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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 138 199
Rank change year-on-year +25 +61 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 100 54 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.17% 1.40% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.24% 4.39% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 86 43 62
10th Percentile £57,500 £44,446 £55,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,870 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +6.96% +17.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £82,656
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,500 £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 3,087 1,230 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.26% 32.00% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,157 793 2,077
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,550 £40,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,150 £84,223
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 23 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 23 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 +24 91 £72,500 -3.16% 56
Merseyside - 3 £77,500 -
Lancashire -10 2 £52,130 +4.15% 11
Cheshire -27 2 £59,500 -25.63% 7
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 (4.00%) Apache
1 4 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Solr
3 2 (2.00%) nginx
4 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.00%) AWS
2 37 (37.00%) Azure
3 21 (21.00%) Serverless
4 14 (14.00%) GCP
5 13 (13.00%) Azure AKS
6 9 (9.00%) Amazon S3
6 9 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.00%) SaaS
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (2.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (2.00%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) AMQP
2 1 (1.00%) DNS
2 1 (1.00%) LTE
2 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.00%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.00%) MySQL
5 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.00%) Big Data
6 4 (4.00%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (4.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.00%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.00%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.00%) PostHog
8 2 (2.00%) Redis
9 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (3.00%) GitLab
2 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.00%) Finance
3 5 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.00%) French Language
5 3 (3.00%) Italian Language
5 3 (3.00%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (3.00%) Retail
5 3 (3.00%) Spanish Language
6 2 (2.00%) Electronics
6 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (34.00%) Software Engineer
2 32 (32.00%) Senior
3 14 (14.00%) Lead
4 13 (13.00%) Architect
4 13 (13.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) Developer
6 10 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (8.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.00%) .NET
2 18 (18.00%) Node.js
3 17 (17.00%) .NET Framework
3 17 (17.00%) React
4 13 (13.00%) RESTful
5 9 (9.00%) REST
6 8 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (8.00%) Spring
6 8 (8.00%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.00%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.00%) CSS
8 6 (6.00%) FastAPI
8 6 (6.00%) HTML
9 4 (4.00%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.00%) Entity Framework
9 4 (4.00%) gRPC
9 4 (4.00%) Material-UI
9 4 (4.00%) OpenAPI
9 4 (4.00%) Swagger
10 3 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.00%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) NVMe
8 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.00%) CentOS
2 4 (4.00%) Debian
2 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.00%) Android
3 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.00%) VMS
4 2 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.00%) CI/CD
2 48 (48.00%) Software Engineering
3 47 (47.00%) DevOps
4 41 (41.00%) Agile
4 41 (41.00%) Microservices
5 30 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 26 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (23.00%) Event-Driven
8 22 (22.00%) Scrum
9 20 (20.00%) AI
10 18 (18.00%) Clean Code
10 18 (18.00%) Mentoring
11 17 (17.00%) Open Source
11 17 (17.00%) TDD
12 14 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (13.00%) High Availability
13 13 (13.00%) Observability
13 13 (13.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.00%) Python
1 28 (28.00%) SQL
2 26 (26.00%) C#
3 20 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.00%) Java
6 1 (1.00%) Bicep
6 1 (1.00%) Go
6 1 (1.00%) PHP
6 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (7.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (4.00%) DBS Check
3 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.00%) Degree
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 22 (22.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.00%) vSphere
3 1 (1.00%) KVM
3 1 (1.00%) QEMU
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (37.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.00%) Terraform
3 8 (8.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.00%) Grafana
5 2 (2.00%) Packer
5 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (7.00%) Google
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.00%) SaltStack
3 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.00%) SAP
4 2 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.00%) Databricks
5 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.00%) Foundry
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle