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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 172 159
Rank change year-on-year +70 -13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 84 35 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.30% 0.69% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 2.25% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 77 26 30
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,625 £59,375
25th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,654 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +3.19% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £93,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +2.94% -

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 2,828 1,554 1,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 43.77% 30.72% 33.72%
Number of salaries quoted 956 781 1,132
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.71% +0.42% -7.69%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +66 78 £75,000 +7.14% 47
Cheshire -13 3 £82,500 - 13
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 4
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 4 (4.76%) Apache
1 4 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.38%) nginx
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 45 (53.57%) AWS
2 36 (42.86%) Azure
3 19 (22.62%) Serverless
4 13 (15.48%) GCP
5 10 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
7 7 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 7 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 6 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (5.95%) SaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.76%) GitHub
10 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
11 3 (3.57%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Firewall
2 4 (4.76%) AMQP
3 2 (2.38%) DHCP
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) HTTP
3 2 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.95%) Big Data
3 5 (5.95%) Hadoop
3 5 (5.95%) MySQL
3 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.76%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.38%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.38%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.38%) PostHog
6 2 (2.38%) Redis
7 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (4.76%) GitLab
2 3 (3.57%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.14%) Finance
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 4 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (2.38%) Electronics
6 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
6 2 (2.38%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Senior
2 25 (29.76%) Software Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Architect
4 12 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) Solutions Architect
6 10 (11.90%) AWS Architect
7 9 (10.71%) AWS Solution Architect
7 9 (10.71%) Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Lead
8 7 (8.33%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Support Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.76%) .NET
2 18 (21.43%) React
3 13 (15.48%) .NET Framework
4 10 (11.90%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.71%) Node.js
6 8 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (8.33%) REST
7 7 (8.33%) RESTful
7 7 (8.33%) Spring
7 7 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 6 (7.14%) .NET Core
9 5 (5.95%) Entity Framework
10 4 (4.76%) CSS
10 4 (4.76%) gRPC
10 4 (4.76%) HTML
10 4 (4.76%) Material-UI
10 4 (4.76%) Next.js
10 4 (4.76%) OpenAPI
10 4 (4.76%) Swagger
10 4 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.71%) AI Agents
3 7 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (5.95%) Driving Licence
4 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.19%) NVMe
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.52%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) CentOS
2 4 (4.76%) Debian
2 4 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.57%) Windows
4 2 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 41 (48.81%) DevOps
3 38 (45.24%) Software Engineering
4 37 (44.05%) Agile
5 33 (39.29%) Microservices
6 28 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 25 (29.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (28.57%) AI
9 18 (21.43%) Event-Driven
10 15 (17.86%) Clean Code
11 14 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 14 (16.67%) Scrum
12 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (15.48%) Machine Learning
12 13 (15.48%) Open Source
12 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (14.29%) High Availability
14 11 (13.10%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (13.10%) TDD
15 10 (11.90%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.76%) C#
2 23 (27.38%) Python
3 22 (26.19%) SQL
4 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 15 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 11 (13.10%) Java
6 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.19%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 7 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (26.19%) Docker
2 7 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.95%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.57%) KVM
4 3 (3.57%) QEMU
4 3 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.38%) vSphere
6 1 (1.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (22.62%) Terraform
3 12 (14.29%) Ansible
4 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.76%) Puppet
6 3 (3.57%) Grafana
6 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) SaltStack
3 6 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.57%) Foundry
6 2 (2.38%) SAP
6 2 (2.38%) VMware
7 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.19%) Databricks
7 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.19%) Oracle