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 6 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 136 198
Rank change year-on-year +27 +62 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 111 52 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.21% 1.45% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.52% 4.59% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 93 44 65
10th Percentile £57,500 £44,794 £55,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -0.17% +26.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,250 £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 3,150 1,132 2,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.21% 31.64% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,214 770 2,129
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,652 £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 £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,700 £83,750 £83,991
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +27 100 £75,000 +0.17% 55
Lancashire -12 3 £52,130 +4.15% 10
Cheshire -35 3 £55,000 -31.25% 7
Merseyside - 3 £77,500 - 1
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 (3.60%) Apache
1 4 (3.60%) Apache Solr
1 4 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.74%) AWS
2 41 (36.94%) Azure
3 25 (22.52%) Serverless
4 18 (16.22%) GCP
5 13 (11.71%) Azure AKS
6 10 (9.01%) SaaS
7 8 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.50%) GitHub
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.70%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) AMQP
2 1 (0.90%) DNS
2 1 (0.90%) LTE
2 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.42%) NoSQL
2 15 (13.51%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.41%) MySQL
5 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.60%) Big Data
6 4 (3.60%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (3.60%) DocumentDB
6 4 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.60%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.60%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.70%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.80%) PostHog
8 2 (1.80%) Redis
8 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Git
1 5 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 2 (1.80%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.01%) Finance
3 6 (5.41%) Retail
4 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.60%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.70%) Banking
6 3 (2.70%) French Language
6 3 (2.70%) Italian Language
6 3 (2.70%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (2.70%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.80%) Electronics
7 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.80%) Marketing
7 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 40 (36.04%) Senior
3 18 (16.22%) Senior Software Engineer
4 14 (12.61%) Architect
5 12 (10.81%) Developer
5 12 (10.81%) Lead
5 12 (10.81%) Python Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (9.01%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Node.js Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Principal Software Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.13%) .NET
2 19 (17.12%) Node.js
3 17 (15.32%) React
4 15 (13.51%) .NET Framework
5 13 (11.71%) RESTful
6 10 (9.01%) REST
7 8 (7.21%) Spring
7 8 (7.21%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.31%) FastAPI
8 7 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (5.41%) CSS
9 6 (5.41%) HTML
10 4 (3.60%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.60%) Django
10 4 (3.60%) gRPC
10 4 (3.60%) Material-UI
10 4 (3.60%) OpenAPI
10 4 (3.60%) Swagger
11 3 (2.70%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.31%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) NVMe
8 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) CentOS
2 4 (3.60%) Debian
2 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.70%) Android
3 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.90%) VMS
4 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (50.45%) Software Engineering
2 55 (49.55%) CI/CD
2 55 (49.55%) DevOps
3 40 (36.04%) Microservices
4 39 (35.14%) Agile
5 31 (27.93%) Containerisation
6 29 (26.13%) Event-Driven
7 27 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (22.52%) AI
9 22 (19.82%) Scrum
10 20 (18.02%) Observability
10 20 (18.02%) Open Source
11 18 (16.22%) Clean Code
11 18 (16.22%) Mentoring
11 18 (16.22%) TDD
12 15 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (12.61%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (11.71%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.63%) Python
2 27 (24.32%) SQL
3 24 (21.62%) C#
4 20 (18.02%) JavaScript
4 20 (18.02%) TypeScript
5 11 (9.91%) Java
6 2 (1.80%) Bash
6 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.90%) Bicep
7 1 (0.90%) Go
7 1 (0.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (6.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.60%) DBS Check
3 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) Degree
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) QA
2 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (22.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.90%) KVM
2 1 (0.90%) QEMU
2 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (36.94%) Kubernetes
2 19 (17.12%) Terraform
3 7 (6.31%) Ansible
4 5 (4.50%) Grafana
5 4 (3.60%) Puppet
6 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.80%) Packer
7 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) Google
2 5 (4.50%) SaltStack
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.80%) SAP
5 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.90%) Databricks
5 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle
5 1 (0.90%) VMware