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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 163 181
Rank change year-on-year +106 +18 -47
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 274 71 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.25% 1.36% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.99% 2.87% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 214 52 52
10th Percentile £53,750 £33,313 £42,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £74,870 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -6.41% +14.29%
75th Percentile £96,875 £82,500 £85,000
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 2,494 2,472 2,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.49% 47.34% 29.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,817 881 1,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,125 £37,750
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 £83,750
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 25 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 25 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 +58 233 £85,000 +13.53% 55
Lancashire +28 15 £57,500 +43.75% 5
Cheshire +18 13 £62,500 -21.88% 1
Merseyside -4 12 £62,500 - 2
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 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.28%) Apache
3 2 (0.73%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.73%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 134 (48.91%) AWS
2 48 (17.52%) Azure
3 43 (15.69%) SaaS
4 40 (14.60%) Serverless
5 31 (11.31%) GCP
6 25 (9.12%) GitHub
7 18 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (5.11%) Datadog
10 12 (4.38%) dbt
10 12 (4.38%) Snowflake
11 11 (4.01%) Route 53
12 10 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.28%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 5 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.09%) Firewall
1 3 (1.09%) Network Security
1 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (0.73%) AMQP
3 1 (0.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.36%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.84%) MongoDB
2 16 (5.84%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.65%) DynamoDB
4 9 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.19%) RDBMS
5 6 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.46%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.46%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.09%) Metadata
8 3 (1.09%) Redis
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.73%) Big Data
9 2 (0.73%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.73%) DocumentDB
9 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.73%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 19 (6.93%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.57%) GitLab
3 14 (5.11%) Git
4 8 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.73%) Vite
7 1 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 42 (15.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.12%) Retail
3 14 (5.11%) Finance
4 12 (4.38%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.01%) Aviation
6 4 (1.46%) Law
7 3 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.73%) Marketing
8 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 82 (29.93%) Senior
2 61 (22.26%) Software Engineer
3 51 (18.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (11.31%) Developer
5 29 (10.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (9.85%) Principal Engineer
7 26 (9.49%) Senior Software Engineer
8 24 (8.76%) Lead
9 22 (8.03%) Architect
10 20 (7.30%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 17 (6.20%) Senior Developer
12 16 (5.84%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.47%) Product Engineer
14 13 (4.74%) Senior Software Developer
14 13 (4.74%) Software Developer
15 12 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (4.38%) Data Engineer
15 12 (4.38%) Principal Software Engineer
16 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (4.01%) Head of Architecture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (19.34%) Terraform
2 35 (12.77%) React
3 31 (11.31%) .NET
4 26 (9.49%) Node.js
5 13 (4.74%) FastAPI
6 11 (4.01%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.01%) Next.js
6 11 (4.01%) Vue
7 8 (2.92%) React Native
7 8 (2.92%) REST
7 8 (2.92%) RESTful
7 8 (2.92%) Ruby on Rails
8 7 (2.55%) Kafka
8 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.19%) Flask
9 6 (2.19%) OAuth
9 6 (2.19%) Spring
10 5 (1.82%) JWT
10 5 (1.82%) Pulumi
11 4 (1.46%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.31%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
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 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.36%) Life Science
6 1 (0.36%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.36%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.36%) PMI
6 1 (0.36%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.36%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.11%) Linux
2 6 (2.19%) CentOS
2 6 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Debian
3 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (53.65%) DevOps
2 105 (38.32%) Software Engineering
3 100 (36.50%) CI/CD
4 72 (26.28%) AI
5 59 (21.53%) Microservices
6 58 (21.17%) Observability
7 56 (20.44%) Event-Driven
8 53 (19.34%) Agile
9 52 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (17.15%) Mentoring
11 46 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (15.69%) Containerisation
13 42 (15.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 39 (14.23%) Platform Engineering
15 37 (13.50%) Roadmaps
15 37 (13.50%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (11.68%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (10.58%) Architectural Patterns
18 24 (8.76%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 70 (25.55%) Python
2 25 (9.12%) TypeScript
3 23 (8.39%) SQL
4 22 (8.03%) Bash
5 21 (7.66%) C#
6 15 (5.47%) JavaScript
7 14 (5.11%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.38%) Go
9 9 (3.28%) Java
10 8 (2.92%) Ruby
11 3 (1.09%) Scala
12 2 (0.73%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) Rust
13 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.93%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.20%) Degree
5 11 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.46%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.73%) CSPO
8 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.09%) QA
3 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.73%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (13.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (25.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.11%) Ansible
3 13 (4.74%) Grafana
3 13 (4.74%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.28%) Argo
5 8 (2.92%) Istio
5 8 (2.92%) linkerd
5 8 (2.92%) Puppet
6 6 (2.19%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 16 (5.84%) Google
2 15 (5.47%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.65%) Databricks
4 2 (0.73%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.73%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.36%) Avaya
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco
5 1 (0.36%) Genesys
5 1 (0.36%) New Relic