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 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 157 191
Rank change year-on-year +56 +34 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 101 41 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.32% 0.96% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.34% 3.04% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 88 32 50
10th Percentile £55,875 £43,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £47,433 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £87,875 £77,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £98,250 £87,000 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 3,025 1,348 2,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 39.39% 31.44% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 729 1,853
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £83,700
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +43 90 £75,000 +11.11% 47
Cheshire -21 4 £79,000 - 4
Merseyside - 3 £77,500 - 1
Lancashire -2 2 £52,130 +4.15% 8
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 4 (3.96%) Apache
1 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.97%) Apache Solr
2 3 (2.97%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.98%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.53%) AWS
2 37 (36.63%) Azure
3 22 (21.78%) Serverless
4 14 (13.86%) GCP
5 11 (10.89%) Azure AKS
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.93%) SaaS
8 5 (4.95%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.96%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.96%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) AMQP
2 3 (2.97%) DNS
3 2 (1.98%) DHCP
3 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 2 (1.98%) HTTP
3 2 (1.98%) SSL
4 1 (0.99%) LTE
4 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.76%) NoSQL
2 13 (12.87%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.93%) MySQL
5 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.96%) Big Data
6 4 (3.96%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.96%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.97%) DocumentDB
7 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.97%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.98%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.98%) PostHog
8 2 (1.98%) Redis
9 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Git
2 3 (2.97%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.98%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Finance
5 5 (4.95%) Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.97%) French Language
7 3 (2.97%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.97%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (2.97%) Retail
7 3 (2.97%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.98%) Electronics
8 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.98%) Marketing
8 2 (1.98%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 33 (32.67%) Software Engineer
2 31 (30.69%) Senior
3 14 (13.86%) Architect
4 13 (12.87%) Senior Software Engineer
5 12 (11.88%) Lead
6 11 (10.89%) Developer
7 10 (9.90%) Python Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (7.92%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.94%) AWS Solution Architect
10 6 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (27.72%) .NET
2 17 (16.83%) React
3 15 (14.85%) .NET Framework
3 15 (14.85%) Node.js
4 11 (10.89%) RESTful
5 9 (8.91%) REST
6 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.92%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (7.92%) Spring
6 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
7 7 (6.93%) CSS
7 7 (6.93%) HTML
8 6 (5.94%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.96%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.96%) A2A Protocol
9 4 (3.96%) gRPC
9 4 (3.96%) Material-UI
9 4 (3.96%) NestJS
9 4 (3.96%) OpenAPI
9 4 (3.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (4.95%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.96%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.98%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.99%) NVMe
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Linux
2 4 (3.96%) CentOS
2 4 (3.96%) Debian
2 4 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.96%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.97%) Android
3 3 (2.97%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.98%) VMS
4 2 (1.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (53.47%) CI/CD
2 48 (47.52%) Software Engineering
3 46 (45.54%) DevOps
4 42 (41.58%) Agile
5 38 (37.62%) Microservices
6 29 (28.71%) Containerisation
7 26 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (22.77%) AI
9 21 (20.79%) Event-Driven
10 20 (19.80%) Open Source
10 20 (19.80%) Scrum
11 18 (17.82%) Mentoring
12 17 (16.83%) Clean Code
12 17 (16.83%) TDD
13 14 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
14 13 (12.87%) High Availability
14 13 (12.87%) Machine Learning
15 12 (11.88%) Performance Tuning
15 12 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.70%) Python
2 28 (27.72%) SQL
3 24 (23.76%) C#
4 22 (21.78%) TypeScript
5 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.89%) Java
7 1 (0.99%) Bicep
7 1 (0.99%) Go
7 1 (0.99%) PHP
7 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.96%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.97%) Degree
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.98%) QA
System Software
1 24 (23.76%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.97%) KVM
3 3 (2.97%) QEMU
4 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (38.61%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.79%) Terraform
3 11 (10.89%) Ansible
4 4 (3.96%) Puppet
5 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.98%) Packer
5 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (6.93%) Google
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
1 7 (6.93%) SaltStack
2 4 (3.96%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.98%) SAP
3 2 (1.98%) VMware
4 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.99%) Databricks
4 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.99%) Foundry
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle