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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 199 129
Rank change year-on-year +101 -70 +54
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 87 32 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.77% 0.50% 1.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.52% 1.60% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 78 21 46
10th Percentile £34,438 £43,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £93,438
90th Percentile £95,375 £91,250 £96,539
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 1,924 2,001 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 39.10% 31.32% 37.38%
Number of salaries quoted 929 913 1,011
10th Percentile £26,538 £31,250 £32,092
25th Percentile £32,750 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £51,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £72,000
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 2 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 2 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 +79 80 £70,000 +3.70% 33
Cheshire -2 3 £82,500 - 10
Lancashire +15 2 £40,000 - 13
Merseyside - 1 £77,500 - 3
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 (3.45%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.15%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 56 (64.37%) AWS
2 44 (50.57%) Azure
3 17 (19.54%) Serverless
4 15 (17.24%) GCP
5 10 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (11.49%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (9.20%) Amazon S3
7 8 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (8.05%) Amazon Bedrock
9 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.90%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.90%) SaaS
10 5 (5.75%) GitHub
11 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.60%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) AMQP
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.75%) MySQL
5 4 (4.60%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.45%) Big Data
6 3 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.30%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.30%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.30%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.15%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.15%) PostHog
8 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) GitLab
2 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (2.30%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.30%) Gatling
4 2 (2.30%) JMeter
4 2 (2.30%) Selenium
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 18 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Finance
5 5 (5.75%) Retail
6 4 (4.60%) Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.30%) Electronics
7 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.30%) Marketing
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (26.44%) Senior
2 21 (24.14%) Software Engineer
3 20 (22.99%) Architect
4 17 (19.54%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (18.39%) AWS Architect
6 15 (17.24%) AWS Solution Architect
7 12 (13.79%) Developer
7 12 (13.79%) Lead
8 8 (9.20%) Senior Architect
8 8 (9.20%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (9.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Support Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Technical Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Technical Support
8 8 (9.20%) Technical Support Engineer
9 6 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (6.90%) DevOps Architect
9 6 (6.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.90%) TOGAF Architect
10 4 (4.60%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.03%) .NET
2 18 (20.69%) React
3 12 (13.79%) .NET Framework
4 10 (11.49%) .NET Core
5 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.90%) Node.js
7 5 (5.75%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (5.75%) RESTful
7 5 (5.75%) Spring
7 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.60%) CSS
8 4 (4.60%) Entity Framework
8 4 (4.60%) HTML
8 4 (4.60%) Vue
9 3 (3.45%) DPDK
9 3 (3.45%) eBPF
9 3 (3.45%) Next.js
9 3 (3.45%) REST
9 3 (3.45%) Web Services
10 2 (2.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) AI Agents
1 10 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (9.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (9.20%) Driving Licence
3 8 (9.20%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.90%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.15%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) CentOS
3 2 (2.30%) Debian
3 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (64.37%) CI/CD
2 43 (49.43%) DevOps
3 41 (47.13%) Agile
4 38 (43.68%) Microservices
5 34 (39.08%) Software Engineering
6 29 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (21.84%) Event-Driven
9 18 (20.69%) AI
10 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (14.94%) Clean Code
11 13 (14.94%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
12 12 (13.79%) Machine Learning
13 11 (12.64%) High Availability
13 11 (12.64%) TDD
14 10 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
14 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (11.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.33%) C#
2 28 (32.18%) SQL
3 21 (24.14%) Python
4 16 (18.39%) TypeScript
5 15 (17.24%) Java
5 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.20%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.90%) GDPR
2 6 (6.90%) HIPAA
2 6 (6.90%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 30 (34.48%) Docker
2 10 (11.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.20%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.45%) KVM
5 3 (3.45%) QEMU
6 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.30%) vSphere
7 1 (1.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (43.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (26.44%) Terraform
3 10 (11.49%) Ansible
4 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.30%) Grafana
6 2 (2.30%) Puppet
7 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Google
3 5 (5.75%) SaltStack
4 4 (4.60%) Foundry
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.30%) SAP
5 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.15%) Databricks
6 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle