Cloud Native Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 186 178
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 58 106 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.74% 1.02% 1.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 3.33% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 45 73 58
10th Percentile £44,392 £51,750 £40,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £79,188
90th Percentile £86,500 £102,308 £80,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +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 2,560 3,182 3,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 32.62% 30.58% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 907 2,284 1,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £32,572
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Cloud Native as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Native in the North West.

Salary trend for Cloud Native in the North West

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in the North West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +29 52 £74,870 +3.27% 122
Lancashire -70 3 £50,055 -37.43% 21
Merseyside +20 2 £62,500 +13.64% 10
Cheshire +6 1 £80,000 - 9
Cloud Native
England

Cloud Native
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.72%) IIS
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 41 (70.69%) AWS
2 25 (43.10%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) GitHub
4 9 (15.52%) GCP
4 9 (15.52%) SaaS
5 7 (12.07%) Serverless
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) NoSQL
2 7 (12.07%) MySQL
2 7 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.17%) Power BI
6 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.72%) Redis
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) MSTest
3 2 (3.45%) NUnit
3 2 (3.45%) SpecFlow
3 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 17 (29.31%) Finance
1 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.97%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Retail
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Electronics
5 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.17%) Marketing
5 3 (5.17%) Military
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
6 2 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Automotive
7 1 (1.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Senior
2 14 (24.14%) Software Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Developer
4 10 (17.24%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Lead
4 10 (17.24%) Security Engineer
5 9 (15.52%) Architect
6 8 (13.79%) .NET Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Lead Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (10.34%) AWS Architect
7 6 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) AWS Solution Architect
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 6 (10.34%) TOGAF Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) .NET
2 16 (27.59%) React
3 11 (18.97%) .NET Core
4 8 (13.79%) Node.js
5 5 (8.62%) Kafka
5 5 (8.62%) REST
6 4 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.90%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (6.90%) SOAP
6 4 (6.90%) XML
7 3 (5.17%) Spring
7 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 2 (3.45%) CSS3
8 2 (3.45%) Electron
8 2 (3.45%) FastAPI
8 2 (3.45%) Highcharts JS
8 2 (3.45%) LESS
8 2 (3.45%) NgRx
8 2 (3.45%) Reactive Extensions
8 2 (3.45%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Product Ownership
2 9 (15.52%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (15.52%) Management Information System
3 7 (12.07%) Public Cloud
3 7 (12.07%) Security Posture
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.45%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.45%) Derivative
5 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.45%) Equities
5 2 (3.45%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) DevOps
2 30 (51.72%) CI/CD
3 22 (37.93%) Agile
4 21 (36.21%) Event-Driven
4 21 (36.21%) Software Engineering
5 20 (34.48%) Microservices
6 18 (31.03%) Roadmaps
7 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (20.69%) TDD
9 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
10 10 (17.24%) Cloud Security
11 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (15.52%) Line Management
11 9 (15.52%) Technology Roadmap
12 8 (13.79%) DevSecOps
13 7 (12.07%) Architectural Design
13 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
13 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (12.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.03%) SQL
2 16 (27.59%) Python
3 15 (25.86%) TypeScript
4 14 (24.14%) C#
5 13 (22.41%) Java
6 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) AWS Certification
1 6 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.72%) CCNA
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.72%) MCITP
5 1 (1.72%) MCSE
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) GDPR
1 6 (10.34%) HIPAA
1 6 (10.34%) NIST
2 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 24 (41.38%) Docker
2 7 (12.07%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (50.00%) Terraform
2 17 (29.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Google
1 6 (10.34%) Oracle
2 3 (5.17%) Informatica
2 3 (5.17%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.72%) Facebook