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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 194 126
Rank change year-on-year +40 -68 +62
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 75 41 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.56% 0.57% 1.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.65% 1.91% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 62 22 56
10th Percentile £33,125 £37,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £62,773
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,154 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +3.08% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £89,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £94,625 £96,539
England median annual salary £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +9.38% -3.03%

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 2,056 2,150 1,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 42.85% 29.97% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 897 905 1,234
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £33,150
25th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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 October 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 October 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 +58 69 £75,000 +3.94% 67
Merseyside +3 2 £62,500 - 3
Lancashire -9 2 £40,000 - 34
Cheshire -24 2 £86,000 - 9
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 2 (2.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (73.33%) AWS
2 40 (53.33%) Azure
3 15 (20.00%) GCP
4 12 (16.00%) Serverless
5 11 (14.67%) Entra ID
6 9 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (8.00%) Amazon Bedrock
8 6 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.67%) GitHub
9 5 (6.67%) SaaS
10 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (5.33%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (5.33%) Power Automate
11 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.00%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.67%) DHCP
2 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 2 (2.67%) HTTP
2 2 (2.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.67%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.67%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.33%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) GitLab
1 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.67%) Gatling
2 2 (2.67%) JMeter
2 2 (2.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 15 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.33%) Finance
4 9 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Retail
6 4 (5.33%) Banking
6 4 (5.33%) Electronics
6 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.33%) Marketing
6 4 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Architect
2 19 (25.33%) AWS Architect
2 19 (25.33%) Senior
3 18 (24.00%) AWS Solution Architect
3 18 (24.00%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (17.33%) Software Engineer
5 12 (16.00%) Developer
5 12 (16.00%) Senior Architect
6 11 (14.67%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (13.33%) DevOps Architect
7 10 (13.33%) Lead
7 10 (13.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 10 (13.33%) TOGAF Architect
8 9 (12.00%) Support Engineer
8 9 (12.00%) Technical Engineer
8 9 (12.00%) Technical Support
8 9 (12.00%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (6.67%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.33%) .NET
2 15 (20.00%) React
3 9 (12.00%) .NET Core
4 6 (8.00%) .NET Framework
4 6 (8.00%) Node.js
5 5 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.67%) Spring
5 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (4.00%) FastAPI
6 3 (4.00%) Kafka
6 3 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (4.00%) REST
6 3 (4.00%) Vue
7 2 (2.67%) DPDK
7 2 (2.67%) eBPF
7 2 (2.67%) Next.js
7 2 (2.67%) Playwright
7 2 (2.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) AI Agents
1 10 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (12.00%) Driving Licence
2 9 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (52.00%) DevOps
3 35 (46.67%) Agile
4 31 (41.33%) Microservices
5 24 (32.00%) Containerisation
6 22 (29.33%) Software Engineering
7 20 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (20.00%) AI
10 15 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (18.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (18.67%) Event-Driven
12 13 (17.33%) Roadmaps
13 11 (14.67%) Technology Roadmap
14 10 (13.33%) Architectural Design
14 10 (13.33%) Data Management
14 10 (13.33%) Data Privacy
14 10 (13.33%) TOGAF
15 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) C#
2 25 (33.33%) SQL
3 23 (30.67%) Python
4 18 (24.00%) Java
5 15 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.33%) Bash
8 1 (1.33%) PHP
8 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 8 (10.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) GDPR
1 10 (13.33%) HIPAA
1 10 (13.33%) NIST
2 9 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 27 (36.00%) Docker
2 11 (14.67%) Active Directory
3 9 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.67%) KVM
5 2 (2.67%) QEMU
6 1 (1.33%) HDFS
6 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (38.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (28.00%) Terraform
3 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (8.00%) Ansible
5 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.33%) Grafana
6 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Google
3 4 (5.33%) Foundry
3 4 (5.33%) SAP
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (2.67%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) VMware