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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 174 158
Rank change year-on-year +71 -16 +24
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 80 33 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.26% 0.65% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 2.12% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 75 24 30
10th Percentile £55,000 £44,875 £59,375
25th Percentile £60,625 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,654 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +3.19% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £93,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% +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 2,804 1,553 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.20% 30.82% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 939 780 1,133
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,670
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +64 74 £75,000 +7.14% 41
Cheshire -13 3 £82,500 - 12
Merseyside - 2 £77,500 - 6
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 (3.75%) Apache
1 3 (3.75%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.75%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 43 (53.75%) AWS
2 35 (43.75%) Azure
3 16 (20.00%) Serverless
4 12 (15.00%) GCP
5 9 (11.25%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.75%) Amazon Bedrock
6 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
6 7 (8.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.75%) Azure AKS
6 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.25%) SaaS
9 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.00%) GitHub
10 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.25%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) AMQP
3 2 (2.50%) DHCP
3 2 (2.50%) DNS
3 2 (2.50%) HTTP
3 2 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.25%) MySQL
3 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.00%) Big Data
4 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (3.75%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.50%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.50%) Neo4j
6 2 (2.50%) PostHog
6 2 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) GitLab
2 3 (3.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.50%) Electronics
6 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.50%) Marketing
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (33.75%) Senior
2 22 (27.50%) Software Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) Architect
4 11 (13.75%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (12.50%) AWS Architect
5 10 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) AWS Solution Architect
6 9 (11.25%) Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Lead
7 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) .NET Software Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (31.25%) .NET
2 17 (21.25%) React
3 13 (16.25%) .NET Framework
4 9 (11.25%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.75%) Node.js
5 7 (8.75%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (8.75%) RESTful
6 6 (7.50%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.50%) Spring
6 6 (7.50%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.25%) Entity Framework
7 5 (6.25%) REST
8 4 (5.00%) CSS
8 4 (5.00%) HTML
8 4 (5.00%) Next.js
8 4 (5.00%) Vue
9 3 (3.75%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.75%) gRPC
9 3 (3.75%) Swagger
9 3 (3.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.25%) AI Agents
3 7 (8.75%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 5 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) NVMe
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) CentOS
2 3 (3.75%) Debian
2 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
3 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (57.50%) CI/CD
2 39 (48.75%) DevOps
3 35 (43.75%) Agile
3 35 (43.75%) Software Engineering
4 31 (38.75%) Microservices
5 27 (33.75%) Containerisation
6 24 (30.00%) AI
7 23 (28.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (22.50%) Event-Driven
9 15 (18.75%) Clean Code
10 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
11 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (16.25%) Machine Learning
11 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (15.00%) High Availability
12 12 (15.00%) Scrum
13 11 (13.75%) Data Pipeline
13 11 (13.75%) TDD
14 10 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 10 (12.50%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) C#
2 22 (27.50%) Python
2 22 (27.50%) SQL
3 14 (17.50%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Docker
2 7 (8.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.75%) KVM
4 3 (3.75%) QEMU
4 3 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) vSphere
6 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 35 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.25%) Terraform
3 11 (13.75%) Ansible
4 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.75%) Grafana
5 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.75%) Puppet
6 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) SaltStack
3 5 (6.25%) Google
4 3 (3.75%) Foundry
4 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
5 2 (2.50%) VMware
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.25%) Databricks
6 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle