Engineer
7 20 (8.66%) Lead
8 19 (8.23%) Architect
8 19 (8.23%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (6.93%) Python Engineer
10 15 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (5.63%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.63%) Principal Software Engineer
12 13 (5.63%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.76%) Software Developer
14 10 (4.33%) Security Engineer
14 10 (4.33%) Senior Software Developer
14 10 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.15%) .NET
1 35 (15.15%) React
2 30 (12.99%) Node.js
3 17 (7.36%) FastAPI
4 13 (5.63%) RESTful
5 12 (5.19%) REST
6 11 (4.76%) Next.js
6 11 (4.76%) Vue
7 10 (4.33%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.46%) React Native
8 8 (3.46%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (3.03%) .NET Framework
9 7 (3.03%) Kafka
10 6 (2.60%) Django
10 6 (2.60%) Flask
10 6 (2.60%) Spring
10 6 (2.60%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.16%) JWT
11 5 (2.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.12%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.33%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.73%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.30%) IoT
6 3 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Linux
2 5 (2.16%) CentOS
2 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.30%) Android
3 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.30%) Debian
3 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (59.31%) DevOps
2 99 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 92 (39.83%) Software Engineering
4 62 (26.84%) AI
5 58 (25.11%) Microservices
6 55 (23.81%) Event-Driven
7 54 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 48 (20.78%) Agile
9 47 (20.35%) Observability
10 43 (18.61%) Containerisation
11 38 (16.45%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (15.58%) Mentoring
13 35 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
15 27 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (10.39%) Test Automation
17 23 (9.96%) Open Source
18 22 (9.52%) Roadmaps
18 22 (9.52%) Scrum
18 22 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (29.87%) Python
2 28 (12.12%) TypeScript
3 27 (11.69%) SQL
4 23 (9.96%) C#
5 20 (8.66%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.36%) Bash
7 14 (6.06%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.76%) Java
9 8 (3.46%) Ruby
10 7 (3.03%) Go
11 3 (1.30%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Bicep
13 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (8.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.33%) Degree
4 8 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.16%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.87%) CSPO
6 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (2.16%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.30%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) QA
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 48 (20.78%) Terraform
3 12 (5.19%) Grafana
3 12 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 8 (3.46%) Argo
5 7 (3.03%) Istio
5 7 (3.03%) linkerd
6 6 (2.60%) Ansible
7 5 (2.16%) Puppet
8 4 (1.73%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.87%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (6.93%) Google
2 10 (4.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.73%) Databricks
4 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.30%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.87%) OpenAI