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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 170 184
Rank change year-on-year +113 +14 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 276 71 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.31% 1.36% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.17% 2.86% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 214 52 58
10th Percentile £53,750 £35,000 £48,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,870 £78,125
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -4.17% +11.61%
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £83,594
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £103,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 2,470 2,482 2,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.69% 47.54% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,805 889 1,418
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,125 £38,000
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 £81,250 £84,964
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +58 236 £85,000 +13.53% 73
Lancashire +32 14 £56,250 +40.63% 6
Cheshire +22 13 £62,500 -21.88% 1
Merseyside -5 12 £62,500 - 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 12 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.26%) Apache
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.72%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 138 (50.00%) AWS
2 48 (17.39%) Azure
3 43 (15.58%) SaaS
3 43 (15.58%) Serverless
4 31 (11.23%) GCP
5 25 (9.06%) GitHub
6 18 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (5.07%) Datadog
9 12 (4.35%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.99%) dbt
10 11 (3.99%) Route 53
11 10 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.26%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.90%) GitHub Copilot
13 8 (2.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Firewall
1 3 (1.09%) Network Security
1 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (0.72%) AMQP
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) LTE
3 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.16%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.62%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.26%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.54%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.17%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.45%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.09%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.09%) Metadata
9 3 (1.09%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.09%) Redis
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.72%) Big Data
10 2 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.72%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 19 (6.88%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.52%) GitLab
3 16 (5.80%) Git
4 8 (2.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.72%) Vite
7 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (15.22%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.78%) Retail
3 15 (5.43%) Finance
4 12 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.99%) Aviation
6 5 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.45%) Law
8 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.72%) Banking
9 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.72%) Marketing
9 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 87 (31.52%) Senior
2 61 (22.10%) Software Engineer
3 50 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (11.23%) Developer
5 29 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (9.78%) Principal Engineer
8 23 (8.33%) Lead
9 22 (7.97%) Architect
10 19 (6.88%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 17 (6.16%) Senior Developer
12 16 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (5.07%) Product Engineer
14 13 (4.71%) Principal Software Engineer
14 13 (4.71%) Python Engineer
14 13 (4.71%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.71%) Software Developer
15 12 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (3.99%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.04%) React
2 32 (11.59%) .NET
3 29 (10.51%) Node.js
4 15 (5.43%) FastAPI
5 12 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 11 (3.99%) Next.js
6 11 (3.99%) Vue
7 10 (3.62%) REST
8 8 (2.90%) React Native
8 8 (2.90%) RESTful
8 8 (2.90%) Ruby on Rails
9 7 (2.54%) Kafka
9 7 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.17%) Flask
10 6 (2.17%) OAuth
10 6 (2.17%) Spring
11 5 (1.81%) Django
11 5 (1.81%) JWT
12 4 (1.45%) AWS CDK
12 4 (1.45%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.96%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.62%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
4 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.09%) IoT
4 3 (1.09%) Security Posture
5 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.36%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.36%) PMI
6 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.07%) Linux
2 6 (2.17%) CentOS
2 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.72%) Debian
3 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (54.35%) DevOps
2 104 (37.68%) Software Engineering
3 100 (36.23%) CI/CD
4 74 (26.81%) AI
5 62 (22.46%) Microservices
6 60 (21.74%) Observability
7 59 (21.38%) Event-Driven
8 55 (19.93%) Agile
9 54 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (17.03%) Mentoring
11 46 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (15.94%) Containerisation
13 43 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (13.41%) Roadmaps
15 36 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (10.51%) Architectural Patterns
18 24 (8.70%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 73 (26.45%) Python
2 28 (10.14%) TypeScript
3 22 (7.97%) Bash
3 22 (7.97%) C#
3 22 (7.97%) SQL
4 17 (6.16%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.07%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.35%) Go
7 9 (3.26%) Java
8 8 (2.90%) Ruby
9 3 (1.09%) Scala
10 2 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.36%) Rust
11 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.88%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.16%) Degree
5 11 (3.99%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CSPO
9 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.81%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.09%) QA
3 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (13.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 70 (25.36%) Kubernetes
2 53 (19.20%) Terraform
3 14 (5.07%) Ansible
4 13 (4.71%) Grafana
4 13 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.26%) Argo
6 8 (2.90%) Istio
6 8 (2.90%) linkerd
6 8 (2.90%) Puppet
7 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (5.43%) Google
1 15 (5.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.62%) Databricks
3 2 (0.72%) OpenAI
3 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
3 2 (0.72%) SaltStack
4 1 (0.36%) Avaya
4 1 (0.36%) Cisco
4 1 (0.36%) Genesys
4 1 (0.36%) New Relic