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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 175 132
Rank change year-on-year +68 -43 +46
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 82 32 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.38% 0.59% 1.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.92% 1.90% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 75 23 37
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,774 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,308 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -13.37% +23.08%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £96,539
90th Percentile £95,750 £89,500 £100,439
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -8.57% +6.06% -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 2,804 1,684 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 47.16% 31.25% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 915 837 942
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £56,240
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -9.32% +2.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 December 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 16 December 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 +63 75 £70,000 +0.50% 25
Cheshire -8 3 £82,500 - 5
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 3
Lancashire +20 1 £40,000 -20.09% 6
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 3 (3.66%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.44%) Apache
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.76%) AWS
2 39 (47.56%) Azure
3 17 (20.73%) Serverless
4 12 (14.63%) GCP
5 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (9.76%) Entra ID
7 7 (8.54%) Amazon Bedrock
7 7 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (7.32%) Azure AKS
8 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.32%) SaaS
9 5 (6.10%) GitHub
10 4 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.88%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (4.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) AMQP
2 2 (2.44%) DHCP
2 2 (2.44%) DNS
2 2 (2.44%) HTTP
2 2 (2.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.98%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.10%) MySQL
5 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.66%) Big Data
6 3 (3.66%) DocumentDB
6 3 (3.66%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.44%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.44%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.44%) Neo4j
7 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.44%) PostHog
7 2 (2.44%) Redis
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) GitLab
2 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) Git
4 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.44%) Gatling
4 2 (2.44%) JMeter
4 2 (2.44%) Selenium
5 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.54%) Finance
4 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Banking
6 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.44%) Electronics
6 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 2 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Senior
2 20 (24.39%) Software Engineer
3 18 (21.95%) Architect
4 15 (18.29%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (17.07%) AWS Architect
6 13 (15.85%) AWS Solution Architect
7 12 (14.63%) Lead
8 11 (13.41%) Developer
9 9 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Senior Architect
10 6 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (7.32%) Support Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (7.32%) Technical Support
10 6 (7.32%) Technical Support Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) DevOps Architect
11 4 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.88%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.93%) .NET
2 17 (20.73%) React
3 12 (14.63%) .NET Framework
4 9 (10.98%) .NET Core
5 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.32%) Node.js
6 6 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (6.10%) Entity Framework
7 5 (6.10%) RESTful
7 5 (6.10%) Spring
7 5 (6.10%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.88%) CSS
8 4 (4.88%) HTML
8 4 (4.88%) Next.js
8 4 (4.88%) REST
8 4 (4.88%) Vue
9 3 (3.66%) DPDK
9 3 (3.66%) eBPF
9 3 (3.66%) Web Services
10 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.20%) AI Agents
3 9 (10.98%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (8.54%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (7.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (7.32%) Driving Licence
5 6 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.22%) NVMe
8 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Windows
3 2 (2.44%) CentOS
3 2 (2.44%) Debian
3 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.44%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (63.41%) CI/CD
2 40 (48.78%) DevOps
3 39 (47.56%) Agile
4 35 (42.68%) Microservices
5 33 (40.24%) Software Engineering
6 28 (34.15%) Containerisation
7 26 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (23.17%) AI
9 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (20.73%) Event-Driven
10 14 (17.07%) Clean Code
10 14 (17.07%) Mentoring
10 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (14.63%) Machine Learning
12 11 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (13.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (13.41%) High Availability
12 11 (13.41%) TDD
13 10 (12.20%) Enterprise Architecture
14 9 (10.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.15%) C#
2 25 (30.49%) SQL
3 20 (24.39%) Python
4 14 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 14 (17.07%) TypeScript
5 12 (14.63%) Java
6 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.22%) Bash
7 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.32%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.88%) GDPR
2 4 (4.88%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.88%) NIST
2 4 (4.88%) QA
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (32.93%) Docker
2 8 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.32%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.66%) KVM
5 3 (3.66%) QEMU
6 2 (2.44%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.44%) vSphere
7 1 (1.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (43.90%) Kubernetes
2 20 (24.39%) Terraform
3 10 (12.20%) Ansible
4 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.66%) Grafana
7 2 (2.44%) Puppet
8 1 (1.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) Google
3 5 (6.10%) SaltStack
4 4 (4.88%) Foundry
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.44%) SAP
5 2 (2.44%) VMware
6 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.22%) Databricks
6 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle